Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Dan Laurin about his involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power.
Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 1: Museums, beadwork and Indigenous agency
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Dan is a transgender Métis postgraduate and artist who is steadily reconnecting with his culture by practicing his Nation’s well-known floral beadwork deigns. He aims to share his story and passion for Indigenous people’s unique art with Native Two-Spirit youth and further the conversation regarding the decolonization of American Indian gender and sexual identity through traditional art like beadwork.
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Podcasts from the Beyond the Binary Project, held at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Building on existing engagement work with LGBTQ+ stakeholders and set out an ambitious programme to build inclusive practice within theMuseum. This will transform the Museum through events, interpretation and exhibitions.
By 'queering', we mean challenging hetero-normative interpretations of the Museum’s collections - and identifying human histories that are unrepresented as a result of intolerance...