The Clit Club was a “floating” queer and sex-positive lesbian nightclub held in NYC that promoted safe sex and existed as an intergenerational, multi-racial, and mixed class venue for women. The party was founded by Julie Tolentino and Jocelyn Taylor in 1990 and ran until 2002. Alongside a screening of work by House of Color, Nguyen Tan Hoang + Cyd, will be presentations of club ephemera and a DJ set by Ramdasha. Revisiting the Clit Club is an opportunity to reflect on the intense labor, love, relations, and creations that came out of years of showing up together publicly and privately, interpersonally and politically. On this evening, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with an interactive display of ephemera, a film screening, discussion, and to activate records of memory and current reflections surrounding the twelve year running party, community, and force known as the Clit Club. The film screening component of the program consists of three works chosen by the curators to express their sentiments towards the Clit Club as a means to explore the historical, cultural, and aesthetic modes of queer desire, sexuality, and connection.

Clit Club Reactivated is part of Dirty Looks, On Location (Jul 1–31, 2015), a biennial series of site-specific interventions across queer city spaces.