Are you supported? – Chōchō! Beating for Perspective

Do you feel represented, supported, and comfortable in the taiko community? Or have you experienced discrimination, bullying, or another form of barrier (whether economic, societal, cultural, gender-based, etc.)?

represented, supported, and comfortable

Discrimination, bullying, economic barriers, gender-based – all of these, yes.

Yes

I feel supported by my taiko group.
Yorokai is the best

all fine altough men seem to think that the bigger drums are more suitable for them then for women

yes, always supported by other taiko players.

no, not at all

I feel represented. Most taiko players I know are white, and I’m white. Patriarchy seeps in once in a while, but that is everywhere of course, and I’m not in any super hierarchical group with a man at the top only allowing the men to play odaiko or anything like that. I also don’t feel I need to apologize for being white and playing taiko. I think it’s an absolutely lovely artform.

I don’t have a bad experience playing taiko. Only some people are hard on each other.

Oh no, don t think that s happening in the Taiko community

being alone as a man in a whole group of women is no fun at all

1) yes
2) no

I feel comfortable, i didn’t experiencen any of the negative things mentioned above.

no extreme problems till now – as always and everywhere there are people that fits better with our own personality

I feel more represented because many halfbloods actually are in the Taiko community.

Yes — Bullying by those who have no respect for the history and traditions of taiko.

Yes I do

Just love, lots of love.

Yes

I feel very accepted in the taiko community. This is the first place I feel I can be myself without to have to put on a ‘smiley face’ mask…

Comfortable yes. Discriminated, no.

Yes. Feel supported.
Just the fact that I could go to different people Who I knew from taiko classes we had attended together and be able to turn up on the door skip to live with them for a week while on tour was amazing.

I have felt very welcome in Taiko community.

I feel comfortable and welcome. Overall I think taiko tends to be very economically accessible compared to other group activities one might join.

Taiko is one of the only activities I have been involved in where I did not feel “less than” because I am gay. The taiko community is so diverse and inclusive and makes me feel like I can be my authentic self.

Generally, I do feel supported, represented, and comfortable. There have been a few people who have engaged in some bullying or gatekeeping, but I believe that was more about the person in question than anything to do with taiko itself or the taiko community.

Mostly supported.

Personally, I have access to all the support I could wish for, however there is one resource I have yet to join and that is the TCA. It just seems that they are focusing on helping the American community rather than the World.

I think that female taiko players are more likely to be involved in the community building side of taiko and that we still see the image of the performing taiko player as usually male.

This is why the work of Women in Taiko is so important!

As noted before, there are those who feel if you’re not at lease east Asian, so “look Japanese,” you are a cultural appropriator and have no business performing taiko. I have literally been told to quit taiko because I, an older white woman, was protesting this racist attitude. “If you don’t like it then quit” I was told flat out. I just laughed at them. If one is going to cop that attitude, then no one but Japanese men should play. Don’t draw the line conveniently around your exception.

I have felt none of this.

I had terrible male teachers. There was fear, anger. People could‘nt move, talk,…there was angryness, pressure, …one of them said: Taiko is no music and I as a women are not allowed to wear the trousers I liked to wear.

Not bothered

I feel supported. It is a community with a bunch of other taiko nerds, and that is very cool. Of course it is not a 100% perfect colective, but none is.

I’m comfortable.

Is it cultural if I believe that online activity is not Taiko?

I’m comfortable in the taiko community for sure!

Comfortable

Not at all.

A little bit of bullying based on the system described above. I’d wager it was a combination of my race (white) and outsider status.

Taiko players are just humans as everyone else. So they also bring problems into taiko, that exist in other places too. But if the group is lead well, there is a good chance the more difficult people will put back their ego and learn how work on the common goal.

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Please see above.

I am comfortable in the community and have not experienced the negative things so far.

The only thing that has come up as discrimination is my tattoos, but that is within the Japanese community.

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