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Glimpses of everyday resistance : Understanding the "queer" in Swedish queer housing collectives

Dole, Joséphine Isabelle Andrée Marie LU (2025) SIMZ21 20251
Graduate School
Abstract
Queer housing collectives in Sweden are places of living that are generally designed to encompass shared values regarding community building and notions of care and support through providing a safe space.
Through semi-structured interviews and queer theory, this study analyzes what queerness produces in those collectives through subtle everyday embodiments of queerness by its residents. It highlights the experience of queer women, trans, and non-binary people.
Emerges from this study daily and spontaneous practices that contribute to reimagining worlds for queer people to thrive, addressing rejections of individualism.
More than that, queer collectives are understood as loci for residents to blur the lines between roommates, friends,... (More)
Queer housing collectives in Sweden are places of living that are generally designed to encompass shared values regarding community building and notions of care and support through providing a safe space.
Through semi-structured interviews and queer theory, this study analyzes what queerness produces in those collectives through subtle everyday embodiments of queerness by its residents. It highlights the experience of queer women, trans, and non-binary people.
Emerges from this study daily and spontaneous practices that contribute to reimagining worlds for queer people to thrive, addressing rejections of individualism.
More than that, queer collectives are understood as loci for residents to blur the lines between roommates, friends, and family, rejecting heteronormative and institutional frameworks.
Finally, the study concludes that queer collectives foster feelings of belonging, safety, and hope that allow queer women, trans, and non-binary people to reimagine their futures.
The results provide insight into queer collectives as spaces where resistance to heteronormativity and individualism can emerge in subtle ways. Residents of queer collectives can reimagine alternative models of kinship that do not rely on blood or marriage ties, thereby resisting heteronormative notions of adulthood. (Less)
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author
Dole, Joséphine Isabelle Andrée Marie LU
supervisor
organization
course
SIMZ21 20251
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
queer collectives, queer worldmaking, heteronormativity, queer kinship, utopia
language
English
id
9209806
date added to LUP
2025-09-19 13:38:39
date last changed
2025-09-19 13:38:39
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  abstract     = {{Queer housing collectives in Sweden are places of living that are generally designed to encompass shared values regarding community building and notions of care and support through providing a safe space.
Through semi-structured interviews and queer theory, this study analyzes what queerness produces in those collectives through subtle everyday embodiments of queerness by its residents. It highlights the experience of queer women, trans, and non-binary people.
Emerges from this study daily and spontaneous practices that contribute to reimagining worlds for queer people to thrive, addressing rejections of individualism.
More than that, queer collectives are understood as loci for residents to blur the lines between roommates, friends, and family, rejecting heteronormative and institutional frameworks.
Finally, the study concludes that queer collectives foster feelings of belonging, safety, and hope that allow queer women, trans, and non-binary people to reimagine their futures.
The results provide insight into queer collectives as spaces where resistance to heteronormativity and individualism can emerge in subtle ways. Residents of queer collectives can reimagine alternative models of kinship that do not rely on blood or marriage ties, thereby resisting heteronormative notions of adulthood.}},
  author       = {{Dole, Joséphine Isabelle Andrée Marie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Glimpses of everyday resistance : Understanding the "queer" in Swedish queer housing collectives}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}