QUEER STUDIES

NYU class to teach about ‘Queer Cultures and Democracy’

The course seeks to ‘trace and reconstruct the historical detours of queer cultures in Buenos Aires and New York as…

By Elad Vaida
Oct 22, 2024

Barnard's 'Queer Caribbean Critique' class to consider 'same-sex desire in the Caribbean region'

Barnard College in New York City is offering a four-credit 'Queer Caribbean Critique' course for undergraduate stud…

By Benjamin Brown '26
Sep 16, 2024

Harvard 'Transmediating Love Literature' course to explore 'non-normative, non-ableist' accounts of gender

Harvard University recently disclosed that it will offer a 'Transmediating Love Literature' course during the sprin…

By Benjamin Brown '26
Aug 29, 2024

Books related to defunct gender studies program removed by New College of Florida

The New College of Florida (NCF) recently disposed of hundreds of library books, including many related to its now-…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Aug 21, 2024

Cornell University to offer course on 'Ecological Justice' focused on 'Feminist, Queer, and Trans Perspectives'

Cornell University is set to offer a course on ecological justice from feminist, queer, and trans perspectives.

By Sarah Prentice '25
Aug 20, 2024

UMass will teach 'rich tradition' of 'transnational Black feminist' and 'queer Marxist theorizing'

UMass Amherst is offering a course this fall called, 'Geographies of the ‘Imaginaire’: Blackness, Worldmakings & In…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Aug 19, 2024

Swarthmore summer reading list includes books on 'star-crossed lesbians,’ being ‘queer’ at Catholic school

One of the books involves a ‘a love story’ between ‘star-crossed lesbians.’

By Michael Duke '26
Aug 10, 2024

Harvard to offer class examining medieval texts through lens of ‘queer theory’

The course will be an ‘introduction to queer theory as an intellectual tool with which to read texts far removed fr…

By Benjamin Brown '26
Aug 6, 2024

'Queering Game Studies' course at UT Arlington seeks to create 'emancipated players'

The University of Texas at Arlington is offering a class this semester called 'Queer Game Studies: Cultivating the …

By Claire Caton '26
Jan 23, 2024

$5k summer program will teach high schoolers how 'power plays a role in the ethics of sex'

Smith College is offering a 'Women, Gender, and Representation' summer program for students in grades 9-12 to learn…

By Alexia Bianchi '22
Jan 22, 2024

'Is God Queer?'– UChicago Religious Studies course examines God as 'an ally in queer worldmaking'

The new Religious Studies course will feature 'foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on quee…

By Brandi Cunha '24
Aug 6, 2023

‘Queer Russia’ and ‘Bad Sex’ among courses offered by Wesleyan University for upcoming school year

'Queer Russia' will examine 'the ways in which Russian and Western narratives of queerness align and diverge.'

By Marya Ruth Dunning '25
Jun 1, 2023

California students will learn about 'brown racialized sexualities and genders' in new 'Jotería' course

'We’ll consider jotería studies genealogies and future configurations in relation to Chicana/o/x-Latina/o/x Studies…

By Marya Ruth Dunning '25
Jun 1, 2023

University offers grad certificate to 'denaturalize heterosexuality'

University of Washington gradudate students may enroll in a program to combat the “naturalized normative forms of (…

By Marya Ruth Dunning '25
May 30, 2023

WATCH: Profs discuss spirituality of 'non-binary vaginas,' 'femme penises', and 'Black queer religions'

Several university professors gathered on a recent panel and discussed the shift of queer to 'quare.'

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Apr 1, 2023

'Queer Ecologies Panel' calls parks 'gendered,' 'racialized,' 'capitalist'

A recent panel featured professors describing how to apply an LGBTQ-centered approach to ecology to 'conservation w…

By Thomas Stevenson '23
Feb 23, 2023

Drag Queen to teach University of Hawai'i queer dance class

On October 11, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa announced it was among the first in the nation to offer a 'queer …

By Noelle Fitchett '25
Oct 28, 2022

Oregon State University is offering an entire list of 'Queer Studies' courses this Fall

OSU’s main campus is located in Corvallis, Oregon, and offers a bachelor of science or a bachelor of arts in 'Women…

By Courtney McLain '25
Sep 28, 2022

A look inside one university’s ‘Queer Studies’ major/minor

It 'combine[s] women’s studies, sociology, biology, psychology, literature and cultural studies to examine the issu…

By Logan Dubil '23
Sep 14, 2022