Writing Trans Resistance
In a time of relentless and direct attacks on transgender people and transgender rights, transgender people have continued to write into the storm. This class will explore the ways in which trans writing has been and can be a companion in struggle. Looking at poetry, prose, political writing, and memoir from the 20th and 21st centuries, we will learn about different representational strategies in historical perspective, and formulate our own conceptions of what resistance and solidarity looks like now. We will read broadly across aesthetic forms, as well as from works of political-economic theory, transgender theory, legal analysis, and manifesto. Authors will include jos charles, Kai Cheng Thom, Jules Gill-Peterson, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Treva Ellison, Leslie Feinberg, C. Riley Snorton, Susan Stryker, and Casey Plett.