ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a discussion of Firstspace, Secondspace, and Thirdspace in the field and then invites those connected to the field of higher education in practice and research to think about ways of knowing through what I term as TransQuantCrit—trans-ing, or moving outside the boundaries of—post-positivist inquiry and thought, particularly in areas related to LGBTQ+ people. To illustrate this point, I will invoke Soja’s (1996) illuminating discussion of Thirdspace in relation to two different epistemologies: Firstspace and Secondspace. Broadly defined, Thirdspaces critique and deconstruct the hegemonic structures of spatiality and consider less binary, separated ways of being. As such, this chapter situates and calls for advancing the intersection of spaces inclusive of trans/nonbinary rather than seeing them as separate and asks the reader to ponder the possibilities of a Thirdspace.
