New blog post: Gender, Agency, and Vulnerability: LGBT Martial Arts Groups (MAGs) in Timor-Leste

In this IFJP article, the authors analyse LGBT martial arts group (MAG) members in Timor-Leste. Working at the intersection of feminist security studies and critical gang studies, and drawing on ten first-hand interviews with LGBT MAG members, the article marshals its empirical findings to argue that, for LGBT MAG members, strategically performing heterosexuality and hypermasculinity is a form of agency, and queering brotherhood is a LGBT-specific performance of MAG membership.

Read the blog here.