Chapter Eight Hunting Down Love: Female Masculinities in Bugis South Sulawesi Sharyn Graham Davies I’m going hunting I’m the hunter I’ll bring back the goods But I don’t know when —Bjork, Homogenic Introduction Before sitting down to begin work on this chapter, I randomly selected some music to provide inspiration. The CD I chose was Bjork’s Homogenic, the first song of which is entitled “Hunter.” I had listened to this album many times before, but it was only this time that I actually lis- tened to the lyrics and realized how familiar they sounded. Just the previ- ous year I had been sitting in a house in Makassar, the capital of the province of South Sulawesi in Indonesia, talking to an informant- cum-friend about issues of identity and sexuality. Dilah was telling me how s/he does not like the term lesbi because it does not fit hir idea of who s/he is. S/he does not want hir identity to be limited to sexual desire, which she sees the term lesbi as implying. Moreover, Dilah wants to present hir- self as someone who actively pursues relationships and is in control of hir movements. In applying a label to hirself, Dilah stated that s/he likes the term hunter because s/he hunts down love and pounces on it. 1 Dilah is from a Bugis farming background and finished school when s/he was 16. Two years later s/he moved to Jakarta and began working in a hair salon. It was there that Dilah met many politically active people and became increasingly interested in issues of sexuality and identity. While in Jakarta, Dilah had the opportunity to engage with popular national and © Blackwood, Evelyn; Bhaiya, Abha; Wieringa, Saskia E., May 01, 2007, Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globa Palgrave Macmillan, New York, ISBN: 9780230604124