Race, Embodiment, and Transgression (in English)

What does it mean to inhabit a racially ordered world in/as a racialized and gendered body? How are body, space, knowledge, and power racially entangled? Whose space and whose knowledge? These questions will be our launchpad towards understanding the complex relationships between racial power and embodiment, and how racism operates corporally. Drawing on Black feminist thought, queer of color critique, and decolonial thought, we will rethink the connections between body and being within the parameters of white supremacy/patriarchy as well as imagining modes of embodiment that deconstruct and transgress racist, gendered, and ableist orders of power and being. We will engage literary works, visual arts and media (film, painting, sculpture), music (song, video), sports, and performance cultures (theater, dance, fitness culture) from across the world. Taught in English.