Hi everybody, this is Gatsad. I was sitting working on my latest book and in doing some

searches, I came up with a term and concept that you've heard me discuss before, but it's one that

you really can't get enough of. And so I did some more searches and I thought to continue the

tradition of me reading you some of these

great works of from academia this is a wonderful piece of work actually from a person at

McGill University one of my alma maters it's published in uh let's see the journal Journal of Architectural Education.

Okay.

The title is, home is the place we all share, building queer collective utopias.

So this is part of the field of queer architecture.

It's the gentleman's name is Olivier.

I'm thinking he's a gentleman, but you know, he may be non-binary or two-spirit.

We don't know.

But the person's name, they's name, their's name is Olivier Valorant from McGill.

So here we go.

This is the abstract andant from Miguel. So here we go. This is the abstract, and then I'll read more later.

I'll continue reading.

In the early 1990s, feminist challenges

to mainstream architectural discourses

were taken up by queer space theorists, who broadened the focus

from understanding how space is gendered and sexualized to suggest new ways of inhabiting space.

In the last decade, a new generation exemplified by artists Elm Green and Daxet's transformation of

architectural spaces further pushed the challenges, offering a communitarian ideal that puts aside

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