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Online–Miss Chief’s Sovereign Eroticism: Queer Indigenous Resilience in Kent Monkman’s Work
Saturday, October 24, 2020 | 5:30 – 7 pm
Join Dr. June Scudeler (Métis), assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University, and Issaku Inami, MOA Volunteer Associate Gallery Host and queer activist, for an virtual presentation and discussion on the queer Indigenous resilience, sexuality and eroticism of Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.
In Shame and Prejudice, Cree artist Kent Monkman creates an alternate story that inserts queer Indigenous peoples into the colonial history of Canada. Created in response to Canada’s 150 celebrations, the exhibition depicts the colonial legacy of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people, residential schools, and high Indigenous incarceration rates. Monkman dismantles the official history of Canada through Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his two-spirit alter ego, who appears in many of his paintings, films, and performances.
This event is a pre-recorded tour, premiering live on Zoom. Hosts June Scudeler and Issaku Inami will be available for a live Q+A after the recorded tour.
Online, via Zoom.
Free, registration required.
June Scudeler (Métis) is an assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University. Her research examines the intersections between queer Indigenous studies, Indigenous literature, film, and art. She has published articles in Native American and Indigenous Studies, American Indian Culture and Research Journal,Canadian Literature, and Studies in Canadian Literature. Her chapters are included in Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature (University of Arizona Press), Performing Indigeneity (Playwrights Canada Press) and the Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies. June is the co-editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures.
Issaku Inami is a queer settler of colour and MOA’s Volunteer Associate Internal Coordinator/President Elect as well as a Gallery Host. Issaku also serves on the Boards of Pacific Spirit Park Society, Pride in Art Society (Queer Arts Festival), and is the group lead of Camosun Bog Restoration Group, and was a co-curator for MOA’s 2019 Pride event, From a Riot to Revolution.
Online via Zoom • Free, registration required Program