This assignment is intended to demonstrate your understanding of sex and gender using the course materials and outside sources. You will need to clearly express your analyses and/or critiques of key arguments about sex and gender and apply them to outside contexts.
At minimum, this assignment should be 1,500 words, which is around 6 pages double spaced (not including references).
You can be creative but will need to define and build on at least 3 key words and/or themes from the course content (i.e. readings, videos, lecture).
Your grade will be based on quality of analyses and arguments about course content, rather than length, as well as appropriate and consistent formatting (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc).
Please refer to the rubric for a breakdown. Please incorporate an episode of Scooby Doo.
Prompt
In this paper, you will apply the concept of queering sex and gender. Queering sex and gender refers to “spoiling”, subverting, rethinking, and/or resisting the dominant social norms and structures of power related to sex and gender, such as dominant binaries, compulsory heterosexuality, homonormativity; toxic masculinity, hegemonic femininity, and or imperial feminism.
Your paper will have two objectives:
1) Using key themes and concepts form the semester, explain how and why you queer sex and/or gender.
If you do not, but would like to, explain why and how.
If you do not, and do not want to in the future, explain why that is.
Make sure to think intersectionally and incorporate how other social categories influence how you queer (or don’t queer) sex and/or gender.
2) Find an organization, collective, public figure, and/or organizer who queers sex and/or gender in ways related to the themes you chose.
Explain how they queer sex and/or gender. Does the work they do relate to concepts from the class: explain.
What is the history of this organization, collective, public figure, or organizer? How did they get to where they are? What gendered and sexual issues were/ are they responding to?
Is this organization intersectional? Explain. If they are not, how can they improve to become more intersectional?
Why/ how does the work they do have an impact?
Is the impact local and/or global?
