I am an socio-cultural anthropologist who conducts research on the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia and studies female same-sex relations outside the West. My publications include work on Native American female two-spirits and tombois in Indonesia as well as several articles on gender, kinship, and political economy in rural West Sumatra. I am conducting on-going research on historical and contemporary alternative genders and sexualities in Indonesia, focusing on tombois in West Sumatra. Part of this project examines the impact of state, Islamic and transnational lesbian and gay processes on the development of queer subjectivities, with reference to Indonesia and Southeast Asia more generally.

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