With apologies for the October hiatus, I wrote an entry in my newsletter reflecting on a queer literature course I had the chance to design, and on the lessons queer and trans history can teach us about refusing abandonment.
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I learned a lot teaching this course, and I tried some things in the course design (including an annotation assignment, a rotating set of working groups, and an open-ended, public-facing final project) that I'd be happy to talk more about if anyone's interested.
I knew when I was designing the class that it might be among the last I taught. I'm grateful for the students who told me how much it meant to them, and I'm furious to know the course will likely never be offered at SNC again. We have to fight that contraction of possibility with everything we have.
I’d love to see your course and discuss any time. My queer / trans lit pedagogy has always leaned heavily on “bring my friends in for video calls” and while that is fun / important, it also means I don’t always have an overarching set of logics planned out for a course like this.
I hate that your gifts as a teacher are not getting recognized and I think you’re exactly right that what’s happened to your institution is coming for the rest of us. I keep saying this in faculty meetings but they think I’m overreacting when I say that
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And yes, I'm afraid that the model of shock-doctrine cuts w/ ideological-curricular effects is coming soon to many places. It happened very fast here.