Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. Thi
By Jenny Stuber, author of Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of SupergentrificationIn communities across the American West, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed new social class dynamics, if not fractures. The pandemic accelerated existing processes of amenity mi
By Jennifer Sherman, author of Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American DreamIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural communities across the U.S. have been experiencing what has been labeled the “Zoomtown” effect: real estate booms fueled by remote workers buying secon