We discussed: the concerns about being excluded, self segregation, sub categorisation, gay art as a topic vs a way of life, Art History, Tokenism, and the need for safe spaces.

Panelists:

Emmanuel Thibault – Photographer + Designer – https://www.archiproducts.com/en/designers/emmanuel-thibault

Frederick Nathanael – Director of Pride Art – https://www.prideart.no

Katja Fjeld – Art Historian – https://www.instagram.com/sause_dyret/

People + Places mentioned:

Judith Butler – https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/judith-butler

Man Enough to Be a Woman, by Jayne County – https://serpentstail.com/work/man-enough-to-be-a-woman/

Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics by José Esteban Muñoz – https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/disidentifications

Vaginal Davis – http://www.vaginaldavis.com

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, Book by Linda Nochlin – https://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Nochlin-Linda_Why-Have-There-Been-No-Great-Women-Artists.pdf

Queer culture year 2022 in Norway – https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/aktuelt/2021/celebration-of-queer-culture-year/

Safe Space Collective – https://www.safespacecollective.com

Homophobic murder in Spain – https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-arrests-two-minors-over-suspected-homophobic-killing-2021-07-09/

Audio editing by Jakub Černý

Music by Peat Biby

Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway – https://eeagrants.org

And we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com + Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no

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