Queering Disability Studies
SPR 2017 – MW 1:30-3:20
Open to all majors
Instructor: Kai Kohlsdorf
Note: This course may be used as an out-of-dept MSW elective, but please email linm@uw.edu with your request after you register, if you’d like to do so.
This course aims to think through what it means to queer an interdisciplinary field of study, specifically disability studies. Despite a substantial lack of engagement with topics of queerness or sexuality within the field of DS, disability is intricately bound to and co-created alongside sex, gender, and sexuality as a socially constructed norm. We will utilize material from transgender studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, feminist studies, cultural studies, critical race theory, poverty studies, feminist care ethics, and more.
