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