Space & Sexuality

Recent episodes

1. Queer-trans ecologies in fieldwork with Cleo Wölfle Hazard from Space & Sexuality

   Jul 22, 2026

   How do you notice the world around you? And how reciprocally can you live with it? In this episode, CWH discusses "queer and trans ecologies", which describe ways of being with non-human species and environmental processes that relate to non-normative embodiment and critical, reparative politics. Cleo reflects on being in dialogue with species and elements that do not use language, as well as what queer and trans geographic practice can look like in and beyond academia. Shownotes: - Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice (Wölfle Hazard, 2022) - “Queer Ecology: Nature, Sexuality, and Heterotopic Alliances” in Environment and Planning D: Society & Space (Matthew Gandy, 2012) - “Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research” in Progress in Human Geography (Sage Brice, 2023) - The Gold Fish Casino dir. Sarolta Jane Vay colour, HD video, 33 mins. (2017) - The Gold Fish, or, Straight Flushes for the Manifestly Destined (Hazard, 2012); The Gold Fish, or, Straight Flushes for the Manifestly Destined, Directed by Ezra Nepon, CounterPULSE, San Francisco, 7/12/12. - Beachcombing with Barad (not published) Podcast e-mail: spaceandsexuality@proton.me Podcast visuals by Chan Arun-Pina (theworkroomofchan) Podcast intro and outro based on 'Peridot' - Gunnar Olsen [CC]

2. Creating spaces of and for difference in Amsterdam with Avery Franken from Space & Sexuality

   Jul 8, 2026

   Amsterdam is one of the world's "gay capitals", but how does queer life take place there? Like other large cities, Amsterdam features a variety of spaces for LGBTQ+ people, each with its own set of norms, socio-economic priorities, imagined client groups and distinct feels. In this episode, Avery Franken shares her Masters' research project which considers the variety of place-making work undertaken across the city, and the inclusions and exclusions this produces. Avery shares ethnographic detail about Amsterdam's queer scene and its POC-led spaces, which may sometimes be overlooked by thinkers and visitors from abroad. Listen to find out more. Shownotes: - De Sering, Amsterdam https://desering.org/ - Bar Barrio - FLINTA (Female, Lesbian, Intergender, Non-binary, Trans and Agender people) - Rhythms of Love Research Project https://rhythms-of-love.com/ Podcast e-mail: spaceandsexuality@proton.me Podcast visuals by Chan Arun-Pina (theworkroomofchan) Podcast intro and outro based on 'Peridot' - Gunnar Olsen [CC]

3. Queer geographies in French translation with Karine Duplan from Space & Sexuality

   Jun 24, 2026

   Academia has a language problem, and the geographies of sexualities are no exception. Whilst the field, at least from my vantage point, is dominated by English scholarship, many worthwhile ideas, concepts and approaches are written and shared through other languages. In this episode Dr. Karin Duplan from the University of Geneva reflects on how she has worked to bridge Francophone geographies of sexualities literatures with other global scholarship. We also discuss her work on inclusive cities, where she considers what makes a city a queer city. Shownotes: - Tiran Willemse (dancer, choreographer and researcher) - French geographies of sexualities - European Geographies of Sexualities Conference - Queer(s) in Exile: a sensory ethnography for spatial justice (Project) https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/221128 Podcast e-mail: spaceandsexuality@proton.me Podcast visuals by Chan Arun-Pina (theworkroomofchan) Podcast intro and outro based on 'Peridot' - Gunnar Olsen [CC]

4. Queer geographies beyond the closet with Ale Boussalem from Space & Sexuality

   Jun 24, 2026

   The metaphor of the closet is perhaps one of the strongest narrations of queer life. The Gay Liberation Front famously commanded queers to come "out of the closets and into the streets". But what are the limitations of closet-thinking? Who does it include and exclude in its imaginaries? And what is the geography of the closet? In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Ale Boussalem from the University of St. Andrews, who shares his research on the racialisations and spatialiations of the closet. Shownotes: - Epistemology of the Closet (Eve K. Sedgwick, 1990) - “A place where there is no need to explain: LGBTQ Muslims, collective disidentification and queer space in Brussels, Belgium”, in Social & Cultural Geography (Ale Boussalem, 2023) - “In, out, or somewhere else entirely: going beyond binary constructions of the closet in the lives of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Brussels”, in Transactions IBG (Boussalem, 2021) - “When the spotlight is always on the neighborhood: LGBTQ people from a Muslim background deconstructing imagined borders in Brussels, Belgium” in Sexualities (Boussalem, 2023) Podcast e-mail: spaceandsexuality@proton.me Podcast visuals by Chan Arun-Pina (theworkroomofchan) Podcast intro and outro based on 'Peridot' - Gunnar Olsen [CC]