New Queer Studies course this summer
GWSS 290 Special Topics in Women Studies/ Introduction to Queer Studies
This is a full term summer course that meets Tuesday and Thursdays, from
3:30-5:40.
SLN#11574
This class overviews genealogies of and current debates within queer studies
from transnational perspectives. It considers queer studies as an
interdisciplinary field that simultaneously endeavors to destabilize or
unsettle disciplinary understandings of sex, sexuality and gender as they
intersect with other social taxonomies (e.g. racial and economic) and
nation-state practices. It begins with a multitude of queer histories and
follows current debates in the field of queer studies across these
intersections. The class is informed by knowledge production within activist
communities as well as academic sites. We will be utilizing the framework of
intersectionality to talk about how queer identities and activism are
consistently in conversation, and cannot be removed from a multitude of
identities, even while we trouble and destabilize identities themselves.
Instructor and contact: Kai Kohlsdorf, kai3
