Space & Sexuality

Space & Sexuality

Welcome to Space & Sexuality, a new podcast series that brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field of queer geographies to explore cutting-edge research at the intersections of spatiality, sexuality, and subjectivity. Grounded in the fields of geographies of sex and sexualities and trans geographies, in each episode Dr Joe Jukes pursues critical inquiry, reflection, and intellectual exchange with scholars from around the world. Series 1 features conversations with the editors and contributing authors of Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives (Bain, Podmore, and Arun-Pina, 2025). While discussions engage with academic ideas, they are also shaped by a warm, conversational tone that reflects the collaborative and socially-networked aspects of critical and interdisciplinary academic work. By combining rigorous scholarship with accessible conversation, Space & Sexuality aims to foster global connections among researchers while opening up vital debates to wider audiences.

Episodes

LGBTQ+ friendship, spatial commitments and rural England with Joe Jukes

September 15, 2026 • 41 mins
We get by with a little help from our friends, and for LGBTQ+ people, sometimes our friendships are what sustain us. In this episode I (Joe Jukes) reflect on the chapter "LGBTQ+ friendship and spatial commitments: queer socialities in the making of a new rural" (2025) to explore why a queer friendship is not the same as a "chosen family", as soothing as that phrase may be. I also talk about my home region, the West Country in South...
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(Dis)placing Pride, and queer/trans migrant critique with Derek Ruez

September 1, 2026 • 35 mins
Derek Ruez joins the show to talk about tensions and politics within the rainbow. Whilst Pride is a moment where many communities under the LGBTQ+ come together to make collective demands, it is also a space where multiple tensions emerge and conflicting politics are enacted. Derek shares his research into the multiple Pride-spaces of Copenhagen, in which the politics of migration and racialisation affect LGBTQ+ mobilisations acros...
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Queer suburban place-making, unmaking and remaking with Alison Bain and Julie Podmore

August 18, 2026 • 58 mins
What is LGBTQ+ life like in the suburbs? Some would argue it isn't very vibrant, if it is there at all. Alison Bain and Julie Podmore join the podcast this week to share how that argument doesn't hold for Canadian metropolitan suburbs. Their book "Queerburbia" presents research findings from 10 municipalities across Canada and in this episode they outline some of its key contributions. Speaking about the "queerburban", Alison and J...
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Queer domicidal blueprints with Chan Arun-Pina

August 4, 2026 • 53 mins
Student housing is a space that many people live 'through', but what structures this living, its gender and sexual possibility? In our discussion, Dr. Chan Arun-Pina problematises how student housing is conceptualised, as it figures a temporary and transitory form of accommodation that constrains experimentation, transformation and senses of permanence. Chan's chapter discusses the cisheteronormativity of housing and its norms and ...
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Queer-trans ecologies in fieldwork with Cleo Wölfle Hazard

July 21, 2026 • 45 mins
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 practic...
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Creating spaces of and for difference in Amsterdam with Avery Franken

July 8, 2026 • 43 mins
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 inclusi...
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Queer geographies in French translation with Karine Duplan

June 24, 2026 • 39 mins
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 g...
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Queer geographies beyond the closet with Ale Boussalem

June 24, 2026 • 46 mins
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 resear...
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