The next half the Laydeez do Comics was a talk called 'My personal journey to Boys' love manga-land' by Professor Anna Madill outlining her life journey and how she came across Boys' love Manga also known as Yaoi, and how this relates to her practice and study.
About Anna Madill:
Anna is an academic at the University of Leeds researching BL from a UK perspective and tweets on this topic as UK Fujoshi.
https://www.facebook.com/UKFujoshi?ref=hl
http://leeds.academia.edu/AnnaMadill
The presentation consisted of this spiral timeline that represented Anna's life, with an image at various points that represented each focus point for the talk and how at each point of her life her interests and ideas reflected on what he is researching now. From interests in characters like Marine boy or the duo Spock and Kirk from Star Trek and how these reflected on things like slash fiction and why people write and read it.
Anna Madill gave a talk that was deeply honest and gave a personal yet professional insight into key steps of her life showing how all this is related and eventually led up to her British Academy grant researching and understanding Japanese Boys' Love Manga from a UK Perspective.It touches on who reads and writes these and why they appeal to women. Also how the audience and writers of these are seen by the society, looking at how it's more of a private interest and frown upon by some groups.
I'm not doing the talk justice by talking about it on here, it is definitely one to look out for and attend if you can. It was a fantastic talk and i'm really glad I made it to Laydeez do Comics this month, i'll be going to the next meet in November.
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