9/25/2023 0 Comments Sonic x project love![]() The elephant in the room, from Pesuyama’s perspective, is how seriously the society surrounding them is going to take them, based on how they present themselves. In truth, for Pesuyama it can’t correspond. Their perspective, however, is that their assigned gender doesn’t corresponds with their lived experience. ![]() They were assigned female at birth (AFAB,) meaning that they were born in a body with female primary sex characteristics. In the opening chapter to this first volume, they introduce themselves as such. Poppy Pesuyama is a Japanese nonbinary manga artist. ![]() But more chillingly, other people’s entitled perspectives to a life and a body that doesn’t belong to them. Primarily, Pesuyama’s own perspective and relationship to their own body. That is precisely what Poppy Pesuyama’s autobiographical manga is all about. What this proverbial elephant might be changes depending on who you are and what your lived experiences are. It is difficult to talk about Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist volume 1 without addressing the elephant in the room.
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