2016-17 Academic Catalog

Caribbean Queer Matters invites students to think about the complexities, contradictions and activist possibilities of gender non-conforming and same-gender desiring individuals in the English-speaking Caribbean. The course will serve as an incubator where students will develop the skills to understand and analyze these non-U.S. contexts, all the while foregrounding attention to the local, regard for difference and a commitment to issues of justice. The course will draw on a range of genres and disciplinary vantage points. Students will engage film, biographical narratives, music, critical texts, poetry, as well as the fields of Caribbean Studies, Women's Studies, Critical Race and LGBT Studies.