MOA presents Miss Chief’s Sovereign Eroticism: Queer Indigenous Resilience in Kent Monkman’s Work, October 24

The free online talk explores the Cree artist’s Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience

Kent Monkman's The Scream from his Shame and Prejudice exhibit, features children being taken away to residential schools.

Kent Monkman's The Scream from his Shame and Prejudice exhibit, features children being taken away to residential schools.

 
 

Miss Chief’s Sovereign Eroticism: Queer Indigenous Resilience in Kent Monkman’s Work takes place online on October 24 from 5:30 to 7 pm.

SFU INDIGENOUS STUDIES assistant professor June Scudeler (Métis) and queer activist Issaku Inami, MOA volunteer associate gallery host, will host a virtual presentation and talk about queer Indigenous resilience, sexuality, and eroticism in Kent Monkman’s provocative Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience.

The free discussion takes place on October 24 from 5:30 to 7 pm via Zoom.

Years in the making, Shame and Prejudice  inserts queer Indigenous peoples into Canada’s colonial past. Monkman’s striking exhibit depicts the colonial legacy of residential schools; high Indigenous incarceration rates; and missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people. A member of Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba), Monkman is one of the nation’s most important and exciting contemporary visual artists. He frequently features his two-spirit alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in his work.

Inami and Scudeler will guide participants through selected pieces, with a Q&A to follow the online presentation.Registration is required; visit MOA to sign up.  

 
 

 
 
 

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