Join our queer + BIPOC community partners across Chicago’s South and West sides to map queer spaces that have shaped the city.
This day of queer storytelling and mapping takes place on Saturday, November 11, 2023 from 1-4:30 p.m. at Affinity Community Services, 2850 South Wabash, #108, Chicago, IL 60616.
Register for this free event at www.eventbrite.com/e/uncovering-queer-spaces-a-west-south-side-discovery-project-by-mapped-tickets-708793028027.
MAPPED (Making a People’s Pathway for Engaging Design) is a digital library dedicated to documenting Chicago’s community projects—built, envisioned, or planned. This transparent, organized, and accessible index of Chicago’s community spaces showcases resources for communities to advance their design and planning initiatives by mapping ideas, projects, people, plans, and organizations. Learn more about MAPPED at mappedchicago.org.
This creation of a searchable database of Chicago’s community spaces is a collaborative effort. Through social gathering events called MAPPED-a-thons, the West & South Side Discovery Project invites engaged community members, civic actors, and design professionals to contribute to the collaborative platform by identifying and inputting project content to build this design library of projects across Chicago.
Uncovering Queer History brings together activists and historians from the South and West sides to share stories and reflections on the queer spaces that have shaped Chicago’s history. Come and explore the past, present, and future of these community spaces!
This event is hosted by Affinity, Life is Work, Pride Action Tank, and TaskForce Prevention and Community Services.
