Hello! My name is Rachel, and 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
Jukes, J. and Bayer, R. (2025) ‘New Directions for Asexual Geographies’, Sexualities, pp. 1-16.
Bayer, R., McCartan, A. and Browne, K. (2025) Geografia Queer (Queer Geographies). São Paulo: Letra e Voz.
Bayer, R. (2024) 'Asexual Geographies: The Allosexualisation of Space in Ireland', Gender, Place & Culture, pp. 1-21.
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.
Bayer, R. (2024) 'Making Space to be Ace: Experiences of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality in Ireland', Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival Magazine.