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Introduction: Queer activism and the politics of sexuality and gender in Indonesia and Malaysia -- PART 1 -- An Assemblage of theories in understanding social and queer Activism -- Marginal militants: Queer reclaiming, politics, and activism in the global north -- Politics of modernity: Hybridity, sexual politics and queer movements in the global south -- PART 2 -- Politics of doors: Queer activism in Malaysia as technologies of the self -- Politics of (un)intelligibility: Trans*activism in Indonesia -- Politics of re-orientations: HIV/AIDS activism in Indonesia -- Conclusion: Queer activism as will to knowledge. .

1. Introduction -- 2. Reading Foucault in Tehran -- 3. The Historical Contingencies and the Politics of Same-Sex Desire in Iran -- 4. The Construction of the Iranian Gay Subject Outside of Iran -- 5. Ethical Relationality and Accounts of Gay Iranian Men -- 6. Iranian Gay/Queer Activists and Activism -- 7. The "Sick Gay": Being HIV-positive in Iran -- 8. Gay/Queer Spaces in Tehran: Intimacy, Sociality, and Resistance -- 9. Conclusion: Gay Livability in a Queer Dystopia

This book examines queer activism and queer social movements (QSMs) in Indonesia and Malaysia, broadly engaging with these topics on three different levels: macro (global and national discourses), meso (organizational level activities), and micro (individual the activist). The micro level perspective allows for moving beyond the "traditional" political movement paradigm by understanding activism in Foucauldian terms as the ethics of the self (Foucault, 1984). In other words, the queer subject is seen as an active agent in taking care of the self by queering/resisting gender norms as well as heteronormative practices and regimes in their social environment through embodiment and actions. This kind of ethical being has the potential to build support and community between and amongst individuals.

The homophobia and hostility experienced by queer learners in Icelandic and South African schools are well documented. Drawing on in-depth interviews with queer youth (16–19 years) in Iceland and South Africa, this paper aims at understanding how queer youth navigate heterosexist and homophobic school spaces and create some positive spaces. The findings highlight that queer youth employ various social and discursive strategies to (re)position themselves as agentic subjects. They counter heteronormativity by drawing on what we define in this paper as "queer capital", which entails deploying various social and discursive strategies to establish some kind of distinction within the school and in their interaction with peers. Humour, parody, and active resistance, as well as finding ways to escape the regulatory mechanisms of gender, and relating easily to both genders, are examples of the social/discursive strategies employed by our participants and discussed in the paper. The paper then concludes with implications for research with queer youth.

AbstractIn this article we examine accounts of self-identifying Iranian gay men. We draw on a range of evidentiary sources—interpretive, historical, online, and empirical—to generate critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation that inform narrative accounts of the lived experiences of self-identifiedgayIranian men, and the constitution of same-sex desire for these men under specific conditions of Iranian modernity. In response to critiques of existinggayinternationalist and liberationist accounts of the Iraniangaymale subject as a persecuted victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran's barbarism, we address interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts. Specifically, we attend to human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities in such Global South contexts. In this sense, our article represents a critical engagement with the relevant literature on sexuality governance and the politics of same-sex desire for Iraniangaymen that is informed by empirical analysis.

1. Introduction: The synergistic potential of the outreach work and activism of queer social movements and schools -- 2. Educational Outreach Work in Nordic Countries: Challenges, Tensions and Contradictions for Queering Schools and Teaching about Sexual and Gender Diversity -- 3. Embodying responsibility? Understanding educators' engagement in queer educational justice work in schools -- 4. Challenges to LGBTQI inclusive education and queer activism in Taiwan -- 5. The Sexual Diversity Pastoral Care Group and the Catholic Schools in Chile: An attempt to confront heteronormativity in school spaces -- 6. Education as activism: Sexual dissidence and schooling in Spain -- 7. Queer activism and non-formal outreach work in Iran: Creating a community of support and learning -- 8. Queer Intersectional outreach actions to prevent LGBTQ+ prejudice and discrimination in schools: the Brazilian context and analysis of a local experience -- 9. We're here, we're queer... but are we in schools? Lessons learned from a multicountry project across Eastern and Southern Africa -- 10. "I'm queer and that's ok" Sharing autobiographical stories as a key method of queer activism in Austrian schools -- 11. "I decided to teach... despite the anger": using Forum Theatre to connect queer activists, teachers and school leaders to address heterosexism in schools -- 12. Intersex and education: What can schools and queer school projects learn from current discourses on intersex in Austria -- 13. Conclusions: Queering 'Politics of Pain' through activism and educational outreach work.