Queer domicidal blueprints with Chan Arun-Pina

Student housing is a space that many people live 'through', but what structures this living, its gender and sexual possibility? In our discussion, Dr. Chan Arun-Pina problematises how student housing is conceptualised, as it figures a temporary and transitory form of accommodation that constrains experimentation, transformation and senses of permanence. Chan's chapter discusses the cisheteronormativity of housing and its norms and draws from their research into queer senses of home and 'domicide' in India. This research analyses the violence and trauma that can be associated with queer and trans relations to home and the security it (is supposed to) afford dwellers. Chan also shares their unique visual approach to 'blueprinting' socio-spatial research through their multiple roles as an artist, architect and academic. Listen to find out more if you're interested built spaces and the lives they mediate or render impossible.

Shownotes:
- “Rethinking domicide: Towards an expanded critical geography of home”, in Geography Compass (Mel Nowicki, 2014)    
- Domicide: The global destruction of home (Porteus & Smith, 2011)
- The Production of Space (Henri Lefebvre, 1974)
- “Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment” in Studies in Gender and Sexuality (Chris Straayer, 2020)

Podcast e-mail: spaceandsexuality@proton.me

Podcast visuals by Chan Arun-Pina (theworkroomofchan)

Podcast intro and outro based on 'Peridot' - Gunnar Olsen [CC]