Queer Geographies Postgraduate Reading Group

Join us on Wednesday 24th April (3pm UK time) for our next session! This month we're reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs' 'Undrowned: Black feminist lessons from marine mammals' (2020)🐳 Get in touch via email for zoom links/updates QueerGeographiesPGR@gmail.com

Our next session is on Wednesday March 27th (3pm UK-time) This time it's an open discussion on 'queer space' - what the heck is it? Bring along a reading that has inspired or informed your thinking on queer geographies. 📸Alien Sex Club - John Walter (2018)

Will we avert geography's 'trans failure?' Check out my new commentary on @theAAG website. It will help you understand the incredible obstacles geography faces in supporting & retaining trans geographers. Please read & share w your departments & networks. bit.ly/3P84HHp

Join us today! 28th February 3-4:30pm UK time. We will read: H. Howitt, 'How we fuck: assembling intimacy-as-method to research trans sex practices'. Alison L. Bain and Catherine J. Nash, 'Undressing the researcher: feminism, embodiment and sexuality at a queer bathhouse event'.

@ShadyEuroFreak !!! 👆

I’m currently stranded in Glasgow bc of Isha 🌧️ but my first thought is how Eurovision fans form attachments to songs, artists, nations, and also dis-attachments to these concepts and the meanings they embody and produce.

We are thrilled to announce the 2nd International Trans Studies Conference! This hybrid conference will be held both in-person at Northwestern University and online September 4–7, 2024. Learn more and submit an abstract (deadline: March 15) at transstudiesconference.org

Call for Papers! Join us for the 5th International Conference on Night Studies #ICNSLX5, focusing on LGBTQI+ Nighttime Spaces.🏳️‍🌈 Take a look at our extended CFP for more topics and themes. 🗓️ Deadline: June 30, 2024 🔗icnslx.com #NightStudies

Join us on Weds 31st January 15:00 UK-time for our next reading group. We'll be discussing @BenAndersonGeog (2023)'s article, which thinks about attachment and a 'cultural geography of promises'. To join our mailing list/access ZOOM info, e-mail queergeographiespgr@gmail.com

Join us for our next reading group: This Wednesday 20th December 3-4:30pm UK! We'll be reading: Sara Ahmed's (@SaraNAhmed) "A phenomenology of whiteness:" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… To join the lecture and our mailing list, email: queergeographiespgr@gmail.com

Our friends at the Queer Space Working Group have a brilliant 'Beyond the Anglosphere' roundtable event this week. More details can be found on their Instagram: instagram.com/queerspacework…

New and emerging scholars in feminist geography, please apply for our 2024 award! Deadline: Jan 31 2024 genderplaceandculture.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/gen…

Do you write about #PrideEvents? If yes, why not submit a paper for the panel 'The Changing Face of Pride Events: Movements, Activism, Histories' that @kslootmaeckers and I are proposing for #ECPG2024? Access the #CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1Oc…

🌈 A Call for Papers 🌈 Submit your abstracts on 'Queer Safety' by January 1st Masters, PhD students and Early career academics welcome!

Congratulations! So nice to see a collective enthusiasm for reading groups, and a recognition of their potential for field/community building.

"Can we imagine spaces that provide care and support [for all] without demanding labour and exposure from some?"

Francisco encourages us to think about visibility formations and practices across/between different spaces. Argues we tend to think of visibility as happening only in particular places such as the workplace or the political sphere, yet we inhabit multiple places all the time.

Thank you so much again to @franciscofernz from @TransStudies for this important and engaging lecture on conditions of trans and disabled visibility. We're so lucky to have you in our reading group.