SUBJECT TO CHANGE THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER
KEY:
- Anything listed in BOLD is due on that day.
- Things not listed in bold are activities we will be completing in class
- Days when you have an Online Post Due are highlighted in purple.
- The due dates of major assignments are highlighted in bright blue. For example, First Response Paper Due via Email.
- On days shaded in green, we will have No Class.
- On days shaded in yellow, we will have Extended Office Hours instead of class.
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Assignments, Due Dates, and Class Activities |
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Tues., Aug. 29
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Introductions and Syllabus What is Queer? Why Melancholia? |
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Thurs., Aug. 31
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Keywords “Queer,” “Heteronormativity,” and “Gender” Due (queer, heteronormativity, gender) Register for Commons Site by Today!
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Tues., Sept. 5 |
Continue Keywords Discussion |
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Thurs., Sept. 7 |
No Class |
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Tues., Sept. 12
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Online Post Due “Happiness and Queer Politics” by Ahmed |
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Thurs., Sept. 14 |
Selections From “It Gets Better” · Margaret Cho (10 Years Better) Articles About “It Gets Better” · “Campaign Offers Help to Gay Youths” · “In the Wake of It Gets Better”
Continue “Happiness” Discussion Introduce Freud |
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Tues., Sept. 19
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Online Post Due “Mourning and Melancholia” by Freud Due
Discuss “Mourning and Melancholia” Introduction to Baldwin |
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Thurs., Sept. 21
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Giovanni’s Room by Baldwin, Part One, Chapters 1-2 |
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Tues., Sept. 26
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Online Post Due Giovanni’s Room by Baldwin, Part One, Chapter 3 & Part Two, Chapters 1-3 |
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Thurs., Sept. 28 |
Giovanni’s Room by Baldwin, Part Two, Chapters 4-5 (end) |
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Tues., Oct., 3 |
Keyword “Trans” [Optional] “Future Fatigue: Trans Intimacies and Trans Presents (or How to Survive the Interregnum)” by Hil Malatino |
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Thurs., Oct. 5 |
“My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy” by Andrea Long Chu
Assign First Response Paper |
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Tues., Oct. 10 |
No Class [Classes Follow Monday Schedule] |
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Thurs., Oct. 12 |
Online Post Due
(Introduction) Edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel [Andrea Abi-Karam_ Kay Gabriel – We Want It All_ An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics-Nightboat Books (2021)] “Hey guys” and “The First Trans Person” by Amy Marvin “To the Cop Who Read My Text Messages” by Andrea Abi Karam “harold mouthfucks THE DEVIL” by Cyrée Jarelle Johnson |
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Tues., Oct. 17
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“Glitter in My Wounds” and “You Cannot Return a Stretched Mind” by Caconrad |
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Thurs., Oct. 19
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“Confessional Poem” and “Sonnet For The Intro to Critical Theory Professor…” by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza |
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Tues., Oct. 24
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Online Post Due “Everywhere We Look, There We Are” by Cam Awkward-Rich “Yes, a conversation” by José Díaz
Thesis Statement for First Response Paper |
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Thurs., Oct. 26
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“Bitch on Wheels” by Sylvia Rivera
Structuring Your First Response Paper |
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Tues., Oct. 31 |
Extended Office Hours for Essay Consultations, 5:00 to 8:15 p.m. (No Class) |
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Thurs., Nov. 2
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Peer Review [Hard-Copy Rough Draft of RP #1 Due Today for Peer Review Activity]
Address Any Lingering Questions |
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Tues., Nov. 7
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Watch Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs in class |
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Thurs., Nov. 9
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Response Paper #1 Due via Email “Black Macho Revisited” by Marlon Riggs
Discuss Tongues Untied and “Black Macho Revisited” |
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Tues., Nov. 14 |
Online Post Due Paris is Burning by Jenny Livingston [WATCH BEFORE CLASS TODAY]
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Thurs., Nov. 16 |
“Is Paris Burning?” by hooks
Assign Response Paper #2 |
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Tues., Nov. 21 |
Online Post Due In the Dream House, Part I (start-p. 60) by Machado |
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Thurs., Nov. 23 |
No Class [Thanksgiving Recess] |
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Tues., Nov. 28 |
In the Dream House, Part II & III (p. 61-182) by Machado Discuss Planning and Drafting Response Paper #2 |
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Thurs., Nov. 30 |
Online Post Due In the Dream House, Part IV and V (p. 182-242) by Machado |
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Tues., Dec. 5
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Extended Office Hours for Assignment Consultations, 5:00 to 8:15 p.m.
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Thurs., Dec. 7 [Last Class Meeting]
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Peer Review [Hard-Copy Rough Draft of RP #2 Due Today for Peer Review Activity]
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Tues., Dec. 12 |
No Class [Reading Day] |
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Thurs., Dec. 14 |
Office Hours for Assignment Consultations, 6:20 p.m. to 8:20 p.m. |
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Wed., Dec. 20 |
Response Paper #2 (and any missing work) ABSOLUTELY Due by 11:59 p.m. |
