Per Performativity, Part 1: Boku Girl and the Anxious Body

Originally published April 2017

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I never want to do this again, but I know I will
Huge thanks to Veronica Hollinger of Science Fiction Studies, Indigo (@IndigoferaDyeri), Kuku-Riri (@UsaagiBuster), and The Accursed Chair (@TheAccursedChair) for double checking my script! I hugely appreciate the help!
Huge thanks to Otaku Deity (@ODAnimeReviews) for double-checking my translations, it's greatly appreciated!
I am not trying to disparage the transgender lens; rather, I think Boku Girl is a fairly interesting exercise in subject construction
Metaphysical Dissonance has a fantastic piece of work on Hourou Musuko through Butler's lens, you might find it interesting here: http://www.metaphysicaldissonance.com
Overall, I generally liked it
It's kinda interesting how they're all influenced by their fathers (Yamada, Mizuki, and Takeru) to some degree. Not sure what that implies, but very interesting implications
I think Fujiyama as a specific case study would be interesting, since she is literally a performer who goes on to perform, and the whole justice mask is ironically an unveiling of her 'true' self but also a masking of her social identity

Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge. New York. 2011.
Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." Theatre Journal 40, No. 4 (1988), pp. 519-531.
McLelland, Mark and Romit Dasgupta. Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan. Routledge. New York. 2011.
Akira, Sugito. "sugi-log", http://sugilog.blogspot.ca/, accessed March 23rd, 2017.