In partnership with the Material Art Fair, Tianguis queercuirkuir established a screen-printing workshop in collaboration with fifteen different collectives and organizations from Mexico City, proposed by Mariela Scafati as part of the practice of her non-group, Serigrafistas Queer, on the esplanade of the Monument to the Revolution.

Commissioned by Ruta del Castor, the project expanded into public space, where screen printing functioned as a medium for collectively sharing slogans, ideas, moods, poetry, stories, and memories through prints on posters, T-shirts, flags, and other surfaces.

In the transition from workshop to tianguis; from printmakers to tianguistas; a series of meeting points sustained through exchange emerges, situating us, in both cases, within a context that represents us. Both are active stages, places of participation and complicity, generating the possibility of new temporary alliances.

Testimony

“Screen printing is not only about printing; it is also about coming together.
To be so many, and so elusive, that they cannot even name us.”

Collectives:
Queer Printmakers (Serigrafistas Queer) * Maricarmen * The Tense League (La Liga Tensa) * Invasorix * Papalote Children's Museum * SOMA * Tenderness (Ternura) * Rrd y Coquetas * Feminist Pluriversities Collective (Colectiva Pluriversidades Feministas) * CASTOR Route (Ruta del CASTOR)

Slogans and Messages:
Power to Transmasculine Vaginas * Identity in Construction... * Legal Abortion Is Life * Corpo Traesnho * Every Lady Is Political * I Won’t Calm Down, My Love * Until Our Death Is No Longer Normal * I Am Here, Green, Thinking Freely With Us * I’m a Goose * Is It Your Desire? * What Color Is Your Pleasure? * To Be and Feel Free * Tenderly Violent ❁ Self-Defense Now! * Horny Beavers Building Together

Note: Several collective names and slogans appear in the original text in experimental, queer-inclusive, or intentionally altered spellings. They have been translated where possible while preserving their political and poetic character.

*Tianguis is a traditional open-air market common throughout Mexico, derived from the Nahuatl word tianquiztli. Beyond a site of commerce, the tianguis functions as a social and cultural gathering space, where exchange, community building, and the circulation of knowledge, practices, and ideas take place.

*Tianguistas are vendors who participate in a tianguis.