Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 693D - S-Decolonism,Sexuality,Gender

This seminar will generate an overview of the debates, scholarship, and politics of queer and transgender studies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The visibility and rubric of "emergence" with respect to LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) people, communities and politics in these `regions? of the world have been accompanied by scholarship which is variously characterized as "decolonial" and "postcolonial." The seminar will read through major works in order to specify where each term is used, by whom, and whether and how these terms reflect the complexities of queer and transgender scholarship and movement spaces in the non-Western world. Questions that these literatures raise include, but are not limited to: identitarianism, genealogies of queer and transgender politics, urbanization and migration, sexual commerce and sex work, nationalism and citizenship, indigeneity, legal campaigns against criminalization, access to health care, and informal economies.