Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 393L - S-LGBTQ Pol & Postcolonialism

Fall
2018
01
3.00
Svati Shah
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
81024
South College Room W211
svatipshah@umass.edu
This seminar covers legal, activist, and historical debates on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer politics in British Commonwealth countries. Focusing on Indian LGBTQ movements' efforts to overturn federal laws that harm queer and transgender people there, the course will move to cover discourses on these issues in other Commonwealth countries, including Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Nigeria. The seminar discusses efforts to repeal colonial era anti-sodomy law still in effect in countries in the Global South that were once part of the British Empire.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.