Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality 314 - Seminar: Documenting Queer and Trans Lives

This course examines visual and literary documentations of queer and trans life by reading memoirs and screening short and feature-length documentaries films. The course considers the power dynamics imbued in documenting queer & trans lives while contending with the politics of visibility, representation, and embodiment as they are impacted by race, class, and gender.  The course considers the performativity of gender and the fluidity of sexuality while also engaging with storytelling and the politics that lie therein. Students have the option of producing a short film, creating a short memoir, writing a research paper, or proposing another mode of documenting experiences of queer and trans life. Prerequisites: SWG 150 and one additional SWG course. Enrollment limited to 12. Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required.

[CE] JR/SR only; Prereq: SWG 150 & one SWG course