Queer Rhetorics and Theories

Catalog description

This course examines the rhetorics and theories crafted by LGBTQIA+ activists, academics, and icons in the cause of queer liberation. Topics include LGBTQIA+activists’ responses to and shaping of historical and cultural metanarratives; the impact of rhetorical mode on activists’ resistance to homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, and other forms of bigotry; and rhetorical ecologies and the reception LGBTQIA+ rhetorics have received. An intersectional lens is used throughout the course, with attention paid to how race, gender, economic class, geographical location, citizenship status, disability, and more impact bigotry and alliance, both out- and inside LGBTQIA+ communities.