Bodies, Borders, and Genders ((3))

Catalog description

This course invites students of all racial, gender, and ethnic backgrounds to research and write creatively about the embodied historical, cultural, political, literary, and poetic experiences of Girls of Color (GoC) and Women of Color (WoC) in the United States. Students will be exposed to a broad array of feminist theories, histories, and methods that intimately center the bodies, borders, and storytelling of GoC and WoC. Drawing from multimodal femtor texts, students will learn how bodies illuminate the intersections and futures of gender (transgender), borders, class, land, ethnicity, age,sexuality, disability, bilingual and bicultural experiences, nationality, citizenship, and sense of belonging. Equally important, students will be invited to engage in anti-racist, feminist, and decolonial research methods such as oral histories, Testimonios, Platicas, Autohistoria- teoría, and epistolary writing, to produce counter-stories, essays, and research compendiums for community and academic publications.