Reading Schedule

• Hastac. Queer and Feminist New Media Spaces

15      Contingent Belongings

Readings:

• Handhardt, Christina B. "Butterflies, Whistles, and Fists: Gay Safe Streets Patrols and the New Gay Ghetto, 1976-1981" (moodle)
• Handhard, Christina B. "Gay Mean Street"

CONFERENCE: Contingent Belongings: Queer Reflections on Race, Space and the State
Friday, 9/16-Saturday, 9/17. See more here: http://contingentbelongings.wordpress.com
Earn extra credit by attending and posting your thoughts and/or live-tweeting!

INTRODUCTION: What is queering?

Readings:

• Luhmann, Susanne. "Queering/querying pedagogy" (moodle)

22      What is queering theory, part 1?

Readings:

• Smith, Cherry. "What is This Thing Called Queer?" (moodle)
• Berlant, Lauren and Elizabeth Freeman. "From 'Queer Nationality" (moodle)
• Sullivan, Nikki. "Queer: A Matter of Being or Doing?" (moodle)

27      What is queering theory, part 2?

Readings:

• Johnson, E. Patrick. "'Quare' Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother" (moodle)
• Lee, Wenshu. "Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn" (moodle)

Readings:

• Smith, Andrea. "Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heternormativity of Settler Colonialism" (moodle)

OCTOBER

INTRODUCTION: Who is Judith Butler?

4        ...as a Person

Readings:

• Feminist Review. "Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Close Kind" link no longer works; will pass out essay in class
• McMillen, Liz. "Berkley's Judith Butler Revels in Role of Troublemaker" (moodle)

FILM: clips from Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind and Examined Life

6     ...as a Difficult Writer

Readings:

• Butler, Judith. "A Bad Writer Writes Back" 
• Butler, Judith. "Value of Difficulty" (moodle)
• Interview with Judith Butler. "Changing the Subject" (moodle)

11     ...as a Queer Theorist

Readings:

• Butler, Judith. "1990 and 1999 Preface" (moodle)
• Osbourne/Segal. "Gender as Performance: An Interview with Judith Butler"

13     ...as a troublemaker

Readings:

• Judith Butler Refuses Prize at Berlin CSD 2010
• Transcript of Butler's refusal speech
• Where Now? From Pride Scandal to Transnational Movement
• Butler 1, Homonationalism 0
• Celebrating Refusal
• Angela Davis' youtube response

PRESENTATION ON HOMONATIONALISM extra reading: Puar, Jasbir. "Mapping U.S. Homonormativities"

QUEERING THROUGH/BESIDE/AGAINST BUTLER: Some Key Terms

Readings:

• Butler, Judith. "Chapter 1: Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire" (moodle)

PRESENTATION ON GENDER extra reading: Valentine, David. "1% on the Burn Chart"

20       NO CLASS: CATCH-UP ON BLOG

25       ABJECT

Readings:

• Butler, Judith. Excerpts from Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter 
• Allison, Dorothy. "A Question of Class" 
• History is a Weapon
• Queer This! Criminalizing the 47%
• Queer This! #OccupyWallStreet
• An interesting response to Occupy Wall Street

27       Midterm Check-in

Readings:

• Foucault, Michel. "Method" in The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (moodle)
• Butler, Judith. "From Parody to Politics" in Gender Trouble, 194-204 (moodle)
• Buter, Judith. "Critically Queer" (moodle) CUT
• Nussbaum, Martha. "The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler"

3        RESISTING as DIS-sing: Disidentification and Disavowal

Readings:

• Muñoz, José Esteban. "Introduction: Performing Disidentification" in Disidentifications: queers of color and the performance of Politics (moodle)

PRESENTATION ON RESISTING/REJECTING extra reading: Selections from That's Revolting

8         IN-BETWEEN/BESIDE

Readings:

• Butler, Judith. "Beside Oneself" (moodle) skim all, focus on definition of beside on page 20
• Anzaldúa, Gloria. "now let us shift...the path of cono- cimiento...inner work, public acts" (moodle) skim all, focus on #2 nepantla, on 547-549

PRESENTATION ON LIMINALITY extra reading: Lugones, Maria. Excerpt from Pilgramages/Peregrinajes

10        KINSHIP

Readings:

• Butler, Judith. "Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual"
• Warner, Michael. "Normal and Normaller" CUT
• Thompson, Richard Ford. "What's queer about race"
• Cohen, Cathy. Excerpt from "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens" skim all, focus on marriage section starting on page 37

PRESENTATION ON KINSHIP
extra reading: http://fckh8.com and http://www.minnesotansunitedforallfamilies.com/

15/17    Another Judith...Halberstam

Readings:

• Halberstam, Judith. The Queer Art of Failure

PRESENTATION ON FAILURE on November 17

extra reading: Muñoz, Jose Esteban. "The Virtuosity of Failure"

22/24    NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING

Readings:

• Chávez, Karma. "Spatializing Gender Performativity: Ecstasy and Possibilities for Livable Life in the Tragic Case of Victoria Arellano" (moodle)
• Diablog on Chávez from queering ethics course

PRESENTATION ON BODIES/MATERIAL EXPERIENCE extra reading: Namaste, Vivian. Excerpt from Invisible Lives

DECEMBER

Readings:

• Bornstein, Kate and S. Bear Bergman. Selections from Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

PRESENTATION ON YOUTH ON 12/1 extra reading: District 202 and put this on the map
PRESENTATION ON SURVIVING/THRIVING ON 12/6 extra reading: various sources on "It Gets Better"

8        Wrap-up and class presentations

13      Wrap-up and class presentations