This seminar is a survey of recent works in Queer and Trans studies/critique with a special emphasis on queer and trans subjects of color. We will read across genres and follow a book a week model as a practice of learning how to read critically and strategically for scholarship. Students will produce a piece of writing that places the course material in conversation with their larger research project.

 

Selected Readings include:

 

Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire By C. Winter Han

 

Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatopholia by Avgi Saketopoulou

 

Decolonize Drag by Kareem Khubchandani

 

Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex by Juana María Rodríguez

 

The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall by Cookie Woolner

 

Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

 

Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago by Kemi Adeyemi

 

Theres a disco ball between us: a theory of Black gay life by Jafari S. Allen

 

Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable by Eric Stanley