Tabb Center Spring 2024 Speaker Series: Susan Stryker

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Historian Susan Stryker will give a talk titled "At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor: Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures." Stryker links past, present, and future in this exploration of the deep roots and transformative potentials of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.

The talk is part of the Tabb Center's spring 2024 speaker series, which highlights cultural production by trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials and supporting collections development, it explores the aesthetic possibilities of artworks and literature, and their relationship to questions of community formation, selfhood, becoming, and the dialectic of history and futurity. Conversations with visiting artists and scholars will include discussions of institutional development, curation, and access, and will aim to engage wide audiences.