This course will offer an introduction to the discourse of Queer of Color Critique through the framing lens of affect theory. Exploring a range of visual artists, performers, and queer theorists of color, we will aim to explore affect in relation to the body and its polymorphous capacity to be moved in ways that are accompanied by a range of fleshly sensations, complex identifications, and various forms of intimacy and attachment. Will we reflect on the kinds of structures of feeling (joy, optimism, shame, abjection, loss) that emerge from the intimate encounters between race and queerness, and will do so through the analytic of what José Muñoz has called the sense of brownness: a very particular sense of the world as a “shareability of life,” one attuned to the experiences of the most vulnerable and dispossessed. Which is to say, we will go in search of a queer brownness that points to other ways of affecting and being affected.

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