Dr. Knittle's scholarship uses a cultural archive to explore how spatial and social norms of gender and sexuality affect how we address climate injustice. In their research, they consider how changes to cities and suburbs in the mid-20th century used housing and transportation to sediment norms of gender, race, and kinship. The proliferation of ideas like the freestanding "single family home" created infrastructure that made performing gender and sexuality a relationship to space, not only a relationship to identity. His current book project, Urbanist Desire and the Ecology of Queer and Trans Survival, uses queer and trans writing from the 1950s to 2020 to describe how expectations established through biased spatial histories limit how we imagine climate futures and to provide other approaches to shared survival. To address climate injustice, we need more expansive ways of thinking about how we live together. Queer and trans writing about urban change provides one useful archive.