Section Info: GNDST-204CP-01

Course Title: Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Trap Doors and Glittering Closets: Queer/Trans* of Color Visual Cultures of Resistance'
Start Date: 09/04/2024 End Date: 12/17/2024
Term: Fall Semester 2024
Description: In 2014, Time magazine declared the "Transgender Tipping Point" as a popular moment of transgender people's arrival into the mainstream. Using a queer and trans* of color critique, this course will unpack the political discourses and seeming binaries surrounding visibility/invisibility, recognition/misrecognition, legibility/illegibility, belonging/unbelonging and aesthetics/utility. How might we grapple with the contradictions of the trapdoors, pitfalls, dark corners and glittering closets that structure and normalize violence for some while safeguarding violence for others? This course will center the 2017 anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility.
Distribution(s): I - Humanities , MP - Multicultural Perspectives , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course
Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate     Credits:4.00    

Faculty         Phone         Email address        
Ren-yo Hwang             rhwang@mtholyoke.edu  

Meeting Dates         Method         Meeting days         Meeting times         Building name         Room     Frequency    
09/04/2024 - 12/17/2024   Discussion   Tuesday   01:30PM - 04:20PM   CLAP - Clapp Laboratory   225   Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses        
Prereq: One course in CRPE, Gender Studies, or CST. Take previously   Required  

Comments        
Additional Comments        
Course Tags        
NXMAP0001   NXMAP: Nexus in Museums, Archives, and Public History   This course is approved for the Museums, Archives, and Public History Nexus track.  

Cross-listed Sections        
GNDST-204CP-01 TrapDoors/QTBIPoC VisualCultr  
CRPE-256-01 TrapDoors/QTBIPoC VisualCultr  

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted     Capacity: 18     Enrollment: 17     Available: 0     Waitlist: 3
Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List         Required         Publisher Full Price        
To be determined.                    

Additional Book Comments        
This is NOT the complete book list for this class.