W3: How is queerness coded?

Week 3: How is queerness coded?
In week 3 we looked at many ways queerness is coded in media through history and current day. We also discussed what media representation of queer people means for collective understanding and image of queerness.

• Lesléa Newman, The Boy Who Cried Fabulous*
• Kathryn Bond Stockton, “Growing Sideways, or Versions of the Queer Child,” from Curiouser (pg 277-298 ) (cw: suicide imagery)
• Watch: “The Celluloid Closet” (cw: homophobia, transphobia, anti-queer violence, suicide)

• Meredith Li-Vollmer and Mark LaPointe, “Gender Transgression and Villainy in Animated Films”
• Julia Serano, “Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Depicts the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels” (cw: transphobic violence and language)
• Lugo-Lugo, Carmen R; Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K. “Look Out New World, Here We Come?”
• Current coding, pick one:
• Frozen:
• Wilson, Kade “Conceal, Don’t Feel: A Queer Reading of Disney’s Frozen”
• Watch: Let It Go
• Harry Potter:
• Listen: Witch, Please at Tufts University

In class:

• Watch: The Little Mermaid, “Poor Unfortunate Souls”
• Watch: Kat Blaque, "Mike Huckabee Wants To Shower with Teenage Girls + Transgender Bathrooms"

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/129uU84dOXVT_FDx9g-GA4x9RhdCFLudx0p2b3_fkleQ/edit?usp=sharing