A tentative response to Eve Sedgwick's timely question "How to bring your kids up gay?" lies at the heart of Kunihiko Ikuhara's anime TV series Shōjo Kakumei Utena (1997). This article explores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffers to some queer children and teens in the face of a somber heteronormative reality. This essay performs a close reading of Episode seven "Unfulfilled Juri", and it focuses on one of the queer feminine formations that the show cultivates, the tragic (joyful) anime lesbian. Paradoxically, and fortunately, the anime lesbian far from being an abject figure, becomes a site for queer identificatory projections and desires.
A tentative response to Eve Sedgwick's timely question "How to bring your kids up gay?" lies at the heart of Kunihiko Ikuhara's anime TV series Shōjo Kakumei Utena (1997). This article explores the affective sustenance that Revolutionary Girl Utenaoffers to some queer children and teens in the face of a somber heteronormative reality. This essay performs a close reading of Episode seven "Unfulfilled Juri", and it focuses on one of the queer feminine formations that the show cultivates, the tragic (joyful) anime lesbian. Paradoxically, and fortunately, the anime lesbian far from being an abject figure, becomes a site for queer identificatory projections and desires.
La serie de anime de Kunihiko Ikuhara Shoujo Kakumei Utena (1997) ofrece una posible respuesta a la pregunta de Eve Sedgwick "How to bring your kids up gay?". Este artículo explora la dimensión afectiva que Utena: la chica revolucionaria ofrece a adolescentes queer frente a la sombría realidad heteronormativa. En el texto se lleva a cabo una lectura detallada del séptimo episodio, "Juri, la insatisfecha", mediante el análisis de uno de los personajes femeninos queer de la serie que da vida a una lesbiana trágica pero feliz. Paradójica y afortunadamente, este personaje no está construido como una figura abyecta y, de hecho, llega incluso a convertirse en un lugar de identificación de las proyecciones y deseos queer.