[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 7 Enduring Otherwise

[Minor Compositions]

Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 7 Enduring Otherwise 
<https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1927>
/Now available on all the usual podcast platforms./


In this episode, we talk with Ferdiansyah Thajib about his book 
/Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia 
<https://nyupress.org/9781479839339/enduring-otherwise/>/. Drawing on 
ethnographic research in Aceh, Yogyakarta and Jakarta, Ferdi explores 
how queer and trans Muslims build meaningful lives within social, 
religious and political conditions that often refuse them recognition. 
The conversation moves through Indonesia’s shifting legal landscape, 
conservative religious politics, Sharia law in Aceh and the everyday 
spaces where other forms of life become possible – from trans-run hair 
salons to more inclusive Islamic communities.

Ferdi also discusses his approach to affective ethnography, the 
influence of his own experience as a gay Muslim and the importance of 
care, emotional labour and mutual support within activist communities. 
Rather than reducing queer and trans life to either victimhood or heroic 
resistance, Enduring Otherwise asks how people live with contradiction, 
sustain relationships and make worlds otherwise.

*Bio:* Ferdiansyah Thajib is a researcher and educator whose work 
focuses on queer politics, affect, and the intersections of memory, 
trauma, and collective healing in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Current 
he is a senior lecturer at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Since 2007 he 
has been a member of the KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, 
where he has been involved in developing practices of critical pedagogy, 
artistic research, and collaborative forms of knowledge production. His 
writing and projects explore how marginal communities craft modes of 
survival, endurance, and solidarity.

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