A Queer Soundwalk in Washington Square Park | Multimedia | 2020

This soundwalk-inspired video collage centers the queer history and communities of Washington Square Park in the 1920s and 30s by adapting archival material from the Newberry Library, including poems, soapbox oratories, audio, images, and ephemera. Once known as “Bug House Square” due to its proximity to the mental hospital, the park has a uniquely embedded history of the intersections between queer liberation and disability justice. This video will remember and celebrate embedded queer histories of Chicago and the struggle for joyous and liberated queer futures.

comissioned by the Chicago Parks District and Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology as part of the 2020 Soundwalks in the Parks series