“Seksualiti Merdeka is a much needed frank look at the very core of all us human beings, our sexuality, and the diversity that lies within. We need to accept and then celebrate.”
– Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir
– Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir
SEKSUALITI MERDEKA 2010:
We Are Family!
Sexuality Rights Festival
Wed 13 to Sun 17 Oct 2010
Presented by Seksualiti Merdeka
Please check schedule below for events
Calling all Malaysians to join in a group hug of Love, Acceptance and Compassion!
This year, Malaysia’s only sexuality rights festival, Seksualiti Merdeka, celebrates the spirit of family. Exploring the bonds that bring us together, the festival aims to promote both the family and the community's role in embracing diversity.
As the nation strives to realise its full democratic potential, with Malaysians becoming more aware of our constitutional rights, let's not forget about our sexuality rights. It is our right to be responsible for our own bodies, to be free from discrimination, violence and injustice, and to be treated equally, regardless of gender, sexuality, age, class, ethnicity or beliefs. Each of us has these rights, as enshrined by the UN International Human Rights Charter, the Yogyakarta Principles, and promoted by many human rights organisations local and international.
Whether we are straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersexed, asexual, or simply fabulous, we are brothers and sisters on this great journey toward independence and equality for all.
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SCHEDULE
All admission FREE unless otherwise noted
All events take place at The Annexe Gallery
2nd Flr, Central Market Annexe (Behind Central Market),
Jalan Hang Kasturi, KL.
Wed, 13 Oct, 8pm:
SEKSUALITI MERDEKA LAUNCH
Thu 14 Oct, 8pm
HERSTORY FILMS PROJECT: LOVE, SEX & DESIRE
Fri 15, Sat 16, Sun 17 Oct, 8.30pm
RAINBOW MASSACRE 2010: WE ARE FAMILY!
Sat 16 Oct, 2pm
QUEER AS FILMS: FOCUS ON OUR FAMILY
Sun 17 Oct, 12pm
FARISH NOOR LECTURE: FROM MODESTY PLATES TO PERANAKAN LINGERIE
Sun 17 Oct, 4pm
EVEN EDUCATED FLEAS DO IT: SEX, SEXUALITY & DIVERSITY IN MALAYSIA
SEKSUALITI MERDEKA LAUNCH
Thu 14 Oct, 8pm
HERSTORY FILMS PROJECT: LOVE, SEX & DESIRE
Fri 15, Sat 16, Sun 17 Oct, 8.30pm
RAINBOW MASSACRE 2010: WE ARE FAMILY!
Sat 16 Oct, 2pm
QUEER AS FILMS: FOCUS ON OUR FAMILY
Sun 17 Oct, 12pm
FARISH NOOR LECTURE: FROM MODESTY PLATES TO PERANAKAN LINGERIE
Sun 17 Oct, 4pm
EVEN EDUCATED FLEAS DO IT: SEX, SEXUALITY & DIVERSITY IN MALAYSIA
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SYNOPSES
SEKSUALITI MERDEKA LAUNCH
Wed 13 Oct | 8pm
Officiated by Edmund Bon, Chairperson of the Constitutional Law Committee at the Malaysian Bar Council &
Speech by Representative of United Nations in Malaysia
Featuring the unveiling of
SM 2010 Art Project: Portraits of the Unspoken &
Family Outing: Forum Theatre
Refreshments sponsored by Albion
PORTRAITS OF THE UNSPOKEN
Art Project
Facilitated by Liew Kung Yu, assisted by Shieko
Artists: Hazri Haili, Jellene, Kal Idris, Ong Jo-lene, Tan Zi Hao
Acclaimed Malaysian artist Liew Kung Yu takes five young Malaysians, whose backgrounds range from artist to scientist, from straight to queer, on a journey of self-discovery and self-expression. After six weeks of workshopping, mind-mapping and connecting with each other, they present two installations, one revealing their fears, hopes and uncertainties about being who they are, and the other inviting you to do the same.
FAMILY OUTING
Forum Theatre
Writer: Alfian Sa’at
Director: David Lim
Cast: Johan Yusof, Lim Tiong Wooi, Sandee Chew, Tung Jit Yang.
Produced by Hari Azizan & Lim Chung Wei
Produced by Hari Azizan & Lim Chung Wei
Written by award-winning Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa’at specially for Seksualiti Merdeka, this play is performed in the style of forum theatre, an interactive format which invites audiences to intervene and say what they would have said in those scenarios.
To his mother, Weiliang is the perfect son: he is acing college and going out with a lovely girl, Jeannie. What she doesn’t know is that her son is actually gay and Jeannie is only pretending to be the girlfriend. Racked by guilt and indecision, he thinks it might be time to come out to his mom. Jeannie is relieved, but Weiliang’s boyfriend, Freddie doesn’t think the mom is ready. Should Weiliang do it? How would his mom react? How SHOULD she react?
This performance is touring local colleges and universities.
This performance is touring local colleges and universities.
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HERSTORY FILMS PROJECT: Love, Sex & Desire
Thu 14 Oct | 8pm
Film Screening
Presenting five stories about love, sex and desire, as told by Malaysian women, and transformed into short films by writer-poet-photographer Bernice Chauly, filmmaker Crystal Woo, HerStory co-founder and filmmaker Mien.Ly, thespian Mislina Mustaffa, and film star Sharifah Amani in her directorial debut. The screening will be emceed by TV host Sarimah Ibrahim.
HerStory Malaysia is a women's arts collective dedicated to expanding safe spaces for women to come together to express themselves and share their stories using creative platforms. Our ongoing HerStory Films Project focuses on stories about love, sex, and desire from Malaysian women, with an emphasis on diversity and personal experiences of falling in – and out – of love in a distinctly Malaysian context. The screening will also travel to Penang & Kota Kinabalu. HerStory Malaysia is funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. For more information on HerStory Films Project, please visit HerStoryMalaysia.com.
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RAINBOW MASSACRE 2010: We Are Family!
Fri 15, Sat 16, Sun 17 Oct | 8.30pm
Music Performance
Admission by donation RM40 (At the door), RM35 (Online pre-show sale).
Avoid disappointment by purchasing your passes early at www.applause.org.my
Featuring your fabulous host SHELAH! With Aaron Khaled, Elvira Arul, Jerome Kugan, Kuah Jenhan, Maya Abdullah, Nikki Palikat, Peter Ong, Tony Eusoff, Zalina Lee, Nish Tham and band! Plus special cameos every night! Directed by Jerome Kugan.
Whether you’re bent, straight or zigzag, somewhere out there is a queer anthem just for you. From Kylie to Siti to Pussycat Dolls , queer icons give us the soundtrack to dance to our tears, fight back the haters, and unleash our true fabulous selves. Their songs unite us in a worldwide group hug of love, from dazzling to nasty to just plain mushy. This year, Rainbow Massacre presents three crazy and amazing nights of song and comedy that celebrate all the wonderful things that make us proud to be part of the great big rainbow family. Cause we are family! Get up brothers and sisters, and sing!
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QUEER AS FILMS: Focus On Our Family
Sat 16 Oct, 2pm to 6pm
Film Screening + Discussion
PT Foundation and Amnesty International Malaysia present two films and a discussion on how we can support LGBT children and their families. Moderated by AI Malaysia director Nora Murat and former 3R host Azah Yasmin, the panel consists of Dr Brian Ho (Psychiatrist and Associate Professor at UPM) and Vizla Kumaresan (clinical psychologist).
"Family Fundamentals", by award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong, is a documentary that follows three fundamentalist American families unable to accept their LGBT sons and daughters. Film critic Ken Fox remarks: “In each case, the violence is strictly emotional, but tremendously damaging; Dong shows how intolerance has the power to deform families, then tear them apart.”
"Ma Vie En Rose (My Life In Pink)" is an award-winning French film about 7-year-old Ludovic, who dresses up as a girl and doesn’t understand why everybody is so upset about it. The ways Ludovic’s family and society attempt to correct “him” are both comic and heartbreaking.
A tea reception follows the second film.
Please email to register for this event: queerasfilms@ptfmalaysia.org.
Please include your name, age, and who you are bringing along, if any.
Please email to register for this event: queerasfilms@ptfmalaysia.org.
Please include your name, age, and who you are bringing along, if any.
Queer as Films is brought to you every month by PT Foundation and Seksualiti Merdeka at the Annnexe Gallery. It is a stimulating space to explore issues pertinent to the local LGBTiQs.
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FARISH NOOR presents
FROM MODESTY PLATES TO PERANAKAN LINGERIE: A Short History Of Modesty In Southeast Asia
Sun 17 Oct | 12pm
Lecture
Presented by The Other Malaysia
Modesty has always been relative and subjective in our part of the world, and this lecture will look at how notions of modesty, intimacy and attraction have evolved from the precolonial era to the present. Plus there will be a fashion show with babes in Peranakan corsets at the end!
Dr Farish Noor is Malaysia’s sexiest historian and he likes to pull away the sheets to reveal that things were certainly more diverse and dynamic in the past than some folks would like us believe. His popular lectures at The Annexe Gallery have been recently published by Matahari Books under the title “What Your Teacher Didn’t Tell You: The Annexe Lectures, Vol. 1”. This lecture should make it to Vol.2. So come and be a part of history!
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EVEN EDUCATED FLEAS DO IT:
Sex, Sexuality & Diversity In Malaysia
Sun 17 Oct | 4pm
Talks + Presentations
There is plenty of loose talk about sexuality and gender in Malaysia, mostly generated by individuals given too much media space. So here we give you short and snappy presentations by folks who have actually conducted research on sexuality, whether through observation or participation – or both!
Through understanding Malaysia’s sexual his/her/story and current diversity, notions about narrow ‘Asian family values’ and the basis for deciding ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ can be exposed to some critical light. Here we can question and (re)discover the sexual terrain of which Malaysians are all a part. Bring your own discoveries and questions to share!
The session will be hosted by Jac SM Kee (APCWomen.org) and Julian C. H. Lee (Monash Uni).
Presentations:
+ Amir Muhammed (Matahari Books): Representations of Sex and Gender in Malaysian cinema
+ Andrew Ng (Monash Uni): “Bukak Api": Documenting Politics and Sexuality
+ Angela Kuga Thas (KRYSS): The LGBTiQ Community in KL
+ Jac SM Kee (APCWomen.org): The Female Fantastic: Monsters and Ghosts, and the Digital World
+ Julian CH Lee (Monash Uni): Sexual Diversity in the Natural World
+ Yeoh Seng Guan (Monash Uni): The Hijra and Other Sexually Diverse Communities in Malaysia
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SUPPORTERS
SEKSUALITI MERDEKA 2010 is supported by:
Albion
Amnesty International Malaysia
The Annexe Gallery
Bar Council Malaysia
Empower
HerStory Films Project
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS)
Matahari Books
The Other Malaysia
Purple Lab
PT Foundation
SUARAM
United Nations Theme Group on HIV
Women's Candidacy Initiative
Many thanks also to:
Benjamin McKay, Cheryl Leong, Chong See Ming, Clarence Singham, Honey Tan, Ivy Josiah, Glen Goei, Kana Kula, Lina Tan, Maria Chin Abdullah, Marina Mahathir, Richard Wong, Warbaby, and all our lovely lovely volunteers!
Join our Facebook group: Seksualiti Merdeka
Enquiries: seksualiti.merdeka@gmail.com
The Annexe Gallery
2nd Flr, Central Market Annexe
(Behind Central Market)
Jalan Hang Kasturi, KL.
03 2070 1137
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