Week 1
August 24
Fall Semester (2022) Begins
August 25
Course Introductions
Week 2
August 30
Audre Lorde: “Poetry is Not a Luxury”
Audre Lorde: “Uses of the Erotic”
Lauren M. Jackson: “Memes and Misogynoir”
August 31
Screening of Paris Is Burning (1990) [location tbd]
September 1
Jennie Livingston: Paris Is Burning (1990)
bell hooks: “Is Paris Burning?”
Judith Butler: “Gender Is Burning”
Week 3
September 6
Abdellah Taïa: A Country for Dying
September 8
José Esteban Muñoz: “Introduction,” from Disidentifications
Contrapoints (Natalie Wynn): “Cringe” on YouTube
Dana Luciano: “Introduction” + selected essays from ASAP/J’s Queer(s) Reading Cluster
Week 4
September 13
Jia Qing Wilson Yang: Small Beauty [1/2]
September 15
Baratunde Thurston: “How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time”
Ramzi Fawaz & Shanté Paradigm Smalls: “Queers Read This! LGBTQ Literature Now” + selected essays from this GLQ Issue
Week 5
September 20
Jia Qing Wilson Yang: Small Beauty [2/2]
September 22
Yanyi: The Year of Blue Water, selected poems
Barbara Johnson: “Writing”
Week 6
September 27
Toni Morrison: Sula [1/2]
September 29
E. Patrick Johnson: “‘Quare’ studies”
The Read: selected podcast episodes
Week 7
October 4
Toni Morrison: Sula [2/2]
October 6
Shaka McGlotten: “Black Data”
Cathy Cohen: “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens”
Week 8
October 11
FALL BREAK
October 13
Eve K. Sedgwick: “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading”
Haneen Maikey and Mikki Stelder: “Dismantling the Pink Door in the Apartheid Wall”
Week 9
October 18
Ana Castillo: So Far From God [1/3]
October 20
Benjamin Garcia: Thrown in the Throat, selected poems
Juana María Rodríguez: “Divas, Atrevidas, y Entendidas”
Week 10
October 25
Ana Castillo: So Far From God [2/3]
October 27
Gloria Anzaldúa: “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
Week 11
November 1
Ana Castillo: So Far From God [3/3]
November 3
Roderick Ferguson: “Queer of Color Critique and the Question of the Global South”
Franny Choi: Soft Science, selected poems
Week 12
November 8
Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous [1/3]
November 10
Josephine Ho: “Localized Trajectories of Queerness and Activism under Global Governance”
Adriaan Van Klinken: “Introduction: From ‘African Homophobia’ to Queer Arts of Resistance,” from Kenyan, Christian, Queer
Week 13
November 15
Ocean Vuong: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous [2/3]
Kai Cheng Tom: A Placed Called No Homeland, selected poems
November 17
Ocean Vuong:On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous [3/3]
Catherine Earl: “Life as lived and life as talked about: Family, love, and marriage in twenty-first-century Vietnam”
Week 14
November 22
Susan Sontag: “Notes on Camp”
Afsaneh Najmabadi: “Introduction,” from Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran
November 24
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 15/16
November 29
Ismat Chughtai: “The Quilt” (lihaaf)
Rupaul’s Drag Race, selected scenes
December 1
Workshopping
December 6
Workshopping