It was only four years ago that Australia legalised marriage equality, making it 16 years behind the first country to do so – the Netherlands, and four years behind countries like Brazil and New Zealand.
Curators Melissa Ratliff and Francis E Parker of Queer Readings of the Collection at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), a project which invited a group of writers and artists to contextualise a selection of Monash collection works through their lens of experience, told ArtsHub what solidarity can look like for the queer community and how artists play a vital role.