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Indonesia’s trans Muslim Maryani: “Seeking Paradise is not limited to our sex or clothing”


Posted by syahirah on 28 Apr 2014 / 0 Comments
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An article in the Jakarta Post last week followed the latest developments on a pesantren (Islamic boarding school) for transgender people in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Although it is called a boarding school, the Pondok Pesantren Waria Al-Fatah functions more like a religious school where students can learn classical religious subjects like fiqh and Qur’an recitation, as […]

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Trans and Muslim: Portraying the Lives of Warias in Indonesia


Posted by eren on 20 Sep 2012 / 0 Comments
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I recently came across a short movie on the life of transsexual Muslims in Indonesia. In the last few years, MMW has covered a few different stories in terms of LGBT activism in Indonesia: issues concerning transgender and transsexual communities, the challenges faced by lesbians and the attempts to bring LGTBQ issues to the public […]

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