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🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Nancy Iskandar is a magician, snake dancer, former sex worker, committed Muslim and long-time campaigner for transgender women’s rights in Indonesia. Josephine Casserly talks to her about the fight for transgender women to be accepted into Indonesian society in the 1970s and 1980s. Photo: Nancy Iskandar. Credit: BBC
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0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
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0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
0:24.9 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:38.0 | I'm Josephine Casselli and today a hidden piece of Indonesia's history. |
0:42.0 | I'm talking to Nancy Iskandar, who was a leader of |
0:45.3 | Indonesia's transgender rights movement in the 70s and 80s. I met her at her office in Jakarta. In Jakarta. When I was at junior high school, whenever I could, I'd still the opportunity to put on makeup. |
1:02.0 | Nancy grew up as a boy in Indonesia in the 60s, but as she became a teenager, |
1:06.8 | she started to feel more like a girl. |
1:09.0 | My father was from the military. |
1:13.4 | My father was from the military. |
1:15.1 | When I was 13 years old, my parents tortured me because of my deviant behaviors that |
1:21.0 | they thought were embarrassing, but my desire to be more feminine didn't die, it only burned brighter. |
1:27.0 | But Nancy felt completely ostracized from society. |
1:30.0 | She couldn't get a regular job and people would call her Banshee. |
1:34.2 | It was a slur used to denigrate transgender women. |
1:37.4 | And how did you feel when people use this term Banshee to describe you? |
1:41.2 | Yes, I was upset, yeah? |
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