selfie man in red toque standing on the landing of the second floor behind a 20 foot work by Kent Monkman with his name in big golden letters across the top of the painting
AFFIRMING TWO-SPIRIT QUEER INDIGENOUS ART HISTORY Monkman, a Queer and Two-Spirit artist from ocêkwi sipiy / Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 territory, Manitoba, renders in his work Indigenous histories and realities that honour multiple genders, affirm expansive kinship and accept multiple sexualities. Indigenous societies in Turtle Island (North America) have embraced gender, sexual and kinship fluidity as central to their worlds for millennia. Regularly suppressed by colonial powers, these realities became less visible for several generations. Two-Spirit is an inclusive term adopted by Indigenous peoples on gender and sexuality spectrums that stands in for their own communities' historic words lost to time through settler colonialism. Monkman's work honours and celebrates these lifeways as historical, valid for today and vital for tomorrow. The abbreviation 2SLGBTQIA+ is used here in place of many genders, sexualities and kinship structures spanning Indigenous Confederacies and Nations of North America: Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Agender and More.
morning .. still processing what we saw yesterday. Kent Monkman History is Painted by the Victors exhibition is amazing heartbreaking brilliant. Monkman queer two-spirit artist works are 20-ft high in your face of indigenous people narrated by Miss Chief Eagle Testickles. 1/2 #queerart #monkman
