The Historic Queer Winnipeg Walking Tour: Meeting places established between the 1880’s and 1980’s
by Britt Bauer** The walking tour is available here on Google Maps. At a time when BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, and women’s...
Read moreLooking for Invisible Lives and Fantastical Creatures: A Tour of the Manitoba Museum Through Queer Filipinx/o Immigrant Stories
By Mika Castro* Click the "play" button to listen to the author read this blog. The Manitoba Museum, true to...
Read moreGrappling with Life-Narrative: Transgender Oral History at the University of Winnipeg
By Misha Falk* I began the Transgender Oral History Project in Spring 2019 as part of my work as a...
Read more“Beading as Love”: Engaging Material Culture as a Practice of Resistance and Reclamation
By Chris Eastman* From February 6-9, a gathering called the Beading Symposium: Ziigimineshin was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As an attendee, my intention...
Read moreOn Being and Belonging: A Queer Immigrant’s Perspective on the Portrayal of Queer Refugee Experience at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
By Mika Castro* I immigrated to Canada ten years ago from the Philippines. Being a Filipino immigrant who happens to...
Read more“Taking the Cake” at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and a Comparison of Same-Sex Marriage Discourse in China
By Hubery (Liang) Huang* For the past twelve weeks I have been working as a Mitacs-Globalink Research Intern with the Museum Queeries project...
Read moreThe Idea of an Idea Museum: Immaterial Collections at the CMHR
By Claire Wright* I have to admit that before I moved to Winnipeg this fall, I had never heard of...
Read moreDisrupting Representation: Sex Work Visibility at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
By Dallas Cant* The perimeter of Canadian Journeys, a gallery at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, is lined with story...
Read moreArchiving Trans History: How Institutions of Public Memory Negotiate the Changing Language of Gender Identity
By Misha Falk* In June 2018, as a Research Assistant for a team project at the University of Winnipeg called...
Read moreA Meditation on the Museum: Kinship and Ambivalence in the CMHR
By TJ Shannacappo* During the summer of 2017, I attended a workshop, Museum Queeries: Intersectional Interventions into Museum Cultures and...
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