ABSTRACT

This study discusses how Indonesian gay men use social media platforms to create a queer heterotopia by practicing disidentification – the process of distancing oneself from an unwanted identity. This disrupts the heterosexual dominant text to create the concept of disidentification self. The study finds that Indonesian gay men employ four strategies to create digital content, primarily to cope with their social location: queer literacy, identity disclosure, romantic relationships, and social community activism. Online data were collected from April 2020 through September 2020, while ten gay men were interviewed in depth from May 2020 through February 2021. This study shows that Indonesian gay men develop a parasitic relationship with the dominant ideology and create a performative mode to claim subjectivity and security within the dominant group’s power domain.

摘要

这项研究讨论了印度尼西亚男同性恋者如何使用社交媒体平台通过实施去认同（disidentification）——使自己与不受欢迎的身份保持距离的过程来创造一个酷儿异托邦。这扰乱了异性恋占主导地位的文本，创造了去认同自我的概念。该研究发现，印度尼西亚男同性恋者采用四种策略来创建数字内容，主要是为了应对他们的社会地位：酷儿识字、身份披露、浪漫关系和社会社区激进主义。在线数据是从 2020 年 4 月到 2020 年 9 月收集的，同时从 2020 年 5 月到 2021 年 2 月对十名男同性恋者进行了深入采访。