ALT A self-portrait photograph of me wearing an ancient Egyptian print shirt above the quote "To remain silent about the problematic practices is to be complicit."
ALT The text of my interview responses in which I talk about the important work both the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub and Museum Education Roundtable are doing, and my idea of an anti-ableist museum.
ALT The text of my interview responses in which I talk about the important work both the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub and Museum Education Roundtable are doing, and my idea of an anti-ableist museum.
ALT A detail from a sculpture in the shape of Great Britain. Text alongside it reads 'To boldly go where all others have gone before'
![An artwork of a group of people with their names all around it and the text "Responsibility | Reopenings: What Museums Learned Leading through Crisis [Series]" and the AAM logo."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqpcmuIWAAIWLnl.jpg?name=orig)
ALT An artwork of a group of people with their names all around it and the text "Responsibility | Reopenings: What Museums Learned Leading through Crisis [Series]" and the AAM logo."
ALT Additionally, a closeted life is not necessarily an indication of a desire to remain clo seted. Just because it was not safe for an historical figure to be out in their public life does not mean that that person was ashamed of their sexuality or gender identity. Further, outness is not a binary. A person can be out to their partner, to their family, or to their community. And just because their straight and cisgender relatives were not aware of or refused to acknowledge their queerness does not mean that that person was truly closeted. It is still common for trans people to be misgendered after their deaths in their own obituaries.18 This erasure is an indignity and a violence. When weigh ing the risk of accidental queering against queer erasure, it is more just to err on the side of queerness.
ALT A figure wearing a denim shirt is shown from the waist up standing against a crimson red background. Posed in three-quarter view, the figure tilts their head back slightly and looks sideways across their right shoulder. Shoulder-length black braids drape on either side of the figure’s neck, which is painted red to match the background. They hold an ivory white mask in their left hand, which appears to be about to cover their dark brown skin.
