June 20-22, CounterPulse Theater, San Francisco, CA, US. June 21, post performance discussion facilitated by Dr. Kathy Zarur. The Queer Intifada, is a collaboratively devised ensemble piece that dives into the junction between horror, speculative fiction and queer futurity and is one of several performative elements of a multimedia project called Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth. The piece, like the overall project, investigates histories of resistance and guerrilla warfare from multiple traditions with a focus on struggles in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, as well as solidarity links with black and brown struggles in the US. It seeks to build a distinctly queer, SWANA (South West Asian North African) and Muslim centered futurist aesthetic and language, taking from Islamic rituals, numerology, stories and traditions to serve as a springboard for the futurist imaginary. Movement, poetry, video projection mapping and carefully constructed costumes build a full world inhabited by multiple characters who straddle the border lands between human and alien, as well as life and death. The performance follows three guerrilla fighters who attempt necromancy in order to revive people they have lost, believing that they would be a stronger adversary to the powers that be if they could build an army of zombies from 'resistance past'. The performance is intentionally non-linear and exists in a constant liminal space as characters go back and forth between time periods and planets. Artistic Director: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Curator: Yomna Osman Performance: Crystal Mason (Ham), Faluda Islam, Fanaa, jose e abad, Saba Taj Costumes and Visuals: Hushidar Mortezaie Video: Anum Awan Set Design: Jacob Ward, Brea Weinrab, Macrowaves, Anum Awan and Hushidar Mortezaie. Dramaturgy: Fanaa and Yas Ahmed.