Archipelagic intergenerational relations are intertextual and rely on the ever-shifting ways transgender characters are defined and captured in Indonesian cinema and discourse.Cast: Adam Pascal, Aleisha Allen, Amy Sedaris, Angelo Massagli, Anivile Daniel, Barry Shurchin, Brian Falduto, Caileigh Scott, Caitlin Hale, Carlos J. I argue that ‘archipelagic intergenerational relations’ bring into focus the ways in which the Indonesian family is transed when the transgender mother and biological child reunite after estrangement. This chapter considers the ways in which trans-motherhood reconfigures the Indonesian nuclear family into a more unsettling/unsettled unit that resists fixity of boundaries. Both films demonstrate the stereotypical conventions of transgender identities onscreen-the ‘reveal’, hyperfeminine drag, and the embodiment of trans-femininity by muscular leading men. Two films about transgender motherhood from this period are discussed in this chapter: the popular 2006 film Realita, Cinta, dan Rock n Roll (Reality, Love, and Rock n Roll) and the 2011 film Lovely Man. Non-normative genders and sexualities were sutured into the cultural fabric at the dawn of Reformasi in Indonesia, the period of democratic renewal after the fall of General Suharto in 1998, when same-sex romance and transgender identities began to make a significant presence in the wave of counter-cultural filmmaking.
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