WGSS 350Queer Theories

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(PL,D) This course expands and challenges understandings of queer-the noun, verb, and adjective-while engaging key themes and critical frameworks in queer theories. Focuses on exploration of foundational concepts as well as subfields and emerging streams of thought including queer of color critique, queer temporality, crip theory, and affect theory. Queer theories are read in conversation with cultural productions-from literature and cinema to music and activist campaigns-in ways that interrogate (and sometimes subvert) these very genre distinctions. Course also prioritizes time and space to reflect on the complexity of both our material realities and our contextually shifting lived experiences. Prerequisite: WGSS-130 or permission of instructor.