1st Edition
Queerness and Heritage
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 On queerness and heritage
Nicole Moolhuijsen, Richard Sandell and E-J Scott
PART I Grassroots queer heritage
Chapter 2 'Paul Preciado fucked my gender': The countersexual Museum of Transology
E-J Scott
Chapter 3 Trans heritage: Collection development in Colombian cultural institutions
Flora Violeta Rodríguez Rondón and Michael Andrés Forero Parra
Chapter 4 An intimate heritage: activists' notes on making an LGBTI+ museum in Brazil
Bruno Brulon Soares and Cláudio Nascimento
Chapter 5 Letters for a future that has already happened in our bodies
Lucía Egaña Rojas
Chapter 6 Queer listening: Ethics, embodiment and the politics of sound heritage
Stacey Copeland, Siân A. Williams, Tash Walker and Adam Zmith
PART II Queering heritage
Chapter 7 On Permissible Beauty: Addressing Black queer absence in our nation's story
David McAlmont
Chapter 8 Queering the museum: Decolonial implications for current practice
Hannah Ayres
Chapter 9 What do queer objects do? A material culture perspective on LGBTQIA+ heritage
Cesare Cuzzola
Chapter 10 Collaborations x community. On the seriousness of queer/trans expertise in art exhibitions
Eliza Steinbock and Sandro Weilenmann
Chapter 11 Reclaiming the exceptional: Activating Taiwanese art collections through karaoke and weak curating
Liang-Kai Yu
Chapter 12 Care, repair and intersectional re-imaginations: How Black Queer Temporalities enable reflective praxis
Janine Francois
PART III Queer futures
Chapter 13 Trans-inclusive culture: Advancing equality in challenging times
Suzanne MacLeod, Richard Sandell, Sharon Cowan, E-J Scott
Chapter 14 Anti-colonial queer work in the museum of our imagination(s)
Sandy O'Sullivan, Alana Blakers, Han Reardon-Smith
Chapter 15 Glitter, rage, ceremony: Towards an IndigiQueer museology rooted in Mesoamerica
Armando Perla
Chapter 16 Creating braver and safer cultural spaces for queer youth
Nicole Moolhuijsen
Chapter 17 Ntu – An African queer trans presence
Zethu Matebeni
Chapter 18 Queering the crip, cripping the queer
Brigit Bosold and Kenny Fries
Index
Biography
Nicole Moolhuijsen (she/they) is a researcher and heritage practitioner who coordinates ICOM Italy’s Working Group on Gender and LGBTQ+ Rights. They work as a heritage consultant and are completing a PhD at the University of Leicester, having previously held research fellowships at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage in Amsterdam and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Richard Sandell (he/him) is Professor of Museum Studies and Co-Director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries at the University of Leicester. His research, frequently carried out in collaboration with museums, galleries and heritage organisations, focuses on their potential role in supporting human rights and social justice.
E-J Scott (he/they) is a curator and cultural producer, and founder of the Museum of Transology - the UK’s most significant collection of trans, non-binary and intersex material culture. He is Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons)/MA Culture, Criticism & Curation programmes at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
