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Post by chiew on May 12, 2022 11:51:21 GMT 9
Hello, I’m a new JET (one month! I’ve been lurking in the forums) in the inaka where there isn’t a lot of LGBTQIA+ awareness and safe spaces. I was encouraged to brainstorm for events by my KA’s subleader and have received a lot of support from my CIE coworker with event planning. I want to create a semi-regular safe space for questioning youths and an educational/awareness space for the community to learn, but at the same time I don’t want to be inadvertently incriminating attendees of being queer because baseless discrimination is very real in conservative inaka.
I was wondering if there are any CIRs who have created/hosted LGBTQ events for their communities, and what advice you would give me to be as inclusive as I can without being problematically open. My CIE has mentioned the concern of parental complaints, so I don’t want to put any possible ALTs who may decide to help in a bad position.
I also don’t have a concrete idea of what I want to do. I’ve been brainstorming a lecture? a discussion panel? a round robin? with my CIE but I don’t want to be the only source of information for attendees because I don’t have all the answers to queer communities. I also don’t want to make attendees feel like they have to actively participate or share.
So far, I am in the process of making a flyer (very simple; tells what the acronym stands for and a few Japanese resource links) and plan to “teach” a very basic breakdown of gender, orientation, and attraction. Any advice or ideas would be very appreciated!! If this is completely a bad idea, please tell me too (>< Thank you~
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Post by Miscreative on May 12, 2022 12:00:10 GMT 9
Hello chiew and welcome to the forums I have done a few lgbt+ presentations already, some detailed in the following thread cirhomepage.boards.net/thread/1137/lgbt-presentationall of mine have been presentations, the first was part of a panel discussion with other CIRs about sex ed and lgbt in our countries. afterwards i made a LGBT 101 session with some US info (as its a part of my US culture lecture series) and I get to do it one last time next month (this time with more focus on pride/us culture and less about terms) i havent made a community space or anything but I am more than happy to brainstorm with you either here, in a PM, or in a phone call! |
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Post by beniyuri on May 12, 2022 13:10:42 GMT 9
Not a very helpful input but I notice that they give a huge importance on human rights so connect LGBTQ+ with that when you write a description of it. I think it's nice that inaka is being proactive.
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Post by Miscreative on May 12, 2022 13:12:16 GMT 9
Not a very helpful input but I notice that they give a huge importance on human rights so connect LGBTQ+ with that when you write a description of it. I think it's nice that inaka is being proactive. especially with SDGs, NE |
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Post by chiew on May 12, 2022 14:35:50 GMT 9
Yes! My CIE also mentioned going at the event from a SDG human rights angle, because there’s the possibility that the event won’t get passed if it’s deemed contradictory to the families and kids message that the city is pushing (big eye roll moment at the misconception but OITOITE). Thank you Miscreative for the thread link! I’ve looked through what was said about your presentations and I think if the safe space gets green lit for semi-regularly, then I could branch out discussion topics for future meetings. I think for now, I will have it be a free come and go space for LGBTQ topic eikaiwa and hope that it’ll gain some level of traction. Edit: My soup just green lit the event, and we’re going to test out the waters next month in time for Pride!!! I was thinking of once a month, but she approved for twice a month. So for now, my CIE suggested we try a weeknight and a weekend to see which is more accessible for attendees. |
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Post by Miscreative on May 12, 2022 18:51:47 GMT 9
Yes! My CIE also mentioned going at the event from a SDG human rights angle, because there’s the possibility that the event won’t get passed if it’s deemed contradictory to the families and kids message that the city is pushing (big eye roll moment at the misconception but OITOITE). Thank you Miscreative for the thread link! I’ve looked through what was said about your presentations and I think if the safe space gets green lit for semi-regularly, then I could branch out discussion topics for future meetings. I think for now, I will have it be a free come and go space for LGBTQ topic eikaiwa and hope that it’ll gain some level of traction. Edit: My soup just green lit the event, and we’re going to test out the waters next month in time for Pride!!! I was thinking of once a month, but she approved for twice a month. So for now, my CIE suggested we try a weeknight and a weekend to see which is more accessible for attendees. having it be generally a safe space that has a focus (EIKAIWA, talking about SDGs) strikes a good balance and allows you to continue it going forward! i cant wait to hear how it goes! |
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Post by chiew on Aug 8, 2022 16:09:03 GMT 9
not an event per se, but still lgbtq related.
i asked soup if i could make a lgbtq flyer for the city homepage and she said yeah but under koksai kolyu. im feeling kind of proud of myself for telling her i didnt want to post it under koksai kolyu cause then lgbtq would possible get misrecognized as kaigai only. but then she said i wouldnt be able to post an info poster if it wasnt for a sien katsudo group.
and now idk where or how to go from here. pls advising
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Post by korokke on Aug 9, 2022 9:02:43 GMT 9
not an event per se, but still lgbtq related. i asked soup if i could make a lgbtq flyer for the city homepage and she said yeah but under koksai kolyu. im feeling kind of proud of myself for telling her i didnt want to post it under koksai kolyu cause then lgbtq would possible get misrecognized as kaigai only. but then she said i wouldnt be able to post an info poster if it wasnt for a sien katsudo group. and now idk where or how to go from here. pls advising did she give you an idea of what groups fall under sien katsudo? I think the flyer idea sounds really interesting. As for the contents, would it be like an overview of LGBTQ so people could become more familiar? I wonder if you could include something about misconceptions, e.g. "lgbtq isn't just a kaigai thing. here are some examples of lgbtq groups/events taking place in Japan, like Pride" to combat those kinds of misunderstandings |
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Post by chiew on Aug 9, 2022 9:52:05 GMT 9
not an event per se, but still lgbtq related. i asked soup if i could make a lgbtq flyer for the city homepage and she said yeah but under koksai kolyu. im feeling kind of proud of myself for telling her i didnt want to post it under koksai kolyu cause then lgbtq would possible get misrecognized as kaigai only. but then she said i wouldnt be able to post an info poster if it wasnt for a sien katsudo group. and now idk where or how to go from here. pls advising did she give you an idea of what groups fall under sien katsudo? I think the flyer idea sounds really interesting. As for the contents, would it be like an overview of LGBTQ so people could become more familiar? I wonder if you could include something about misconceptions, e.g. "lgbtq isn't just a kaigai thing. here are some examples of lgbtq groups/events taking place in Japan, like Pride" to combat those kinds of misunderstandings So if there was no lgbtqia sien group to which there would be like a madogucci and toiawase extension, they cant create a hyperlink for a rando poster because “people would not know what the poster is for” is what she said specifically. She said if there was a group, I could work with them but because there isn’t…, and its not like I can ask them to form a whole new group ): I was thinking I could branch off the SDGs but SDG falls under geopark at our cityhall, and I guess lgbtq rights doesn’t really fall under geopark??? Idk. I was looking at other city hall websites that have info posters available, and they had them available under 暮らし、市民協働、人権 etc subcategories. From how the other Japanese info posters are, it’d be what is lgbtq and how to not discriminate against members of the community. Some posters had misconceptions too, but they tied it to ijime. |
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Post by Dee on Aug 9, 2022 14:18:27 GMT 9
did she give you an idea of what groups fall under sien katsudo? I think the flyer idea sounds really interesting. As for the contents, would it be like an overview of LGBTQ so people could become more familiar? I wonder if you could include something about misconceptions, e.g. "lgbtq isn't just a kaigai thing. here are some examples of lgbtq groups/events taking place in Japan, like Pride" to combat those kinds of misunderstandings So if there was no lgbtqia sien group to which there would be like a madogucci and toiawase extension, they cant create a hyperlink for a rando poster because “people would not know what the poster is for” is what she said specifically. She said if there was a group, I could work with them but because there isn’t…, and its not like I can ask them to form a whole new group ): I was thinking I could branch off the SDGs but SDG falls under geopark at our cityhall, and I guess lgbtq rights doesn’t really fall under geopark??? Idk. I was looking at other city hall websites that have info posters available, and they had them available under 暮らし、市民協働、人権 etc subcategories. From how the other Japanese info posters are, it’d be what is lgbtq and how to not discriminate against members of the community. Some posters had misconceptions too, but they tied it to ijime. That's interesting that the SDGs are only handled by your geopark office, it's supposed to be goals for all countries/municipalities to work towards. Maybe you could show your soup some of the examples you've been looking at on the other city hall websites and see if they'd agree to something similar. |
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Post by chiew on Aug 9, 2022 14:39:23 GMT 9
So if there was no lgbtqia sien group to which there would be like a madogucci and toiawase extension, they cant create a hyperlink for a rando poster because “people would not know what the poster is for” is what she said specifically. She said if there was a group, I could work with them but because there isn’t…, and its not like I can ask them to form a whole new group ): I was thinking I could branch off the SDGs but SDG falls under geopark at our cityhall, and I guess lgbtq rights doesn’t really fall under geopark??? Idk. I was looking at other city hall websites that have info posters available, and they had them available under 暮らし、市民協働、人権 etc subcategories. From how the other Japanese info posters are, it’d be what is lgbtq and how to not discriminate against members of the community. Some posters had misconceptions too, but they tied it to ijime. That's interesting that the SDGs are only handled by your geopark office, it's supposed to be goals for all countries/municipalities to work towards. Maybe you could show your soup some of the examples you've been looking at on the other city hall websites and see if they'd agree to something similar. i tried showing some examples of what other city hall websites had, but she wasnt really keen on looking at it.... maybe i'm understanding SDGs incorrectly. there's one coworker who does some things with SDGs in the ka, but he collabs with geopark so i had just assumed SDGs fell with geopark. i shall inquire again when soup is in the office next. |
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Post by Dee on Aug 9, 2022 14:50:14 GMT 9
That's interesting that the SDGs are only handled by your geopark office, it's supposed to be goals for all countries/municipalities to work towards. Maybe you could show your soup some of the examples you've been looking at on the other city hall websites and see if they'd agree to something similar. i tried showing some examples of what other city hall websites had, but she wasnt really keen on looking at it.... maybe i'm understanding SDGs incorrectly. there's one coworker who does some things with SDGs in the ka, but he collabs with geopark so i had just assumed SDGs fell with geopark. i shall inquire again when soup is in the office next. SDGs were created by the UN, but it's pushed really hard by organizations like UNESCO so I can see why it's being handled by the geopark office. Unfortunately, there's not much specifically included in the SDGs about LGBTQ+ rights. If anything, you could use SDG 10 (Reduce inequality within and among countries). There are some targets that talk about inequalities and discrimination. |
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Post by usamaru on Aug 12, 2022 12:00:16 GMT 9
not an event per se, but still lgbtq related. i asked soup if i could make a lgbtq flyer for the city homepage and she said yeah but under koksai kolyu. im feeling kind of proud of myself for telling her i didnt want to post it under koksai kolyu cause then lgbtq would possible get misrecognized as kaigai only. but then she said i wouldnt be able to post an info poster if it wasnt for a sien katsudo group. and now idk where or how to go from here. pls advising all city halls are different, but do you guys have a 人権 department? that's who handles lgbtq related things here and they have their own page! |
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Post by chiew on Aug 12, 2022 12:40:34 GMT 9
not an event per se, but still lgbtq related. i asked soup if i could make a lgbtq flyer for the city homepage and she said yeah but under koksai kolyu. im feeling kind of proud of myself for telling her i didnt want to post it under koksai kolyu cause then lgbtq would possible get misrecognized as kaigai only. but then she said i wouldnt be able to post an info poster if it wasnt for a sien katsudo group. and now idk where or how to go from here. pls advising all city halls are different, but do you guys have a 人権 department? that's who handles lgbtq related things here and they have their own page! i was looking at what category lgbtq related things fell under on other city websites! theres a 人権相談 category on our website but its handled by the 市民連携課  |
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yuukinni
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Post by yuukinni on Aug 22, 2022 15:29:16 GMT 9
Village of 1500 here! I`ve facilitated the Power Flower activity to the young eikaiwa adult group, and included talking about attraction(sexuality, romantic) and gender(cis, trans,non-binary). I am adapting the Genderbread Person (LGBTQ poster) to be displayed in the Elementary and Jr High school (we dont have an HS)too! Privately, Ive made a hulemdo who vibed out to be accepting of diversity.  They aren`t originally from the village though. |
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Post by chiew on Aug 22, 2022 16:05:26 GMT 9
Village of 1500 here! I`ve facilitated the Power Flower activity to the young eikaiwa adult group, and included talking about attraction(sexuality, romantic) and gender(cis, trans,non-binary). I am adapting the Genderbread Person (LGBTQ poster) to be displayed in the Elementary and Jr High school (we dont have an HS)too! Privately, Ive made a hulemdo who vibed out to be accepting of diversity. They aren`t originally from the village though. i used the genderbreak person in my events too!! i would love to share the worksheets ive made, but idk where to post them hue i had to look up what the power flower is. i'm def gonna use that for future sessions!!! |
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Post by yuukinni on Aug 23, 2022 10:02:25 GMT 9
Village of 1500 here! I`ve facilitated the Power Flower activity to the young eikaiwa adult group, and included talking about attraction(sexuality, romantic) and gender(cis, trans,non-binary). I am adapting the Genderbread Person (LGBTQ poster) to be displayed in the Elementary and Jr High school (we dont have an HS)too! Privately, Ive made a hulemdo who vibed out to be accepting of diversity. They aren`t originally from the village though. i used the genderbreak person in my events too!! i would love to share the worksheets ive made, but idk where to post them hue i had to look up what the power flower is. i'm def gonna use that for future sessions!!! There is a Discord chatting service where we should be able to exchange files. Google Drive might work too! Or, good ol email. I really enjoy the power flower! Let me know if you have any questions about it |
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Post by 💛Potatoes💛 on Aug 23, 2022 15:00:15 GMT 9
Village of 1500 here! I`ve facilitated the Power Flower activity to the young eikaiwa adult group, and included talking about attraction(sexuality, romantic) and gender(cis, trans,non-binary). I am adapting the Genderbread Person (LGBTQ poster) to be displayed in the Elementary and Jr High school (we dont have an HS)too! Privately, Ive made a hulemdo who vibed out to be accepting of diversity. They aren`t originally from the village though. Oh my gosh thank you for enlightening me about Genderbread, I wish we were shown this in school ugh!! I have a 出前講座 about SDGs in a couple months and have been told to focus on the Equality aspect and how it's different in my home country! Hope you don't mind me stealing some ideas here hehe I wanna live in a Genderbread house <3 |
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Post by yuukinni on Aug 23, 2022 15:11:46 GMT 9
Village of 1500 here! I`ve facilitated the Power Flower activity to the young eikaiwa adult group, and included talking about attraction(sexuality, romantic) and gender(cis, trans,non-binary). I am adapting the Genderbread Person (LGBTQ poster) to be displayed in the Elementary and Jr High school (we dont have an HS)too! Privately, Ive made a hulemdo who vibed out to be accepting of diversity. They aren`t originally from the village though. Oh my gosh thank you for enlightening me about Genderbread, I wish we were shown this in school ugh!! I have a 出前講座 about SDGs in a couple months and have been told to focus on the Equality aspect and how it's different in my home country! Hope you don't mind me stealing some ideas here hehe I wanna live in a Genderbread house <3 You`re welcome! I too wish we were taught these concepts in grade school. I think the I wish feeling really motivates me to share about diversity and lay the foundations to build the gender bread The lecture sounds like a great idea! I learn a lot about diversity from Instagram, I`d be happy to share some pages if you wish. |
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Post by 💛Potatoes💛 on Aug 23, 2022 15:23:46 GMT 9
Oh my gosh thank you for enlightening me about Genderbread, I wish we were shown this in school ugh!! I have a 出前講座 about SDGs in a couple months and have been told to focus on the Equality aspect and how it's different in my home country! Hope you don't mind me stealing some ideas here hehe I wanna live in a Genderbread house <3 You`re welcome! I too wish we were taught these concepts in grade school. I think the I wish feeling really motivates me to share about diversity and lay the foundations to build the gender bread The lecture sounds like a great idea! I learn a lot about diversity from Instagram, I`d be happy to share some pages if you wish. ?? And now I'm hungry for gingerbread ;-; Yeah if you have any Japanese resources that would be great! I follow a couple Japanese/English instagram pages already but could do with some more |
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Post by yuukinni on Aug 23, 2022 16:22:16 GMT 9
You`re welcome! I too wish we were taught these concepts in grade school. I think the I wish feeling really motivates me to share about diversity and lay the foundations to build the gender bread The lecture sounds like a great idea! I learn a lot about diversity from Instagram, I`d be happy to share some pages if you wish. ?? And now I'm hungry for gingerbread ;-; Yeah if you have any Japanese resources that would be great! I follow a couple Japanese/English instagram pages already but could do with some more I don`t follow any Japanese instagram pages that are diverse! I would love to get some recommendations! Here are my Instagram top picsk! Im Nikkei so I gravitate towards Asian creators, but I think they might be good rolemodels and representations for Japanese people. www.instagram.com/summerluk/ (femme, trans) www.instagram.com/pinkmantaray/ (masc, trans) www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/ (body hair, colonialism) www.instagram.com/mattxiv/ (diversity, equity) This is a Nikkei(?) creator I learned some gender diversity terms from www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLKsTWFpj-sblog.gaijinpot.com/the-abcs-of-lgbt-in-japan/ (another resource) |
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Post by chiew on Aug 24, 2022 14:48:24 GMT 9
Yesterday was my third time hosting the lgbtq event, it’s officially called eikaiwa but I called it benkyokai on the august poster. I guess right now calling it a seminar would be more accurate. Since my first time fail, I’ve been able to lead some kind of thought process. Deep discussion hasn’t really happened but I’m content if I see participants taking notes and nodding their heads silently hue.
In terms of the handouts and worksheets I’ve made and used; specifically, I use the genderbread pdf that I translated (the gender unicorn has an official jpn ver), a version of the acefiles from nijikou that i edited → nijikou.com/事業内容/オリジナルテンプレート-資料/ and terms worksheets that I made from scratch.
My first event, I talked about sogie, split attraction model, and gender. It was a lot to be cramming into an hr while also hoping for discussion, so I’m going to split those topics up in future sessions. My second and third event, I talked about the 8 greek categories of love and basically trying to work my way into the cognitive understanding of monogamy, introducing aroace relationships, and the social construct of marriage/childrearing.
I have jobrainbow.jp, outjapan.co.jp, and anone.me linked as resources. I personally really like anone cause it’s a very extensive, tho maybe not comprehensive, quiz that breaks down your sexuality, orientation and gender. I think it’s a good first step for anyone who’s questioning.
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Post by 💛Potatoes💛 on Aug 26, 2022 8:39:11 GMT 9
Thank you so much!! I love alokvmenon, we share the same fashion braincell I had a look through my follows and this is the best page I could find, their posts are in both English and Japanese www.instagram.com/voiceupjapan/ |
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Post by scaldy spice on Aug 29, 2022 11:08:51 GMT 9
Thank you so much!! I love alokvmenon, we share the same fashion braincell I had a look through my follows and this is the best page I could find, their posts are in both English and Japanese www.instagram.com/voiceupjapan/Adding to this thread~ This page is also pretty good, I’ve used it as a resource in both LGBT+ 講座 I’ve done! instagram.com/palettalk_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= |
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Post by 💛Potatoes💛 on Sept 12, 2022 16:11:05 GMT 9
Hey folks, I'm trying to come up with 2 activities for ~13 year olds about the SDG of Reducing InequalityI've done short raise-your-hand type quizzes before but I've been told my presentation is scheduled during club activity time and they wanna keep everyone active. I've also been told the number of students could be somewhere between 50 - 100 (TBC) which makes things significantly harder rip Obviously I'll be bringing the Gay Agenda(TM) and will propose the Genderbread worksheet to my soup but as for activities that teach about equality in general I'm stumped Any ideas would be much appreciated! Also, the previous posts here have been a big help for the presentation in general so thanks  |
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Post by yuukinni on Sept 13, 2022 8:37:58 GMT 9
Hey folks, I'm trying to come up with 2 activities for ~13 year olds about the SDG of Reducing InequalityI've done short raise-your-hand type quizzes before but I've been told my presentation is scheduled during club activity time and they wanna keep everyone active. I've also been told the number of students could be somewhere between 50 - 100 (TBC) which makes things significantly harder rip Obviously I'll be bringing the Gay Agenda(TM) and will propose the Genderbread worksheet to my soup but as for activities that teach about equality in general I'm stumped Any ideas would be much appreciated! Also, the previous posts here have been a big help for the presentation in general so thanks If you have access to a larger space, the Privilege Walk Exercise might be a tool to raise awareness in the youth. Everyone will stand in a horizontal line in the middle of the room. All participants will have their eyes closed until the end of the exercise. As the facilitator reads a statement or question, the participant will step forward or step back if it applies to them. If anyone feels too uncomfortable to take a step, they have the option to remain still.
Examples to start with:
If you are right-handed, take one step forward
If your sex or race is widely represented in the U.S. Congress, take one step forward.
If you have difficulty finding hair products, make-up for your skin complexion, or a hairstylist/barber in your current
community, take one step back.
Sourced from: www.eiu.edu/eiu1111/Privilege%20Walk%20Exercise-%20Transfer%20Leadership%20Institute-%20Week%204.pdfI participated in this activity in High School, and it made me realize things like, being a light skinned Person of Color is a privilege. |
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Post by chiew on Sept 15, 2022 14:10:40 GMT 9
how would yall describe/explain what a safe space is in japanese?
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Post by Say itaintChristmasyet Jay on Sept 15, 2022 14:22:52 GMT 9
how would yall describe/explain what a safe space is in japanese? I haven't read past the first couple sentences, gomen, but how about something like this: www.earth-garden.jp/study/57242/ |
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Post by chiew on Sept 15, 2022 14:25:29 GMT 9
how would yall describe/explain what a safe space is in japanese? I haven't read past the first couple sentences, gomen, but how about something like this: www.earth-garden.jp/study/57242/im looking at it right now too! tryna concise all that into a brief blurb hue |
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Post by hettieso on Sept 15, 2022 14:55:45 GMT 9
how about...老若男女問わず誰もが安全安心でいられる寛容な空間
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They aren`t originally from the village though.
