Wiley Sharp

Wiley Sharp is an urban and cultural geographer whose research explores how gender and sexual outlaws navigate shifting landscapes of precarity in urban and suburban space. In particular, they are interested in queer and trans virtual spaces, countercultural communities, and networks of collective care. Wiley’s MA thesis employs go-along interviews and participatory photography to explore how queer and trans youth make places of community and everyday resistance in suburban Toronto.

Supervisor

Natalie Oswin

Cohort

2023-2024

Publications

Sharp, B. W. 2023. "Constellations of Elsewheres: Queer and trans* youth lives in suburban Toronto." Master's Thesis, York University.

Sharp, B. W. 2024. “Trans Urban Research.” In The Elgar Handbook on Gender and Cities, edited by Linda Peake, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, and Anindita Datta. Elgar.

Sharp, B. W. 2024. “Feminist Engagements with Translation.” In Doing Feminist Urban Research: The GenUrb Project, edited by Linda Peake, Nasya Razavi, and Araby Smyth. Routledge.

Bain, A. L., Sharp, B. W. Under review. “The Queer Unbuilding of Suburban Social Infrastructure: Beyond Unjust Affordances and Glitches.”

Bey, M., Carmack, C., Casid, J., Cerankowski, KJ, Crasnow, S., Gregory, S., Halberstam, J., Lancaster, M.L., Metzger, C., Ringelberg, K., Rizki, C., Sharp, B. W., Steinbock, E., and Stryker, S. 2023. “Trans Visibility and Trans Viability: A Roundtable,” Journal of Visual Culture 21 (2): 297–320.