Drawing inspiration from Raymond William's influential Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society and Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler’s Keywords for American Cultural Studies, this class will identify and explore some of the key concepts, moves, and key terms of the interdisciplinary fields that make up lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies. Topics, themes, methods, and lines of inquiry will include histories of sexuality and sexual identity; the politics of identity, embodiment, and desire; heterosexism, homophobia, transphobia, normativity, and other forms of oppression; queer resistance, activism, liberation, and worldmaking; intersectionality with race, gender, class, family, religion, ability, and nation; and finally, queer temporalities, spaces, and technologies. Through the lenses of literature, scholarship, new and old media, and popular culture, our class will trace and trouble theoretical and everyday understandings of LGBT and Q terms, figures, bodies, and experiences. Williams argued, "I have emphasized this process of the development of Keywords because it seems to me to indicate its dimension and purpose. It is not a dictionary or glossary of a particular academic subject. It is not a series of footnotes to dictionary histories or definitions of a number of words. It is, rather, the record of an inquiry into a vocabulary: a shared body of words and meanings" This class therefore is all about reading, thinking, writing, and contributing to LGBT studies' shared body of words, ideas, and theories. Texts may include in whole or in part: Michel Foucault, Allucqere Rosanne Stone, Judith Butler, Judith Halberstam, Allen Ginsberg, Gayle S. Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Monique Wittig, Adrienne Rich, Kobena Mercer, John D’Emilio, Lee Edelman, James Baldwin, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, Susan Stryker, Samuel Delany, Michael Warner, Roderick A. Ferguson, Donna Haraway, Nella Larsen, Alan Turing, Nina Wakeford, and others.