IDSD 122 : Black Queer Politics

Explores how race/racialization, gender(s), sexual identities, class, politics, and power impact the everyday lives of Black queer persons from a transnational, black, predominantly women’s perspective. Explores how racialized, gendered, and sexualized hierarchies manifest themselves in various country and cultural contexts, and how these hierarchies have historically and contemporarily shape the social, political, economic and even academic exclusion of Black queer women. Investigates how Black queer women in the Diaspora are resisting state and structural exclusion.