Abstract
ABSTRACT This commentary engages with Jón Ingvar Kjaran and Zara Saeidzadeh’s research article, “Trans* Activism in Indonesia and Iran: Working Against Misrecognition and Enhancing the Intelligibility of Trans* Subjectivities.” The authors examine the conditions and form trans* activism takes in “doing” gender in Muslim-dominated societies of Indonesia and Iran. It is argued that trans* experience interacts with Islamic norms to persist in gaining intelligibility and recognition, challenging the existing medico-religious discourse in Islamic societies, as well as liberal humanist intellectual traditions of the West. Trans* activism in Indonesia and Iran, therefore, reveals a complex inquiry in locating hospitality at the borders where trans identity and Islam meet.
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