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Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
September 18, 2023

GLQS 201: Queer Identities in a Transforming World: The Trouble with Normal Projects

Posted in: Student Feature of the Month

Collage of Two Student Projects for the class CLQS 201

Final project: Queering it Up

These are two examples of Queering It Up final projects from Dr. Dadas‘s Queer Identities class GLQS 201. In that class, students discuss many different aspects of queerness: queer movements (the riot at Compton’s Cafeteria; queer identities (trans, interse ACE); queer tactics (liberation philosophy), queer spaces (drag balls, counterpublics); queer aesthetics (Prince, David Bowie). These projects were designed to educate others in accessible ways.

  • Student, Angela D’Alessandro’s project Is Heavy Metal Queer? discusses the history of the heavy metal music genre and how it relates to queerness through the discussion of bands, artists and song lyrics.
  • Student, Ness Rodriguez’s project It’s Radical To Be Trans provides thoughts, insights and “a new view on being trans and new ways to talk about gender.”