In this course, we contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of queer and transgender lives. Instead, we will engage with scholars, activists, artists in queer and trans cultures and political movements to advance equity. We examine queerness and transgender as a categories, processes, a social assemblage, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Topics explored can be the cultural production of queer and trans communities, critiques of political economy, trans futures, racism, transphobia, intersectionality and the problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.Critical Ethnic Studies 2000-level seminars introduce students to the complexities and nuances of intersectionality, gender, disability, decolonial theory & philosophy, in imperialist and non-imperialist societies. 2000-level seminars may incorporate one or more of the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x, and Latino /a/x studies, border studies, cultural studies, critical disability studies, critical gender studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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