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WOME 2111

Special Topics

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2024

Topics

  • and activisms
  • contemporary circumstances of the Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Australia
  • exploring Indigenous feminisms, myths, and creative expressions
  • queer, transgender, critical race, and critical disability theory through visual
  • practices and tactics found in examples across academic literature, media, film
  • twists (as the etymology of the word suggests). Students
  • television clips, music videos, installations, paintings, theatrical and drag
  • performances, and activist movements
  • own individual writing assignments
  • Pre-requisites
  • abroad trip to Australia
  • how intersectionality shapes and has been shaped globally, particularly
  • for persons who identify as Indigenous and/or 2SLGBTQA+
  • key differences between the struggle for rights and justice, and why this
  • difference is important
  • Understand better how larger social relations of capitalism, heteropatriarchy
  • Indigeneity and sexual/gender diversity in different ways
  • Think critically about topics related to indigeneity and 2SLGBTQA+ in the lives
  • of individuals who belong to these intersections and in your own life
  • Develop your analytical, research, and writing skills through class discussions
  • and a final written paper
  • Develop your ability to work in teams

Readings

  • Namaste, V. (2009). Undoing theory: The transgender question and epistemic violence of AngloAmerican feminist theory. Hypatia 24(3), 11-32.
  • Maile, A., Tuck, E., & Morrill, A. (2013). Decolonizing feminism: Challenging connections between settler
  • Alcoff, L. (1991). The problem of speaking for others. Cultural Critique 20 (20), 5–32.
  • Schueller, M. J. (2005). Analogy and (white) feminist theory: Thinking race and the colour of the cyborg body. Signs 31 (1), 63-92.
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