Yulia Dwi Andriyanti
Patronus: Orange Cat
Favorite Quote : “Keep queerin’ in life and care for one another!”
She is a queer Muslim woman, writer, community organizer and independent
researcher. Her experiences of activism in Indonesia for the past twelve years includes women rights, LBTIQ rights, and education for diverse youth on faith and sexuality. She co-founded several organizations or collectives, such as Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality (YIFoS), a youth organization aims to build peace within diverse faith and sexual identity, in 2010 and Qbukatabu, a feminist-queer collective, in 2017. She also one of co-director of a collective queer women documentary, namely Children of Srikandi (2012). She completed her MA in Gender, Sexuality and the Body from University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Currently, she is practicing self-care and healing through journaling and moving meditation, experiencing a vegan life and exercising to build a coop. She speaks Indonesian and English.