This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Leslie Feinberg: Defiant Radical, Gender Queer Revolutionary

http://www.thenation.com/article/191249/leslie-feinberg-defiant-radical-gender-queer-revolutionary#

This article remembers Leslie Feinberg, a gender queer activist. Feinberg first became known for writing a novel about the experiences of being gay in America during the 1960's and 1970's. The book was published in the early 1990's and presented the world with a look into the struggles faced by America's LGBT community and worked to humanize queer life and experience.

 By the end of her life, Leslie began using female pronouns. Though it is interesting to note that her use of pronouns changed and evolved over time, as she believed her gender to be fluid and ever changing. 

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