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Sloan Morgan, Onyx; Zand Dizari, Nassim

Human Geography has long analyzed how sexuality and gender are co-constituted in space, place, and over time. Over the last three decades and with the advancement of poststructuralist critiques in geography, queer, feminist, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and critical race theories alongside queer theory have pushed Geography’s preoccupation with sexuality beyond the homo/heterosexual divide to instead consider how geographies are queer(ed). Despite the proliferation of queer geographies in recent years, no handbook or dictionary exists that defines key terms and their use in relation queer geographies. In Winter 2025, UBC Okanagan’s ‘Queer Geographies’ class (GEOG/GWST 426) set out to create a handbook that can guide current and future queer geographers on the evolution and understanding of key terms. Having built a foundational for how queer geographies have emerged, we have approached this exercise to foreground key themes that focus on systemic, normative, and material concepts that are often profiled by 2SLGBTQ+ geographers and queer scholars of colour. This handbook is a direct result from these exercises and, we hope, the first version of a living and evolving document that shares key topics in queer geographies!

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University of British Columbia. GEOG_O 426; University of British Columbia. GWST_O 426

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448326

Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan); Community, Culture and Global Studies, Department of (Okanagan)

Faculty; Graduate; Undergraduate

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