Abstract Though dansō—female-to-male crossdressing—has been historically embedded in Japan as tradition, performance, and entertainment, in the last fifteen years it has fractured and increasingly become commercialized, adopted by young people—a phenomenon I call “contemporary dansō culture.” One example this article explores are dansō café-and-bars—establishments where employees dress as another gender—which since the mid-2000s have emerged in Nakano, Ikebukuro, and Akihabara, areas in Tokyo where anime, manga, and game fans gather. How do dansō individuals understand their practices and everyday lives? Based on field research, this article explores how dansō individuals’ rejection of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) identity and politics can provide a starting point for rethinking queer theory’s relationship with normativity. Taking a queer anthropological approach, I contend that dansō individuals’ politics simultaneously lies in their turn from “LGBT” and alignment with the “normal,” compelling us to reconfigure queer and norms in the Japanese context.

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酷儿与正常：当代东京的 dansō（女变男）生活和政治

摘要 尽管 dansō（女变男）在历史上作为传统、表演和娱乐在日本根深蒂固，但在过去的 15 年中，它已经断裂并越来越商业化，并被年轻人采用——我称之为“当代 dansō”。文化。” 本文探讨的一个例子是 dansō 咖啡厅和酒吧——员工打扮成另一种性别的场所——自 2000 年代中期以来，它们已经出现在东京的动漫、漫画和游戏爱好者聚集的中野、池袋和秋叶原地区。dansō个人如何理解他们的实践和日常生活？本文基于实地研究，探讨了 dansō 个人对 LGBT（女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别）身份和政治的拒绝如何为重新思考酷儿理论与规范性的关系提供一个起点。