Transborder Resist, Resil, Rev

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This Multimedia Production Lab, explores contemporary feminist and Indigenous activisms on contested, yet invisiblized, global borderlands. Although “crossing” through the US/Mexico, Iran/Turkey/Syria, India/Burma/China, Haiti/DR, Israel/Palestine, Ethiopia/Eritrea, “border checkpoints,” the course expands the notion of borderlands, beyond its fixed geographical and political registers. We will explore the imaginary, symbolic, and psychological boundaries diasporas, refugees, and civil societies transgress as they struggle for— political, religious, disability, labor, LGBTQIA+, and Indigenous and women’s— rights. Students will produce multimedia work: an autoethnographic short story about their own border “transgressions;” and a 10-minute activist audio documentary expanding on a theme from the course.