GSF 386 Politics of Sexuality

Submissions §

• Essay 1
• Essay 2
• Essay 3
• GSF Final Planning

Unit 1: Theoretical Frameworks §

• Definitions
  • (DevonThink) Somerville, “Queer” (p. 203-207)
  • (DevonThink) Johnson, “Quare” studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother
  • (DevonThink) Peiss, Charity Girls and City Pleasures
  • Listen: Baldwin reads Baldwin - Joey Part 1&2 from Giovanni’s Room Giovanni’s Room “Joey” - Part 1 | Spotify
• Law
  • (Book) The Straight State
• Inventions
  • Selections from (Book) Not Gay
  • (DevonThink) Ambrosino, The invention of ‘heterosexuality’
  • (Book) The History of Sexuality (Volume 1: An Introduction: We “Other Victorians”)
• Quare
  • February 9: Selections from Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology

Unit 2: Politics and Poetics of Remembering §

• Space
  • Ariana Vigil, “Heterosexualization and the State: The Poetry of Gloria Anzaldúa”
  • Audrey Yue and Helen Hok-Sze Leung, “Notes towards the queer Asian City: Singapore and Hong Kong”
  • Rae Garringer, “Well, We’re Fabulous and We’re Appalachians, So We’re Fabulachians”
  • Becki L. Ross, “Sex and (Evacuation from) the City: The Moral and Legal Regulation of Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End, 1975—1985” 2010
• Memory
  • Rachel Gelfand, “Between Archives” Radical History Review
  • Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, “Sharing Queer Authorities: Collaborating for Transgender Latina and Gay Latino Historical Meaning”
  • Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, “Telling Tales: Oral History and the Construction of Pre-Stonewall Lesbian History
• Kinship
  • (Book) Kids on the Street

Unit 3: Futures & Pasts §

• Politics & Desire: (Book) The Right to Sex
• Performance: (Book) Stagestruck
• (Movie) Stay on Board - The Leo Baker Story (2022)
• History
• Project Week!