Course Foundations
This course centers not struggle alone, but this uplifting theme across global LGBTQ+ narratives.
Answer: What is queer joy?
This scholar’s work Cruising Utopia helps students think about utopian queer futures.
Answer: Who is José Esteban Muñoz?
Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet introduces queer joy in this continent’s literary traditions.
Answer: What is Africa?
This iconic ballroom documentary from 1990 celebrates chosen families, dance, and queer culture.
Answer: What is Paris Is Burning?
Students must post journal reflections to this platform the night before class.
Answer: What is Moodle?
Students improve through this combination of practice, experimentation, and reflection.
Answer: What is reading and writing about literature, film, and media?
Her concept of “Happy Objects” appears in The Promise of Happiness.
Answer: Who is Sara Ahmed?
This East Asian film (2020) explores queer love and memory in Taiwan.
Answer: What is Your Name Engraved Herein?
This 2016 documentary revisits ballroom culture from the perspective of Black and Latinx queer youth.
Answer: What is Kiki?
Missing class without excuse deducts this percentage from your final grade per day.
Answer: What is 2%?
This classroom environment value asks students to “support and help each other learn both in learning and unlearning.”
Answer: What is kindness?
In Week 2, we read Beyond the Gender Binary by this author and performer.
Answer: Who is Alok Vaid-Menon?
In Week 6, we explored queer Palestinian life through this visual project/database.
Answer: What is Queering the Map?
This poet-musician appears in Week 11 with works like You Better Be Lightning.
Answer: Who is Andrea Gibson?
Laptops may be used only when the instructor asks for this.
Answer: What is a class assignment or search?
According to the syllabus, this skill—alongside writing and public speaking—is a major focus of the course.
Answer: What is critical thinking?
This queer theorist wrote The Queer Art of Failure.
Answer: Who is Judith/Jack Halberstam?
This documentary shows how Peking Opera challenged gender norms worldwide.
Answer: What is Mei Lanfang
This Appalachian anthology highlights queer and trans rural experiences.
Answer: What is Discarded: A Rural Anthology?
One major writing assignment teaches close reading and primary-source analysis in 500–750 words.
Answer: What is the analysis essay/book review?
You had to attend this mandatory October 2nd event in the Ewen Meeting Room.
Answer: What is the convocation with queer activist Mx Yaffa?
Their edited work Inara: Light of Utopia offers Palestinian queer visions.
Answer: Who is Mx Yaffa?
The name of the nightclub in the middle of Berlin during the Weimar period.
Answer: Eldorado
You met this poet, author of Gay Poems for Red States, during Week 12.
Answer: Who is Willie Carver?
For the final project, students receive this object to create a visual narrative of queer joy.
Answer: What is a Polaroid camera?