Queering the Memorial: Antifascist Performance and the Murder of Zackie Oh (Ζακ Κωστόπουλος)

On Friday September 21, 2018, queer activist and drag performer Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh was killed in broad daylight by police and the owner of a jewelry store in the Omonoia neighborhood of downtown Athens, Greece. Both immediately afterward and in the years following the murder, the LGBTQ community has organized numerous protests and constructed various improvised memorial sites that celebrate Zak's life and collectively mourn his loss. Developing an innovative methodological approach that combines sensory ethnography with videography and critical walking, this multi-media research article documents this antifascist public memory project in the act of its collective constitution. Presenting a mediatized version of our embodied interactions with these living memorials to Zak—from topographic archives to repertoires of protests and walking performances—we examine the ways in which the ongoing queering of public memory disrupts not only the institutionalized but also the daily and domesticized fascism of the νοικοκύρη: the patriarchal authority of the household's domestic economy.