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Comic

Growing Pains

Queer. Malay. Muslim. Malaysian. I learned the hard way that this didn’t have to be a contradiction.

by Teh 1 September 20216 April 2022

Artist Teh Editors Charis Loke, Jacob Goldberg

Content warning: This comic includes references to homophobia and bullying.

Further Information

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New Naratif
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Queer Lapis
Queer Lapis is an online resource hub run by and for the Malaysian LGBTQIA+ community, providing the queer family and our allies with the recipes we need to be the loving, amazing, and proud humans that we are. We publish content in multiple languages at queerlapis.com.

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Teh

Teh (she/they) is a queer Malaysian comic artist who loves teh ais. Occasionally, she spices things up a little bit by ordering milo ais instead.