Discotheque In Susanti's Enjoying Nightlife In Hong Kong

Following Sorrita’s illustration on IDWs’ enjoying nightlife in Hong Kong, Susanti provides similar observation. Some IDWs, indeed, are the regular pubs visitors. Susanti gives example of an IDWs named Lasmini who engages in this particular life style simply because of her circle.
Two consecutive days, she went with Made and friends visiting discotheque days and nights. She went back to consume alcoholic drink and ecstasy.
“I have no place to sleep. Therefore, every time I left discotheque in the morning, I would sleep under the white tent in Victoria Park” said Lasmini. That day, Hong Kong was celebrating Chinese New Year. That was why the foreign domestic helper, including Made and friends, are given non-Sunday free day bonus. (Susanti 26)
Discotheque, in Susanti’s narratives, connotes negative meaning. However, providing her lens is as an outsider, Susanti does not necessarily provide any justification to render the negative meaning of discotheque as Sorrita does in her short stories. Besides the life style of enjoying nightlife, alcohol, and drug, in Susanti’s book, she also mentions lesbianism among IDWs. From her observation, IDWs’ lesbianism in Hong Kong happens not because they are really aware of their sexual orientation. The environment in Hong Kong tends to be permissive to a same sexual orientation. This enables tomboy and lesbianism to flourish among IDWs (Susanti 53). More to this point, lesbianism can also be seen as IDWs’ transgression to dominant heteronormativity in the homeland. Hong Kong has accommodated these women to gain a sexual freedom which underlines their shift of sexual identity. This resulted from their migration process and that IDWs’ identities, both as individual and as a group “are open to transformation through migration” (White 3). Yuen Ki Lai’s research on IDWs’ lesbianism in Hong Kong noted that IDWs’ sexual identity is more as cultural production of migration rather than the cause of migration. Lai’s finding has challenged the dominant view held by the queer migration studies which see immigrant’s
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