Dr. Julie A. Podmore, PhD

Dr. Podmore joined the department as a part-time faculty member in 2000 and became an Affiliate Assistant Professor in 2010. She began studying urban geography at the University of British Columbia and continued with graduate studies at McGill University (Ph.D., 2000) and post-doctoral research in Urban Studies at UQAM. Her sustained research focus has been on Montréal’s lesbian historical geographies, LGBTQ social movements and neighbourhood spaces. Julie's current projects focus on queer place-making in Canadian suburbs, LGBTQ municipal social inclusion, international urban rainbowization networks, and queer cultural infrastructure. A full-time instructor at John Abbott College, she serves on graduate student committees but does not accept requests for directed studies or direct supervision. Julie is also a member researcher at UQAM's Chaire de recherche sur la diversité sexuelle et la pluralité des genres and active in Québec's LGBTQ archiving communities. 

Affliations

Geosciences, John Abbott College
Chaire de la recherche sur la diversité sexuelle et la pluralité des genres, UQAM
Editorial Board, Social & Cultural Geography

Research Interests

Recent Research Grants

1. Coinvestigator, Queer cultural infrastructure and the remaking of inclusive cities: Within and beyond Rainbow Cities Network recognition. SSHRC Insight Grant (PI: Alison Bain, York University), 2025-2029.
2. Coinvestigator, After-images and urban spaces: Lesbian, gay and queer visible presence in Montreal (1950-1990). SSHRC Insight Grant (PI: Julianne Pidduck, Université de Montréal), 2020-2025.  
3. Coinvestigator, Queering Canadian suburbs: LGBTQ2S place-making outside of central cities. SSHRC Insight Grant (PI: AL Bain, York University), 2016-2020.

Books

1. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2025) Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S suburban place-making. Routledge.
2. Bain AL and Podmore JA (Eds) (2023) The cultural infrastructure of cities. Agenda Publishers.
3. Banerjea N, Browne K, Ferreira E, Olasik M and Podmore J (2019) Lesbian Feminism: Essays opposing global heteropatriarchies. Bloomsbury.

Guest Editor

1. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2023) Queer(ing) urban planning and municipal governance. Urban Planning 8(2).
2. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2021) Placing urban LGBTQ activisms. Urban Studies 58(7).
3. Tremblay M and Podmore JA (2020) Féminismes et lesbianismes: hier et aujourd'hui, ici et ailleurs. Recherches féministes 33(2).
4. Podmore JA and Brown MP (2015) Historical geographies of sexualities. Historical Geography 43.

Recent Journal Articles (5 years)

1. Bain AL and Podmore JA. (2025) Rainbow infrastruggles: The infrapolitics of LGBTQ2S surplus visibility in suburban infrastructure. Journal of Urban Affairs 47(2): 428–450. 
2. Bain AL and Podmore JA. (2023) Queer(ing) urban planning and municipal governance. Urban Planning 8(2): 145–149. 
3. Podmore JA and Bain AL (2023) Redistributing more than the LGBTQ2S acronym? Planning beyond recognition and rainbows on Vancouver’s periphery. Urban Planning 8(2): 208–222. 
4. Bain AL and Podmore JA. (2022) The scalar arrhythmia of LGBTQ2S social inclusion policies: An analysis of the peripheral municipalities of a ‘progressive’ city-region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 46(5): 784–806. 
5. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2021) Linguistic ambivalence amidst suburban diversity: LGBTQ2S municipal 'social inclusions' on Vancouver’s periphery. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(7): 1644-1672.
6. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2021) Placing LGBTQ urban activisms. Urban Studies 58(7): 1305-1326.
7. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2021)(Re)locating queer: Suburban LGBTQ2S activisms in the Vancouver city-region. Urban Studies 58(7): 1500-1519.
8. Podmore JA and Bain AL(2021) Whither queer suburbanisms? Beyond heterosuburbia and queer metronormativities. Progress in Human Geography 45(5): 1254-1277.
9. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2021) More-than-safety: Co-creating resourcefulness and conviviality in suburban LGBTQ2S youth out-of-school spaces. Children's Geographies 19(2): 131-144.

Recent Book Chapters (5 years)

1. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2025) Suburban(ism). In I Ashutosh and J Winders (Eds) The Wiley-Blackwell companion to social and cultural geography (pp. 471–481). Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Bain AL and Podmore JA (2024) Gender in a world of suburbs. In L Peake, G Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and A Datta (Eds) Handbook on gender and cities (pp. 85–94). Edward Elgar.
3. Podmore JA and Bain AL (2024) Politically (im)perfectable: LGBTQ urban policies and politics. In R Vogel (Ed) Handbook of urban politics and policy (pp. 197–213). Edward Elgar.
4. Podmore JA (2023) Queer counter-topographies: LGBTQ community-based archives as urban cultural infrastructure. In AL Bain and JA Podmore (Eds) The cultural infrastructure of cities (pp. 233–246). Agenda Publishers.
5. Podmore JA, Bain AL and Arun-Pina C (2023) LGBTQ urban social worlds. In AL Bain and L Peake (Eds) Urbanization in a global context, 2nd edition (pp. 293–231). Oxford University Press.
6. Podmore, JA (2021) Far beyond the gay village: LGBTQ Urbanism and generation in Montréal’s Mile End. In A Bitterman and D Baldwin Hess (eds.) The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence. Springer.

Undergraduate Teaching

GEOG 330 - Urban Geography
URBS498D - Cities of Difference

Selected Public Lectures, Presentations and Panels

1. Queerburbia: La création de lieux LGBTQ2S dans les banlieues canadiennes (co-presented by AL Bain and JA Podmore). La Chaire de recherche sur la diversité sexuelle et la pluralité des genres, UQAM, 2025. 
2. Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S placemaking in Canadian suburbs (coauthored with AL Bain). Geospectives Series, Department of Geography, McGill University, 2025. 
3. Re-making queerburbia through community organizational infrastructures of LGBTQ2S care (coauthored and presented by AL Bain), RC21 Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2024.
4. Queer city as archive, Traces queer dans la ville. Centre Maurice Chalumeau en Sciences des Sexualités, Université de Genève, 2023.  
5. Discussant, Gender, sexualities, and gentrification. Gentrification & Displacement Conference. Boston University, Boston, 2023.
6. Panelist, Table ronde, Lancement de vol. LXII, 1 de Recherches sociographiques « La gentrification de 1970 à nos jours », Université Laval, 2021.
7. Lesbian and queer archives, Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill University, 2021.
8. Future of the gay village. 2020 Digital LGBT Business Summit. Canada’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, 2020.
9. Mobilizing suburban pride: LGBTQ commemorative activisms and the contestation of municipal heteronormativites on Vancouver’s periphery (co-authored with AL Bain, presented by JA Podmore), Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Washington, DC, 2019.
10. Queer suburban displacements: LGBTQ2S activisms on Vancouver’s periphery (presented by AL Bain). International Geographical Union and Canadian Association of Geographers, Québec, 2018.
11. Queer Canadian suburban activisms (co-authored with AL Bain), European Geographies of Sexualities, Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
12.  ‘Queer’ Mile-End: la contestation relationnelle des identités LGBT et la production générationnelle des nouveaux quartiers. Association francophone pour le savoir, Montreal, 2016.

Selected Media Appearances

1. Queerburbia: La création de lieux LGBTQ2S dans les banlieues canadiennes (co-presented by AL Bain and JA Podmore). La Chaire de recherche sur la diversité sexuelle et la pluralité des genres, UQAM, 2025. 
2. Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S placemaking in Canadian suburbs (coauthored with AL Bain). Geospectives Series, Department of Geography, McGill University, 2025. 
3. Les espaces lesbiens et queer à Montréal depuis les années 1980, Carrefour Technopédagogique UQAM, 2014.
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5. Re-making queerburbia through community organizational infrastructures of LGBTQ2S care (coauthored and presented by AL Bain), RC21 Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2024.

Audio

1. Le droit à la ville gouine : la géographie politique des marches dyke à Montréal, Congrès international des recherches féministes dans le francophonie, 2015 (en français)

2. Le quartier queer comme habitus générationnel : une étude de cas intersectionnelle du quartier Mile End à Montréal, Congrès de l'ACFAS, 2015. (en français)

3. Au-delà du Village gai : Queering le quartier Mile End, Chaire de recherche sur l'homophobie, UQAM, 2014. (en français)
   

Video

1. Les espaces lesbiens et queer à Montréal depuis les années 1980, Carrefour Technopédagogique UQAM, 2014. (en français)

2. Jeune, queer et urbain : vers un cadre géographique de la recherche sur les jeunes des minorités sexuelles en milieu urbain, UQAM tv, 2012. (in English)