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Queer Fictions of Race (Spring, 2006)
with Keguro Macharia
Tina Turner famously asked, What’s love got to do with it? In the conflicted terrain where race meets sexuality, all too often it seems that love has very little to do with anything. Accusations of racial fetishism and historical erasure jostle against radical queer claims of inclusiveness and free- floating desire. This class attempts to understand how 20th century narratives of race and sexuality complicate one another. We range from personal ads to theoretical reflections on gender and space. Topics covered include exile and deracination, kinship and futurity, space and cruising, and the marketplace of desire. We will read selections from John D’Emilio, Dwight McBride, Judith Butler, and Robert Reid- Pharr; novels by James Baldwin, Lawrence Chua and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

Queer Publics (Spring, 2006)
with Christina Hanhardt
This introductory class will look at queer publics as they have appeared in academic scholarship, social policy, grassroots activism, cultural production, and everyday life over the past fifty years. Central will be an analysis of the contested concepts of identity, community, and change. Topics will include early community histories of lesbians and gay men, the rise of queer theory, ideologies of third world/lesbian feminisms, social science on sexual minorities, experimental art and performance, transgender politics, multi-issue organizing, urban and rural subcultures, and grassroots strategies that ever-expand the terms (i.e. transgender, two-spirit, femme, gender-queer, stud, pan-sexual, butch, questioning, bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer, aggressive, gender non-conforming) of rights and recognition. Readings will be supplemented by discussion of interdisciplinary research methods, and students will be required to conduct semester-long independent research with primary sources or to produce a creative piece. At the end of the class, these works will be brought together to form a class archive of queer publics in history and today.

Queer in Culture (Spring, 2008)
with Kaitlin O’Shea
This course will provide an environment for critical thinking about the production of queer identities beginning at the Stonewall Riots and ending in present day. We will examine the impact of queer identities on social institutions (government & law, family, education, media, history, religion, etc.) and the changes that have occurred as a result of visibility and acknowledgment of queer issues. In addition, we will examine issues pertinent to youth-adolescents and young adults-in the process of defining, processing, and creating queer identities. Through qualitative interviews and analysis, we will come to understand how folks construct queer selves in varying contexts and how first sexual experiences, and the meanings given them, assist in the construction/denial of a queer self. This course is designed for the active participatory learner!

Queer Gender (Fall, 2009)
with Quinn Miller
This class will look at the recent political dimensions and historical emergence of queer gender through an examination of sexual minorities, queer publics, subcultural production, social policy, and the media industries. Asking how the ?gender studies? of transgender studies relates to the diverse ways in which feminist scholars and queer theorists study gender, the course focuses on developments and debates around gender within queer studies, with an additional focus on issues of power, representation, and difference in the study of queer gender. Reading widely in queer and transgender studies, as well as in the overlapping areas of critical race studies, crip theory, queer Marxism, and scholarship on citizenship, we will consider the concept of queer gender in relation to issues of sexual assignment, racism, sexism, political economy, and identity construction.

Introduction to Queer Studies (Spring, 2011)
with Jaclyn Pryor
This course will provide an introduction to queer studies, tracking its emergence and developments since the 1990s, as well as its relation to prior debates in lesbian and gay studies, feminism, and postcolonial theory. That is, we will focus on recent developments in queer theory, queer activism, and cultural production, and read them alongside background and foundational texts, debates, and social movements. We will consider both theory and culture to be our primary texts. We will begin by reading the recent issue of Social Text, “What’s Queer About Queer Theory Now?” (Eng, Halberstam, and Muqoz), move through central theories and debates in the field, and examine recent cultural production, including queer films, television, and performance as sites of resistance and critique. Topics covered include: mass culture and subcultures; representation and visibility; migration and diaspora; trauma; transgender theory; HIV/AIDS; grief and loss; religion and sexuality; queer temporalities; queer space/place; marriage; and human rights.

In a Queer Time and Place: Queer Theory and the Politics of Temporality (Spring, 2012)
with Jaclyn Pryor
In the last decade, the field of queer studies has made a turn towards re-thinking the politics of temporality. From Judith Halberstam’s In A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005) to Elizabeth Freeman’s Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010), scholars are investigating the ways in which heteronormativity-and related dominant frameworks such as capitalism and colonialism-produce and reproduce an idealized sense of time that is linear and progress-oriented. At the same time, scholars are examing the ways in which LGBTQ subcultures “produce alternative temporalities by allowing their participants to believe that their futures can be imagined according to logics that lie outside of those paradigmatic markers of life experience-namely, birth, marriage, reproduction, and death” (Halberstam 1). How do queers queer time-through sex, art, gender, ritual, and kinship? Why do the politics of temporality matter at this historical moment? In this course, we will read recent scholarship in queer studies and look at case studies within queer subcultural practices and production. Attention will be paid to the politics of space/place as they relate to time, including notions of citizenship, migration, and diaspora.

EDIT: Quinn Miller’s name was changed in this document in order to respect his preferred name, which has been blatantly disregarded in official Hampshire College media.