With Justine Williams. Queer Scouts is an interdisciplinary project comprised of live performance, video installation, ongoing meetings & zines/zine-making. A social practice research-based performance using the model of the Boy and Girl Scouts to engage queer adults in a critical-playful process identifying, working on, and questioning how to do one’s best for oneself and one’s community.

A collage of images of Queer Scouts hanging in
Cover image for Queer Scouts Zine: CONTACT; text reads: "Queer Scouts Guide To / Tracing, Tracking, and Mapping Queer Archives Amidst Global Calamity; Issue 2, June 2020; Assembled by QS Den Parents Eva Peskin & Justine Williams". The word CONTACT ru
Cover image for Queer Scouts Zine: FORGE; text reads: "FORGE / Queer Scouts Guide to Intentional World-Making; Issue 2, November 2016, Re-Issue June 2020; Created by QS Den Parents Eva Peskin & Justine Williams." Image of black silhouettes of three p
Queer Scouts Headquarters, as part of the Queer Art Mentorship Annual Exhibition, 2016. A faded rainbow backdrop with silhouettes of adventures scouts bleeds into a geometric, iridescent silver floor in the corner of a white room. The corner is frame
Composite of three images of people interacting in the Queer Scouts Headquarters: visitors sitting reading zines and talking to scouts; Scout Eva presenting Scout Claire with their earned/crafted sash; the whole troupe engaging Scout Justine's Power
Four dolls wearing prototypes of scouting outfits laying against an electric campfire. One has on an all white outfit with a giant cape, one has a pink and green lederhosen look, one wears a coral vest and a blue and white striped cape-coat, and one
Hand-embroidered Merit Vadge for the practice of Personal Astronomy: the outline of a face emerges from a field of blue stars, overlaid with gold thread creating connections and constellations.
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