Online for the first time for LGBTIQA+ History Month 2021, an international line-up of QTIBIPOC artists, activists and cultural producer will join host Campbell X. They'll be debating:
- Are we queering the museum, or museum-ing what’s queer?
- Whose version of queer history are we saving and telling?
- What is our community strategy for shaping an anti-racist queer legacy for the future?
This will be an open community conversation into whether or not queering the museum can play a role in decolonising it. Each guest will address the provocation and take part in a Q&A. All members of the audience will have the chance to engage directly with a speaker in frank and unrecorded community break-out rooms.
Biographies
Campbell X
Campbell X is a filmmaker/writer and director who directed the award-winning feature film Stud Life. Campbell also directed other works including VISIBLE about the challenge of finding QTIPOC people in UK history and DES!RE a jazz meditation on attraction to trans men, non-binary, and gender non-conforming AFAB people.
Twitter: @campbellx
Instagram: @campbellx
Sandy O’Sullivan
Sandy O’Sullivan is an Aboriginal (Wiradjuri), trans/non-binary Professor of Indigenous Studies at Sydney’s Macquarie University on the Dharug Nation. Sandy’s completed a study of 470 museums’ representation of First Nations’ Peoples and was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists.
Twitter: @sandyosullivan
Veronica McKenzie
Veronica’s documentary UNDER YOUR NOSE (2017), charting the history of the Black Lesbian and Gay centre, led to Haringey Vanguard, an oral history project, capturing the lived experiences of the UK’s black LGBTQ+ community in the 70’s and 80s. Her debut feature NINE NIGHTS (2019) was recently released online.
Photo by Sebastián Freire
Joseph M. Pierce
Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation) is Associate Professor at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019), and is co-curator with SJ Norman (Koori of Wiradjuri descent) of the Indigenous-led performance series Knowledge of Wounds.
Twitter: @pepepierce
Instagram: @pepepierce
Photo by Greg Youmans
Chris E. Vargas
Chris E. Vargas is a video maker, interdisciplinary artist. He is the Executive Director of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, a conceptual arts & hirstory institution that engages critically with existing museum practices while also highlighting the contributions of trans art to the cultural and political landscape.
Twitter: @chrisevargas
Instagram: @M_O_T_H_A
