Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality 267 - Colloquium: Queer Ecologies: Race, Queerness, Disability and Environmental Justice
Colq: Queer Ecologies
Spring
2025
01
4.00
Evangeline Heiliger
TU TH 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Smith College
SWG-267-01-202503
Seelye 110
vheiliger@smith.edu
SWG 267-01, AMS 267-01
Offered as AMS 267 and SWG 267. This course examines interrelationships of race, sex, sexuality, gender, queerness, disability, class, embodiment, nation, Indigeneity, nature, and sustainability through critical engagement with a body of scholarship known as Queer Ecologies, e.g. anti-racist feminist and queer scholarship on science, labor, popular culture, cultural and environmental preservation, politics, bodies, and sexual and reproductive practices. The course draws theoretical muscle from feminist science studies, queer of color critique, critical race theory, crip theory, feminist theory, and more. Students learn basic participant observation methods, read scholarship, and analyze cultural artifacts such as web and print advertisements, television shows, films, and fiction. Enrollment limited to 18. (E)