Papilionette Manifesto (Preprint)

"The Fictosexuality Manifesto (Preprint)" is a collection of essays collaboratively written by scholars, social activists, and helping professionals from Japan and Taiwan, focusing on the theme of "Fictosexuality." This book explores the circumstances and historical context of fictosexual individuals from multiple perspectives, including sex/gender studies, helping professions, and social practice, and offers insights and recommendations on issues such as social thought, community advocacy, and national governance. Through this book, readers will understand how contemporary fictosexuality research and movements construct a methodology for a "Critique against Human-Oriented Sexualism" and further delineate the theoretical landscape of the fictosexual perspective. Building on this foundation, the articles in the book will provide readers with new ways of thinking about the world, non-humans, and sex/gender.

The preprint includes five articles. The first article, "The Fictosexuality Manifesto: Queer Biopolitics," co-authored by Liao Hsi-Wen and Matsuura Yu, discusses the authenticity of fictosexuality as a sexual orientation from a fictosexual perspective, analyzes the marginalization it faces in a human-oriented sexual society, and further develops thoughts on alternative sexual orientations and ontology. The second article, "Rethinking Sex/Gender Politics from a Fictosexual Perspective," is an augmented version of Dr. Matsuura Yu's lecture at the Women's Bookstore in 2023. The article reviews the process of introducing the concept of fictosexuality in Japan and explores how it developed into a social movement. Through the approach of queer theory, it meticulously analyzes the meaning of fictosexuality as a sexual orientation and instances of its marginalization.

The third article, "Petition on Regulations Regarding Two-Dimensional Sexual Expression," is a document submitted by the Fictosexuality Hub during the "iWIN Incident" in 2024, advocating for the sexual citizenship of fictosexual individuals and emphasizing sensitivity in cultural policy. This document not only testifies to the voice of the fictosexual perspective in contemporary political discourse but also highlights the contemporary significance of the fictosexual movement. The fourth article, "My Reasons for Engaging in Freedom of Expression Work," is a review by NGO worker Professor Ogino Kōtarō of the "Non-existent Youth Controversy" in 2011, showcasing the agency of fictosexual individuals in the face of national governance through experiences of meeting, interacting, and collaborating with them. The fifth article, "How is a Non-Human-Oriented Sexual Support/Self-Help Community Possible?" co-authored by Liao Hsi-Wen and counseling psychologist Hao Bo-Wei, reflects on the experience of "erasure" faced by fictosexual individuals and explores the possibility of acknowledging the existence of fictosexuality, thereby imagining the future landscape of its support systems and community practices.