The Queer and Trans Geographies Specialty Group

Hi folks, 

A bit of late notice but myself and Jack Gieseking are co-hosting a roundtable with the ONE Archive TOMORROW at 7PM EST / 4PM EST.   

The panelists include the cartographers behind Queering the Map, Mapping the Gay Guides, Queer Terrains among others. A full description of the event is below and you can register here: 

usc.zoom.us/meeting/register/... 

If you can't make it, the event will be recorded and uploaded to YouTube for later viewing.  

Hope to see some of you there! 

Best, 

Jack ([log in to unmask])

Queering the Map 2.0: A Roundtable About Interactivity, Temporality, & Ambiguity in Queer Digital Maps  

In the thirteen years since Brown and Knopp's original article Queering the Map was published, interactive web maps have emerged as a key facet of navigating and documenting queer space, both historical and contemporarily. Over this same period, the spatiality of queerness has shifted dramatically: as gayborhoods declined in their size and importance, apps like Grindr, Tinder, HER, Scruff, and Lex (among many others) have reimagined how queer individuals build community. This same period has also seen a growing interest in the queer past and attempts to document and interpret this history often through interactive maps. In this roundtable, interactive maps and queer geodata are discussed by the creators of both historic and contemporary interactive queer maps, seeking to gain a better understanding the changes, challenges, and opportunities of this form of media.