Day Two: Gender, Sexuality, Urban Spaces at MIT
We’re back for a jam-packed Day 2 of the Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces conference, put on by the Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies in the Boston-metro area. Over 250 people registered for...
View ArticlePanel Session: Empowerment Architecture
This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA....
View ArticlePanel Session: Building Community Through Trust, Shelter, and Thread
This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA....
View ArticlePanel Session: Politics, Class, and Identity in the Queered City
This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA....
View ArticlePoster Session: Highlights
These images were taken by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser, at the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies Conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA. Conference...
View ArticleClosing Keynote Panel: Making It Real – Bridging Theory and Practice
This is a live blog entry by resident pluralist, Sarah Nusser. The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA....
View ArticleClosing Keynote Panel: Video Addendum
The panel is part of the 2011 Graduate Consortium of Women’s Studies conference on Gender, Sexuality, and Urban Spaces in Cambridge, MA. As promised in the preceding post, here is video of Karen Tei...
View ArticleThe Geography of HUD’s LGBT Fair Housing Proposal
Comments were due March 25 on HUD’s proposed LGBT fair housing rule, entitled, “Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs – Regardless of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity.” While we wait for...
View ArticleWhy Urban Planners Don’t Know Much About Queer People, Why They Should and...
“Take away, for the moment, the identifiable markers of the gay and lesbian experience, and imagine a social protest movement that, throughout the twentieth century, has created an independent urban...
View ArticlePlace Gets Personal: The Conversations of Planners and Artists on the Power...
This is a new type of entry, which we call Conversations. Each month, we will choose an article from another source, send it out to a group of people, and post the conversation that results. If you...
View ArticleQueer Planning Literature: The Short List
A few weeks ago, a friend asked me for a list of articles on “queer planning” to integrate into his artwork. I slapped something together and thought it worth sharing here. This isn’t a complete...
View ArticleWho We’re Listening To…Caesar McDowell and the Intelligent, Equitable City
Not too long ago, at a forum sponsored by the National Building Museum, the Rockefeller Foundation, and IBM on “Intelligent Cities,” Caesar McDowell delivered a presentation touching on three projected...
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