The Transportation Research Symposium is being held from 25 to 28 May 2025 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. At this conference, the paper “Queer Mobilities: Emotional and Behavioural Patterns in Active Travel” is presented. The analysis of this study focuses on the emotions of queer people during their travels and how misogyny, lesbophobia, transphobia and racism permeate […]
On December 11th we will participate in the I Congrés de Doctorandes of the UB Chair in Gender and Feminism in the City of Cornellà, at Citilab Cornellà. We share our research on queer mobilities in Barcelona, focused on how LGBTIQ+ people move around the city on foot or by bicycle. Based on the interviews […]
On November 15th we present the results of Queer Mobility at the seminar “Present and future of cycling research in Barcelona”. This presentation focuses on the experience of LBTIQ+ women and non-binary people riding bicycles. The event is held at the ICTA building of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
The results of Queer Mobilities can now be downloaded. The publication summarises more than 22 hours of conversations with non-binary people and women from the LGTBIQ+ community about their experiences in the public space. According to their testimony, the participants instrumentalize a series of strategies to (in)visibilize their own dissident identities in order to find well-being. They also […]
We collaborate in issue 221 of Infogai magazine with the article “Our streets? The right to feel comfort when we walk” In this publication we reveal the emotional journey of women and non-binary people from the LGTBIQ+ community when walking through Barcelona’s streets. We emphasize that the queer participants can find relief in being invisible, […]
The exhibition of the results of Queer Mobilities, which can now be visited, explores the (in)visibility and emotions of queer people when they walk or cycle through the streets of Barcelona. The exposition combines the testimonies of the interviewees with their ReliefMaps. The exhibition can be visited at BiciHub (C/ de Pere IV, 58-60, Barcelona) […]
On September 3, we echo our findings on strategies of queer (in)visibility and care at the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference. We will participate at the session ‘Comfort and the city: towards a multiscalar and mobile approach of safe spaces and discomfort’. More information can be found in this link.
Next August 26th, we’ll be sharing insights from the interviews of Queer Mobilities at the upcoming 35th International Geographical Congress, set to take place in Dublin. The presentation is part of the series of talks entitled “Queer Spatialities”. Check the link for further information.
On May 29, we share the findings about the experience of queer people when they walk accompanied. The presentation will be part of the seminar ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Leisure: A multidisciplinary perspective’, which will be held at the University of Tokyo. In this presentation, we will focus on the experiences […]
Next April 17 we are presenting Queer Mobilities at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. This year, the conference will be held in Honolulu. Our presentation will be part of the session “Queer Inconveniences: Tensions in Sexualities and Gender Research, Politics and Communities”. Check the link for further information.
