The Arcus | Places Prize

The mutual aid networks keeping people safe in South Minneapolis were forged through decades of organizing around expansive visions of community care. This is the work of queer abolition.

How might the legacies of resistance manifested in the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco be mobilized for social justice struggles today?

What bodies, and which desires, do you build into your designs or your criticism?

What might the abstract and architectural offer in terms of transgender representation? We can start by looking at the art of Gordon Matta-Clark.

In Paris in the mid 20th century there emerged a zone of queer space — a lesbian archipelago on the Left Bank that was both novel and ostentatiously radical.

We’re excited to announce that Macalester College professor Myrl Beam has been chosen as the recipient of the 2023 Arcus | Places Prize.

We’re now accepting applications for the the latest round of the Arcus | Places Prize for  innovative public scholarship on gender, sexuality, and the built environment.

Susan Stryker tells the story of Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, the site of a benchmark event in the history of resistance to police oppression of transgender people.

The leading transgender studies scholar and activist has been selected as the fourth winner of the Arcus/Places Prize for innovative public scholarship on gender, sexuality, and the built environment.

The biennial prize supports innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment.

Lucas Crawford presented “The Crumple and the Scrape: Two Archi-Textures in the Mode of Queer Gender,” at UC Berkeley on March 4.

Jack Halberstam presented “Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark,” at UC Berkeley on October 3.

Jack Halberstam and Lucas Crawford have been selected as the 2018 and 2019 recipients of the Arcus/Places Prize.

The biennial prize supports innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the built environment.