Race, Gender, and Sexuality (382-0-21)

Topic

AfroFeministFutures

Instructors

Moya Z Bailey

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 2407: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

Topic: AfroFeministFutures.

This course invites students to explore feminist speculative fiction as a site for social justice advocacy. Students will read classic feminist and afrofuturist science fiction as they prepare their own original short stories for publication. Drawing heavily on the work of feminist afrofuturist Octavia Butler, students will engage imaginative narratives that allow them to think through solutions to the problems of our time. Students will explore the genre elements of short stories and speculative fiction, ultimately integrating these lessons into their own short stories. This is a writing and reading intensive class.

Class Materials (Required)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" by Ursula K. LeGuin
Blood Child by Octavia Butler
The Feminist Utopia Project
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Born in Flames (1983)
Cosmic Slop (1994)
Pumzi (2010)

Class Attributes

Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area