My people invented karma.

May 01

UCSD Cross-Cultural Center: CGS 102: Selected Topics in Critical Gender Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism -

CGS 102: Selected Topics in Critical Gender Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Colonialism
Instructor: Ashvin R. Kini
Summer Session II
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2-4:50

Through readings of a select number of literary, cinematic, and scholarly texts, this course will focus on the gender and sexual politics of colonialism and postcolonialism. Topics of discussion will include colonial masculinities and femininities, domesticity, sexual violence, labor, and queer sexualities. Particular emphasis will be placed on how postcolonial feminist and queer artists, activists, and scholars have imagined and theorized gender and sexual identities, culture, and decolonization.

Texts will include Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, Deepa Mehta’s Earth, and essays by Anne McClintock, M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Trinh Minh-Ha, Rosemary George, Gayatri Gopinath, Frantz Fanon, and Lisa Lowe.

shameless self-promotion. :)

Feb 13

There’s A Boy I Know

hoitycoity:

bollywoodsuperstar: I’m so sad right now. We should be together.

Me: I know! Remember when we watched her debut videos at Blue Velvet and drank martinis in the middle of the day?

My best Whitney memories belong with Ash. They played 80’s/90’s hits on the TV at this bar off State St. and ‘How Will I know’ came on a lot. Remember Aretha’s face cameo? Just surface level remembrance right now, her voice always always makes me happy.

Feb 04

“Of course, the need to explore the interconnections between different axes of differentiation and social divisions is not a once-for-all-time task. There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as ‘old-hat’, the recitation of a ‘mantra’. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings. Mantric enunciation is an act of transformation, not ossification.” — Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora

Jan 20

“Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming. It means doing the unromantic and tedious work necessary to forge meaningful coalitions, and it means recognizing which coalitions are possible and which coalitions are not. It means knowing that coalition, like unity, means the coming together of whole, self-actualized human beings, focused and believing, not fragmented automatons marching to a prescribed step. It means fighting despair.” — Audre Lorde, “Lessons from the 60s” (via wordsandsteel)

Jan 15

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