Space & Sexuality

by Joe Jukes

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.

Latest episodes

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Filmic geographies and queer screen cultures with Helen Hok-Sze Leung

What are the geographies of film? Helen Leung joins the podcast to discuss how films are integral to place-making in both material and aesthetic senses. Whilst geography

Sep 30
58 min

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

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

Sep 16
41 min

(Dis)placing Pride, and queer/trans migrant critique with Derek Ruez

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 c

Sep 2
35 min

Queer suburban place-making, unmaking and remaking with Alison Bain and Julie Podmore

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

Aug 19
58 min

Queer domicidal blueprints with Chan Arun-Pina

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 prob

Aug 5
53 min

Queer-trans ecologies in fieldwork with Cleo Wölfle Hazard

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 bein

Jul 22
45 min

Creating spaces of and for difference in Amsterdam with Avery Franken

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+ peopl

Jul 8
43 min

Queer geographies in French translation with Karine Duplan

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 scholarshi

Jun 24
39 min

Queer geographies beyond the closet with Ale Boussalem

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 in

Jun 24
46 min