Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (490-0-23)

Topic

Queer Pleasure & Politics

Instructors

LaShandra Patrice Sullivan

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 303: Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Topic: Queer Pleasure & Politics.

This course focuses on queer politics and personhood as differently articulated and practiced across diverse cultural contexts. Focusing on how a range of pleasures, desires, intimacies, attachments, and practices of care present an outside to cis-heteronormativity, the course examines the ways that queerness challenges colonial, national, and capitalist projects. Specifically, we focus on ethnographic and historiographic works that push the boundaries of queer theory, exploring the blurred lines between what constitutes LGBTQIA+ activism and de-colonial practices of living otherwise to cis-heteronormativity.

Registration Requirements

Reserved for Graduate Students

Teaching Method

Seminar (Discussion Based)

Class Materials (Required)

Books (available electronically and/or hard copy via the library and book store), book chapters, and articles provided electronically via library and canvas