Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums, Archives, and Curating

Angela Failler is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Culture and Public Memory at the University of Winnipeg. Her research is focused on how practices of culture and public memory are used to grapple with the “difficult knowledge” and ongoing effects of historical traumas and injustice. She leads a long-term study on public memory and the 1985 Air India bombings. She is a founding member of the Thinking Through the Museum network and co-leads the Museum Queeries project. She is also the founding Director of the Centre for Research in Cultural Studies (CRiCS).Sabrina Mark obtained her PhD in English Literature from the University of Manitoba. She contributed a chapter to Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits (2021) and co-edited a special issue of Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition on “Memorial Reckoning and the Fall of Imperial Icons” (2022). Her research examines fictional depictions of gender and race in the context of nation-building in the early twentieth century. Michelle McGeough (Cree Métis/Settler) completed her PhD in Indigenous art history at the University of New Mexico. Prior to returning to school for her advanced degree, she taught Museum Studies at the Institute of American Indian Art and was the Assistant curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the Native American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. McGeough currently teaches at Concordia University in the Art History department and is a co-lead of the Museum Queeries research project. Heather Milne is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and one of the co-leads of the Museum Queeries research project. Her research and teaching focus on gender, sexuality, cultural studies, and literature. She is the author of Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics (2018) and editor of Social Poesis: The Poetry of Syd Zolf (2019). Her writing has appeared in numerous journals including differences, Humanities, Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, and The Review of Pedagagy, Education, and Cultural Studies.

• Acknowledgements 7Angela Failler, Sabrina Mark, Michelle McGeough, Heather Milne: Introduction to Museum Queeries: Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums, Archives, and Curating 9Angela Failler: Unsettling Homocolonial Frames of Remembrance: Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Interventions at the Museum 33Heather Milne: Pitfalls and Potential: Anticipating the 2SLGBTQ+ Purge Exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 65Michelle McGeough: Finding the Unicorn: Locating Queer Indigenous Lives in the Archive 89Mika Castro: Looking for Invisible Lives and Fantastical Creatures: A Tour of the Manitoba Museum through Queer Filipinx/o Immigrant Stories 103Adrienne Huard: Turning Inwards: Locating Joy, Refusal, and Solidarity through Two-Spirit Performance 125Adrian Deveau: Telepathic Visions: A Psychic Investigation of Queer Hauntings in Canadian Archives . 143Amelia Smith: The Exhibitionary Complex and Transgender Display In and Beyond The Dime Museum 165Cara Tierney, Monica Eileen Patterson: Discriminant Disjunctions: Museological Practice, Trans Belonging, and the Insight of Children 183Authors 203