Bubble&Squeak - Queer Object

Part one: We travel to Australia and hear from Craig Middleton who is queering museums and sharing the Kinq manifesto

Part two: We travel to the future for a virtual museum tour

Part three: We travel to my past for a sound slice

Craig Middleton is Assistant Manager, Exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia. He is responsible for overall project management of temporary exhibitions including stakeholder management and audience engagement strategies. Prior to his current role he was a Curator in the Museum’s Defining Moments in Australian History Curatorial Centre. In that role he was responsible for research, content, and collections development. His research interests are in Australian social and political history, specifically histories of LGBTIQ+ identified communities and critical museology. His book, co-authored with Dr Nikki Sullivan, Queering the Museum was published by Routledge in November 2019.

Craig tweets at @_museumguy Link to Queering The Museum: https://www.routledge.com/Queering-the-Museum/Sullivan-Middleton/p/book/9780815359623 Link to KINQ Manifesto: https://kinqblog.wordpress.com/

Queering The Museum - co authored with Dr Nikki Sullivan and published by Routledge in 2019. https://www.routledge.com/Queering-the-Museum/Sullivan-Middleton/p/book/9780815359623

Insta: @museum_guy

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/middletoncraig

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Bubble&Squeak is a podcast with uncanny sounds, funny interludes, and stories—most weird, many true. Created by Peterson Toscano. He mostly creates the sow for himself, and his Friend, Karla, who always has a good museum recommendation.

“The Bubble&Squeak theme song is Worthless. by The jellyrox from the album Bang and Whimper. You can find it on iTunes, Spotify, of wherever you listen to music.”

You also heard Milk The Lightning and Bleachers by ElevntySeven on the Betamosh EP,Back to the Green Hall by Arylide Fields, Follow Me Wild Horse by Cospe

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Learn more about Peterson at www.petersontoscano.com