Acknowledgments

I want to recognize the spaces and relations from which this book has emerged. My romance with phenomenology and queer space was activated and cultivated in various seminars, including Patty Stokes’s Politics of Gendered Bodies; Lise Nelson’s Space, Place, and Power; Jonathan Eburne’s Experimental Forms; Sandy Soto’s Feminist Theories; Ted Toadvine’s seminar on Maurice Merleau-Ponty; and independent study with Hil Malatino. The concepts and arguments of the book emerge equally from the queer spaces named and unnamed in its pages—most notably Tucson’s Splinter Collective. Thanks to all of my colleagues in the Feminist Geography Writing Group for holding space as fellow travelers, writers, and friends as I composed this project. Thanks to readers for their feedback, including Lisa Guenther, Lauren Guilmette, Wiley Sharp, Perry Zurn, Kelsey Emard, Lindsay Naylor, and Caroline Tracey. Special shoutout to my brother and fellow phenomenologist James Kinkaid, who readily avails himself through our 1-800-PHENOMENOLOGY helpline to answer my questions and review my work. Thanks also to LaToya Eaves, Keith Woodward, Andrew Curley, Zoë Meletis, Alida Cantor, Roberta Hawkins, Cordelia Freeman, and Simran Tapaswi, who made space for the in-progress book in their classrooms and seminar series (and thanks to those will do so after publication!). Thanks to editor Jason Weidemann for planting a seed for this project and inviting me to submit a manuscript and to Leah Pennywark for guiding me through the process. And of course to my many friends who have supported the project. In particular, Maximilian Hepach and Kirsten Simonsen, who have taught me much about phenomenology and geography; Dugan Meyer, a critically curious ally and accomplice; Marlan S., who is always down to plumb the depths of gendered embodiment and its perils; Sara Cavallo, who has been encouraging me for years to write a “tiny book”; and Sam Wright for showing me the transformative power of gendered recognition.