Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati is professor in women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Hawai`i. She is the author and co-editor of five books, including Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia, which won 2013 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa book award, and Scarred: A Feminist Journey through Pain, which won 2024 Association of American Publishers PROSE book award for Biography/Autobiography. Her work has been included as one of Meridians journal’s most…