Satrio Nindyo Istiko or Tiko (he/she) is an Indonesian-born, Australian queer writer and sociologist based in Toulouse, France. Tiko writes about gender, race, sexuality and migration, while his/her research covers four overlapping, thematic axes: queer migration and displacement; intersectional approaches to gender and health-inequalities; digital storytelling for public sociology and health promotion; and decolonial and participatory methodologies. He/She has been the recipient of Non-Residential Fellowship from Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies, University of Auckland, in 2026, and the Significant Contribution Award from Bradford Centre 2 for Qualitative Research in 2025. His/her debut fiction, Bukan Keluargaku (English translation: Not My Family), is published in Indonesia in 2026 by Marjin Kiri.
