Transgressive Empowerment: Queering the Spiritualities of the Mak Nyahs of PT Foundation

Goh, Joseph N.

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“…Regardless, LGBTQ communities have long been part of the demographic landscape as well as Malaysia's history and culture. Evidence of their existence takes the form of "transgendered courtiers" and "village performers who were transpersons" in the old royal courts (Goh 2014), cross-dressing, samesex attraction and sexual ambiguity in classical Malay texts (Noor 2009), male homosexual relations during colonial rule in Malaya (Aldrich 2008), the role of pondan (effeminate men) as mak andam (bridal beauticians) in Malay villages (Peletz 1996(Peletz , 2009, gay and lesbian couples (Baba 2001) and mak nyah (male transsexuals) (Slamah 2005;Teh 2008).…”

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‘Our Online-Ness Matters’: The Construction of Social Media Presences by Malaysian LGBTQ Communities

Jerome

2023

New Media in the Margins

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This book consists of nine chapters, each an in-depth case study into a specific nonmainstream or marginalized online community in Malaysia. The authors come from diverse backgrounds to talk about how new media can both assist and hinder maligned minorities, ignored ethnicities or the often attacked migrants in their day to day lives. The book makes a strong contribution to Malaysian studies which highlights the other and represents minority viewpoints to challenge the belief that Malaysia's online space is monolithic and limited to several mainstream discourses in Malaysian scholarship.

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Section: Lgbtq Communities In Malaysiamentioning

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‘Our Online-Ness Matters’: The Construction of Social Media Presences by Malaysian LGBTQ Communities

Jerome

2023

New Media in the Margins

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“…Simultaneously, other Asian theologians began to develop contextual thinking and theological praxis in context with other religions such as Islam. Joseph N. Goh in his article Transgressive Empowerment: Queering the Spiritualities of the Mak Nyahs of PT Foundation (2014) uses the framework of queer theology to investigate the life experiences of waria (Mak Nyahs) in the context of Islam in Malaysia (Goh 2014). Goh stated that the Mak Nyah actively seek ways to practice Islam and harmonize with their gender and sexuality.…”

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Queer Decolonization and the Metaphor of the Androgynous God in Indonesia: A Cosmological Perspective on Local Culture

2023

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The narrative of colonialism in Indonesia gave birth to teachings that understand gender as a fixed and absolute attribute. The so-called "mythology of innate" gender is reduced to a binary dichotomy based on sex. A mythology that supports a system of heterosexism and has an impact on homophobic and transphobic attitudes. This legacy of colonialism also gave birth to the metaphor of God depicted as heterosexual-masculine, which established a patriarchal system both in church and society. This article explores queer theology concerning local culture in Indonesia. My argument is that through Ardhanarisvara cosmology, Watersnake, and Rangkong Dayak cosmology, Manang (Balinese) and Kodi (Sumba) Cosmology, this queer decolonization narrative contributes to contextual queer theology, especially about androgynous metaphors of God. God's metaphor has an ambiguous and transgressive character, beyond gender non-normative thinking.

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2020

Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia

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Transgressive Empowerment: Queering the Spiritualities of the Mak Nyahs of PT Foundation

Cited by 11 publications

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‘Our Online-Ness Matters’: The Construction of Social Media Presences by Malaysian LGBTQ Communities

‘Our Online-Ness Matters’: The Construction of Social Media Presences by Malaysian LGBTQ Communities

Queer Decolonization and the Metaphor of the Androgynous God in Indonesia: A Cosmological Perspective on Local Culture

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