W12: Queer families, queering family

Week 12: Queer families, queering family
Chosen families, birth families, drag families, place, and parenting were all brought into this week's discussion.

• Mini-Presenation: Cheryl Kilodavis, “My Princess Boy”*
• Watch: Paris is Burning (cw: transphobic violence)
• bell hooks, “Is Paris Burning?”
• Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queen Up in Pumps, “Introduction,” pg 1-9 (end@”Why Detroit?”
• Jillian Sandell, “The Cultural Necessity of Queer Families”
• Eli Clare, “Losing Home” (cw: queerphobic violence, sexual assault)
• Liz Rosenberg, “Monster Mama”*
• Against Equality, Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage*
• Allison Brewyahs, “You Don’t Seem Like a Mom”
• Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, My Father is a Butch Dyke (cw: intimate partner violence)
• Mia Mingus, “Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet” (cw: abuse)
• Watch: Free to Be You and Me, “William Wants a Doll”
• Optional: Marlon M. Bailey, Butch Queen Up in Pumps, “From Home to House”

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GiR9lSRVZZPHsivcWn3w9ITnhp-1eSovndMO1upTtpQ/edit?usp=sharing

W13: Kids resistance and capitalism

Week 13: Kids resistance and capitalism
To end our semester we looked at the relationship between children's bodies and capitalism, as well as celebrating all the many ways have been and continue to lead resistance.

• Mini-Presentation: Innosanto Negara, “A is for Activist”
• Sharon Stephens, “Children and the Politics of Culture in ‘Late Capitalism’” (through pg 12, ‘The Politics of Culture.’ Optional: read through end)
• Suzannah Weiss, “Five Common Behaviors that Perpetuate Toxic Capitalism”  
• Peter Clark, “Childhood, Family, and the Decline of Capitalism”
• Reread: Lee Edelman, No Future, pgs 1-4
• 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
• Alison Kafer, “Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions”
• Aurora Levins Morales, V'ahavta
• Stay Solid!, Crimethinc and Ramnath
• Stay Solid!, Brown
• Watch: Ricardo Levins Morales, Second Grade Liberation Program  
• Watch: Mykki Blanco, I Want a Dyke for President
• Watch: Living Room Protests, LivingRoomProtest 1, Your Body is Your Body (AKA a Message for Trump)
• Watch: Radical Monarchs, Abridged version, Full version

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10x2l6eOpPv1kU23KSOdRd2mJQQOTyBTVREAZbErT6ic/edit?usp=sharing

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