ABSTRACT

Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia.

This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity of both the subject and the region is reflected in the broad scope of topics addressed, from the impact of Japanese queer popular culture on queer Filipinos, to the politics of public toilets in Singapore, and the impact of digital governance on queer communities across ASEAN. Taken in combination, these investigations not only highlight the operations of queer politics in Southeast Asia, but also present a concrete basis to reflect on queer knowledge production in the region.

A vital resource for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, or any Queer or LGBTQ+ studies looking beyond the West.

chapter 2|14 pages

Exploring Southeast Asian queer migrant biographies

Queer utopia, capacitations, and debilitations

chapter 4|20 pages

When the Gay Ivy comes to (U)Town

The globalisation of higher education and the possibilities of queer student activism in Singapore

chapter 8|23 pages

Keep Singapore clean and chaste

Spatial-sexual discipline in toilet narratives

chapter 9|19 pages

Independent and safe panels for youths

Queer comics in a time of Southeast Asian populism

chapter 10|17 pages

Viddsee

Queer assemblages of short film circulation, distribution, production, and reception in Singapore

chapter 11|11 pages

Ohm Phanphiroj's Underage

Some queer thoughts on photography and night-time Bangkok

chapter 12|20 pages

Digital governance, human rights norms, and ASEAN

Sexuality and gender rights meet surveillance, networks, and data

chapter 13|15 pages

Queer Vietnam

Early notes from sexuality studies to activism

chapter 15|5 pages

Queer Southeast Asia

An afterword