Selected Public Engagements

“Transing the Museum,” A Queer History of Objects, V&A Academy Online; 19 March, 2021.

“How Can We Make Queer Connections in Communities?”, Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium, 13 January, 2021.

Social Art Network, 16/12/2020.

Consultant, 10 Year Public Art Strategy, Brighton & Hove City Council, 11/11/2020.

“Decolonising the Museum of Transology,”Black British Art & Queer British Art Subgroups, Queer British Art Network. 24/09/2020.

Juror, International Centrestage: LGBTQIA+ initiative to support early career artists and curators, 08/2020.

Programming and presenting What Does a Queer Museum Look Like? PT2, Tate Britain, 15 February 2020 with international guests (the event sold out overnight).

Inaugural Lecture. “Exposing Ourselves in Public: How to Uncensor Queer History”, MA Queer History, Goldsmiths University. 29 October, 2019.

“Representing Autonomous Communities”, Museums Association Annual Conference, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. 04 October, 2019.

“The Princess 1700 – 1750 Queer History Clubs: taking London’s queer history to the pub where it belongs”; DUCKIE, Royal Vauxhall Tavern. An HLF funded collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute. British Museum, London Metropolitan Archives and National Archives. 28 August, 25 September, 23 October, 20 November 2019.

Trans Men Wear It Well, A presentation on masculine gender performativity using objects from the collection, Manchester Art Gallery. 03 July, 2019.

Queering Memory, ALMS (Arts, Libraries, Museums, Special Collections) LGBTIQ+ Conference, Berlin 29 June, 2019.

Presenting: Princess 1700 – 1750: DUCKIE’S Georgian Queers and their Pleasure Gardens

Chairing: Trans Focus #3: Trans & Intersex Autobiographies as Archives

Chairing: In Our Own Words: Bisexual & Homo & Queer Identity in Old and New Oral History Sources

“London’s 18C Macaronis and the Rise of the Transphobic Press Through New Printing Technology”, DUCKIE & the British Museum. 14 June, 2019.

“The Duckie Archives: 22 Years of Queer Performativity in London”, Bishopsgate Institute. 29 May, 2019.

“Gender Performativity in 18C Edo Shunga”, DUCKIE & the British Museum. 15 May, 2019.

“Putting Gender on the Museum Agenda”, Rewriting the Canon? Contemporary Art Society Annual Conference, Courtauld Institute of Art. 14 May, 2019.

“Saving Queer Senior Citizens: West Yorkshire Queer Stories and the Urgency of Oral History”, International Conference on LGBTIQ+ Senior Citizens, Amsterdam. 25/26 April, 2019.

“What Can the Art & Gallery Space Do for Activism”, Agents of Provocation: Frieze Academy. Ace Hotel. 20 March, 2019.

“Museums & the Trans Tipping Point”, Co-presented by E-J Scott & Prof. Richard Sandell, Leicester University School of Museum Studies. 8 Feb., 2019.

“What Does a Queer Museum Look Like?”, Queer & Now, Tate Britain. June, 2018.

“The Trajectory of Transology: Retrospective Historical Erasure vs. Future Exposure in the Archive”, Prejudice, Pride, Place 2018 Conference, National Trust. 14 August, 2018.

“Queer Beyond London: West Yorkshire Queer Stories,” LGBT History Month 2019 Launch, British Library. November, 2018.

Keynote: “Halting the Erasure of Transcestry,” Queer Legacies Conference, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. 14 March, 2018.

“E-J Scott on collecting for the Museum of Transology”, Talks from the National LGBT History Festival, National Archives. Feb, 2017.

Keynote: “Lady Malcolm’s Servants Balls 1923-1939: Duckie in the Archive Extracting Queer Working Class History,” Without Borders: ALMS (Archives, Libraries, Museums, Special Collections) LGBTQ+ Conference, Bishopsgate Institute. 21 June, 2016.