tangled community, entangled communities: lesbians and always more: play & cognition activities

community?

course description for this term’s version of the class

The term “lesbian community” might well mean something different in each decade since the 1970s when gay women began to use the term lesbian to describe themselves and feminism had to stop dyke baiting practices. Recently at UMD the LGBT Studies program became folded into our WMST department and there is talk about changing both names, but to what? And this last year a new scholarly journal began its first volume, named TSQ or Transgender Studies Quarterly. Transnational politics, legalities, travel, and scholarship under various names and umbrella terms have their own histories and timelines, something very unevenly obvious in and to the US. So in 2015 there are many questions to explore about lesbian communities. How do they/we name them/ourselves? What communities do we discover to be entangled here, how does naming matter, what intersectionalities should we center or network, what national and transnational ranges are our proper contexts for investigation? Are communities something to work for or against and why? Do communities protect or police or include or exclude those who might want to work together in solidarity today?

tangled community, entangled communities: lesbians and always more

Tuesdays 4:00pm - 6:30pm at KEY 0125

WMST 494 / LGBT 494, Spring 2015 UMD Lesbian Communities and Difference

Credit only granted for: LGBT494 or WMST494

Prerequisite: 1 course in WMST. Recommended: WMST200 or WMST250

Professor: Katie King

Office: 2101C Woods Hall, University of Maryland, College Park

Office hours this term on Wednesdays 2-4 pm by appointment. And also be sure to email me at katking@umd.edu TO CONFIRM the morning you are coming too! otherwise you might lose your place! & note you can grab me after class!

Office phone: 301.405.7294 (voice mail) but email is most reliable connection.

IF YOU SUBMIT ANY ATTACHMENTS BY EMAIL DO IT ONLY TO: katiekin@gmail.com (notice “kin” NOT “king”)

But best email for fast reply is: katking@umd.edu

KK’s website with MESSAGES: http://katiekin.weebly.com/

You can follow Katie on Twitter @katkingumd

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