Join us for the launch of Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia (NYU Press, 2026) with its author, Ferdiansyah Thajib. The launch will feature conversations with Omar Kasmani, author of Queer Companions, and Amar Alfikar, author of Queer Menafsir (Queer Interpretations), as dicussants.
How to join:
This event will be held in a hybrid format. The event at Schwules Museum open to the public, for online participation registration is required. To attend via Zoom, please register through this link. Upon successful registration, you will receive an email confirmation with further access information.
About the Book:
Drawing on ethnographic research in multiple locations in Indonesia, Enduring Otherwise examines how Muslim individuals and communities grapple with the challenges and possibilities of inhabiting queer and trans religiosity. Some distance themselves from religious tenets because of the harms implicated in them, while others immerse themselves in religious practices and spiritual values, seeking to reimagine them. There are also those who remain caught in tensions, having to navigate a life entrenched in ambivalence. Yet across these varied engagements, they continue to find ways to keep going. Offering a nuanced account of the affective politics of worldmaking at the intersection of sexuality, gender, and religion, Enduring Otherwise highlights how the drawn-out moments of hope, failure, improvisation, and exhaustion experienced by queer and gender non-conforming Indonesians configure efforts to create a world where no one will have to endure the unendurable anymore.
About the Author:
Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib is senior lecturer in the Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is member of KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Co-Organized by Schwules Museum Berlin and co2libri (ZMO/FU and HU/IAAW).
Images: Cover Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia (2026) by Ferdiansyah Thajib; Author portrait Ferdiansyah Thajib