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FAIR 472A: Queering Family

Fairhaven · 5 credits · Fairhaven College

“To answer death with utopian futurity," writes Queer Black feminist author Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "is a queer thing to do.” Taking Gumbs' statement as a starting point, this class examines entwined histories through which queer and queered communities have 1) been subject to reproductive injustices and 2) asserted their right to reproduce family against all odds. Central topics of consideration include: slavery, colonialism, & the nuclear family; critical histories of “child welfare,” adoption, & custody movements; Advanced Reproductive Technologies; radical mothering & parenting; queering childhood; mutual aid, queer care and kinship; and family abolition. Exploring these histories and themes, we will ask what it has meant to "queer” family as a both deeply intimate and political act to nurture generations and lay claim on the future.

Offered in 2 of the 26 listed terms (Fall 2024 to Winter 2027).

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FAIR 203A (minimum grade S) or FAIR 242A (minimum grade S) or ETHN 201 or WGSS 211 or WGSS 212 or WGSS 213

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