“The petition to have a Dyke Chilling Park sign permanently installed as an art
piece was unsuccessful, however the following year The Queer Spacing ad hoc Collective (this time consisting of Cynthia Brooke, Ifetayo Alabi, and Anonymous) installed a "Trans* Chilling Park" sign on the morning of the Dyke March, 2019 as a rebellious response to the protests and propaganda circulated by TERFS (Trans exclusionary radical feminists). The demonstration of solidarity with Trans folk was particularly poignant and timely, and evidence of a positive legacy established by our first disruptive sign. Meanwhile, Dyke Chilling Park lives on in the stickers we handed l out, the selfies and social media posts the queer community posted with the sign, and you can still "check in" to Dyke Chilling Park on Google Maps.”
(Queer Space by Andrea Finlay, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 1999-2021
Thesis Support Paper)
https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad%3A17130/datastream/PDF/view
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