Queens at the Crossroads: Re-Membering the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot with Susan Stryker

Tenderloin Museum In honor of the anniversary month of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, Susan Stryker previews her forthcoming essay At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor: Re-Membering Legacies of Opposition to Carceral Power in San Francisco, in which she frames the Compton’s Riot through a comprehensive, hyper-local, place-based history of the 101-121 Taylor Street Properties that reveals the systemic nature of carceral power, the insidious flexibility of carceral logic, and the vital witnessing of resistance to the carceral state in imagining a more just and empowering society. Stryker’s talk is accompanied by a screening of the short documentary film, “One Eleven Taylor (During a Pandemic),” as well as some reflections from Rebecca Young, an attorney who has been with the SF Public Defender for 18 years, and who had a client placed at 111 Taylor despite the fact that he had a safe, stable family home to go to in Oakland. “One Eleven Taylor (During a Pandemic)” was created by The Adachi Project and released in 2021 as part of Defender-Vol.00, an Art+Media+Justice project created with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. The Adachi Project is an unprecedented partnership between the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, EVEN/ODD, and Compound, honoring the legacy of the late San Francisco Public Defender, Jeff Adachi. All projects of Defender-Vol.00 are available at WeAreDefender.com. Learn more about the Tenderloin Museum and upcoming public programs at tenderloinmuseum.org photo credit: Clay Geerdes