#11927. Queering the Map: Stories of love, loss and (be)longing within a digital cartographic archive

July 2026publication date
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Abstract:
The rise of crowdsourced and participatory digital platforms which aim to make visible the experiences of otherwise marginalised people are significant within the broader landscape of digitally mediated community spaces. One example of such media is Queering the Map, a digital storymapping platform where users anonymously pin ‘queer moments’ and memories to places. While the mediation of affect and intimacy in digital spaces among queer people is increasingly attended to in scholarly work, the cartographic and archival remains hitherto underexplored. Drawing on an analysis of almost 20XX micro-stories, in this article we explore various aspects of story contribution that situate Queering the Map as a lively cartographic archive. We highlight these publicly private stories’ connective and affective underpinnings, and the political potentialities (and problems) therein for queer belonging and community-building. In doing so we seek to contribute to scholarship on digital archives, crowdsourcing, and advance conceptualisations of digital intimacies.
Keywords:
crowdsourcing; digital intimacy; intimate publics; LGBTQ+; micro-stories; queer; queering the map; storymapping

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