[ **up: [[Literature]] | [[Queer]]** ] --- # Boyslove --- ## Yaoi > “You’d have to say that among lesbians who like *yaoi*, there are two mindsets. In my case, it’s not that I imagine myself in the world of a manga like *The Song of the Wind and the Trees*, it’s just that I like the fact that it’s about two boys and I definitely wouldn’t like it if a girl got tangled up in it.”[^1] [^1]: Katsuhiko Suganuma and James Welker, ‘Celebrating Lesbian Sexuality: An Interview with Inoue Meimy, Editor of Japanese Lesbian Erotic Lifestyle Magazine *Carmilla*’, trans. by James Welker, *Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context,* issue 12 (January 2006), http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue12/welker2.html.