Museum Queeries (MQ)

prioritizes Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, intersex, and asexual (2S+LGBTTQIA) contributions and interventions in museums and museum studies as a means of addressing structural exclusions and opening new modes of inquiry and activism. MQ is particularly interested in how queering, decolonizing, and anti-racist strategies might work together to change museum cultures. “Queering,” here, refers not only to representations of gender and sexuality; it is a methodology that challenges White privilege, racism, settler colonialism, and ageism, among other systems of oppression, as they operate with and alongside transphobia and homophobia in and beyond museum and curatorial contexts. MQ develops intersectional projects with other clusters and will launch a major exhibit featuring Two-Spirit and Indiqueer (Indigenous queer) artistic production that unsettles narratives of sexual and gender diversity that privilege White lives and experiences.

(Partners: CLGA/ArQuives; University of Winnipeg; Mackenzie Art Gallery)

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TTTM Exhibitions
TTTM Exhibitions
Museum Queeries Edited Volume
Museum Queeries Edited Volume

Critics have made clear that museums often uphold national identities and histories. Less acknowledged are the ways they also tacitly encode hetero- and cis-normative representations of the polity and public culture.

Exhibiting Theory Book Series
Exhibiting Theory Book Series

Exhibiting Theory is a multi-lingual, open-access book series presenting humanities and social science theory and method relevant for and generated from museum interventions, performances, and curatorial experiments developed in partnerships linking academia with the museum and heritage sector.