The activist roots of safer spaces reveal an important tension between their political language and that of many of their critics. Where mainstream attacks on safer spaces repeat the liberal notion of free speech as a transcendental good, safe(r) spaces—particularly in the context of radical political organizing—often stem from the failures of such politics to account for structural inequality and protect against racialized and gendered violence.

In "The Biopoltics of Gender", Repo fully achieves this goal, retracing the emergence of gender theory and showing its centrality in mechanisms of contemporary biopolitical governmentality.

Our intervention engages with Queer People of Color (QpoC) positionalities as a valuable lens through which to rethink the racial and colonial imaginaries of subjects and space in Europe. We bring together race, gender, class, colonialism and sexuality, inseparably, in a shared analytic.

Dean Spade speaks to Natalie Oswin about critical trans politics and his new book, "Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law"

Schulman comprehends her community through a politics of place and of sexuality. In a brilliant reading of three of Schulman’s novels (1986a; 1990; 1995) through the lens of the historical imagination of Walter Benjamin, Diane Chisholm (2005) describes this intersection of place and sexuality as a lesbian bohemia.