Gender and Sexual Diversity and the Urban Climate Crisis: Intersectional Injustices of Housing and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda

Citation

McQuaid K & Crawford NJW (2025) Gender and Sexual Diversity and the Urban Climate Crisis: Intersectional Injustices of Housing and Livelihoods in Kampala, Uganda. In: Dominey-Howes D, Rushton A, Leonard W, Cianfarani M, Overton L & Wu H (eds.) Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises. 1 ed. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 147-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3857-4_10

Abstract
This chapter examines how the everyday exclusions, discrimination, and increased vulnerabilities experienced by gender and sexual diverse people intersect with urban environmental hazards in the context of global climate change. The chapter draws on in-depth interviews and research conducted in Kampala, Uganda, between 2021 and 2023. The research spotlights the critical issues of housing and livelihood injustices experienced by gender and sexual diverse people. The chapter argues that these injustices are becoming more extreme due to climate change and are driven, in large part, by the ‘messy, everyday workings of gendered power’.