Transgender experience and the question of space

What theory of space emerges from transgender experience?

In this webinar, as part of the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) online seminar series, Dr Eden Kinkaid develops a critical phenomenology of space, starting from trans experience.

While the focus is on transgender experiences of space, Kinkaid sketches a broader, intersectional theory of space that begins from the lifeworlds of variously minoritized subjects, building on the work of scholars of race, gender, sexuality, and disability.

Drawing this scholarship together with the spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Kinkaid explores the implications of this theory of space for transgender being-in-the-world and looks to transgender experience as an opportunity to imagine and enact space otherwise.

About the speaker

Dr Eden Kinkaid (they/them) works at the intersection of geography, gender studies, and philosophy. Their research and writing focus on themes of embodiment, epistemology, space, and queer/trans experience, through the lens of phenomenology and poststructural theories of subjectivity and space.

Eden’s creative practice experiments with themes of trans embodiment, queer space, and epistemology. Eden has served as editor of various academic journals and is a co-founder and operator of GEOZONe (The Geography Zine Organizing Network).

Check out their website, or find them on BlueSky and Instagram.

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