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Category: Safe Sport

Guest Essay: “Gender Safety as a Community Commitment” by Léa Fae (they/them), USA.

Last year, my martial arts community had a reckoning. A respected and popular sensei within our greater community was accused of sexual misconduct and gender-based harassment. Those accusations raised strong and deep questions: How does this happen? How should our community respond to accusations? What responsibility does the community bear for one member’s actions? How do we prevent…
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July 9, 2026
Are women’s kendo seminars beneficial or even necessary?

Women’s kendo seminars have become more common in many countries. From reports, they have been impactful and rewarding events for both participants and sensei. Undeniably, women’s kendo seminars led by skilled female sensei from Japan inspire and connect the global kendo community. Not only women can learn from women sensei with sophisticated, sharp, spiritually powerful,…
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February 1, 2026
‘Power and Responsibility: Identifying Harassment within Kendo Hierarchical Relationships’ by Kate Sylvester

‘Power and Responsibility: Identifying Harassment within Kendo Hierarchical Relationships’ by Kate Sylvester. This article is shared on this website with permission of Fine Ladies Kendo Worldwide Magazine. It was first published in Fine Ladies Worldwide Magazine in Vol. 6 (Spring, 2024). The article discusses ways to identify various forms of harassment within kendo hierarchical relationships.…
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April 3, 2025

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