Volume 7 Number 2 June 2006

 Trans/Gender

 Trans-Selves and Trans-Feelings

Essays

The transgender world in contemporary Japan: male to female cross-dressers’ community in Shinjuku
Junko MITSUHASHI (Translated by Kazumi HASEGAWA)

Embodying gender: transgender body/subject formations in Taiwan      Josephine HO

Finding a voice, fighting for rights: the emergence of the transgender movement in Hong Kong    Robyn EMERTON

Sissies on-line: Taiwanese male queers performing sissinesses in cyberspaces     Dennis C. LIN

Of borders and homes: the imaginary community of (trans)sexual citizenship   Aren Z. AIZURA

Introduction: a moment and movement of sex work in South Korea and Asia      KO Gaphee

 I. Sex work in Asia and voices from the spot

Sex trade/sex work in Korea and Asia     KO Gaphee

Stigma of sex (marginal sexualities) and sex work (as base women’s work, historically)     DING Naifei

Journey of Kamjing     Chantawipa APISUK

Innovative approaches to combat trafficking of women in sex trade     Swapna GAYEN

A declaration     KIM Moonhee (Translated by KIM Young Mi)

II. Sex workers and video activism

Tales of the nightfairies: a filmmaker's journey
Shohini GHOSH

About Licensed Prostitutes Apocalypse, Our Life Saving Vinegar     Fang Ping WANG, Jung Che CHANG, and Zita CHENG

Mamasang: remember me this way
KIM Il-rhan and CHO Hyeyoung (Translated by KIM Hyojin)

Visual Essay
Munna Guru - portrait of a eunuch
Anita KHEMKA

Anti-WTO Movement in Hong Kong
The ‘battle of Hong Kong’ and implications for Asian social movements     JEON Sohi