Gay Democracy

December 18, 2007

Julia Suryakusuma

  • The writer is the author of Sex, Power and Nation. She can be contacted at jsuryakusuma@gmail.com

    I REMEMBER how it was when I became a teenager, when my self- and sexual awareness started to grow together with budding breasts, widening hips and blood oozing out every month. I was told I was just becoming a woman, but it was all very mysterious—even scary at times. And then there were the boys, the second ‘curse’: a sour

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