Spotlight

This queer talk took place on 15th February 2020 at Tate Britain in London. Celebrating LGBTQIA+ History Month curators, activists and cultural producers joined in the conversation asking the question: are we queering the museum, or museum-ing what’s queer? Curated and hosted by E-J Scott and in conversation with:

Tomasz Kitliński
Queer curator and art historian Tomasz Kitliński explores the role that art history and practice can play in queer activism.

Ajamu X
Photographic artist, archive curator and radical sex activist Ajamu X investigates what it means to be queer and black in the archive.

Amelia Cavello
Quiplash co-founder Amelia Cavello advocates for queer crips (quips) queering accessibility in the museum as an act of radical disability activism.

Morgan M Page
One From The Vaults trans historian and podcaster Morgan M Page challenges charges that trans ‘didn’t exist’ in the past.

Lucy Nicholas
Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Western Sydney University Lucy Nicholas, who has written and thought about what a world without gender would be like, wonders when it is or isn’t appropriate to have gender-specific museum labels and invented titles of artworks and whether in the museum, as in the world, we need gender at all.

Amelia Abraham
Queer cultural producer, journalist and author of Queer Intentions: A Personal Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, Amelia Abraham thinks about where to call queer history home.