Webinar 2 – The LGBQTI experiences of public places in the urban-rural continuum

Speakers:
Gilly Hartal – senior lecturer in the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University.
Gilly’s research and teaching interests include geographies of sexualities and gender, queer theory, qualitative methodologies and specifically the production of spatial belonging through discourses of inclusion and exclusion along national, ethnic, gendered, class and sexual trajectories. She has published in journals such as Urban Studies (2018, 2020); Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2019); the Journal of Homosexuality (2018); Social and Cultural Geography (2017, 2020); Gender, Place & Culture (2016); Sexualities (2016); ACME (2016) and more. In April 2018, along with Adi Moreno, Gilly co-founded the LGBT/queer research community in the Israeli Sociological Society. Her current research focuses on lesbian, bisexual and transgender women’s political subjectivity is the Israeli periphery.

Signe Bremer Gagnesjö – PhD in ethnology, Researcher in gender studies at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University.
Signe´s background is in ethnographic research on trans experiences of urban spaces and gender-affirming health care. The dissertation “Body Lines” (2011) concerns trans experiences of Swedish gender-affirming health care. Recent research concerns transactivism in the 1960s and how trans people created space for activism within the framework of pornographic press.

Maria Tillquist – Case Worker at RFSL Support Service, part of the The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Rights.
Maria has a bachelor in Social Work and a long experience working for RFSL as Case Worker for LGBTQI people who experience violence and abuse. She is specialized in counselling for victims of hate crime, intimate partner violence, honour-related violence and sexual violence.