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We're always messy, non-hierarchical, attentive and caring. We have non-definitions for membership, allyship and group ancestry. Our group is incomplete, always in transition and often taking breaks.

Before the OoQA there was the beginning. In the beginning there was the creator, '''Olle''' Lundin grauated from '''Design Academy''' in 2016 and as part of that graduation he created a project. '''Queering the Collection''' was a collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum that questioned not only how we interact with the museum, but also the why of the status quo of behaviors and structures that seem so concrete and so rigid at times. The Van Abbemuseum quickly realised that these gays were onto something.  

<nowiki>*</nowiki>By calling ourselves the child, and calling the museum the mother, we don't intend to reproduce the idea of motherhood as in the cis-hetero nuclear family  

Never emerging from of our rebellious phase, the office has made some great changes inside and outside our body. We once has this little argument with Mother Van Abbe* beacuse they were planning our lives with zero consultiation. They became a frenemie for a while. A moment of frustration, accountability and eventual funding brought about our early transition. Some may have previously known the Office as the Queer Constituency, when it was more closely associated with the its mother's agenda. This had to change, as there was a misalignement of agendas. We negotiated our terms and moved forward as the Office of Queer Affairs.  

Not long after we entered our more dreamy, reflective stage of incomplete r'''esititution in practice''' which gave way to our decision to document and archive our growth through the years to be shared with the outside world.  

We have utilized various tools, skills, technologies for our activities in and around the museum. These often originate from our experiences outside the office, for example, Malou offering their drag/make-up skills as an artist for the Drag-up events. At the same time, the activities at the OoQA have provided us opportunities to learn about new tools and apply those back to our daily practicies. For Noam, for instance, what they experienced from the OoQA's relationship with VAM has significantly influenced their starting as a cultural worker, and it was also during the Queer Bookclub where they discovered their interest in theories which later guided their transition to academia.

A very comprehensive list of all tools that have been involved in the maintenance of OoQA: THIS WIKI, Google Drive, whatsapp, emails, etherpads, glitters, play dough, handouts, zines, ...

The OoQA is not funded (directly) by neither the Stimuleringfonds or Mondriaan Fund. (therefore we have no sponsor logos to indicate)

In the first years of our collaboration with the museum, we were all paid from the volunteers' fee.

You are invtied to enter our '''neuro-spicy''', hyper-linked, always in-the-making wiki. There are no structures here, only entities and relations between them. Enter a page (entity) by clicking a blue link (relation). There you may find more links. You are invited to draw your own path by travelling across relations. There will be no guided tours, so please tread carefully. A red link means the entity does not (yet) exist, but someone thought it might need to. It may or may not appear in the future. If you have a suggestion about what to put there, please '''get in touch.'''

The search bar on the top of the page is the way most of us find our way around here. The left side navigation menu provides quick links to different sub-sections of the page among other handy tools. The center of the page is where the content we write goes. You can always browse through older versions of a page by clicking "View histoy". Take a scroll near the bottom of the page for more information such as tags, external references and citations. You can tread as far as you'd like into the wiki, but you might find yourself in pools of red links, navigation loops or even dead-end pages. If you get lost, you can always click the ZZZZZZ image on the top-left of every page; it will bring you back home (this page).

* This wiki is incomplete; it is a product of the ongoing labour of some members of OoQA that is conditioned by resources, time and funding.