“Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Kent Monkman’s Feminist Decolonizing of Art History,” in The Routledge Companion to Art History and Feminisms, edited by Erin Silver. New York, NY: Routledge
“Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Kent Monkman’s Feminist Decolonizing of Art History,” in The Routledge Companion to Art History and Feminisms, edited by Erin Silver. New York, NY: Routledge
Understand what it means to be human beings in wâhkôhtowin with the land, water, plants, animals, earth and sky, all other beings, and with one another and the next seven generations. Do all that you can to care for one another. There is much work to be done, but âhkamêyio, don’t give up. Each of you can do something.[i]
So concludes The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of North America Turtle Island. Miss Chief’s call is an apt point of departure from which to begin thinking about the role of art history and feminism in the global contemporary. In this chapter, I study some of the time-traveling, shape-shifting, visionary feminist work of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle and interdisciplinary Cree Artist Kent Monkman to amplify and study their reconfiguring of Western Canonical Art History and their offering of feminist/queer/trans, critical race, decolonial directions of doing and thinking art history and feminism now.
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[i] Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island = Okiskisiwina Okimâwiskwêw Kihêw Mitisoway, hardcover edition (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2023), 196.