Trans and Gender-Expansive Geographies II
Type: Virtual Paper
Theme: Expanding the Community of Geography
Sponsor Group(s):
Queer and Trans Geographies Specialty Group
, Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
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Start / End Time: 4/10/2021 04:40 PM (Pacific Time (US & Canada)) - 4/10/2021 05:55 PM (Pacific Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 31
Organizer(s):
Julian Barr
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Chairs: Theodore Davenport
Agenda
| Role | Participant |
| Presenter | Nat Pace |
| Presenter | Nic John Ramos Drexel University |
| Presenter | Joe Gallegos Test |
| Presenter | Rachael Cofield Florida State University |
| Presenter | Yeryun Hong Seoul National University |
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Presentation(s), if applicable
Rachael Cofield, Florida State University; Without Place?: A Dispersed Queer Community’s Response to Gentrification |
Yeryun Hong, Syracuse University; Exotic love and unauthorized bodies: Transgender and Filipina sex workers in the Camp town, Itaewon, South Korea |
Joe Gallegos, University of California - Irvine; Rainbow Theme Parks: Stonewall National Monument and the Depoliticization of Queer Urban Space |
Nat Pace, McGill University; Trans on Transit: Gender-Variant Geographies aboard Montréal’s Transit System |
Nic John Ramos, Drexel University; An Out Gay Cop: Protecting the Privacy and Property of “Gay” Los Angeles and the Policing of People of Color in a Modern Skid Row in AIDS Crisis Los Angeles |
Description
*This session was originally set for the 2020 AAG Annual Meeting but was postponed due to COVID-19.*
Trans geographies has historically drawn from rich roots in trans studies, queer geographies, feminist geographies, and urban studies. In 2010, Gender, Place & Culture released a special collection on trans geographies calling for more geographic scholarship that engaged with gender beyond the masculine/feminine binary (Browne, Nash & Hines 2010). This collection explored trans spatial experiences in relation to queer geographies (Nash 2010), workplaces (Hines 2010), urban sites (Browne and Lim 2010), autoethnography (Doan 2010), and youth (Rooke 2010).
Scholarship within trans geographies have expanded in the past five years, with diverse work on the carceral state (Rosenberg and Oswin 2014), rural spaces (Abelson 2016), genderqueer geographies (Johnston 2016), youth and social media (Jenzen 2017), and experiences using public transit (Lubitow et al 2017). Despite this growth, scholarship on trans geographies has been underrepresented at the AAG, and no trans geography specific session has occurred since “FQG: Trans* Geographies” in 2014. In this historical moment past the “transgender tipping point” (Steinmetz 2014), trans and gender variant people are highly visible yet experience transphobia in deepy spatial ways. Thus, there exists a great need for geographic scholarship that explores the relationships between space and transgender subjectivity. We hope this session will be a space to showcase the important work being done in this field and to imagine possibilities for the future of trans geographies. We also see this as a rare opportunity to connect the spatially dispersed academics conducting work on trans geographies in physical space.
Works Cited
Browne, Kath, Catherine Nash, and Sally Hines. 2010. “Introduction: Towards Trans Geographies.” Gender, Place & Culture 17 (5): 573–77.
Browne, Kathe, and Jason Lim. 2010. “Trans Lives in the ‘Gay Capital of the UK.’” Gender, Place & Culture 17 (5): 615–33.
Doan, Petra. 2010. “The Tyranny of Gendered Spaces – Reflections from beyond the Gender Dichotomy.” Gender, Place & Culture 17 (5): 635.
Hines, Sally. 2010. “Queerly Situated? Exploring Negotiations of Trans Queer Subjectivities at Work and within Community Spaces in the UK.” Gender, Place & Culture 17 (5): 597–613.
Jenzen, Olu. 2017. “Trans Youth and Social Media: Moving between Counterpublics and the Wider Web.” Gender, Place & Culture 24 (11): 1626–41.
Johnston, Lynda. 2016. “Gender and Sexuality I: Genderqueer Geographies?” Progress in Human Geography 40 (5): 668–78.
Nash, Catherine. 2010. “Trans Geographies, Embodiment and Experience.” Gender, Place & Culture 17 (5): 579–95.
Rooke, Alison. 2010. “Trans Youth, Science and Art: Creating (Trans) Gendered Space.” Gender, Place & Culture 17 (5): 655–72.
Rosenberg, Rae, and Natalie Oswin. 2015. “Trans Embodiment in Carceral Space: Hypermasculinity and the US Prison Industrial Complex.” Gender, Place & Culture 22 (9): 1269–86.
Steinmetz, Katy. 2014. “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Time Magazine, May 29, 2014.
Trans and Gender-Expansive Geographies II
Description
Virtual Paper
Session starts at 4/10/2021 04:40 PM (Pacific Time (US & Canada))
Contact the Primary Organizer
Theodore Davenport - theodoresdavenport@gmail.com
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