Fall Schedule
Weekly Reading
Discussion references
Further musings
Week 1: Transecological Imaginations
Aug 24, 2022
Stryker, Susan. “Foreword.” In Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature, edited by Douglas A Vakoch, xvi–xviii. Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments. Milton: Taylor and Francis, 2020.
Crawford, Lucas. “A Transgender Poetics of the High Line Park.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 4 (2014): 482–500.
Halberstam, Jack. “Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark.” Places (Cambridge, Mass.), no. 2018 (2018).
References from the discussion:
Hayward, Eva. “Lessons from a Starfish.” edited by Noreen Giffney and Mira J. Hird, 277–92. Routledge, 2008.
Pugliese, Joseph. Biopolitics of the More-than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence. ANIMA. Durham; Duke University Press, 2020.
———. “Transcendence in the Animal: Guantanamo’s Regime of Indefinite Detention and the Open in the Cage.” Villanova Law Review 60, no. 3 (2015): 573.
Week 2 Jupiter Peraza
Aug 31, 2022
Conversation with Jupiter Peraza
Director of Social Justice & Empowerment Initiatives of The Transgender District https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com
Invitation funded by the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
References from the discussion:
Gleeson, Joanne Jules, and Elle O’Rourke, eds. Transgender Marxism. London: Pluto Press, 2021.
Week 3: Trans Justice
Sep 7 2022
Stanley, Eric A., Nat Smith, and CeCe McDonald. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Expanded second edition. Oakland, California: AK Press, 2015.
References from the discussion:
INCITE!, Women of Color Against Violence. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
Joseph, Miranda. Against the Romance of Community. NED-New edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctttt4ng.
Malatino, Hil. Trans Care. Forerunners: Ideas First. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Whitlock, Kay, and Nancy A. Heitzeg. Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform. Oakland,California: University of California Press, 2021.
The Abolitionist: https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/
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Week 4 Trans Visibility
Sept 14, 2022
Tourmaline, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton. Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2017.
References from the discussion:
Aizura, Aren Z., Marquis Bey, Toby Beauchamp, Treva Ellison, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Eliza Steinbock. “Thinking with Trans Now.” Social Text 38, no. 4 (2020): 125–47.
DeVun, Leah. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. New York, New York State: Columbia University Press, 2021.
Perry Kulper https://www.instagram.com/pkulper/?hl=en
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Week 5 Eric Stanley
Sept 22, 2022
Conversation with Eric Stanley
Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, UC Berkeley https://gws.berkeley.edu/about/department-faculty/eric-stanley/+
References from the discussion:
Simone, AbdouMaliq. The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture. Theory in Forms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
'Cultural Districts' in San Francisco Exacerbate Issues of Displacement and Affordability
Urban Alchemy https://urban-alchemy.us
The projection work of Chrisoph Wodiczko
AbdouMaliq Simone's urban life within and beyond capture
Week 6 Abolition Geography
Sept 28, 2022
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Abolition Geography: Essays of Liberation. London: Verso, 2022
References from the discussion:
Hartman, Chester W., and Sarah Carnochan. City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco. Rev. and Updated ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Smith, Neil. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. London ; Routledge, 1996.
Deanna van Buren: https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/career-growth/mass-incarceration-huge-problem-america-architect-deanna-van-buren-wants-n1293587
https://designingjustice.org/about/
Society's cage: https://www.societyscage.com
Week 9 Decolonizing the Tenderloin
Oct 19, 2022
Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1810. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 43. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1995.
References from the discussion:
Dauve, Gilles. Your Place or Mine?: A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex. PM Press, 2022.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. 50th anniversary edition / with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a New afterword by Charlie Jane Anders. New York: Ace Books, 2019.
Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. La Vergne: Heyday, 1997.
Miranda, Deborah A. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Tribal Memoir. Berkeley, Calif: Heyday, 2013.
———. “Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California.” GLQ 16, no. 1–2 (2010).
Mitchell, Don. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, no. 1 (1995): 108–33.
Morgensen, Scott Lauria. Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. 1st edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Teran, Jacquelyn May. “Colonial Order and the Origins of California Native Women’s Mass Incarceration California Missions and Beyond.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2015.
Voss, Barbara L. The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
When You Don’t “Dig Religion” But You’re Meeting in a Church: New York City’s Gay Movement and Religious Meeting Spaces After Stonewall, 1969-1970. Heather R. White, Harvard Divinity School. Panel in Queer History Conference, June 12-15, 2022
http://clgbthistory.org/queer-history-conference-2022
New public housing museum https://www.nphm.org/
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Week 7 Black Trans Feminism
Oct 5, 2022
Bey, Marquis. Black Trans Feminism. Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
References from the discussion:
https://afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/marquis-bey.html
Open City of Valparaiso Chile
Hidden Nature https://sites.google.com/sfei.org/hidden-nature-sf
Buried History https://buriedhistory.exploratorium.edu/
Cyark https://www.cyark.org/
Niantic LIghtship https://lightship.dev/ (Wilson Westbrook)
Sinan Goknur, a trans digital artivist https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/sinan-goknur
See inside the building: film by SF Public Defender’s Office, One Eleven Taylor: https://wearedefender.com/111-taylor
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Week 8 Shane Zaldivar
Oct 12
Conversation with Shane Zaldivar
Office of Transgender Initiatives, City of San Francisco, https://sf.gov/departments/city-administrator/office-transgender-initiatives
Invitation funded by the Townsend Center for Humanities, UC Berkeley
References from the discussion:
Some information from Shane: Shane Zaldivar - City & County Bio: https://sf.gov/profile/shane-zaldivar
KQED Video (6 mins) The Courageous Queens of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Inspire a New Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIt_ExhfGJM
Welcome to Compton’s Cafeteria - Play Website: https://comptonscafeteriariot.com/
https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-akihabara/article-a0003246/
yhttps://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_San%20Francisco_Compton's%20Cafeteria_DRAFT.pdf
Week 13 Colleen Rivecca
Nov 16
Conversation with Colleen Rivecca
Director of Community Organizing, Policy & Planning from the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation https://www.tndc.org
Invitation funded by the Townsend Center for Humanities, UC Berkeley
Week 10 Jonathan Cordero
Oct 26
Conversation with Jonathan Cordero
Founder and Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone https://www.ramaytush.org
Invitation funded by the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
References from the discussion:
Another example of a museum "from below” or "from the community" like the Holocaust museum is the Lumpkin Slave Jail project: https://www.lumpkinsjail.org
A reference to this exhibition at Santa Fe on ritual and critique of institutions: https://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/jeffrey-gibson/
Week 12 Mapping Resistance
Nov 9, 2022
Anti-eviction Mapping Project. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance. San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021.
References from the discussion:
Gowan, Teresa. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/revelatory
https://www.peoplesprograms.com/pbo
https://westoaklandmuralproject.org/
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/artist-elon-musk-twitter-17572273.php
Week 11 Urbanism and Inequality
Nov 2, 2022
Hanhardt, Christina B. Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Perverse Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
References from the discussion:
https://lithub.com/ariel-goldberg-on-criticism-queer-art-and-polemics/
