Intersectional Queer Theory

Full Tuition: $300 — Scholarship options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select.

Instructor: Stillman | Sundays | August 27-September 24 | 5:00-7:00 PM ET | ONLINE [This class was formerly offered as Queer Theory 201.]

Are you interested in going beyond the basics of Queer Theory? In this class, we’ll dive deep to learn how Queer Theory intersects with other disciplines like Critical Race Theory and Crip Theory. Join a whole bunch of bookish queers and pro-queer accomplices as we build community and work through the nuances of the classics and the incredible conceptual work done since the early days of Queer Theory! We’ll start with a thorough analysis of the revolutionary synthesis of psychoanalysis, existentialism, feminism, and post-structuralism that Judith Butler used to consolidate the foundational conception of gender performativity. Then we’ll look to the epochal work of scholars like Hortense Spillers and Roderick A. Ferguson to better understand exactly how heteronormativity is a byproduct of colonialism, slavery, and the invention of whiteness. After that, we’ll turn to thinkers like Alison Kafer and Eli Clare to ask about the extent to which Queer Theory either is or must become a challenge to queer communities’ own histories of ableism. Finally, we’ll read selections from Gleeson and O’Rourke’s Transgender Marxism and consider how decades of Trans thought and activism have reconfigured Queer Theory into what it is today. Intersectional Queer Theory will give you the toolkit you need for an inclusive queer future.

Classes are recorded to allow for students to participate asynchronously. If you want to take a class but cannot make the class time, sign up for the asynchronous audit option to follow along on your own. Recordings are password protected and will only be available for the duration of the class and two weeks after it ends.

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