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ASEAN Queer Imaginings: Understanding Queer in Southeast Asia

What it means to be a queer in South East Asia? Globalization has brought awareness and movement on many social justice issues, including awareness and movement for LGBTQ+ community. But while in western part of the globe LGBTQ+ right begin to move towards better acknowledgement by law, the eastern part got a whole different story. Not only that, the experience of LGBTQ+ community in ASEAN is both culturally and socially different than what most people know about LGBTQ+ community from the western perspective.  This sometimes can cause conflict amongst the community itself because of the different takes on identity and experience perspective, and in turn can potentially harms the work towards better LGBTQ+ rights in ASEAN region. Not to mention, the lack of studies and research in this particular topic often makes advocacy to local queer community also challenged. ASEAN Queer Imaginings was published to give voices to ASEAN queer community and researchers, to build the bridge of underst