Undomesticated – Gender Defiance in the Home
A series of film screenings, food and facilitated discussion taking a queer twist on the traditional Movie Night at home
Oestrogeneration x Museum of Transology x Museum of the Home
In this event, we’ll watch a series of shorts by trans filmmakers delving into the topic of ‘Gender Defiance in the Home’ in a myriad of ways.
We’ll follow these screenings with a Show and Tell, uncovering items from the Museum of Transology collection and Museum of the Home’s collection in a community conversation facilitated by Museum of Transology founder E-J Scott and oestrogeneration founder June Bellebono.
Reflections from this event will inform the making of a new room in the Museum’s Rooms Through Time galleries.
Food and refreshments will be provided. All funds raised from this event will be donated to Oestrogeneration.
Open to all.
Programme
6pm Welcome refreshments and out of hours opening of the Rooms Through Time
6.30pm Short films screenings
7.45pm Show and Tell, and community conversation
About Undomesticated - Gender Defiance in the Home
Each night invites a different queer-run organisation to showcase a film exploring the home and to facilitate a conversation with the audience.
Queer and trans people have always shaped domesticity in personal and unique ways - from what our homes look like and who we build home with, to the meaning of home itself.
Through these different offerings, we explore gender defiance in the home, and start shaping what a ‘queer room’ could look like in the Museum of the Home galleries.
Curated by June Bellebono
About June Bellebono
June Bellebono is a london-based writer, cultural producer, facilitator and model, founder of oestrogeneration.
About E-J Scott
E-J Scott is a curator, cultural producer and academic whose practice focusses on enabling communities who may traditionally have been marginalised in museums to recentre their histories via interventive participatory practice. E-J is a Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. They founded the Museum of Transology in 2014, now the largest collection of material culture representing trans lives in the world (Bishopsgate Institute, London).
Past events
06.04.2023 | Oestrogeneration x Museum of the Home present Sediments
06.04.2023, 6.30-9.30pm
Oestrogeneration x Museum of the Home present Sediments, as part of Undomesticated – Gender Defiance and the Home.
For our first event, you're invited to join us for a screening of Sediments directed by Adrian Silvestre, followed by a discussion facilitated by Oestrogeneration.
In this story of empathy, community and belonging, a group of Spanish trans women go on a road trip and share their life experiences openly in this warm and honest documentary.
Following the screening, artist and musician Gabrielle Rettis Arenas will faciliate a conversation with the audience exploring some of the film’s themes.
Food and refreshments will be provided. All funds raised from this event will be donated to Oestrogeneration.
Open to all.
Gabrielle Rettis Arenas is a Spanish-Peruvian musician and model based in London.
Oestrogeneration is a magazine platform highlighting the voices of trans women and transfeminine* writers in the UK.
04.05.2023 | Queer East x Museum of the Home present Small Talk
04.05.2023 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Queer East x Museum of the Home present Small Talk, as part of Undomesticated - Gender Defiance in the Home
Join us for a screening of Small Talk directed by Hui-Chen Huang, followed by a discussion facilitated by Queer East.
Small Talk is a 2016 Taiwanese documentary feature film in which the director Huang Hui-chen attempts to reveal and reconcile a painful past shared between herself and her mother A-nu, a lesbian Taoist priestess.
Following the screening, Queer East director Yi Wang will be facilitating a conversation with the audience exploring some of the films’ themes.
Food and refreshments will be provided. All funds raised from this event will be donated to Queer East.
Open to all.
Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities. The organisation aims to amplify the voices of Asian communities in the UK and explore notions of what it means to be queer and Asian today.
Date
Wednesday 31 May 2023
Time
6pm-8.30pm
Cost
£2-10
Location
Museum of the Home, 136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA