{"id":994,"date":"2015-11-09T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T07:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csbronline.org\/?p=994"},"modified":"2016-01-12T05:19:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T05:19:54","slug":"one-day-one-struggle-2015-gaya-nusantara-screening-stories-of-being-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"GAYa NUSANTARA screening &#8220;Stories of Being Me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1196.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1020 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1196-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"StoriesofBeingMe-CSBRPhoto\" width=\"337\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1196-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1196-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1196-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a>For the 2015 &#8216;One Day, One Struggle&#8217; campaign,\u00a0GAYa NUSANTARA, in collaboration with C2O Library and discussants from Airlangga University,\u00a0is hosting a film screening of episodes from \u201cStories of Being Me\u201d and a discussion on the experiences of LGBTI Indonesians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stories of Being Me<\/strong> was originally launched in May 2014 as a web-series documenting the lived experiences and personal narratives of LGBTI individuals across cities in Asia. The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/(https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhXRDyDPmGo-FPhWZhHf0d24OgZ700rnK)\">first series<\/a><\/strong><\/span> ran for two months, with a new episode premiering each week. In 2015, a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLhXRDyDPmGo9KFPMNONcaYqQDuOVGk_94\" target=\"_blank\"> second series<\/a><\/strong><\/span> was launched, and to date 12 episodes have been produced, exploring stories from Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Kathmandu, Singapore, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh and Kendal.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing the conversation locally,\u00a0GAYa NUSANTARA will be screening three\u00a0episodes that document stories of Muslim Indonesian queer individuals in Jakarta and Kendal:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gu3oQ0N6JWc\" target=\"_blank\">Shuniyya<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0In a country where faith and sexuality often clash, Shuniyya Ruhama Habiiballah has been pushing boundaries for the acceptance and inclusion of the Indonesian transgender community. Shunniya is a successful transwoman businesswoman who teaches Quran to children, thus carving a space for her gender identity and her own religiosity.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x_fqSBGyUzk\" target=\"_blank\">Vilda<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0Vilda is a bisexual women living with HIV who had a history of using drugs. Overcoming her own biases, she learned to accept herself fully, and she is now helping others in her own community.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_TvfAUp6r2E\" target=\"_blank\">Imam Wahudiya<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0A candid autobiographical perspective from Imam Wahyudi who talks about the diversity of life in Jakarta, his views on faith and urges the LGBT people to celebrate what they have in common with the wider community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-707 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-07-at-4.43.16-PM.png\" alt=\"GN Logo\" width=\"232\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-07-at-4.43.16-PM.png 338w, https:\/\/csbronline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-07-at-4.43.16-PM-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For GAYa NUSANTARA, this event is a continuation of past actions for #OneDayOneStruggle,\u00a0and reflects GAYa NUSANTARA&#8217;s interest engaging younger audiences, the use of film for advocacy, and expanding the ways we record and share personal narratives and lived experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Dede Oetomo shared, &#8220;Film making was alive for a while at GAYa NUSANTARA, at\u00a0an amateur level, but the program ended. So this is part of an effort to revive that. To share how\u00a0film-making can be used as a vehicle for documentation and advocacy, and also to introduce people to some of the newer programs about being LGBTI\u00a0in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;It&#8217;s also about access. In my experiences\u00a0film today is often used by younger queer people to tell stories and\u00a0share experiences. And\u00a0the film makers in this series are examples of activists who work through non-conventional media; these videos are not shown in theatres, which is why we&#8217;re\u00a0showing them at our community event. We&#8217;re lucky to have one of the filmmakers joining us to talk about the film and his work. Hopefully this will inspire some people to make similar films themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;We&#8217;ve invited a\u00a0wide group of stakeholders, and we&#8217;ll have discussants guiding the conversation after the film. We hope to get our\u00a0allies more engaged on LGBTI rights, and\u00a0as part of One Day One Struggle under the banner of CSBR, to explore experiences of\u00a0being queer\u00a0in a Muslim society, of\u00a0being transgender in a Muslim society. All three of the people in the documentaries are living with Islam in different ways, and the films also touch on how Islam intersects with different aspects of their identities, their livelihoods, their expression, sense of community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFor more information on the event<\/strong>, get in touch with us at <a href=\"mailto:coordinator@csbronline.org\">coordinator@csbronline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about the\u00a0Stories of Being Me series<\/strong>, see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.be-app.me\/stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">BE<\/a><\/strong>, an online peer support platform for young LGBTI persons, which also provides resources, maps of available services in 5 key cities in Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2015 &#8216;One Day, One Struggle&#8217; campaign,\u00a0GAYa NUSANTARA, in collaboration with C2O Library and discussants from Airlangga University,\u00a0is hosting a film screening of episodes from \u201cStories of Being Me\u201d and a discussion on the experiences of LGBTI Indonesians. Stories of Being Me was originally launched in May 2014 as a web-series documenting the lived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/?p=994\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GAYa NUSANTARA screening &#8220;Stories of Being Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,10,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-featured","category-members","category-odos","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbronline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}