Race, Gender, and Sexuality (382-0-20)

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

Topic: Queer & Trans of Color Genealogies.

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.

Teaching Method

Class participation, discussion, field trips, films/videos, group work, guest speakers, lecture, readings, writing assignments

Class Materials (Required)

Adeyemi, Kemi. "Feels Right." Feels Right. Duke University Press. 2022.

Class Attributes

Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area