Description:
Across the globe, members of queer communities fight for their right to love, work, and live free from fear and oppression. Through creative, cultural, and political advocacy, they have found ways to flourish despite legal, religious, and social persecution. However, both at home and abroad, high rates of forced homelessness, stigma, exclusion, job insecurity, incarceration, and violence against queer people persist. This course calls attention to these injustices as they exist on local and global scales while also celebrating queer identities, queer joy, and queer activism. The course promotes a complex understanding of gender, sexuality, and justice by exploring many of the pressing issues that queer people have faced at different times and in different parts of the world. The course will also investigate how other oppressions such as racism, classism, ableism, and xenophobia contribute to heterosexism and transphobia. By creating original zines (mini-magazines that combine poetry and visual art with information about a specific topic), course participants will share what they have learned with the rest of the Balfour community and become accomplices in the struggle for queer liberation.
1 comment:
Great Job Group 2! I'm so excited to check out these magazines, especially with all of these hard hitting isms that may come up. Will you all make copies for us to look at during the final presentation?
-MK
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