Enduring Otherwise Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia

"Enduring Otherwise powerfully reveals how Muslim queer and trans Indonesians forge lifeworlds in the face of rejection and exclusion. Thajib's careful analysis shows us how struggles for acceptance, across an apparently unbridgeable chasm of incommensurability, illuminate intersections of faith and the forging of a livable life." - Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine

"Striking in its profound care for its ethnographic subjects and a gaze that refuses pathologization, Enduring Otherwise is a bold contribution, as unflinching in its look at the toll of homophobia and transphobia on Muslim queers in Indonesia as it is innovative in its insistence on Islam as a salient theater of complex, quotidian trans and queer action." - David K. Seitz, author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church

"To queerly exist in the ambiguous and intricate meshes of constraint, generosity, aperture and violence demand strategic expenditures of feeling and conjuring, and faith, Thajib's inventive, heartful, and brave montage of vernaculars shows us how to endure the challenges of inhabitation in-between self-determination and adherence to the normative. However regarded, queer Muslims curate ethical practices of world-making amidst the inevitable contradictions not as marginals but generative accompaniments." - AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture

"Enduring Otherwise is a highly original, compellingly written and evocative exploration of the affective work of endurance of Muslim queer and trans Indonesians as they live on otherwise in a world that violently denies their possibility of being. Thought-provoking and deeply moving, this book is a major achievement." - Annemarie Samuels, Leiden University

"Ferdi Thajib's brilliantly researched and written book shows in a complex and detailed way how even in the most difficult circumstances trans and queer people and communities in Indonesia survive through endurance. This is an important lesson to learn for everyone who attempts to advocate for trans and queer people and communities." - Dédé Oetomo, Founder and Trustee, GAYa NUSANTARA, Indonesia