Introduction to Terminology
Week 1:
Jan 25th:
1) Trans 101 (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
2) Grace Dunham and Toshio Meronek's "How the United State's First LGBT National Memorial Gets it Wrong"
Week 2:
Jan 30th:
1) Eve Sedgwick's "Queer and Now"
2) Judith Butler's "Critically Queer"
Module 1: Intersectionality, Black Feminism, Queer of Color Critique
February 1st:
1) Combahee River Collective's "A Black Feminist Statement"
2) Audre Lorde’s “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” from Sister Outsider
3) Kimberle Crenshaw's "The Importance of Intersectionality"
4) E. Patrick Johnson’s “From Black Quare Studies or Almost Everything I Know About Queer Studies I learned From my Grandmother”
Week 3:
February 6th:
1) Jose Esteban Munoz's introduction to Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
February 8th
1) Audre Lorde Zami (start till chapter 11)
Week 4:
February 13th
1) Audre Lorde Zami (chapter 12 till chapter 23)
2) Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic"
February 15th
1) Audre Lorde Zami (chapter 24 till the end)
Module 2: Trans Life/ Trans Death
Week 5:
February 20th:
1) Leslie Feinberg's "We are all works in progress"
2) Kai M. Green’s “Navigating Masculinity as a Black Transman”
3) Kai M. Green’s “Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans* Analytic” from No Tea No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (2016) (read UMD library's eBook)
February 22nd:
1) Dean Spade's Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law [read the introduction and chapter 4]
2) Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran's "Cycle Undone," "Mint," Carved Crimson into the Bark of a White Page: A Queer/Trans Womanist Indigenous Colored Poetics" from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 24 - 35)
Feb 23rd: Close-Reading Paper Due
Week 6:
February 27th
1) Toby Beauchamp's "Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11"
2) Yasmin Nair's "Laverne Cox: Transforming Hollywood"
3) An Owomoyela's "Three Points Masculine"
March 1st:
1) C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn's "Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife"
2) Read Trish Salah's poetry from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Re- read Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran's poetry.
Week 7:
March 5th: Journal Entry 2 due
March 6th:
1) Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 1)
March 8th:
1) Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 2)
Week 8:
March 13th:
1) Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 3)
2) Matt Richardson “My Father Didn’t Have a Dick: Social Death and Jackie Kay's Trumpet” from GLQ (2012) (download from UMD library)
March 15th:
Instructor away- class cancelled
Week 9: SPRING BREAK
March 20th
March 22nd
March 26th: Theoretical Engagement Paper Due
Module 3: Space, Movement, Exile
Week 10:
March 27th
1) Introduction and conclusion of Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology
2) Bo Luengsuraswat's poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 76- 86)
March 29th
1) Shani Mootoo's “Out on Main Street”
2) Eli Clare's "The Mountain"
3) D'Lo's poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 115- 124)
Week 11:
April 2nd: Journal Entry 3 due
April 3rd:
1) James Balwin's "Equal in Paris"
2) James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (part 1)
April 5th:
1) James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (part 2)
Week 12:
April 10th
1) James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (part 3)
2) Conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin
April 12th
1) Jack Halberstam's "Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geography" from In a Queer Time and Place (read the first chapter)
April 13th: Attend one panel at Trans(form)ing Queer: 11th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium (at UMD in Tawes Hall)
Module 4: Gay Imperialism, Postcolonial Queering
Week 13:
April 16th: Journal Entry 4 due
April 17th:
1) Maya Mikdashi, “Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism”
2) Jasbir Puar's "Abu Ghraib and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism" (optional reading)
3) Dean Spade and Craig Wilse's "Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism"
April 19th:
1) Re-read Trish Salah's' poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 478- 489)
2) Micha Cardenas' poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 388- 398)
3) Christopher Soto's "In Support of Violence"
4) Fatima Asghar's "From Oil"
Week 14:
April 24th:
1) Sokari Ekine's "Contesting Narratives of Queer Africa"
2) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
April 26th:
1) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
Week 15:
April 30th: Journal Entry 5 due
May 1st:
1) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
May 3rd:
1) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
Last Week:
Week 16:
May 8th:
1) Queer/Trans World-Making Project Due (Submit online + bring to class)
2) Fabian Romero's poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 213- 220)
3) Keguro Macharia’s "On Being Area Studied: A Litany of Complaint" in GLQ (April 2016) (download from UMD library)
May 10th:
1) Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, Dean Spade's "Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We've Got"
May 17th: Final Paper due
Week 1:
Jan 25th:
1) Trans 101 (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
2) Grace Dunham and Toshio Meronek's "How the United State's First LGBT National Memorial Gets it Wrong"
Week 2:
Jan 30th:
1) Eve Sedgwick's "Queer and Now"
2) Judith Butler's "Critically Queer"
Module 1: Intersectionality, Black Feminism, Queer of Color Critique
February 1st:
1) Combahee River Collective's "A Black Feminist Statement"
2) Audre Lorde’s “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” from Sister Outsider
3) Kimberle Crenshaw's "The Importance of Intersectionality"
4) E. Patrick Johnson’s “From Black Quare Studies or Almost Everything I Know About Queer Studies I learned From my Grandmother”
Week 3:
February 6th:
1) Jose Esteban Munoz's introduction to Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
February 8th
1) Audre Lorde Zami (start till chapter 11)
Week 4:
February 13th
1) Audre Lorde Zami (chapter 12 till chapter 23)
2) Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic"
February 15th
1) Audre Lorde Zami (chapter 24 till the end)
Module 2: Trans Life/ Trans Death
Week 5:
February 20th:
1) Leslie Feinberg's "We are all works in progress"
2) Kai M. Green’s “Navigating Masculinity as a Black Transman”
3) Kai M. Green’s “Troubling the Waters: Mobilizing a Trans* Analytic” from No Tea No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (2016) (read UMD library's eBook)
February 22nd:
1) Dean Spade's Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law [read the introduction and chapter 4]
2) Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran's "Cycle Undone," "Mint," Carved Crimson into the Bark of a White Page: A Queer/Trans Womanist Indigenous Colored Poetics" from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 24 - 35)
Feb 23rd: Close-Reading Paper Due
Week 6:
February 27th
1) Toby Beauchamp's "Artful Concealment and Strategic Visibility: Transgender Bodies and U.S. State Surveillance After 9/11"
2) Yasmin Nair's "Laverne Cox: Transforming Hollywood"
3) An Owomoyela's "Three Points Masculine"
March 1st:
1) C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn's "Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife"
2) Read Trish Salah's poetry from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Re- read Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran's poetry.
Week 7:
March 5th: Journal Entry 2 due
March 6th:
1) Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 1)
March 8th:
1) Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 2)
Week 8:
March 13th:
1) Jackie Kay's Trumpet (part 3)
2) Matt Richardson “My Father Didn’t Have a Dick: Social Death and Jackie Kay's Trumpet” from GLQ (2012) (download from UMD library)
March 15th:
Instructor away- class cancelled
Week 9: SPRING BREAK
March 20th
March 22nd
March 26th: Theoretical Engagement Paper Due
Module 3: Space, Movement, Exile
Week 10:
March 27th
1) Introduction and conclusion of Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology
2) Bo Luengsuraswat's poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 76- 86)
March 29th
1) Shani Mootoo's “Out on Main Street”
2) Eli Clare's "The Mountain"
3) D'Lo's poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 115- 124)
Week 11:
April 2nd: Journal Entry 3 due
April 3rd:
1) James Balwin's "Equal in Paris"
2) James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (part 1)
April 5th:
1) James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (part 2)
Week 12:
April 10th
1) James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room (part 3)
2) Conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin
April 12th
1) Jack Halberstam's "Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geography" from In a Queer Time and Place (read the first chapter)
April 13th: Attend one panel at Trans(form)ing Queer: 11th Annual DC Queer Studies Symposium (at UMD in Tawes Hall)
Module 4: Gay Imperialism, Postcolonial Queering
Week 13:
April 16th: Journal Entry 4 due
April 17th:
1) Maya Mikdashi, “Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism”
2) Jasbir Puar's "Abu Ghraib and U.S. Sexual Exceptionalism" (optional reading)
3) Dean Spade and Craig Wilse's "Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism"
April 19th:
1) Re-read Trish Salah's' poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 478- 489)
2) Micha Cardenas' poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 388- 398)
3) Christopher Soto's "In Support of Violence"
4) Fatima Asghar's "From Oil"
Week 14:
April 24th:
1) Sokari Ekine's "Contesting Narratives of Queer Africa"
2) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
April 26th:
1) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
Week 15:
April 30th: Journal Entry 5 due
May 1st:
1) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
May 3rd:
1) Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees
Last Week:
Week 16:
May 8th:
1) Queer/Trans World-Making Project Due (Submit online + bring to class)
2) Fabian Romero's poetry and poetics statement from Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (pages 213- 220)
3) Keguro Macharia’s "On Being Area Studied: A Litany of Complaint" in GLQ (April 2016) (download from UMD library)
May 10th:
1) Morgan Bassichis, Alexander Lee, Dean Spade's "Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We've Got"
May 17th: Final Paper due