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In this paper, I will explore some of the theoretical and empirical synchronicities in feminist and queer approaches to urban justice and transformation. These include commitments to sociospatial practices that challenge domination, indifference, normativity and binary thinking. They also include relentless visions for alternative and even utopian futures. In cities around the world, feminist and queer imaginations are manifesting commons, collectives, and creative commitments and approaches to care. In fact, they have done so throughout history. Albeit not without tension and contestation, these feminist and queer imaginations offer important lessons, antidotes, and spaces of respite as we grapple with and contest the violences and silences in the production and theorization of urban spaces.

Brenda Parker : Maîtresse de conférence et Directrice d'Etudes en urbanisme et politique urbaine à l'Université de l'Illinois à Chicago. Elle est l'autrice de Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee, University of Georgia Press, 2017.

Brenda Parker is an Associate Professor and Research Director at the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is the author of Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee, University of Georgia Press, 2017.