Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 291E - S-Future of Race/Sex/Sexuality

This course is not a history of feminist science fiction, nor a survey of the genre. Instead, it is a course that takes seriously science fiction - and speculative work more broadly - as a site where commonsense is made strange and, therefore, can be remade. Combining reading of authors like Octavia Butler, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Torrey Peters with our own experiments in imagination, we will explore how the tools of sf can help us to both apprehend how race/sex/gender have historically been constituted and imagine them otherwise.