Instructor: Dr. Isabel Machado
How race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, culture and dis/ability are materially and socially constructed together to give meaning to the category trans*. (Trans*: transgender, transsexual, gender variant and other articulations.)
Term 1
Description: CSIS 301 provides an entry-level understanding of foundational ideas and topics in Trans Studies through various conceptual and theoretical frameworks, understanding trans identities and experiences historically. It explores how race, citizenship, gender, sexuality, culture, and ability are materially and socially constructed together to give meaning to the category trans while also looking at how cisnormativity and transphobia intersect with other systems of oppression and privilege. Students will develop a critical awareness of the systemic, institutional, and historical oppression and erasure that shape trans identities and lives while recognizing (and imagining) ways of resisting oppressive norms and systems.
Trans*: umbrella term to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.