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From cruising spots to camp grounds, from national landmarks to local sites of protest, an array of physical spaces are at the fabric of queer and trans life. Place and our ongoing relationship to it is a powerful way in which we come to know ourselves and become known to others: it impacts decisions on whether to be out or in the closet, sometimes both figuratively and literally. This generative, multi-genre workshop will look at how the theme of place offers fruitful opportunities to engage with themes of identity and social justice, challenge fraught assumptions about where queer and trans life thrives, as well as conceptualize affirming futures. We’ll consider how to render the settings where we feel most authentically ourselves and craft work that interrogates the idea that setting is meant only for description: rather, it is an inexorable part of who we are. We will examine work by Natalie Diaz, Danez Smith, Stacy Jane Grover, Shelley Wong, and Canese Jarboe.

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• In-Class Writing Lift: Medium

• Homework: None

• Workshopping Drafts: None