Today we will be discussing the experience of risk, and disaster impacts by LGBTQI communities, who are often rendered invisible by those in power. The wonderful Darien Alexander Williams (MIT) joins us for this important conversation!

In keeping with the theme of Season 2, we also talk about the role of narrative/stories in the marginalization of LGBTQI people, and how we can do better. 

  

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Further information:

An essay of Darien's that we enjoyed a lot - The Folly of Climate Change Philanthropy

 

Some of the literature discussed in the episode:

Jacobs, F. (2019). Black feminism and radical planning: New directions for disaster planning research. Planning Theory, 18(1), 24-39.

Goh, K. (2018). Safe cities and queer spaces: the urban politics of radical LGBT activism. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2), 463-477.

Smart, M. J., & Whittemore, A. H. (2017). There goes the gaybourhood? Dispersion and clustering in a gay and lesbian real estate market in Dallas TX, 1986–2012. Urban Studies, 54(3), 600-615.

Dominey-Howes, D., Gorman-Murray, A., & McKinnon, S. (2014). Queering disasters: On the need to account for LGBTI experiences in natural disaster contexts. Gender, Place & Culture, 21(7), 905-918.

Gorman-Murray, A., McKinnon, S., & Dominey-Howes, D. (2014). Queer domicide: LGBT displacement and home loss in natural disaster impact, response, and recovery. Home Cultures, 11(2), 237-261.

Hager, L. T. (2015). United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. The Oral History Review, 42(1), 134-138.

 

Our guests:

Darien Alexander Williams (@nigreaux)

 

Music this week from "Spring Rain Blues" by Kaleido Sea.