Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies (490-0-21)

Topic

Queer Politics & Pleasures

Instructors

LaShandra Sullivan

Meeting Info

University Hall 312: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course focuses on queer politics and personhood as differently articulated and practiced across diverse cultural contexts. Focusing on how a range of pleasures, intimacies, desires, caretaking and kin relations present an outside to cis-heteronormativity, the course examines the ways that queerness might challenge racial and gendered settler colonial, nationalist, 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 decolonial practices of living otherwise to cis-heteronormativity.