WGST 220 Lecture Notes - Dance Film, Wgst

• School: U of S
• Department: Womens and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 220
• Professor: Rachel Loewen Walker

Document Summary

Peculiar -- historical (thus some older generations are uncomfortable with. Odd -- historical (thus some older generations are uncomfortable with the. Queer: o the term) o term) o umbrella term. Grrrrl o non-normative -- can be positive for many people. Braking the links -- where we assume biology means something o. In the course: reference to the way it blurs, troubles, extends the o boundaries of genders and sexualities -- there are several genders and sexualities are non are exclusive o. Terrain matters -- as a concept or physical space -- and gender plays out differently in those places queer space but also it in spaces set as queer. Identify and create queer space -- the body, wherever it goes is. Still fights religious undertones and is unlearning still. Uses 3 dances to illustrate themes of consciousness, desire, and identity. Changing who he was and who he is. Woman bandaged him and put walls up around him.