And what makes life not liveable?
A new research project – LGBTQ Liveable Lives – wants to hear from you and to help you share your thoughts, the project has just launched a new interactive website and web-based app you can use on your phone!
Visit liveablelives.org to look around and get involved!
LGBTQ Liveable Lives is an international research project working in the UK and India. The researchers and activists involved are asking what makes life liveable, rather than just bearable, for LGBTQ people.
Dr. Kath Browne from the University of Brighton, says: “We are interested in what people think makes their lives liveable. We don’t know what this might mean, but it is about more than just surviving, what does it mean to live”?
The researchers think that the idea of liveablility for LGBTQ people may have the potential to develop new ways of talking about what would improve life for LGBTQ people, and might help to inform activism and political change.
If you identify within LGBTQ (including but not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) and you live in the UK or India, you are invited to sign up to the website and connect with the project in any number of different ways:
• Share your experiences of your liveable (or not liveable) life
• Take part in surveys
• Chat with other LGBTQ people
• Upload photos of where life feels liveable to you
The Liveable Lives research project is looking at how the concept of Liveable Lives plays out in experiences of everyday lives in different places, and how it might be powerful in activism. Researchers think that the concept may have the potential to develop new ways of thinking and talking about the concerns of LGBTQ people, and might help to inform new initiatives and strategies to address issues.
The project is being run by two academics, Dr Kath Browne (University of Brighton, UK) and Dr Niharika Banerjea (University of Southern Indiana, USA), in partnership with Sappho for Equality, a sexuality rights organisation in Kolkata, India (http://sapphokolkata.org/).
They are working with staff recruited to work on the project and activists in Kolkata and in Brighton. A wider group of activists and academics work with the project as an advisory team to guide its development.
This research is paid for by a grant for the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK under its ‘Transformative Research’ programme.
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