WGS 250: Global LGBTQ+ Activism

This course explores LGBTQ+ activisms in a variety of contexts around the globe through an intersectional feminist lens. We will explore activist campaigns that strive for access, visibility, resources and self-determination. We will interpret a range of diverse contexts under which movements emerge, grow, thrive, and fade. And we will shine a light on how movements frame their issues, forge and sustain their collective identities, utilize space, emotions, strategies and tactics to effect change and bridge to or chafe against related movements. The course invites students to understand the historical, sociocultural, political and experiential specificities and differences of LGBTQ+ activisms in varied geographic locations while identifying transnational points of connection in approach, struggles, triumphs and lessons learned. Guest visits from activists and activist-scholars and films and podcasts will animate and deepen our discussions Informed by the assigned materials, students will focus their attention on a particular LGBTQ+ movement of their choosing and produce an informed analysis of its work. .