Lesbian Communities

This semester of Lesbian Communities will take up a range of themes and "pairings," in global networks. We will explore gay marriage and queer heterosexualities, transgender and genderqueer, popular culture and entertainment cultures. The networks we will travel, engage and alter will be those of lesbian feminisms and racialized nationalisms, militarized colonialisms and media glocalizations, sex practices and sex romances. All of these are elements in queering knowledges and wondering about institutional normalizations.

Are these familiar or unfamiliar ways of thinking? The class, as always, is made up of folks for whom all of this is totally new, others for whom this is complexly familiar, and still others who have lots of experience to share but are less used to the academic side of Lesbian community. There will rightly be lots of differences among folks in class, but one thing we will have in common is that we all engage in variously human practices of making, using and exploding assumptions. So we will take up the practice of being curious about our violated assumptions as a common thread through the course, collecting them in lists to chart our various movements among knowledges.

Lesbian Communities

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

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