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Dédé Oetomo, a campaigner for LGBT rights in Indonesia and a scholar on gender issues, will be in conversation with Gina Chua, a Singaporean journalist who is the Executive Editor of Semafor and one of the most senior transgender journalists in the U.S. Dédé Oetomo is an activist, independent scholar, and educator in the fields of language and society, the Chinese diaspora, diversity in gender-sexuality, and HIV & AIDS. He is Founder and Trustee at GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation (www.gayanusantara.or.id), which also hosts the Coalition for Sexual & Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR; www.csbronline.org). He also serves on the board of the Indonesia AIDS Coalition. Academically, he is an adjunct senior lecturer at Universitas Airlangga, Universitas Surabaya, Widya Mandala Catholic University in Surabaya, and Universitas Ciputra Surabaya, Indonesia. Gina Chua, originally from Singapore, is the executive editor of Semafor, and a former executive editor of Reuters. Chua received a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and then worked as a reporter throughout Southeast Asia in the 1990s before becoming the first editor-in-chief of the Asia edition of The Wall Street Journal and then editor-in-chief of The South China Morning Post. She transitioned in late 2020.