Queer Ethics: Theory, Fantasy, Fiction

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What's queer about ethics, and what's speculative about queer theory? This course considers recent scholarship in global/transnational queer theory as opportunity to reimagine contemporary ethics through a speculative queer lens, alongside works in queer and Black fantasy and science fiction, poetry, and durational performance/body art. How do queer authors, artists and theorists imagine and enact ways of being in the world, and in consequential relation to one another? How can we build on the work of scholars and artists to articulate a framework for something we might call queer ethics? We will move between philosophy, cultural studies, critical race theory, and histories of queer activisms, and turn to queer art, poetry, manifestos, and fabulism as modes of queer theorizing. Readings include José Esteban Muñoz, Samuel Delany, Audre Lorde, Natalie Diaz, and Akwaeke Emezi.