Join us for "Guides for Queer Folks: Travel Guides, Maps, and Materiality," a lecture and exhibit presented by University of Kentucky Geography PhD candidate, Jack Swab.

"Guides for Queer Folks," includes travel guides, maps, magazines, postcards, and advertising from the 1930s to the mid 2000s. Swab's lecture will examine the utility of queer geographic information highlighting how the physical arrangement of queer spatial media and the work taken to preserve them reveal the politics and perils of the past. 

The event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated.

A geographer fascinated by the relationship between human geography and cartography, Swab received his BS degree in Geography at Penn State, and Master's degrees in Geography and Library Science from the University of Kentucky (UK). Swab is currently a PhD candidate in the Geography department at UK and serves as Vice Chair for the American Association of Geographers Cartography Speciality Group.