Beyond-Our-Bodies

Deliriousink is an Indonesian punk singer and tattoo artist who moved to Australia for her safety and freedom. 'With Java being a very muslim place it's really important for me to say I'm Javanese polyamorous queer, and I'm not ashamed of it. About feminism, if it's about actual empowerment I'm into it. But if it's about some people trying to be the authority to dominate other women it's just bullshit. I think now the feminist wave in Indonesia is interesting and changing, being positive about what some want to do. I'm sex positive too. At that time some so called feminist would say that you're not respecting your body if you're sleeping around, that you give your body to men. It's not giving it, it's using your body in any way you want it, I don't see how it's not empowering. I don't like the feminists that are really hateful of sex workers or transgender people.There's been a moral panic triggered by the Facebook rainbow filter. A lot of people in Indonesia believe that LGBT movement is part of American propaganda to destroy the nation's morality so we stay as a third world country. After the Lady Fast - a punk festival involving lots of women - was raided, people made leaflets saying that if the government didn't punish these people they will do it in their own way and punish them throwing them from the highest building around, or stone them or burn them.In Aceh this gay couple got arrested and they got publicly caned on a stage in front of a crowd who was cursing them for being gay. It's becoming common for neighbors to look into your house if they suspect that you're living or making out with someone you're not married to or worse, someone from the same sex. They will try to kick you out of the house to mass shame you before kicking you out from the neighborhood. Raids happened in big cities in Java. If there's some sexual act happening, the police would feel justified to arre (Photo by Su Cassiano / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by SU CASSIANO/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)