Indigenous Feminisms

Catalog description

This interdisciplinary course explores historical and contemporary Indigenous movements for justice, how Indigenous Nationhood challenges patriarchal colonial institutions and how political conceptualizations of 'Tribe', race, gender, and sexual hierarchies and binaries, or absence thereof, influence the foundations of colonial institutions and how Indigenous scholars, writers, and communities respond to these determinations and influence. Course content primarily focuses on the writings and political leadership of Indigenous authors, leaders, and thinkers. Subject matter includes topics of reproductive justice, racial justice, sexual diversity, climate justice, and other social issues. This course explores the concept of decolonization and Indigenous autonomy.