Benjamin Hegarty

Understanding the challenges faced in community-based outreach programs aimed at men who have sex with men in urban Indonesia

Benjamin Hegarty, Sandeep Nanwani, Ignatius Praptoraharjo

Journal article  |  2020  |  Sexual Health

Background: Community-based outreach programs play an important role in the provision of HIV testing, treatment and health care fo..

Queer generations: Theorizing a concept

D Marshall, P Aggleton, R Cover, ML Rasmussen, B Hegarty

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Cultural Studies

This article reflects on the concept of ‘queer generations’ as developed in the context of an ongoing study about belonging and se..

Liminal Masculinity: Narratives of Class and Sexuality in Post-authoritarian Indonesia

B Hegarty

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Intercultural Studies

In contemporary Indonesia, the fragmentation of a collectively-imagined future has generated ambivalent and contradictory ways of ..

The Perfect Woman: Transgender Femininity and National Modernity in New Order Indonesia, 1968–1978

Benjamin Hegarty

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of the History of Sexuality

The decade between 1968 and 1978 was a period of remarkable activity in the state’s use of scientific knowledge about sex, gender,..

Under the Lights, Onto the Stage: Becoming Waria through National Glamour in New Order Indonesia

Benjamin Hegarty

Journal article  |  2018  |  TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Indonesia's waria commonly assert that the bodily transformations they undertake on a temporary but daily basis, which they call d..

Heterosexuality and Race in the Australian Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey

Benjamin Hegarty, Daniel Marshall, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Peter Aggleton, Rob Cover

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Feminist Studies

‘When I was transgender’: Visibility, subjectivity, and queer aging in Indonesia

B Hegarty

Journal article  |  2017  |  Medicine Anthropology Theory | An open-access journal in the anthropology of health illness and medicine

This think piece reflects on the ways in which the category ‘transgender’ is used by waria – Indonesia’s ‘national transvestite’ (..

‘No Nation of Experts’: Kustom Tattooing and the Middle-Class Body in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

B Hegarty

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Tattooing among young middle-class people in Indonesia has increased noticeably since the late 2000s. I draw on ethnographic resea..

The Value of Transgender Waria Affective Labor for Transnational Media Markets in Indonesia

B Hegarty

Journal article  |  2017  |  TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly

The globalization of transgender and its relationship to human rights has been accompanied by increased media interest in those so..

Java Spirit

Benjamin Hegarty

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Java Spirit is a short documentary film about the diversity of religious practice on the island of Java in Indonesia. As stated on..