Queering Intimacies at Home

This essay is a Lectio Praecursoria, a short presentation given by a doctoral candidate that outlines the background and highlights the most interesting aspects of their research. It is typically delivered at the beginning of a doctoral defense at Finnish Universities. Anna Heinonen’s doctoral dissertation – Queering Intimacies at Home: Friendship and Roommate Relations in Finnish Small-Scale Communes – was publicly defended at the University of Helsinki on August 23, 2024. The dissertation is available in the university repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/584335. Anna Heinonen currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.