Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 391F - S-People of Color Feminisms

This course will examine writing by women, queer and trans of color scholars, with an emphasis on interventions from the US. We will consider how power relations, and resistive responses to oppression have been thought about by these scholars, and by their creative counterparts. Through a variety of analytics including political and affective economies, performativity, and performance, we will examine the correspondences and tensions both within and between these related but distinct schools of thought. We will read from variety of thinkers and artists (literary, music, and visual) including Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Lisa Lowe, Chela Sandoval, Jennifer Nash, Roderick Ferguson, E. Patrick Johnson, Jose Munoz, C. Riley Snorton, Cherrie Moraga, Janet Mock, Hannah Black, Wu Tsang, Moor Mother, Matana Roberts, Cameron Awkward-Rich and Maria Magdalena Campos Pons.