HSCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cisgender, Louise Adams, Heterosexuality

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 120
• Professor: Rodney Hunt

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Hsci 120 week 4: shifting the meaning of self and sexuality. Territorial acknowledgements recognize the historical and present harms perpetrated against indigenous people. They are acts if respect fir indigenous peoples and processes of reconciliation. They resist the erasure of indigenous peoples and indigenous ways of knowing. They are one step in a process of learning how we can build good relationships with indigenous peoples, and with the land that sustains us all. Study all the guiding questions for reading. Assigned readings: (cid:862)genealogy of the genital kiss(cid:863), alan hunt & bruce curtis. Discourse is popularly understood as what gets said about a particular topic or the activity of communication. Scholars however explain the term as describing the construction of the truth about some aspect of human activity. The most influential use of discourse as truth-making was offered by michael foucalt, who conceived it as (cid:862)p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)es that s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272)all(cid:455)