[csaa-forum] 3 August Deakin 'First Fridays' Seminar and Masterclass — Ben Hegarty on 'Queer Visibility in Indonesia'

[Ben Hegarty]

The Deakin University Gender and Sexuality Studies ‘First Fridays' seminar series continues on 3 August at Deakin Downtown.

The seminar series is free and open to all, although registration is required<https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/>.

Historical Perspectives on Queer Visibility and National Belonging in Indonesia

Benjamin Hegarty, Deakin University

The past two years have seen the term LGBT shift from an unknown acronym to household term in Indonesia, overwhelmingly framed in negative terms. Many commentators have labelled these transformations as both unprecedented and a break with a long tradition of tolerance for gender and sexual diversity. While sympathetic to these concerns, queer visibility in Indonesia has long been met with a broad range of responses ranging from outright hostility, to begrudging tolerance, to open celebration. This paper, based on historical and ethnographic research undertaken in 2014-2015 in the cities of Jakarta and Yogyakarta, reflects on the events related to LGBT in Indonesia over past two years within a history of Indonesian national modernity. Starting from the late 1960s, I sketch out a chronology that demonstrates how transgender femininity developed a profile as a form of visibility that was at once popularly enjoyed and officially denigrated. I then present how a historical reading of queer visibility in contemporary Indonesia calls for attention to three areas: 1) the media and mediation; 2) the relationship between private and public; 3) the currents and effects of globalised knowledge. In conclusion, I reflect on how historical and/or cross-cultural perspectives continues to offer a vital vantage point for scholars of gender and sexuality studies; a way to resist universalising notions of rights as a one-way movement towards modernity.

When/where

4pm on 3 August at Deakin Downtown<http://www.deakin.edu.au/locations/deakin-corporate-centres/deakin-downtown> (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station).

Please join us before the seminar from 3pm onwards for a LGBTIQ Community Afternoon Tea supported by Deakin University Equity and Diversity. Please select the ‘afternoon tea’ ticket if you intend to join for catering purposes.

Informal drinks to follow.

Registration

For further information about the series and to register see our blog<https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/>.

The August ‘First Fridays’ HDR masterclass will be presented by Maria Palotta-Chiarolli<https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/postgraduate-masterclass-series/>. If you are not a Deakin University HDR student and would like to attend, but cannot access the readings, please contact me for further details.

If you have any questions please get in touch with Ben Hegarty: b.hegarty at deakin.edu.au<mailto:b.hegarty at deakin.edu.au>


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