Cult F: Sex in Public: Feminist Resistance and a Politics of Belonging
Barbara LeSavoy (SUNY College at Brockport)
The seminar will draw on media and visual culture to examine sex and gender identity politics and feminist resistance movements performed across geographies of time and place. Readings selections and discussion topics will consider AIDS/HIV Activisms, Trans and Queer Equality Movements, Holocaust Remembrance, and Technologies of Human Rights. Seminar participants will have opportunity interrogate ways identity shapes feminist activism and ways feminist activism shapes a politic of belonging.