ABSTRACT
This chapter describes critical geographies of home approach, notably: 'home as simultaneously material and imaginative; the nexus between home, power and identity; and home as multi-scalar'. It argues that home is a key means of expressing the lived realities of gender transgressive subjectivities in western contemporary contexts. The list of gender and sexual identities clearly illustrates the connections between bodies, home, and power. The chapter draws on interview narratives, as well as contemporary media items, to show the complexity of gender variant people's relationship with home. It starts with a quote from an advertisement for a flatmate / housemate. The chapter focuses primarily on the home as a private, family or extended family / whanau place. Whakapapa places us within a whanau [family], hapu [sub-tribe] and iwi [tribe] which in turn connects us to marae and 82 specific tribal areas on Papatuanuku, our earth mother.
