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Reflections about the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week

Published on
14 Dec 2018Posted by
Irish Granada InocetoPosted on
Activist Voices
Out of more than a hundred who applied and subjected to several steps of screening, only 10 from different ASEAN countries passed.  All leaders in their own organizations coming from, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Philippines and Vietnam, coming from the different spectrum of the rainbow. Who are we as leaders and how we emerged as such came from care. We did not simply jump up the moment we saw injustice.We first...

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On the Margins of Politics and Religion:...

Published on
17 Oct 2018Posted by
Justin Francis Bionat and Jeremy Tan Fok Jun*, 
Youth Voices CountPosted on
Activist Voices
This article will look at the continued crackdown of the Malaysian government on LGBT individuals. It will analyse one of the most recent cases of state-sponsored violence against members of the LGBT community in Malaysia. It will also look into the human rights violations of sexual and gender minorities in Malaysia and similar other places. Just like a spectacle, two women were publicly caned six times after being found guilty of attempting...

Being Moro and LGBT

Published on
25 Nov 2016Posted by
June “Zion” DalandaPosted on
Activist Voices
English Filipino The life of a gay Moro is difficult. The eyes of our family and society are all on us. And the eyes of Islam, the religion of our upbringing, judge us heavily. In their interpretation of Islam, we are "haram": our feelings are dirty and forbidden. Gay Moros and their inner selves have no place in the "ummah", the community of Muslims, because in this society, there are only two genders in the eyes of God. And so we are...