On the 30th of October this year, authorities in Kedah, Malaysia, raided a private birthday party and arrested thirty transgender
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Bioessentialism, a shorthand for biological essentialism, is the idea that we are born with specific, immutable traits by virtue of
“You think everything’s gay,” said my classmate in primary school. I laughed then. I’m still laughing now, not because it’s
To LGBTQ+ people in Malaysia (and honestly, Southeast Asia as a whole), “coming out” is a foreign phenomenon. Literally. In