Pride is not enough: Why Southeast Asians must commemorate IDAHOBIT 🌈

International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)

Across the region, LGBTIQ+ people across the region are still punished for existing.

• In 🇧🇳 Brunei, homosexuality can carry the death penalty.

• In 🇮🇩 Aceh, Indonesia, same-sex relations are punished by caning.

• In 🇲🇾 Malaysia and 🇲🇲 Myanmar, homosexuality can mean prison.

• In 🇵🇭 the Philippines, conversion practices still exist.

• And in 🇹🇭 Thailand, a trans woman was recently forced to shave her head and publicly humiliated by a mob.

  
  

What we call “Asian traditional values” is actually a mask for: patriarchy, religious extremism, and state control, policing our bodies and lives.

Hence, IDAHOBIT must go beyond rainbow visibility. For true queer liberation, we must resist the very systems that make LGBTIQ+ people unsafe: at home, online, in public, and before the law.

✊🏽 As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we at Manushya stand in fierce solidarity with LGBTIQ+ communities across Southeast Asia fighting for safety, dignity, bodily autonomy, legal recognition, and liberation.

Thank you, Zora Geraldus, for this beautiful artwork. 🩷

#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings

#QueerJoy #LGBTQIA #SmashThePatriarchy