Rae Rosenberg

Rae Rosenberg is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ2+ people. His writing is published in journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Urban Studies, and Urban Geography.

Rae's research interests include:

• Trans, queer, and feminist geographies and studies
• Critical race geographies and studies
• Settler-colonialism
• Queer of colour critique
• Everyday resistance
• Virtual/digital spaces
• Geographies of gaming
• Embodiment.

Rae's research outputs include:

• Awcock, H., and Rosenberg, R. D. (2024). Palimpsests of trans rights: Trans-positive stickers and the contestations of transphobia in public space. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 28(3), 486-503.
• Rosenberg, R. D. (2023). On surviving a cis discipline. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(4), 600-605.
• Rosenberg, R. D. (2023). Geographies of hegemonic gay masculinity: Interplays of trans and racialized in/exclusions in the gay village of Toronto. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(9), 2219-2236.
• Rosenberg, R. D. (2021). Psychic geographies of queer multiculturalism: Reading Fanon, settler colonialism, and race in queer space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
• Rosenberg, R. D. (2021). Negotiating racialized (un)belonging: Black LGBTQ resistance in Toronto’s gay village. Urban Studies, 58(7), 1397-1413.
• Rosenberg, R. D. (2017). The whiteness of gay urban belonging: Criminalizing LGBTQ youth of color in queer spaces of care. Urban Geography, 38(1), 137-148.