About the Course
This course explores U.S.-based, intersectional and antiracist feminist approaches to understanding masculinities/femininities, genders, and sexualities. Together, each class community examines the ways in which we learn and perform genders and sexualities through the weaves of culture/s, ethno-racial politics, class experience, desire, political action– through our bodies, our communities, our histories, our differences.
The subject(ivities) of “woman”, (or “man”) cannot be presumed. Gender-ing is a social process that is indelibly connected to other forms of social identity, experience and power—such as race, ethnicity, nation, sexualities, religion, language, class and so forth. These are “performances” of being– and doing– which create embodied and material experiences of power, privilege and inequality in our individual and collective lives.
Below you can find the projects of students who explore a social justice movement either in the U.S. or elsewhere.
PROPOSED Conference: Child Stars and Vulnerable Youth in the Modern Age
by Anonymous
For this project, the authors wanted to create something that would bring awareness to the issue of child sex exploitation. They have created a hypothetical conference-style event that features workshops, speakers, and panelists all surrounding the theme of child exploitation. The authors have created two brochures to supplement this event, one information brochure and one program scheduling brochure.
By Anonymous
In this visual, the authors explore the sexual violence of Okinawan women by American soldiers which comments on how a nation’s promise for security is dependent on the dignity and bodies of indigenous women in Japan.
