Papers Session: Queer Identity, Colonialism, and the Politics of Recognition
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
Through the Space feature (a live audio conversation), X, formerly known as Twitter, serves as an alternative platform for conversations between openly gay and closeted gay individuals in Indonesia. Amid scapegoating threats and oppression toward LGBTQ individuals, gay Indonesians–using alternate accounts– transform this platform into a gay world. Using Digital Ethnography methods, this paper exposes lived experiences of Indonesian gay individuals on X, where the conversations intersect with interreligious dialogue, sexual health, kinship, and queer identity in Indonesia.