Museum of Love

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Introduction

Museum of Love is a collaborative project with The Indian Queer Project. It is a nonprofit that works towards archiving the oral history of Indian queer youth. It is an exclusively queer project working to not only amplify their voice but to bring solidarity amongst those who are struggling with their gender and sexuality identities to find camaraderie and solidarity from those within the community by sharing their story and by creating resources that support their intersectional identity of being Indian and queer.

Museum of Love tries to address negative notions about the queer community by using love and compassion as tools to question their opinions. The intention is also to show that a happy queer life is possible to those who can't see the future with it.

The Issue

A lot of the queer people have to go through conversion therapy, disowned by family and/or friends, forced into marriage and in extreme cases, correctional rape is used and even murdered. This is justified by believing in opinions like, this is unnatural, the religion says so, what will people think, not acceptable in our culture or simply ignorance and unwillingness to learn.

Vision

To build an online museum that uses love and compassion as tools to tackle hatred and ignorance towards the queer community, find ways in which society can be more inclusive of different gender identities and show that positive queer lives are possible.

Conceptualization

Exhibit 1: What is Love?

This is about taking risk in love. Hence then hot air balloon. Inspired by the quote, “ love is being willing to ruin your own painting for the chance of great one” - Ellie Chu from the film, The Half of it

Exhibit 2: Religion and Love

An open and quite space where people can listen to what religions say about love. Audio will echo like how it does in a religious space.

Exhibit 3: Dismantling Gender Binary

To make a daal delicious, we put all kind of different masala to get its full flavor, just like that, we must mix and match different languages to get a more inclusive language and further, a more understanding and accepting society.

Exhibit 4: Positive Queer Stories

Showing positive queer stories through newspapers, radios, TVs, conveying that happy queer life exists and give hope to younger queer people who might be questioning their lives.

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