1st Edition
Queer Sites in Global Contexts Technologies, Spaces, and Otherness
Introduction
Regner Ramos and Sharif Mowlabocus
1. San Juan Queer: Mobile Apps, Urban Spaces, and LGBTQ Identities
Regner Ramos
2. A Kindr Grindr: Moderating Race(ism) in Techno-Spaces of Desire
Sharif Mowlabocus
3. Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin
Ged Ribas-Goody
4. Fluid Territories: Intersectional Subjectivities Through Hereditary and Digital Spaces
Mabia Camargo and Eduardo Martins
5. Queer Infrastructures: LGBTQ+ Networks and Urban Governance in Global London
Ben Campkin
6. Digital Dogma: Relating the Manifestations of Religion Online to the Practices and Experiences of Arab MSMs
Khaliden Alsaleh
7. The Carceral Feminism of SESTA-FOSTA: Reproducing Spaces of Exclusion from IRL to URL
Jody Liu
8. Queering The Map: On Designing Digital Queer Space
Lucas LaRochelle
9. Transformismo: A Spatial, Cultural, and Racial Intervention in Chicago’s Queer and Latinx Communities
Liliana Macias
10. Communicating ‘Race’ in A Digitized Gay China
Tianyang Oscar Zhou
11. The Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond: Instrumentalizing Spatial Imaginaries in the ‘Trans Debate’ in Britain
Lo Marshall
12. Hear, Here: Preserving and Sharing the History of Queer Stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin
Ariel Beaujot and Víctor M. Macías-González
Biography
Regner Ramos is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. His research on the relationship between queerness and space is informed by experimental research methods, shifting between model-making, drawing, and performative writing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of informa journal and the architecture Editor at Glass magazine, and Co-Director of Wet Hard Agency. His current research project, “Cürtopia: Queer Maps for Puerto Rico”, is funded by FIPI.
Sharif Mowlabocus is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Gaydar Culture (2010) and his forthcoming book, Interrogating Homonormativity, explores the British gay male culture in the ‘post-equalities’ era.
