Loren March
York University
Postdoctoral Fellow
Loren March is a queer and trans scholar, activist, and human whose work focuses broadly on queer urban ecologies and affect. Through the lens of queer theory, they examine shifting affective relations with more-than-human spaces amidst processes of parks-led redevelopment and environmental gentrification in Toronto. They have been a member of the Affordable Housing Challenge Project at the University of Toronto's School of Cities, a convener at U of T Anthropology's Ethnography Lab, and a member of the Queer Ecologies Network (QUEEEN) at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York. They are co-editor of the book Critical Dialogues of Urban Governance, Development and Activism: London and Toronto from UCL Press. Loren is a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University, researching emergent queer ecologies in Toronto. They completed their PhD in Human Geography at the University of Toronto, and completed their Masters of Environmental Studies with a focus in Critical Urban Theory and Planning at York University, Toronto.