GFS 170 PZ -Queer of Color Critique

Queer of Color Critique (QoCC) derives from Roderick Ferguson?s seminal Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. Ferguson?s framework and the resulting interdisciplinary field of Queer of Color Critique is rooted in women of color feminism, queer studies, and materialist analysis. This course familiarizes students with the cultural, political, and economic concerns of QoCC, and how it interrupts socially dominant categories of sexuality, including the implicitly white and masculine subject of queer theory. Through QoCC the course explores the political and ethical necessity of carving out space for desires, attachments, and modes of relation which are not always legible or are considered taboo. One of the primary goals of the course is to explore several keywords ? such as queer, desire, future, and sexuality ? through interrogations of the prison-industrial complex, the police state, and economic restructuring. Completing 1 prior course in GFS/FGSS/GWS is a prerequisite for enrolling in this course.