This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Tomoki Fukui can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2022/02/queered-ruptures-the-politics-of-anti-irradiation-maternalism-in-the-tepco-nuclear-disaster-kokutai-and-hentai/. About the post: This essay reflects on the significance of Chiharu’s description of herself and other women active in anti-irradiation efforts as hentai. It reflects on the sense that Japanese mothers who take issue with nuclear reconstruction in late capitalist Japan are perverse and aberrant. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)

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