Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality 291 - Queer and Trans Visual Culture

As representations of queer and trans subjectivities has left the largely coded citations of the closet, they have come to rely on discursively complex and intersectional forms of representation that at once exceed, and rely on, queer cultures, communities and even subjects. Queer and trans visual culture has long offered a way for queer subjects to both represent, and come to understand, who they are and how meaning is inscribed onto and through [their] bodies. This class leverages history and theory to explore a range of media from fine art to popular culture, and develop a queer lens with which to interrogate visual culture. This class maps the trajectory from the early twentieth century to our present moment and ultimately seeks to describe what queer visual representation is—and perhaps is not—today. Prerequisite: SWG 150. (E)

[CE] SWG 150