ABSTRACT
In this chapter I explore how maps (and the process of map-making) along with spoken interviews serve as means to trace how processes like gentrification have displaced or erased bodies and place. The maps produced as a part of this project, and their associated narratives, provide a conduit for understanding how networks of support and ‘safety’ function for trans persons in DC. Additionally, these maps illuminate how space and place can be differentially utilized and experienced by various members of similar trans coalitions of practice. The relationships between theories of the body, such as biopolitics and phenomenology, and representations in the map are clearly evidenced in many of the maps collected here.
