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Simran Tapaswi
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Trans feminist philosopher. Research interests: gendered embodiment, sexual violence, gender dysphoria
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Especially delighted to host Eden Kincaid @queergeog.bsky.social to talk about "Institutional Worlds: A Queer Phenomenology of Academic Spaces"!
Institutional Worlds: A Queer Phenomenology of Academic Spaces What does it mean to be queer in relation to an institution, or queered by institutional logics? In this talk, I explore this question through my experience inhabiting my professional space – the US academy. Beginning from experiences of disorientation and misfit, I develop a phenomenological analysis of these institutional spaces and their embodied norms. Drawing together critical phenomenology and insights from critical university studies, I examine how the US academy, as an institution, is productive of particular spaces and subjectivities and how it enforces racialized, gendered, and sexualized norms. I experiment with a “phenomenology of institutional language” (Lajoie 2022, 320) and a practice of “writing against the institution” as a means of dismantling the oppressive logics of institutions and their spaces. Biographical Statement Dr. Eden Kinkaid (they/them) works at the intersection of geography, gender studies, and philosophy. Their research and writing focus on themes of embodiment, epistemology, space, and queer/trans experience, through the lens of phenomenology and poststructural theories of subjectivity and space. Eden’s creative practice experiments with themes of trans embodiment, queer space, and epistemology. Eden has served as editor of various academic journals and is a co-founder and operator of GEOZONe (The Geography Zine Organizing Network). Check out their website or find them online @queergeog (Bluesky and Instagram).
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM