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    No comfort for young women

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 17/08/2018

    » One of the biggest issues commanding media attention in the past year has been that of gender violence. And Peel the Limelight has dedicated this year to staging plays that shed light on the topic from different angles, starting with a production of Agnes Of God, about a young nun with a history of abuse. That was followed by I Am My Own Wife, a one-person play about the life of a transgender woman during World War II and the Communist regime in East Berlin.

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    Education vital to guard rights

    News, Erich Parpart, Published on 02/07/2018

    » Thailand needs to improve education and protect rights of groups, especially women and lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and intersex (LGBTI), the outgoing World Bank Bangkok office director, Ulrich Zachau says.

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    Kru Lilly tells her story

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 25/10/2012

    » Today’s Life section has a long story on famed transgender tutor Kijmanoch ‘Kru Lilly’ Rojanasupya. This excerpt will get you started.

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    Virtuoso one-man show about a woman

    Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 02/05/2018

    » I Am My Own Wife, a one-man play based on the life of German antiquarian Charlotte von Mahlsdorf -- a transgender and founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin, and who survived the Nazi and Communist regimes -- will be playing on a Bangkok stage starting on Friday.

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    Uni hurts its own cause

    News, Editorial, Published on 14/09/2015

    » A military camp will play host to 53 transgender female students of Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University from Monday until Wednesday, with the aim of adjusting their attitudes. They got in a spot of trouble late last month for participating in a poorly thought-out hazing ceremony that had them dancing and performing simulated sex. If that was out of line - and it certainly was - what are we to think of this university's punishment, its attitude toward the students in the first place and even its own record on hazing?

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    Flower and filmmaker

    Guru, Pasavat Tanskul, Published on 16/02/2018

    » Anucha Boonyawatana is a Thai transgender, independent filmmaker and founder of G-Motif. Her thesis film Down The River in 2004, won her the Young Thai Artist Award. She went on to collaborate with the Thai-American Public Health Agency and Unesco to direct Love Audition in 2008, which promoted health and relationships among Thai gay teens. In 2015, she made a directorial debut with The Blue Hour, which premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. Her latest feature film, Malila: The Farewell Flower, has been shown at several film festivals around Asia, having won the Kim Ji-seok award at the 22nd Busan International Film Festival. The romantic drama movie follows the relationship between two men, played by Sukollawat Kanaros and Anuchyd Sapanphong. It premiered in Thailand yesterday, so if you are bored of the usual mainstream movies, buy yourself a ticket be ready to ponder the fragility of life.

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    Gender not important

    Published on 08/01/2024

    » Re: "Robbery done to 'fund revenge plot'", (BP, Jan 6).

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    A space for all

    Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 09/09/2014

    » In a bid to provide help, advice and medical treatment to Thailand's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens, the Faculty of Medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital has recently opened the Gender Variation Clinic at the hospital's Child and Adolescent Health Center.

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    Join the Resistance

    B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 02/04/2017

    » On her latest record, the transgender eco-feminist warrior makes a case for more activist dialogue and the remedial powers of women.

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    Two-voiced magic

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 02/04/2011

    » Beautiful transgender Nuntita 'Bell' Khampiranon fooled the judges and delighted the audience by beginning her song with a woman’s voice and ending it with a man’s.

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