Gender Variant Geographies. My current project on trans and non-normative gender geographies includes interviews with trans and gender variant people, as well as people who identify as intersex. The aim of this research is to understand of the relationship between gender diverse identities, place and power using a geographical framework.
Queer Sporting Places: I have conducted research on Gay Sky Week and Proud to Play. Both projects involved empirical data collection (in Queenstown and Auckland). The research projects explores how and in what ways queer sporting places are constructed, imagined and experienced as a unique sites of tourism and leisure in Aotearoa.
Emotional Geographies and Queer Politics of Place. For nearly two decades I have maintained a research interest in the politics of gay pride, activism, and feelings of in and/or out of place. Theoretically, I use an emotional geographical framework – more broadly - to understand: lesbians and homes in Townsville, Australia (with Gordon Waitt); food, migrant women and feelings of belonging in Hamilton (with Robyn Longhurst); and geographies of love (with Carey-Ann Morrison and Robyn Longhurst).
