Queer Theory

Catalog description

Queer Theory provides an overview of the writings, art, identity/ies, work, politics, debates, histories, bodies, intimacies, kinship, and other lived realities of the people and experiences often organized under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. As a critical theory, queer theory examines how circulations of power, dominance, and oppression constantly re/vision what it is to be queer, queering, and queered. The course will focus on how gender, race, class, functional diversity, sexuality, work, documentation status, age, etc. impact and are impacted by queer becoming.