Rachel Bayer (she/her) is a social & cultural geographer and asexualities researcher in the School of Geography at University College Dublin (UCD). Bringing together geography, asexuality studies, and queer theory, Rachel’s doctoral research explored ace people’s lives and everyday worlds in Ireland to generate new empirical and theoretical understandings of the spatialities of asexuality and compulsory sexuality. Through this work, Rachel has driven the emergence of asexual geographies as a sub-field, and has sought to (re)orient the discipline towards asexuality’s expansive queer potentials.

Prior to her PhD, Rachel completed a Master’s in Critical Geographies at UCD where she explored ‘Ace Spaces’ in Ireland, and began to develop conceptualizations of the ‘allosexualization of space.’ She also holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of Michigan.

Rachel is originally from Ithaca, New York, and before moving to Ireland she spent time living in Montreal, Canada; Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Graz & Innsbruck, Austria.

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Rachel’s current project explores ace people’s lives and spatial experiences in Ireland. If you are interested in learning more, you can send her an email.