Gen&WS 446: Queer of Color Critique

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This course is a mode of critical inquiry that emerges from intersecting theorizations of race, gender, sexuality, nation, class, and other sites of lived experience. While queer theory and activism have previously faced charges of insufficiently reckoning with race, activism and scholarship that take up race as their primary focus have a similar history of presumed heteronormativity. Queer of color critique, a term often credited to Roderick Ferguson, resists this divide and centers the intellectual traditions of queer thinkers of color to interrogate the mutual constitution of race, gender, and sexualities.