Join us in honoring the anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot at Trans* Temporal Resistances. This performance series mirrors an open assemblage model. Emji Saint Spero and Leila Weefur invite artists to deconstruct trans archives and architectures through textual and movement-based approaches. Situated within a district in which desire has historically been boundaried and confined, these performances engage Queer Time as an embodied strategy of resistance.

This event invites local artists J Rivera Pansa and Davia Spain to take space at CounterPulse on August 24th, 5-7pm, in conversation with TurkxTaylor Initiative’s exhibition Transition Times II: Re-Configuring Structures of Power.

Co-curated by Emji Saint Spero and Leila Weefur 

Saturday August 24th, 5-7pm

CounterPulse
80 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Free / RSVP
tinyurl.com/transtemporal02

About the Exhibition

Transition Times II: Re-Configuring Structures of Power collectively imagines ways to dismantle and reconfigure structures of power. The work presented engages speculative architecture to reconfigure the building at the corner of Turk and Taylor, the landmark site of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, a queer grassroots uprising against police violence in August 1966. The exhibition highlights the building’s current use as a halfway house, operated by private prison company GEO Group and serves as a call to action to liberate this historical queer and trans site.

Co-Curated by Chandra LaBorde and X Vazquez
Presented by the TurkxTaylor Initiative