“The importance of the Internet for LGBT youth and their peers overall... poses a challenge to educators,
who must help students learn how to seek out and identify reliable sources of information and safe sources of support amidst the deluge of potential connections online.”
who must help students learn how to seek out and identify reliable sources of information and safe sources of support amidst the deluge of potential connections online.”
Out Online
GLSEN
GLSEN
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Course Description and Outcomes
Gender is personal and political. Gender is not just a set of physical or mental characteristics but an ongoing social conversation between identities, expressions, and relations that fight to order how we define bodies, how we divide bodies, and what roles or values these bodies will possess. Histories and narratives form and repeat when readers follow debates on gender in society. Such narratives influence cultural imagination with tales that reflect and resist public concepts of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, disability, and class. In this seminar, we explore how rhetoric and worldviews have worked together to form diverse genres of texts and embodiment that have come to be collected under the name, “transgender,” as well as other forms of gender beyond the binary categories of “male” and “female.”
Course Objectives (Reflecting SAGES Learning Outcomes)
By the end of the course you will be able to T.E.A.C.H. on a range of ethical, historical, and aesthetic subjects:
- THINK critically on the rhetorical and ethical value of cultural narratives
- ENGAGE respectfully across perspectives alongside and opposing your own
- ARGUE dialectically with thesis driven claims that actively engage existing debates
- COMPOSE collaboratively using evidenced-based research and peer-review
- HONOR differences with nuance, complexity, and sympathy
Twitter: Create a unique Twitter account for the seminar (unrelated to your name). Be aware that Twitter is an open platform, meaning the safety and respect lessons on the seminar on “How (Not) to Argue on the Internet” will need to be practiced.
Hashtags for Twitter:
#USSO291T (Seminar) + Section Title (e.g. #Science)
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Selections from the Reading List
Beyond Male and Female: How (Not) to Argue on the Internet is a seminar designed to interrogate the systems which continually reduce gendered embodiment to a binary and the alternative networks which are developing online. The first half of the seminar explores #Religion and #Science as practices of knowing that organize and often limit gender diversity. In the former sub-section, the class practices close-reading texts by creating their own biblical commentaries of key passages on gender and sexuality from the NRSV Bible and analyzing images, memes, and videos in the long tradition of trans and non-binary saints. In the latter, the science of sex is researched through medical histories and intersex memoirs to consider the material evidence of over 50 distinct sexual embodiments. The second half of the seminar is rooted in two critical spaces where the gender binary is enforced or undermined, #Healthcare and #Schools. In the former, students will read embodiment narratives that address different ways that gender dysphoria manifests and is managed in distinct environments: high school, hospitals, prisons, and on the streets. In the last subsections, the class concludes by looking back at how education systems help or hinder trans and non-binary youths through the autobiographic stories including Eli Clare and Jazz Jennings. Throughout the semester, in addition to traditional reading assignments, students will be encountering a variety of digital texts which will augment and model the ways in which the internet argues over men, women, and all those between and beyond.
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#Religion
Print Texts
The NRSV Bible,
The NRSV Bible,
- “Genesis I and II,”
- “Deuteronomy,”
- “Galatians 3”
- “Leviticus 21-23,”
- “Isaiah 56,”
- “Matthew 18-19”
Aiken and Aparicio (dir.), The Transformation (1996)
N. Constas (Trans.), The Life of Saint Marinos
C. Jenner, I Am Cait, “A New Beginning”
Digital Texts
Week 1: Youtube, AustenLionheart, “Reimagining Genesis 1”
Week 1: Youtube, AustenLionheart, “Reimagining Genesis 1”
Week 2: Youtube, AustenLionheart, “Eunuchs, Prophets, and Coming Home”
Week 3: Youtube, Michael Kasino, “The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson”
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#Science
Print Texts
T. Hillman, Intersex,
T. Hillman, Intersex,
- “Haircut,”
- “Special,”
- “Pray,”
- “Reshaping”
- “Another,”
- “Swallow,”
- “Testosterone”
- “Condition”
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
A. Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body
L. Simon, Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite
Digital Texts
Week 4: Youtube, Boldly, “What It’s Like to Be Intersex”
Week 5: Youtube, Arts & Ideas at the JCCSF, Exploring Intersex w Hida Viloria
Week 6: Podcast, Transgeneral, “Non-Binary 101” (2/5/16)
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#Healthcare
Print Texts
A.P.A, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), “Gender Dysphoria”
A.P.A, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5), “Gender Dysphoria”
Scholinski, The Last Time I Wore A Dress, Ch. 1-5
K.A. Applegate, Animorphs #3: The Encounter
J. Mock, Redefining Realness
Orange is the New Black, 1.5. “The Chickening.” (2013)
A. Belkin, New England Journal of Medicine, “Caring for Our Trans Troops”
Digital Texts
Week 7: Podcast, The Gender Rebels Podcast, “Am I Transgender Enough?”
Week 8: Youtube, College Humor, “Coming Out as Trans Everything”
Week 9: Youtube, ATME e.V., “Janet Mock @ Women’s March”
Week 10: Youtube, MTV, “Lavern Cox Presents: The T Word”
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#Schools
Print Texts
E. Clare, Exile and Pride
L. Alcorn, Transgender Queen of Hell
A. Cavalcante, Critical Studies in Media, “I Did It All Online”
J. Jennings, I Am Jazz (Book)
J. Jennings, Being Jazz (Book), Ch. 5
J. Jennings, I Am Jazz (TV Show), “I Looked Like a Man in a Dress”
Digital Texts
Week 11: Youtube, UNHCOLA, Notes on Cure, Disability and Natural Worlds
Week 12: Youtube, lacigreen, “Pray the Gay Away - Exposed”
Week 13: Youtube, tic uk, “Jazz Debates Tomi Lahren!”
Week 14: Podcast, How To Be a Girl, “Episode 1: Mama, I’m a Girl!” (2013)
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