This course introduces students to the intersections between sexualities and popular cultures in historical and contemporary contexts, focusing on queerness(es). We think about the politics of sexuality in and across a range of cultural forms -- including fashion, food, music, cinema, and beauty. We attend to how normative and non-normative notions and forms of sexuality are shaped by differences of race, language, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, region, and nationalism. We think of pop culture in an expansive way, that is, as everyday cultural forms, texts, practices, products, spaces, and histories that we engage with, use, enjoy, and participate in. We draw on women of color feminist studies, transnational feminist studies, global cultural and media studies, and queer/trans of color studies to explore the politics of sexuality through an intersectional framework across a range of public cultures and arts. |