ENGL 12039. QUEER/CRIP STORIES This course examines literature and media from queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and/or chronically ill writers, artists, and content creators. We will consider how queer and disabled writers narrate lived experience of both exile and joy at different historical moments in the U.S. This course offers an introduction to feminist disability studies and centers disability justice principles to carefully analyze the stories queer and disabled people write to build community, survive, and imagine a more just world. Our method will be to read and analyze memoir, digital media, fiction, and poetry from the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Readings and content will include work by Sins Invalid, Carson McCullers, Audre Lorde, Eli Clare, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. [AH]
- Teacher: Jessica Cowing