‘Homelessness is a queer experience.’: utopianism and mutual aid as survival strategies for homeless trans people

Trans people are at considerably elevated risk of homelessness, yet services poorly meet their needs. I explore how community support, anchored in queer praxis and concrete utopian thinking enables trans to survive homelessness. Drawing upon interviews with 35 who have recently experienced homelessness Wales, practices mutual aid, contextualized by possibility, engender support for experiencing argue that communities provide extensive, often exhausting, practical, material emotional which counters well-established exclusion within statutory services. show is critical the survival homeless a complex unwelcoming system, informal crisis alternatives enabled idealism, hope pragmatism. These findings important visibilising shared precarity produces care, offering strategies address inequitable service failures, demonstrating relevance theoretical approaches housing justice.