Hello! My name is Rachel, I’m a geographer and asexualities researcher based in Dublin, Ireland.
I recently completed my PhD in the School of Geography at University College Dublin, funded by Research Ireland. Centered in the areas of queer & sexualities geographies, my doctoral research has driven the emergence of asexual geographies as a sub-field by exploring ace people’s everyday worlds and the spatialities of asexuality & compulsory sexuality in Ireland.
If you would like to learn more, you can email me.
RECENT WORK
Bayer, R. (forthcoming) ‘Beyond Landscapes of Allonormativity?: Imagining Ace Liveabilities in Ireland’, in Chen, Y.-L. and Przybylo, E. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms.
Jukes, J. and Bayer, R. (2026) 'New directions for asexual geographies', Sexualities, 29(5-6), pp. 781-796.
Bayer, R. (2025) 'Asexual geographies: the allosexualisation of space in Ireland', Gender, Place & Culture, 32(8), pp. 1161-1181.
Bayer, R., McCartan, A. and Browne, K. (2025) Geografia Queer. São Paulo: Letra e Voz.
Bayer, R. and Browne, K. (2024) 'Queer Geographies', in Dombroski, K., Goodwin, M., Qian, J., Williams, A. and Cloke, P. (eds.) Introducing Human Geographies Fourth Edition. London: Routledge, pp. 977-989.