Rachel Bayer (she/her) is a PhD Researcher & Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar in the School of Geography at University College Dublin (UCD). Centered in the areas of queer/sexualities geographies, her doctoral research focuses on asexual geographies - exploring ace people’s everyday worlds, and the spatialities of asexuality & compulsory sexuality in Ireland. Through this work, Rachel is also interested in asexuality’s expansive queer potentials to extend and rework our understandings of sexuality & space.

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.