Publication: Dyked New York chapter in The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
I’m thrilled my new chapter, “Dyked New York: The Space between Geographical Imagination and Materialization of Lesbian–Queer Bars and Neighbourhoods,” is out in Kath Browne and Gavin Brown’s new The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. The chapter is the third in the fourth set of chapters and articles I’ve been writing about lesbian-queer and lgbtq neighborhoods, along with two book reviews I’ll be posting shortly on Ghaziani and Hanhardt’s lgbtq neighborhood books in Gender, Place and Culture. To be honest, writing about neighborhoods in and out of themselves drives me batty because it feels like an oversimplified notion to claim the existence of this absolute space that is, at best, always contested and contingent, partial and fleeting. But!, writing about gentrification and financialization thrill me because I am writing about processes of urban political economies as they are far from stagnant and help me …