Deconstructing Pride and LGBTQ+ Activism in Malaysia
By Nicole Fong Let's talk about what Pride means here in Malaysia. What does contextualising Pride in a Malaysian context look like here? It means acknowledging that Pride existed in other queer liberation movements around the world long before the Stonewall riots. It means looking back in herstory and highlighting the community leaders, artists, and activists who played a role in shaping the Malaysian queer liberation movement to what we have today. It means celebrating ourselves for existing in a system and environment that wants to silence and punish us. It means listening to and uplifting our trans folks who are the most persecuted and face the most violence. It means standing in solidarity with our trans folks who have paved the way for us and fighting for decriminalisation. It means telling our stories of heartbreak and anger as well as our stories of courage and success to reclaim our own narrative under a system that erases our voices. It means moving forward with a sense of possibility that any individual has the capability and potential to radically transform the world. It means reimagining a future that we want to work towards where we are ALL liberated.
By Nicole Fong
Let's talk about what Pride means here in Malaysia. What does contextualising Pride in a Malaysian context look like here?
It means acknowledging that Pride existed in other queer liberation movements around the world long before the Stonewall riots.
It means looking back in herstory and highlighting the community leaders, artists, and activists who played a role in shaping the Malaysian queer liberation movement to what we have today. It means celebrating ourselves for existing in a system and environment that wants to silence and punish us.
It means listening to and uplifting our trans folks who are the most persecuted and face the most violence. It means standing in solidarity with our trans folks who have paved the way for us and fighting for decriminalisation.
It means telling our stories of heartbreak and anger as well as our stories of courage and success to reclaim our own narrative under a system that erases our voices.
It means moving forward with a sense of possibility that any individual has the capability and potential to radically transform the world. It means reimagining a future that we want to work towards where we are ALL liberated.
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I believe in a people’s history.
For our history to be filled with
queer stories. We are all change
makers. We all have a role to
play in changing history.
Whether we are talking to
another person or telling a story.
So that when we think about our
place and role in history, we do
not just think of history as just a
chain of events, but defined by
people leading it and changing
it.
- Pang Khee Teik
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