An Artist and Former Sex Worker Wants to Decolonize Gender in Indonesia

A woman dressed in black net-like fabric with oily substance covering her body grimaces as a naked man mounted on her back pulls back her hair.

Pertamina, a multidisciplinary transgender artist, went from working the streets to working Asian art shows to reclaim Indonesia’s pre-colonial acceptance of non-binary genders.

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