Cambodia Tomboy Party

Tonight I joined Cambodia Tomboy Party for their 1 year anniversary of creating their Facebook page.

Beautiful MC

PIKACY Band

To me, this is my leisure. My weekend activities. It's not about party, but it's about work. I and my short film crew (SFG) are going to shoot a short film about LGBT's rights in Cambodia. The purpose of these activities are to observe and learn about them. Of course, we are going to interview them as well. We want to make a film that really mean something for them. Of course, to do this I need to apply HCD to my work. We can't be success without knowing who/what they are or their needs. We decide to do a research and interview LGBT during our pre-production.

Here are some pictures I took this evening. It was such a fun party. One thing I recognize was that they made me felt like they are not women at all. Less femininity, transformation, fashion and style, make me forget about the origin of sex even though now they are still women.

Friendly Cafe

These party ends well with not many participants, but YES, it was fun. one sixth of the ticket fee will be given to Kontheak Bopha Hospital. They did it for something useful for our society. I would really like to learn more about them. Anyway, I still have more work to do with GBT. More desk research, design principles and guidelines need to be made. Hence, I'm learning about HCD with real life experience. I'm going to meet key people and experts about this as well.

To read about HCD spend less time and effort. To make what I read happen, really require a lot of works. So I'm doing what I love and what I need simultaneously. :D 

Cambodian Transgenders Face Risks

Faced with discrimination and a lack of resources, the Kingdom’s transgender community are taking matters into their own hands – often at great risk http://t.co/zlot5noKIQ

One of the other major problems affecting the community, local LGBT activists say, is the lack of access to information about how to safely transition to another gender. In many developed countries, transgender men and women are able to access medical professionals who can advise them about which hormones to take to minimize health risks, or else opt for surgery. But in the Kingdom a combination of discrimination and lack of surgical options means that transgender people have little choice but to resort to dosing themselves with over-the-counter birth control pills. Little research has been done into the long-term side effects of the misuse of birth control and other hormone pills on transgender women. Some of them practice breast binding that could lead to cysts. Other options that are currently unavailable is mastectomy that Cambodian doctors are able to do it, but it falls outside societal norms. 

Cambodia, where transgender women are relegated to the beauty and entertainment – including sex work – sectors and transgender men are relatively invisible, transgender people in Thailand work in many different industries.