Writing is one of the most important ways queer people shape our own lives. The act of writing helps us figure out who we are and how we want to move through the world. If we're lucky, our writing will be read in rooms we cannot access, in places and times we could never have imagined. If we are truly lucky, our writing will encourage others to write.Ìý
If writing is one of the ways you navigate the world around you, this course is for you -- whatever identities you hold. We'll experiment with different modes of writing, primarily essays and poems, and we'll study the work of queer authors who have showed us how to flourish in the United States without compromising the weirdest and most precious parts of ourselves.Ìý
We'll read authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, JamesÌýBaldwin, kari edwards, Saidiya Hartman, Audre Lorde,ÌýEve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Ocean Vuong, and we will let them teach us how to craft our own essays and poems.Ìý
No prior experience in gender studies is needed to be successful in this course. Ìý
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Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:
2 - Creative Writing
2 - Queer Studies
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Academic Details
Graduate study in literature, gender and sexuality studies, creative writing.