I was deeply honoured to stand alongside the wonderful Jack Gieseking and Rae Rosenberg in both naming geography’s trans exclusions and issuing the necessary call for a radical trans imagination in geography.

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Thank you Natalie Oswin, Kate Derickson and Camilla Hawthorn for convening this plenary lecture and for your editorial guidance, insight, and solidarity.

My discussant commentary has now been published (free to access) in essay format alongside Rae Rosenberg’s and Jack Gieseking’s lecture (forthcoming) in the journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

The essay is about geography’s need for kindness and solidarity. Trans exclusions cannot be addressed in isolation because trans liberation is not separable from other struggles for justice and for fair working conditions (UCU gets a mention! and so does trans joy)

The essay also contains the seeds of a second argument: that geography not only is failing its trans constituents but is missing out on what trans perspectives and sensibilities offer. The task of developing a concept of space adequate to the diversity of trans experience requires a concept of space that preferences neither individual bodies nor societal structures as the principal site of meaning, but situates meaning instead in the space of ongoing, transformative, and mutually constitutive encounter.

This is the work that the trans radical imagination is doing each day, and it’s work that geography needs done!