this is a 3000-level history course but also a collective creation.
Moving thematically across time and space, we'll explore queer/trans history across turtle island through the creative lenses of media, storytelling, & art.
each week will be a story itself weaving moments from the past together based on changing themes.
NOTE TO STUDENTS
resources, workshop & zine instructions are posted under each of the ' Weeks ' tabs. or, you can see all of the zine & workshop instructions via workshops.
bits & bobs has our bulletin board (incl. collaborative links to course Spotify + Pinterest), links to queer archives to guide your primary source analysis, zine-making resources to help you with your final zines.
THEORY
the course explores queer history using a queer approach to history. assignments & in-class activities encourage students to engage in research-creation. or, to read the assigned sources, learn about queer pasts, and interpret all this info creatively. with a little guidance from their course instructor, students are encouraged to surface or ' activate ' historic creations, art, media, and storytelling through some of their own.
when designing the course, I referred back to the pedagogical impulse & in particular the class/creation entitled, this is not a class. you can read more about my pedagogical inspirations in the syllabus zine.
the hope for this course is that we can create new ways to engage with queer history, question dominant narratives, explore diversity in the queer past, and use creation as a mode of deeper engagement, thoughtfulness, and activism.
the course moves thematically across time (instead of chronologically -- we discuss more about this choice in weeks 3/4) and covers the pre-colonial & 18th-21st centuries on turtle island (or colonial constructions, us & canada).
