Studies in Race, Gender, and Sexuality (360-0-1)
Topic
Queer and Trans of Color Genealogies
Instructors
Jonathan Gen Magat
Crowe 1-135
Office Hours: Thursday 1-2pm and by appointment
Meeting Info
Harris Hall L04: Mon, Wed 3:30PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
This course offers an interdisciplinary examination of queer, trans, and nonbinary of color politics, poetics, and cultural productions. Drawing from the overlapping—at times contentious—intellectual frameworks, activist analytics, and genealogies of "queer and trans of color critique," we will interrogate how writers, artists, activists, and performers have labored to enact life worlds in the face of interlocking systems of oppression, such as racial capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, and transphobia. Students will have the chance to engage the Chicago area as a site of queer and trans of color worldmaking and activism aimed at imagining a more just and equitable world.
Class Materials (Required)
Adeyemi, Kemi. "Feels Right." Feels Right. Duke University Press. 2022.
Class Attributes
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area