Shawna Tang is Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore (Routledge 2016) and has publications on sexuality studies in Asia, non-normative women and same-sex intimacies in Singapore, the globalisation of same-sex marriage and LGBT politics in Singapore and Indonesia, older lesbian sexualities in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, older lesbians’ transmasculinities in Asia, affirmative feminist studies of transmasculine boyhoods in Israel, the politics of the intimate in neoliberal university settings, and pedagogies of difference and inclusion in Australia as part of Asia.

Hendri Yulius Wijaya is an Indonesian writer and the author of Intimate Assemblages: The Politics of Queer Identities and Sexualities in Indonesia (2020). He completed a research master’s degree in Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney and a master’s degree in Public Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He writes about gender, sexuality, popular culture, and sustainability for a mainstream audience in Indonesia. His writing has been published in Indonesia and the Malay World, Laws, Social Text Online, Jakarta Post, Esquire, TEMPO, and New Mandala, among others. He currently works full time on sustainability issues with large businesses, SMEs, government, and universities. He has also published a poetry collection, Stonewall Tak Mampir di Atlantis (2020) and co-edited a queer speculative short stories collection, Parade Yang Tak Pernah Usai: Yang Lalu, Sekarang, dan Akan Menjadi (2022). Both are available in Bahasa Indonesia.

Introduction: Queer Southeast Asia: Itineraries, Stop-Overs, and Delays

1. An Inter-Asia History of Transpuan in Indonesia

2. Exploring Southeast Asian Queer Migrant Biographies: Queer Utopia, Capacitations, and Debilitations

3. Japanese Queer Popular Culture and the Production of Sexual Knowledge in the Philippines

4. When the Gay Ivy Comes to (U)Town: The Globalisation of Higher Education and the Possibilities of Queer Student Activism in Singapore

5. Emergent Queer Identities in 20th Century Films from Southeast Asia

6. Endurance as Queer Worldmaking in Northern Aceh of Indonesia

7. Queer(ing) Indigeneity and The Igorot Lesbians of Hong Kong

8. Keep Singapore Clean and Chaste: Spatial-Sexual Discipline in Singapore’s Toilet Narratives

9. Independent and Safe Panels for Youths: Queer Comics in a time of Southeast Asian Populism

10. Viddsee: Queer Assemblages of Short Film Circulation, Distribution, Production, and Reception in Singapore

11. Ohm Phanphiroj’s Underage: Some Queer Thoughts on Photography and Night-time Bangkok

12. Digital Governance, Human Rights Norms, and ASEAN: Sexuality and Gender Rights Meet Surveillance, Networks, and Data

13. Queer Vietnam: Early Notes From Sexuality Studies to Activism

14. Pedagogy of Queer Studies Beyond Empire Queer Southeast Asia: An afterword