Call for Action, Featured, LGBTs, media
Memorandum on the Ill Representation and Discrimination of the Queer Community in Malaysian Media
Repurposed from an email sent to an active Malaysian mailing list. ======= [snip] Some friends and I got together to write a simple memo about some recent articles in tabloids like Kosmo! and papers like The Star and Berita Harian that demonise the queer community, specifically in the context of exposés on lesbian parties in town. These [...]
Bisexual, Featured, Gay, LGBTs, Lesbian, News, Personal Experiences, Pictures, Queer, Transgender
Gallery: National Equality March 2009, Washington D.C.
The biggest LGBT rights rally in America since the commencement of Obama’s administration. Read more on CNN. Enjoy the photos! Yours truly at the White House. Say, Malaysians, when are you going to speak up?
Events, Featured
Seksualiti Merdeka 2009 — programme
Dust off those schedules, people, Seksualiti Merdeka is coming your way! The theme for the second year is “Our Bodies, Our Rights”. Do we have the right to privacy? Do we have the right to our own bodies? Do we all deserve to be treated equally regardless of our sexuality? Yes, yes and yes. It should not matter [...]
Bisexual, Culture, Family, Featured, Gay, LGBTs, Lesbian, Plucked, Queer, Queer Science, Transgender
Boy or Girl? X: A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould
This wonderful story on the social construction of gender is a MUST-READ for everyone. A Fabulous Child’s Story by Lois Gould Once upon a time, a baby named X was born. This baby was named X so that nobody could tell whether it was a boy or a girl. Its parents could tell, of course, but they couldn’t [...]
Featured, Fiction, Transgender
In the future, you too can be a beautiful man-elf.
Mangas and animes, with their various examples of gender-bending friendliness (and awful stereotypes), can sometimes be your best resort in a book or dvd store. You know, one of those days when you’d like a romantic comedy, and it’d be kinda nice if the story was about (in my case) two girls and their happy [...]
Videos
McDonalds launches new campaign with gay ad
Posted on 31 May 2010
McDonalds has launched a new “Come as you are” campaign in France. This ad features a closeted, loving young man grabbing a burger with his father. It’s a good step forward for the fast food chain — the dialogue will resonate with those who have kept false pretences around their parents (or are still doing [...] Continue Reading
Critique, LGBTs, News, TDoR, Transphobia
“The Star” Gives Professional Reporting Lesson — HM, Learn Something.
Posted on 15 April 2010
Cross-posted from Yuki’s Box Of Chocolates. Yesterday, I featured a post on the biased and childish reporting from Harian Metro, which includes name-calling trans woman, “pondan”, 9 times, and tried to brush trans people with negative stereotypes. It is universally understood by everyone in the civilized world that morality and character has nothing to do with [...] Continue Reading
Critique, LGBTs, Life, News, media
Penulis Harian Metro Kejam.
Posted on 14 April 2010
Cross-posted from Yuki’s Box Of Chocolates. Try not to press here. Tabloid news. Do not give them more hits than they deserve. But I will bring to your attention this article that does nothing but attempt to again demonize an entire transsexual community and brushing them with stereotypes. I shall substitute every mention of “pondan” with [...] Continue Reading
Culture, Gay
The Faggiest Vampire
Posted on 14 April 2010
With eye-catching book titles such as the above, Carlton Mellick III’s books may not always be available on our shores — that is, if anyone at customs caught what the title means — but that really shouldn’t stop you from trying to get your hands on a copy. Certainly, other titles by the author like [...] Continue Reading
Gay, Videos
Sam Sparro — Black and Gold
Posted on 13 April 2010
“Cause if you’re not really here, then the stars don’t even matter. Now i’m filled to the top with fear, that it’s all just a bunch of matter” Australian musician, openly gay, and singing to some very sexy beats — Sam Sparro had a hit song with “Black and Gold”. You can watch the snazzy video full of suits, [...] Continue Reading
Homophobia, LGBTs, News, Transphobia, media
Ignorant Filmakers Sanctioned To Draw First Blood On Trans People.
Posted on 31 March 2010
Cross-posted from Yuki’s Box Of Chocolates: I do apologize for not writing much these days, as I have quite a number of things on my mind. However, something propped up last week in my-email that I feel needs to be addressed. Slightly reversing the decision by the Information, Communications and Culture Ministry last year that bans [...] Continue Reading
Call for Action
Malaysian Forum 2010 NYC: Harapan
Posted on 25 March 2010
For more information: http://www.malaysiaforum.org/nmf/ Come join many other Malaysians from around the US to talk about Malaysia, and the harapan we can have for our country. Join group discussions, and take part in the forum that will be broadcast live from KL. We’ll also be having a live Local Forum on ‘active citizenship’ and what it means [...] Continue Reading
Call for Action, Lesbian, News, Queer
Standing up for your rights truly can be rewarding
Posted on 25 March 2010
Repurposed from AP News All 18-year-old Constance McMillen wanted to do during prom was wear a tux and bring her girlfriend. Her 715-student school in rural Mississippi decided to cancel the prom when Constance kept on requesting her school to lift the ban on bringing same-sex dates. Small justice was served when the U.S. District Judge Glen [...] Continue Reading
Uncategorized
Meditations on Genderfucking and the Role of Consensual Fucking
Posted on 19 February 2010
"As queer theory begins questioning the institution of marriage, single-partnered romantic relationships, family structure, and reproductive sex, let us still make room for conscious consent." Continue Reading
Gay, LGBTs, News, media
Malaysian man fails to overturn sodomy ban, 60-year jail term to stay
Posted on 30 January 2010
A Malaysian man has failed in a bid to overturn a ban on sodomy, after a court ruled that the law criminalising the act was constitutional, his lawyer said Tuesday. A Malaysian man has failed in a bid to overturn a ban on sodomy, after a court ruled that the law criminalising the act was constitutional, [...] Continue Reading
Announcement, Gay, News, Queer Science
Petition: Official Apology for Alan Turing
Posted on 18 August 2009
There’s currently a petition calling for an official posthumous apology from the British government to Alan Turing, often considered as the father of modern computer science. From the official petition on the British Prime Minister’s website: Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi [...] Continue Reading
Call for Action, Videos
The Picture of Dorian Gray / dealing with Harian Metro
Posted on 15 August 2009
Oscar Wilde’s only published novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is due for a film adaptation. Dorian Gray will be released in September, 2009. Wilde’s sexuality has been much discussed —he was definitely not heterosexual, and the hedenostic protagonist of his creation, Dorian Gray, follows suit. For those unfamiliar with this story, here is a brief recap; [...] Continue Reading
Critique, LGBTs, Lesbian, News, media
Harian Metro strikes again!
Posted on 13 August 2009
I guess being labeled "sesat", "songsang", and "maksiat" is what we queers have to get used to in Malaysia. Really, it's not as bad as arbitrary arrests, unexplained deaths, and authoritarian rule. Besides, it's only little miss Sarah Zukifli who thinks so - I bet many of us are laughing (and cringing) at her desperate claim to "religion + conservative values + eastern tradition" axis of power used so frequently to otherize those just different from Sarah Zukifli. Continue Reading
Videos
Interview with Jac SM Kee
Posted on 13 August 2009
This year, with the theme “Our Bodies, Our Rights”, the festival is focusing on issues that affect everyone, such as privacy, moral policing and human rights. We speak with co-organiser and feminist activist Jac SM Kee to find out more. Jac SM Kee is is a feminist writer, activist, poet and occasional painter. She has written [...] Continue Reading
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