LGBTQA Embodiment and Spatiality in Hamilton, Ontario: A Phenomenological Investigation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For queer individuals, social space can be a matter of negotiating between being seen or unseen by others, and this negotiation underpins one's ability to feel rooted or comfortable, as well as being capable of movement. In this paper, a spatial phenomenological approach to queer embodiment is employed that understands space as an intrinsically socio-material landscape whereby perceptions and embodiments of gender and sexuality facilitate mobility. Interviews were conducted with fourteen (14) individuals who self-identified as LGBTQA and were newcomers to Hamilton. The interviews were transcribed and then analyzed using a three-step Interpretive Phenomenological Approach (IPA). Four overlapping themes are highlighted: embodiment, nonphysical violence, visibility and invisibility, and disorientation. Together, these themes are used to discuss how LGBTQA individuals in Hamilton experience living space in highly complex and nuanced relationships with other embodied subjects. Diverging from traditional social constructionist and psychological approaches to queer geographies, our findings demonstrate the utility of revisiting phenomenological concepts to understand gender, romantic, and sexual minorities, and also corroborate the emerging research that demonstrates a significant interplay between gender, sexuality, and space.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".