the third section of our course: our next experience set leading to Workshop 2

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We begin this week our next experience set, which will culminate in Workshop 2! 

• Queer Speculations & Lesbian Kin: analyze a text with tools from the LGBT lecture series
<Tuesday 14 April>

You may have already begun by attending either the Nyong'o talk or the colloquium:

TAVIA NYONG’O, "Deep Time, Dark Time: Kara Walker’s Anarchaeology"
> Thursday, March 12, 2015; 5pm at Francis Scott Key Hall 0106
> Friday, March 13, 2015 Colloquium with Tavia Nyong’o; 12:30pm-2pm at Taliaferro Hall 2110

If neither of those yet, then you must attend:

MIRANDA JOSEPH, "Investing in the Cruel Entrepreneurial University" 
> Wednesday, April 1, 2015; 5pm at Marie Mount Hall 1400  

Any of these three events in the LGBT lecture series can serve for tools for Workshop 2. You should be meeting with your class partner to discuss these and share what you have learned, are learning, will learn from these events. If you intend to collaborate with someone for Workshop 2, then you should be meeting with them as well! 

And it is also time to come up with texts to use these tools to address. You have three kinds of choices there too:

EITHER • a chapter of Rodríguez’ book, OR • an article you choose from either Transgender Studies Quarterly OR Sinister Wisdom at any point in their publication history. Whichever text you choose, you will explicitly discuss HOW YOU USE the tools, perspective, methods, lens, ideas you glean from the presentation or lecture of one of the two people presenting as part of the LGBT Series in March, before our workshop convenes. 

So come to class with ideas and experiences and notes to share with class partners and to jump start this section of the class!

NOTICE you will need to READ AHEAD and to do research in addition to preparation for class each week. And also notice that attending class each week will make it much easier to prepare for Workshop 2!


>>>SECTION THREE: QUEER KINSHIPS 

Tuesday 24 March – Exiles and Globalizations  
• READ: Lesbians & Exile issue of Sinister Wisdom: read about half this week and the rest next week. You can read in any order you choose!
• EXAMINE AND BEGIN TO READ: Wekker book. Read Preface and Acknowledgments, and then the first and last paragraphs of each chapter. What can you say about the book having done this?
• ON THE WEB: find out what you can about the Conference Wekker is keynoting this week in Amsterdam. Follow up in case any videos or other materials go up on the web: http://asca.uva.nl/conferences/politics-of-attachment/politics-of-attachment.html

Create a list of things you read about in all this material that surprises you. Explore why you are surprised: what did you think instead and why? Where has your information come from? Why might these materials be different? What connections do you see between the conference Wekker is keynoting and the issues we are exploring? Think ahead to Workshop 2!! Bring questions and ideas!

Tuesday 31 March – Afterglows? <ENSZER VISITS AGAIN>
• READ: Finish Lesbians & Exile issue of Sinister Wisdom
• EXAMINE AND BEGIN TO READ: Rodríquez book. Read Acknowledgments and Introduction, and the last part “Afterglow.” What can you say about the book having done this?

Enszer will visit again and will talk more about Sinister Wisdom. You should be in the thick of your plans for and drafts of your work for Workshop 2 now. What we do today should be invaluable for your projects! Bring partially done work to share with others.

MIRANDA JOSEPH, "Investing in the Cruel Entrepreneurial University" 
> Wednesday, April 1, 2015; 5pm at Marie Mount Hall 1400

Tuesday 7 April – Knowing Otherwise  
• READ: as much of Rodríquez as you can!
• NEXT CLASS IS WORKSHOP 2! 

Rodríquez is giving the Keynote for the Queer Studies Symposium Friday 17 April. She is is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies; the Berkeley Center for New Media; the Center for Race and Gender; and the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures. She is one of the founding members of the Haas Institute's Center for a Fair and Inclusive Society's LGBTQ Citizen Cluster, and currently serves on the President’s Advisory Council on LGBT Students, Faculty & Staff for the University of California. Rodríguez is the author of two books, Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (NYU 2003) and Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings (NYU 2014) and has published numerous articles related to her research interests in sexuality studies, queer activism in a transnational American context, critical race theory, technology and media arts, and Latin@ and Caribbean studies. She is currently working on a third book project that considers the quandaries of representing racially gendered violence, pleasure, and trauma in visual culture.

• WORKSHOP #2: Queer Speculations & Lesbian Kin 
This year’s LGBT lecture series invites you to join discussions about the speculation about queer bodies, objects, feelings, pasts, futures, utopias, dystopias, and transformations. You will explore class readings and LGBT lecture series presentations together carefully, chose which text to analyze with the tools from particular lectures and discussion, and •share in either poster or written analysis why it matters for lesbians in various communities. Our mind-bending questions are ones to explore at any developing moment in your understanding of lesbian and queer worlds. Good faith work to challenge your thinking and to share with and learn from others is the point here. Choose EITHER • a chapter of Rodríguez’ book, OR • an article you choose from either Transgender Studies Quarterly OR Sinister Wisdom at any point in their publication history. Whichever text you choose, you will explicitly discuss HOW YOU USE the tools, perspective, methods, lens, ideas you glean from the presentation or lecture of one of the two people presenting as part of the LGBT Series in March, before our workshop convenes. You will attend at least one of these events in order to note the concerns, themes, understandings, and approaches of EITHER Tavia Nyong’o (two possible events to go to) OR Miranda Joseph. (If for any reason you cannot attend one of these events, you will need to talk to Katie about the extra work required to substitute one of the author visits to our class.)

Tuesday 14 April  
In the first part of class we will share our work poster session style: divide in two groups, and all move around talking to each other about work during the class time. After our break we will have a conversation about what we learned, noticed, thought about, and draw from class presentations. Make notes during the first part so you can run the discussion yourselves during the second part.

• Everything must be in final finished state on Tuesday to display, but you are allowed to revise one more time before turning things in electronically by Friday.
• Send to katiekin@gmail.com , use filename yrlastname 494 paper1 or poster1. Please number pics if more than one. Use this subject header too: yrlastname 494 workshop1
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