Being Brown on Tokyo Tinder
<p>Nobody goes to Tokyo without a dream. Tokyo — complex, multifaceted, and unforgiving — is a city of opportunity. A tempestuous, dynamic vessel for the pleasures, pains, and aspirations of increasingly disillusioned generations. An economic hub powered by throbbing, vibrating, neon circuits of global industry and commerce. From all over Japan and the world, people pour into the city to craft visions of their futures into reality and to build their lives anew.</p>
<p>I went to Tokyo with my own ambitions. When I traveled there for a semester abroad in March 2017, I wanted to investigate what it means to be a brown Indian woman in Japan, and to negotiate the personal and political stakes of power, desire, and sex in its troublingly <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-discrimination-foreign/foreigners-in-japan-face-significant-levels-of-discrimination-survey-shows-idUSKBN1720GP" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">notorious homogenous</a> and xenophobic national space.</p>
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