If You Remove the Boundaries — Complete

A collected volume that brings together volumes 1–3 of the essay series "境界線をなくしたら" by freelance writer Nao Ishikawa, a non-binary, aromantic-asexual (aroace) creator who moves forward as a minority.
A book of thoughts written from a queer, slightly off-kilter perspective.

Format: bunkobon (pocket paperback)
Pages: 208

[Contents]
Introduction 6
If You Remove the Boundary...? 10
What is X-gender? 14
'Don't know' and 'Don't want to know' 19
I don't fall in love, to begin with 24
The theory that invisible things do not exist 30
Not enough expression 35
Increasing information 40
It's okay to stay unpleasant 44
If you don't like it, quit 49
Regret doesn't help, but 53
Farewell to nightmares 58
Why am I working, how have I worked? 62
No-stress, so to speak 66
People I'm bad with 71
Lack of imagination 74
Echo chamber? 78
Steps that don't match 83
Words of curse 88
Sensitive to guilt 92
Afraid of being ready to be shot 96
Not being 'as oneself' 101
Conflict of reading desire 105
Piling up again 109
What to call myself 113
BL is just BL 117
Fashionable minorities 123
Learning from predecessors 130
Just a story about how the drama "Slow Train" was amazing 136
Expos are fun — Part 1 146
Expos are fun — Part 2 152
Expos are fun — Part 3 165
Bad with kids, but still 173
For those who don't have to rush through life 178
Photo allergy 182
An age you can resist 186
No one is entirely okay 190
Self-esteem improvement plan 195
Resoluteness to be alone 199
Afterword 204