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Geography

What can trans experience teach us about space?

October 26, 2026

Dr. Eden Kinkaid will speak at the UVic Geography Lecture Series on November 27.

Entering a public restroom. Moving through airport security. Navigating a professional workplace. For many people these are routine moments, but for trans people they can raise urgent questions about space, embodiment, perception, power and violence.

In their talk, Dr. Eden Kinkaid draws on how trans people experience everyday life in the US to show that space is never neutral. It’s felt, negotiated and contested at the level of the body, shaping people’s capacities, safety and sense of self.

Weaving together philosophy, queer and trans studies, geography and personal narrative, Kinkaid develops an intersectional theory of space grounded in lived experience. The talk brings Henri Lefebvre’s foundational spatial theories together with critical phenomenologies of gender, race and disability to show how systems of oppression are built into the spaces we inhabit, and to imagine how we might get free of them.

Kinkaid (they/them) is a postdoctoral fellow in Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough and a 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Their work sits at the intersection of geography, gender studies and philosophy. They have served as an editor at you are here: the journal of creative geography and Gender, Place and Culture, and co-founded GEOZONe (The Geography Zine Organizing Network).

Queer Space & Trans Life: What Can Trans Experience Teach Us About Space?
📅 Friday, November 27, 2026
🕝 2:30 PM (refreshments at 2:00 PM)
📍 DTB B215

All are welcome.