CGS 105 Queer Theory Download Reading

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3. Classic Queer Theory and Its Discontents (Tuesday, July 9)

–Michel Foucault (1978) The History of Sexuality Volume 1 An Introduction, Vintage, 92-131.

–Judith Butler(2006[1988]) Performative acts and gender constitution: An essay in phenomenology and feminist theory, in The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education, Routledge, 900-911.

--José Esteban Muñoz (1999) Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, University of Minnesota Press, 1-19.

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4. Resistance: Processes of Repression, Co-optation, Assimilation, Creativity, Solidarity, Autonomy, Subversion and Militancy (Thursday, July 11)

–Jennie Livingston (1990) Paris is Burning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUmiLlg-GM

–J Wentzy (2002) FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS: 15 YEARS of ACT UP http://www.actupny.org/video/index.html || a direct link to the video...  https://vimeo.com/90722188

–S Stryker (2016) Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU

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5. Queer Anti-Prison Resistance (7/16)

–J Sudbury (2009) Maroon abolitionists: Black gender-oppressed activists in the anti-prison movement in the US and Canada, Meridians, 1-29.

–JC Oparah (2012) Feminism and the (Trans)gender Entrapment of Gender Nonconforming Prisoners, UCLA Women's Law Journal, 18(2), 239-271.

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6. Queer People of Color Anti State Violence Organzing (7/18)

–Roderick A. Ferguson (2004) Aberrations in Black, Towards A Queer of Color Critique, 1-18.

–A Garza (2016) A Herstory of the# BlackLivesMatter Movement. Are All the Women Still White?: Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms, 23-28.

–TB Lindsey (2015) Post-Ferguson: A “herstorical” approach to Black violability. Feminist Studies, 41(1), 232-237.

-Andrea J Ritchie (2017) Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Beacon Press, p 104-126.

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7. Queer Crip Feminist Resistance: AIDS, Climate Change and Nature (7/23)

–Robert McRuer (2006) Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, 1-3, 6-14, 33-42.

–Alison Kafer (2013) Feminist, Queer, Crip, Indiana University Press: Bodies of Nature, 129-149.

**Please note we have eliminated the article by Hall, but we will tell you about it in class...

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8. Indigenous Two-Spirits (7/25)

–Joey L Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock (2011) Setting the Historical Stage: Colonial Legacies, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, Beacon Press, 1-19.

-Trudie Jackson (2018) Two-Spirit Nation: Water Protectors Rise to Reclaim Space in the Sacred Fire, EFNIKS, November 20.

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9. Pinkwashing and Queer Resistance in Palestine (7/30)

–Jasbir Puar (2007) Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Duke University Press, 1-21.

–H Maikey and M Stelder (2015) Dismantling the Pink Door in the Apartheid Wall: Towards a Decolonized Palestinian Queer Politics, Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex & Race, 83-104.

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