Schedule

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August 11, 2013

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Please read the assigned texts before class. This includes the first day’s reading. If you join the class late, catch up as quickly as you can.

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 If you struggle to get through each week’s reading, here are some general tips for managing graduate reading loads. Adjust them according to your own needs and priorities (individual and collective) for this class.

¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Where readings are archived at journals that require institutional access, links will take you directly to an authentication page where you can log in with your UMD ID. In general, installing this browser button may speed up your off-campus access. If you are accessing this syllabus for personal study, do not have the requisite institutional access, and cannot find the texts elsewhere online, contact me and I will share the files with you. If you are able to use an institutional subscription, please do, as this helps authors to see that they are being read as well as supporting the work of journals publishing feminist and queer scholarship.

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Week 1 8/31
Setting Intentions and Collective Worldmaking
Walidah Imarisha, “Introduction” and adrienne maree brown, “outro” from Octavia’s Brood (OB) (2015)
Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)” (2010)

¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Introductory Reflection due: Monday 9/5 or the Monday after you join the class.

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Unit 1: Foundational Intersections

¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Week 2 9/7
Intersectionality 1: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Identity
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color” (1991)
Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” (dated 1977; published in multiple anthologies)
Patricia Hill Collins, “Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment” from Black Feminist Thought (1990) (Recommended: compare the revisions to this material in the 2000 second edition)
Roderick Ferguson, “Something Else to Be: Sula, The Moynihan Report, and the Negations of Black Lesbian Feminism” from Aberrations in Black (2004)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Evidence” (OB: 2015)

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Week 3 9/14
Intersectionality 2: Networks, Borders, Connections
Cherrié Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, Introductions to This Bridge Called My Back (2015; 1983; 1981)
Gloria Anzaldúa, “The Homeland, Aztlan / El otro Mexico” and “La conciencia de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness” from Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987)
Chela Sandoval, “US Third World Feminism: Differential Social Movement 1” from Methodology of the Oppressed (2000)
AnaLouise Keating, “Beyond Intersectionality: Theorizing Interconnectivity With/In This Bridge Called My Back” from Transformation Now: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change (2013)
Dani McClain, “Homing Instinct” (OB: 2015)

¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 Friday September 16: UMD WMST’s Reimagining Everything Symposium in Tawes Hall. Attendance of as much of the symposium as you can is required. Register here: http://ter.ps/reimagining

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Week 4 9/21
Labor and Reproduction
Shulamith Firestone, “The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations” from The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970)
Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex” (1975)
Angela Davis, “Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights” and “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective” from Women, Race, and Class (1981)
Grace Kyungwon Hong, “Existentially Surplus: Women of Color Feminism and the New Crises of Capitalism” (2011)
Bao Phi, “Revolution Shuffle”; Tara Betts, “Runway Blackout” (OB: 2015)

¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Week 5 9/28
Agency and Negativity
Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988)
Judith Butler, “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy” (2004)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Rotten Worlds” from The Empire of Love (2006)
J. Jack Halberstam, “Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity” from The Queer Art of Failure (2011)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “Children Who Fly” (OB: 2015)

¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 Contextual Exploration due: Monday 10/3.

¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 Unit 2: Situating Knowledges

¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 Week 6 10/5
Human and Nonhuman Ecologies
Donna Haraway, “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privileging of Partial Perspective” (1988)
Karen Barad, “Meeting the Universe Halfway” from Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (2007)
Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, “Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations” (2015)
Mel Y. Chen, “Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections” (2011)
adrienne maree brown, “the river” (OB: 2015)

¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Week 7 10/12
Disabling Knowledge
Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013)
Leah (Phinnia) Meredith, Cal Montgomery, Tynan Power, and Margaret Price, “In/ter/dependent Scholarship” from Price, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life (2011)
Mia Mingus, “Hollow” (OB: 2015)

¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 Week 8 10/19
Institutions and Diversity
Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012)
Roderick Ferguson, “Affirmative Actions of Power” from The Reorder of Things: The University and its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012)
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses” (2004)
Mumia Abu-Jamal, “Star Wars and the American Imagination” (OB: 2015)

¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Visionary Speculation due: Monday 10/24

¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 Unit 3: Sex and Violence

¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 Week 9 10/26
Policing Desire
Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” (1984) and “Blood Under the Bridge: Reflections on Thinking Sex” (2010)
Jennifer Doyle, Campus Sex Campus Security (2015)

¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 Week 10 11/2
The Violence of Inclusion
Cathy Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” (1997)
Christina Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (2013)

¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 Week 11 11/9
Homonationalism
Jasbir Puar, “Introduction: Homonationalism and Biopolitics” from Terrorist Assemblages (2007)
Jin Haritaworn, Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places (2015)

¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 Preliminary Project Proposal due: Monday 11/14

¶ 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 Unit 4: Performance and Pleasure

¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 Week 12 11/16
Cultural Production as Queer of Color Theory
José Muñoz, “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts” (1996); “Introduction: Performing Disidentifications” from Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)
Karen Tongson, “The Light That Never Goes Out: Butch Intimacies and Sub-Urban Sociabilities in ‘Lesser Los Angeles’” (2008)
LaMonda Horton-Stallings, “Black Trans Narratives, Sex Work, and the Illusive Flesh,” from Funk The Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (2015)

¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 Week 13 11/23 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Submit revised research proposal and annotated bibliography in lieu of class

¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 Week 14 11/30 (Online class)
Radical Futures
Juana María Rodríguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (2014)

¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 Week 15 12/7
Performing Your Scholarly Worlds
Project presentations

¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 Final Projects and Closing Reflections Due: Friday December 16