Queer Space: Want to Know More?

Zinzile Ncube, Saivaishnavi Rathakrishna, Stephanie Sushko

“A Brief History Lesson in Queer Theatre.”  Stratford East, https://www.stratfordeast.com/news/here-and-queer-a-brief-history-lesson-in-queer-theatre

This article highlights the strides theatre has taken from being a place of censorship and repression, to one of expression and liberation. It helps to remind us that spaces are not inherently positive or negative, but are made that way.

 

Festival of New Work. “Staging Queer Acts: Theatre, Space-Making and Narratives of Joy.” YouTube, uploaded by Curriculum and Canon, 26 May 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipSm9n2DeQ.

This video provides a wide-ranging overview of queer theatre making. Featuring a variety of queer voices, discussion focuses on theatre as a space for sharing and diversifying queer narratives.

Velasco, Sherry. “Surveilling Gender through Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Spanish-Algerian Spaces.” Letras Femeninas, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter-Spring 2016-2017, pp. 63-73.

Velasco explains the role of gendered architecture in Spanish Algiers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She demonstrates how the same structures could be both oppressive and freeing.

“What Is Queer Space?” Metropolis, 21 Sept. 2022, https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/what-is-queer-space-2/.

This article provides a definition of “queer space” along with helpful links to other previously published articles relating to this concept. It also lists multiple examples of architectural projects engaged in creating queer space.

 

“Queering the Map.” Queering The Map, https://www.queeringthemap.com/.

An interactive world map marking sites of queer activity and history. This site is a grassroots initiative interested in creating an archive of queer life.