Accounting for the Self, Locating the Body: Stories of Queerness and Place

How do queerness, place, embodiment, movement, and relationality connect and intersect within identity?

Through collected stories, lyrics, and poems, genderqueer author Kael Reid explores the messiness and complexity of life and identity. Drawn from the author’s lived experience, this autobiographical collection reflects on identity development, relationships with people and places, movement, and what it means to inhabit a queer body that is always becoming.

This collection is ideal reading for students of Queer and LGBT+ Studies, English Literature, Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and related courses.

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Accounting for the Self, Locating the Body: Stories of Queerness and Place

How do queerness, place, embodiment, movement, and relationality connect and intersect within identity?

Through collected stories, lyrics, and poems, genderqueer author Kael Reid explores the messiness and complexity of life and identity. Drawn from the author’s lived experience, this autobiographical collection reflects on identity development, relationships with people and places, movement, and what it means to inhabit a queer body that is always becoming.

This collection is ideal reading for students of Queer and LGBT+ Studies, English Literature, Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and related courses.

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How do queerness, place, embodiment, movement, and relationality connect and intersect within identity?

Through collected stories, lyrics, and poems, genderqueer author Kael Reid explores the messiness and complexity of life and identity. Drawn from the author’s lived experience, this autobiographical collection reflects on identity development, relationships with people and places, movement, and what it means to inhabit a queer body that is always becoming.

This collection is ideal reading for students of Queer and LGBT+ Studies, English Literature, Canadian Studies, Gender Studies, and related courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781915734815
Publisher: Lived Places Publishing
Publication date: 09/16/2025
Series: Queer and LGBT+ Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 921 KB

About the Author

Kael Reid is an Assistant Professor in Children, Childhood and Youth Studies with the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. They are also a genderqueer singer-songwriter and musician and use collaborative songwriting and recording in their research with young people and adults.


Seutaʻafili Dr Patrick Thomsen is a Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Patrick is a proud faʻafafine and queer Samoan scholar, educator, and researcher, having received his doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle. As an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary scholar, his research interests straddle the lines between queer and LGBT+ Studies, intersectionality, critical race theory, Pacific knowledges, transnationalism, and Korean studies. His research program currently takes in 3 main areas, Pacific Rainbow LGBTQIA+ MVPFAFF+ Wellbeing and human rights; Pacific transnationalism with a specific focus on New Zealand as a site for settler-colonial citizenship identity making; and researching the role and potential of Pacific pedagogies to enhance cultural safety for Pacific students in New Zealand universities.

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