Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 291L - S-Love-Politics,Self-Care,Fem

Spring
2019
01
3.00
Oluwafunmilayo Okiji
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
21881
South College Room E241
fumiokiji@umass.edu
In this course we will explore the potential that love has for transforming relations with others, and with ourselves. Drawing from feminist scholars and culturemakers, we will focus on both politics and imaginaries in order to come to an appreciation of the critical and utopian potentials that love and radical self-care hold. Our inquiries will be historically broad, taking in early black feminist educator and activist Anna Julia Cooper, jazz vocalists Billie Holiday and Abbey Lincoln, the Combahee River Collective, the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind school, contemporary scholars such as Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Jennifer Nash, and their creative counterparts, including
Solange and Meshell Ndegeocello.
Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.