Published June 28, 2024 | Version v1 | https://doi.org/10.12794/metadc2332642

Queering Space and Time: Urban Radical Faerie Placemaking in North Central Texas

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Radical faeries in the city must contend with changing urban policies, social shame and stigma, policing, inaccessibility, materiality, and economic survival; in the face of these discontents, urban faeries still actively choose the city as their identity and as their home. Through placemaking practices which access the imaginative and experimental spatiality and temporality of queer sacredness, this thesis testifies urban radical faeries transform dimensionally discrete spaces within the city to thrive. By delving into the lived experiences and sexo-socio-spiritual placemaking of the radical faeries of Austin and Dallas, this project maps the spatiality of collective faerie utopian imaginaries, generating constellations of ephemeral sacred spaces and their residual effects on the built environment. Further, the recent pandemic saw the first temporary closing of sanctuary land since faeriedom's inception, and these creative placemaking strategies were further adapted to maintain community and identity during the COVID-19 pandemic through the collapse of spatial and temporal distance in accessing the virtual sacred. Understanding how faerie culture is maintained within the city, across space and time, the mundane and profane, the physical and digital, can provide insight and best practices to support urban faerie communities into the future.

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2024-06-28T16:53:40Z

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