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Mini Syllabus: Poetics of Queer Ecology
(after Janice Lee)
Course Description
Queer ecology is a series of evolving practices in art, science, and social criticism that center interrelationships and challenge the hierarchical and binary notions inherent in mainstream depictions of sex, gender, ability, species-relations, conservation, and politics. Through the prolonged study of these genre-defying texts, we will ask– alongside Joyelle McSweeney,– “What happens when art presses across national, linguistic, generic, and bodily boundaries—creating fecund, non-binary zones, releasing new energies, and configuring wondrous forms of thinking and living?” In this course, familiarized categories will erode as we seek to articulate new ways of being, and regard queer futurity as survivalist discourse.
*Contact me HERE for lesson plans and workshops designed for this course.*
Course Readings
- Unexpected Vanilla by So J. Lee
- Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz
- Beast Feast by Cody-Rose Clevidence
- Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
- Humanimal by Sunaura Taylor
- Good Stock Strange Blood by Dawn Lundy Martin
- The Feminist Plant: Changing Relations with the Water Lily by Prudence Gibson and Monica Gagliano
- "Flower Fisting" by Anne-Lise Francois
- Excerpts from We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics with Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel
- The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
- Excerpts from We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics with Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel
- Toxicon & Arachne by Joyelle McSweeney
- The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell