Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, After the Water Festival and the New Year’s celebrations in Thailand and mainland Southeast Asia, we continue our program with renewed spirit. This month activities include new events from the regular series ” Uprooted and Displaced in Southeast Asia” in collaboration with the TIFA Foundation and the “Wielding…
Opinion piece by Charles Hector* shared in the panel on “AICHR @10: A Better Future for Human Rights in ASEAN?” held on 30 April 2019 at SEA Junction
Overseas voters were the first to cast their ballots, between April 7 and 14, in Indonesia’s first-ever simultaneous presidential and legislative elections, which are set for April 17.
This month is dedicated to refugees in the region with an art exhibition of bodymap paintings by urban refugees in Bangkok, a panel on refugees’ mental health and possible interventions, and a special offer of refugee art for sale at our monthly Southeast Asia mini book and craft fair
According to the alphabetic rules set for the annual rotation of the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN), Thailand will be stewarding the grouping through 2019 in between Singapore and Vietnam. One year is short for any country to leave a mark and produce significant impacts, especially when the institution in question is a regional body known to many as slow in taking action.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people often experience discrimination in Indonesia. A certain degree of tolerance is there as long as they are ‘discreet’ and do not ‘come out’ or manifest themselves in public. They remain, however, an easy scapegoat for politicians in search of popular vote and ultraconservative religious groups, with few willing to defend them.
Never have I ever imagined myself commenting on a film, but here I am as a commentator of the first ever documentary film on LGBTI invisibility, particularly Lesbian, in Laos directed by Dorn Bouttasing—Let’s Love and screened at SEA Junction.
Let’s Love หรือ เงารักในสายหมอก เป็นหนึ่งในภาพยนตร์สั้นที่ฉายในเทศกาลภาพยนตร์นานาชาติหลวงพระบางเมื่อเดือนธันวาคมที่ผ่านมา สิ่งหนึ่งที่สร้างความสนใจต่อหนังเรื่องนี้คือการพูดถึงชีวิต LGBT ในลาว โดยเฉพาะเลสเบี้ยน เมื่อการพูดถึงผู้มีความหลากหลายทางเพศในลาวมักปรากฏพื้นที่ของเกย์มากกว่า
Dear Partners and Friends of SEA Junction, We return this month to a very crowded and varied program ranging from panel discussions to a workshop and a movie screening with topics as diverse as LGBTQI rights in Laos to silk printing and migration trends in Thailand. Particular mention deserves the launching of a series of…
Negli ultimi decenni, la migrazione è divenuta un tema particolarmente inquietante. Questo non soltanto per la sempre più vistosa incapacità dei governi e dell’opinione pubblica di trattare i flussi migratori con equilibrio, ma anche (e forse soprattutto) perché questa incapacità si fonda sempre più spesso su atteggiamenti e approcci ideologici che giungono a mettere in discussione l’eguaglianza tra esseri umani.
