Nusaqueer Diaspora
Nusaqueer Diaspora
Nusaqueer Diaspora, or Indo*queer Diaspora is an open-structured platform for the queer diasporic community of the Southeast Asian Archipelago with a focus on Indonesia. It brings together the diasporic queer community of the SEAA by organizing community events and building online community channels on Whatsapp and Discord.
Indonesian, queer and diasporic are three different aspects of an identity not often discussed together. State imposed cis- and heteronormativism of the Indonesian government creates the false narrative that ‘Indonesian’ and ‘queer’ don’t exist in the same space.
Opposing this narrative while working in a diasporic context, Nusaqueer Diaspora’s collaboration with U? explores how Indonesian and Southeast Asian Archipelagan queerness lives on, is reinterpreted and reinvented through its diaspora. The program consists of contemporary expressions of Indo*queerness in workshops, live music, dance performances, and DJ sets.
The Indo*queer diasporic community is a fluid community characterized by its diversity in cultural background, history, and privilege. Therefore themes of commonality and gathering are explored in a community dinner with an open discussion, to find ways to be mindful of our differences and find commonality in our shared experiences as queer people with roots in the SEAA.