Cross-listed with Chicana/o Latina/o Studies. This course looks at the correlation between queer and trans migrants’ experiences and larger systems of power, both within and beyond U.S. borders. It analyzes the relationship between colonization, imperialism, LGBTQ+ migration, and resistance.

Image: student final group project, fall 2022

In this course we learn about QoCC as a frame that is grounded in the struggles and world-making of LGBTQ people of color. It examines how activists, artists, and scholars have mobilized queer of color critique to understand the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and diaspora, challenging both whiteness in mainstream queer theory and heterosexism in ethnic studies. The course interrogates capitalism, labor, settler colonialism, migration, imperialism, and the police state from a QoCC frame.

Image: graphic designed by students, class of fall 2022.

This course introduces students to key concepts in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies, with a focus on Gender, Race, and Sexuality. The course covers strategies for organizing and activism, offering examples of social justice struggles and victories. It offers vocabulary and tools to think about contemporary feminist issues, including but not limited to gender and sex binaries, citizenship, sex work, colonial borders, prison, and reproduction.

Image: collage of some authors we read in class.