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  • Hitachinaka Matsuri 2018 . i think this was the last 祭り/festival that i got to see before leaving Japan... but at least i got to see it with @nonbinaryish.
  • STORMcell . . . . . . . . . . . . #clouds #cloudscape #storm #weather #sky #ig_skylovers #instasky #instaclouds #blackandwhite #bnwmood #bw_captures #bnw_society #bw_photooftheday #yokohama #桜木町 #横浜 #モノクロ #白黒
  • 「迷い道」 . ...i really miss the 雰囲気 of urban jungles like Tokyo... ;( . . . . . . . . #tokyo #japan #igersjp #urbanexploration #urbanphotography #urbanjungle #citylife #citylights #nightlife #cityview #bw_captures #bw_lover #bnw_society #bnwmood #bnw_captures #新橋 #東京 #光 #夜景 #モノクロ #白黒
  • [A]sexuality,  Gender[queer],  Queer[ness],  YouTube[r]

    🎬 QAC 79 – The Neverending Queer-y: My Queer Ace Journey || LGBT YouTube & COPPA

    January 4, 2020 / No Comments

    inspired by an old blog post and a New Year's meme, i decided to document the last decade of my journey re: identity as a #Black, #Queer, #Nonbinary & #Asexual person in the form of a video...

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    Vesper H.

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    Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2016 (5/8/2016)

    May 14, 2016

    Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2016: Asexual & Trans / Non-binary Awesomeness!

    May 14, 2016

    identity politics leave little room for agency; a thought.

    July 21, 2017
  • Black[ness],  Gender[queer],  Queer[ness],  YouTube[r]

    QAC 76 – Hair: What’s Race & Gender Got To Do With It? || Black Hair | Beauty Standards | Non-Binary

    May 17, 2019 / No Comments

    whether we want it to be or not, #BlackHair is often Political, especially in its’ natural, unstraightened state. combine this with #Blackness itself...

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    Vesper H.

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    whiteness as default

    December 10, 2017

    fuck your Oppression Olympics

    September 15, 2016

    ? QAC 76.5 – 11 Years In The Making: #TheBigChop || Non-binary | QPOC | Haircut

    June 1, 2019
  • [A]sexuality,  [Random] Thoughts,  Queer[ness]

    IF {subcommunity building} THEN {…?}

    March 11, 2019 / 8 Comments

    ...wouldn't it be great if there was more of a sense of intersectional community, comradery, and identity among aces who are also bi? among aces who are also gay? among aces who are also sans romantic orientation? among aces who are simultaneously a part of any other minority community (sexuality-based or not) in addition to also being ace...?

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    Vesper H.

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    QAC 06 – Coming Out as a Panromantic Asexual

    June 1, 2013

    Ace & Non-binary Pride @Tokyo Rainbow Pride 2015 (04/26/15)

    May 10, 2015

    VICELAND – GAYCATION Episode 1: Japan

    March 3, 2016
  • "Building" by LEANDRO ERLICH (2017) taken at Mori Art Museum 2018
    [Random] Thoughts,  Black[ness],  Queer[ness]

    h/History.

    February 11, 2019 / No Comments

    i have never been a fan of History. from as early as elementary school, i learned that when people said "History" they really only meant theirs and not mine. by junior high school it was clear that my own history—that is, the history of people who are Black and American like me, in so far as U.S. History textbooks were concerned...

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    …one of many examples of why navigating セクマイ / LGBTQIA spaces in Japan can be painful at times.

    October 7, 2016

    #asexual pride shirt

    October 27, 2013

    “i am asexual”

    February 12, 2013
  • [A]sexuality,  Gender[queer],  Queer[ness],  YouTube[r]

    QAC 71 – Testosterone, Libido & Asexuality: Has HRT Changed My Sexuality? || The T Files #009

    July 9, 2018 / No Comments

    six months on testosterone and navigating having a (over)active libido (or “sex drive”) to show for it. as an ace, suddenly having to navigate having a high libido for the first time in my life has been…. interesting, to say the least.

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    humbled

    July 31, 2018

    QAC 35 – Body Image: An Intersection of Black, Non-binary & Asexual Identity

    March 16, 2015

    sigh.

    July 23, 2017
  • [A]sexuality,  Black[ness],  Gender[queer],  Queer[ness]

    “You are freaking perfect how you are.”

    June 19, 2018 / No Comments

    content warning: homophobia, suicidal ideation …so, my sister sent me this video out of the blue today. she often sends me links to all kinds of random, obscure videos from the depths of YouTube, to the point that i didn’t bother clicking the link until hours after she’d sent it, thinking it to be another one of those videos. needless to say, i was pleasantly surprised. my appreciation of this video is beyond words. <3

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    spotted: LGBT 101 on Japanese TV

    February 21, 2015

    QAC 13 – Staying In The Closet

    August 11, 2013

    QAC 55 – Older Asexuals: Coming Out Later In Life | Questioning | Trauma

    October 23, 2016
  • [Random] Thoughts,  Black[ness],  Queer[ness]

    my #WakandaForever✊? is not your #WakandaForever✊

    April 21, 2018 / No Comments

    so i finally got to see Black Panther again ( #WAKANDAFOREVER AHHHHHH–) and am now at a Starbucks basking in the afterglow of the movie, about to attempt to herd my thoughts into a more coherent cacophony of words than exists in my head at present. wish me luck.

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    October 16, 2016

    totally random Yukihari / hazardaĵo pri Yukihari

    June 26, 2014

    QAC 44 – Dear White People: About “People of Color” (POC) | A Rant

    December 20, 2015
  • Black[ness],  Japan[ese],  Queer[ness]

    it began with locs…

    February 25, 2018 / No Comments

    cw: rape apologism …so i just had lunch with someone who is essentially a random woman who chased me down at a train station last week because she admired my locs and wanted me to start locs for her. had this woman not been a black woman, had she not been an older black woman, had she not been literally beaming from ear to ear just looking at my locs, so earnest about wanting to start locs herself and having nowhere to turn– had it not been for all those things AND had we not been in Japan, i wouldn’t have given this lady the time of day. especially since she made me miss my train. but she was and we are and so there i was, meeting this over zealous woman at a cafe for lunch because #AfroHairSolidarityInAsia✊? if only the conversation had steered clear of politics, things would have been fine. i…

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    City of Philadelphia unveils Pride flag with brown and black stripes

    August 4, 2017

    story time: when “African” is more important than “American”

    August 14, 2016

    “…what it means to become America’s boogieman”

    July 12, 2017
  • [Random] Thoughts,  Black[ness],  Gender[queer],  Queer[ness]

    whiteness as default

    December 10, 2017 / No Comments

    as usual, i find myself turning to YouTube as a resource for information only to be reminded that…. YouTube is So Damn White. most things non-binary and / or trans are So Damn White. a search for “non-binary” and “testosterone” turns up almost nothing but skinny, short haired, white, non-binary people, none of whom i can really see myself in. which is nothing new. that’s part of the reason i’m on YouTube in the first place. beyond that, a bigger problem that i find myself faced with is that the very image / concept of “androgyny” or stereotypical “non-binary appearance” is inherently linked to whiteness. i want people to pause before they misgender me (seeing as how they will inevitably misgender me regardless) and the best way to bring about that is, presumably, androgynous appearance. however, androgyny feels unobtainable to me as a black person, because no matter what i…

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    November 14, 2015

    “yellow as a maverique”

    June 25, 2014

    …mmm, decided there hasn’t been enough Calcifer on this blog, so here you go.

    November 20, 2017
  • [Random] Thoughts,  Black[ness],  Gender[queer],  Mental [Un]health,  Queer[ness]

    gender feels; racial trauma.

    December 6, 2017 / No Comments

    as usual, i find myself turning to YouTube as a resource for information only to be reminded that…. YouTube is So Damn White. most things non-binary and / or trans are So Damn White. a search for “non-binary” and “testosterone” turns up almost nothing but skinny, short haired, white, non-binary people, none of whom i can really see myself in. which is nothing new. that’s part of the reason i’m on YouTube in the first place.

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    November 14, 2015

    humbled

    July 31, 2018

    1978 Call Out Culture Is Fierce…! lmao

    November 26, 2018
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VESPER H.

YouTuber & Blogger

Queer As Cat is the blog and YouTube channel of Vesper, an American expat currently living in Japan.
reoccurring topics include: #asexuality, #nonbinary, #queerness #blackness & #mentalhealth

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  • literal “social distancing” from the ace community April 1, 2020
  • legalized weed in America: one of many chips on my Black shoulder March 7, 2020
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  • 🎬 QAC 79 – The Neverending Queer-y: My Queer Ace Journey || LGBT YouTube & COPPA January 4, 2020
  • #YouTubeIsOverParty: COPPA & The Hypocrisy of YouTube December 15, 2019

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  • Hitachinaka Matsuri 2018 . i think this was the last 祭り/festival that i got to see before leaving Japan... but at least i got to see it with @nonbinaryish.
  • STORMcell . . . . . . . . . . . . #clouds #cloudscape #storm #weather #sky #ig_skylovers #instasky #instaclouds #blackandwhite #bnwmood #bw_captures #bnw_society #bw_photooftheday #yokohama #桜木町 #横浜 #モノクロ #白黒
  • 「迷い道」 . ...i really miss the 雰囲気 of urban jungles like Tokyo... ;( . . . . . . . . #tokyo #japan #igersjp #urbanexploration #urbanphotography #urbanjungle #citylife #citylights #nightlife #cityview #bw_captures #bw_lover #bnw_society #bnwmood #bnw_captures #新橋 #東京 #光 #夜景 #モノクロ #白黒
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  • 六本木ヒルズからの雰囲気 . . . . . . . . . . #roppongi #roppongihills #cityscape #skyline #tokyo #tokyotower #citylife #tokyolife #contrast #bnwmood #bnw_society #bw_lover #blackandwhitephotographylovers #instablackandwhite #bw_photooftheday #blackandwhite #igersjp #六本木ヒルズ #六本木ヒルズ展望台 #東京 #上から目線 #東京タワー #モノクロ #白黒
  • "Changing Rooms" by Leandro Erlich . . . . . . . . . . . #moriartmuseum #leandroerlich #dressingroomselfie #changingroom #mirrors #artappreciation #exhibition #iloveart #bnwmood #bnw_society #bw_lover #blackandwhitephotographylovers #instablackandwhite #bw_photooftheday #blackandwhite #igersjp #鏡 #アート #美術館 #モノクロ #白黒
  • "Pulled by the Roots" by Leandro Erlich . . . . . . . . . . . #moriartmuseum #leandroerlich #house #roots #sculpture #artappreciation #exhibition #iloveart #bnwmood #bnw_society #bw_lover #blackandwhitephotographylovers #instablackandwhite #bw_photooftheday #blackandwhite #igersjp #家 #アート #美術館 #モノクロ #白黒
  • "The Room (Surveillance I)" by Leandro Erlich . . . . . . . . . . . #moriartmuseum #leandroerlich #perspective #surveillance #mirrors #artappreciation #exhibition #iloveart #bnwmood #bnw_society #bw_lover #blackandwhitephotographylovers #instablackandwhite #bw_photooftheday #blackandwhite #igersjp #部屋 #アート #美術館 #モノクロ #白黒

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