Author Archives: GordonBrentBrochuIngram

From queer ecologies to queerer infrastructure: Research methods for new designs

Structure of the half-lecture 1. Below are a rough set of notes for  the half-lecture. The PDF version at the bottom of the notes has endnotes for further research. 2. In the first 15 minutes of the half-lecture, a few … Continue reading

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Reimagining Queer Infrastructure: Planning for ecologies of care (in a decolonizing world during multiple emergencies)

Brochu-Ingram. 2021. Reimagining Queer Infrastructure: Planning for ecologies of care (in a decolonizing world during multiple emergencies). Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. CRP3852 / CRP5852 / ARCH6408 Queer Space / Queering Space. powerpoint presentation: 2021 March 19 Brochu-Ingram … Continue reading

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Queer infrastructures: Design strategies that decolonize

Brochu-Ingram, Gordon Brent. 2020. Queer infrastructures: Design strategies that decolonize. November 6, 2020 zoom presentation for Queer Ecological Imaginations Working Group of the Townsend Center for the Humanities & the  University of California Berkeley  College of Environmental Design.  Gordon Brent … Continue reading

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Queering Urban Forests as Democratizing Public Space & Community (including LGBTQ2S) Infrastructure

  Brochu-Ingram. 2019. Queering Urban Forests as Democratizing Public Space & Community (including LGBTQ2S) Infrastructure. part of SESSION 3:Queering the Urban Forest: Heterotopias and Peripheral Spaces, RISING URBANISTS 2019: REFRAMING THE URBAN FOREST, ASLA CCNY / Spitzer School of Architecture, … Continue reading

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Queer Ecologies Roundtable in UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 19

Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram, Peter Hobbs and Catriona Sandilands. 2015. Roundtable. Part 1: From Queer/Natures to Queer Ecologies. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 19: 15-16 and Part 2: Examining Heteronormativity, Reprocentricity, and Ecology: 27-28; Part 3: Politics, Resistance, Alliances, and … Continue reading

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Ryan Thoreson on the Struggles, Achievements and Foibles of a Quarter Century of Transnational LGBT Activism

  Interviewed by Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram in April 2015   Modern LGBT organizations now go back more than sixty years with international solidarity work having linked communities for three decades. Yet there have been few public reflections on the many … Continue reading

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Building Queer Infrastructure: Trajectories of Activism and Organizational Development in Decolonizing Vancouver

 Fragment of a photograph taken on September 6, 2014 by an astronaut on the International Space Station: metropolitan Vancouver with all of its suburbs often referred to as “The Lower Mainland”   Fragment of a photograph taken on September 6, … Continue reading

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Review in press: Christina B. Hanhardt 2013 Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence

Review in press Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press) Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2013, $25.95). Pp. 376. isbn 978 0 8223 5470 3. Any … Continue reading

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Fragments, edges & matrices: Retheorizing the formation of a so-called Gay Ghetto through queering landscape ecology

2010. Fragments, edges & matrices: Retheorizing the formation of a so-called Gay Ghetto through queering landscape ecology. in Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics & Desire. Cate Sandilands and Bruce Erickson (eds.). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 254 – 282. QE … Continue reading

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