Gender and Queer Studies Reading Group

Gender and Queer Studies Reading Group

The Gender and Queer Studies Reading Group has met three times a semester since 2016, engaging primarily with new critical literature and research in the field. The reading group is open to all members of the university and is coordinated by Ben Trott. Every meeting begins with a short informal input (approx. 10 minutes in length) and discussions generally take place in a mixture of English and German, depending on the needs and desires of the participants. Below, you will find an overview of forthcoming and previous meetings of the group.

 

Forthcoming Reading Group Meetings

Details to follow soon here.

 

Previous Meetings of the Reading Group

Summer Semester 2021

  • José Esteban Muñoz (2020) ‘The Sense of Wildness: The Brown Commons After Paris Burned’, in: The Sense of Brown (Duke University Press) pp.128-140
  • Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke (eds.) Transgender Marxism (Pluto Press) (extracts)

 

Winter Semester 2020-21

  • Jack Halberstam (2020) Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Duke University Press) (extracts)
  • Christopher Chitty (2020) ‘Homosexuality and Capitalism’, in: Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System (Duke University Press) pp.21-41
  • Christopher Chitty (2020) ‘Historicizing the History of Sexuality’, in: Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System (Duke University Press) pp.141-166
  • Saidiya Hartman (2019) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: IntimateHistories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (W W Norton) (extracts)

 

Summer Semester 2020

  • Silvia Federici (2019) ‘Women, Reproduction, and the Commons’, in: South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. 118, Issue 4 (Duke University Press) pp.711-724
  • Sophie Lewis (2019) Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against the Family (Verso Books) (extracts)
  • Judith Butler (2020) ‘Nonviolence, Grievability, and the Critique of Individualism’, in: The Force of Non-Violence: An Ethico-Political Bind (Verso) pp.27-66

 

Winter Semester 2019-20 

  • Tommy Orange (2019) There There (Penguin) (extracts)
  • Nancy Fraser (2019) The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (Verso) pp.7-40

 

Winter Semester 2018-19 

  • Helen Hester (2018) ‘Xenofeminist Futurities’, in: Xenofeminism (Polity) pp.33-69
  • Louise Toupin (2018) Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement (extracts)
  • Asad Haider (2018) Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso) (extracts)
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2017) ‘Introduction’, in: How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket Books) pp.1-14
  • Combahee River Collective (2017 [1977]) ‘The Combahee River Collective Statement’, in: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (ed.) How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Haymarket Books) pp.15-28

 

Summer Semester 2018

  • Jack Halberstam (2018) ‘Trans* Generations’, in: Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variability (University of California Press) pp.63-83
  • Gabriele Winker (2015) Care Revolution. Schritte in eine solidarische Gesellschaft (Transcript-Verlag) (extracts)
  • Helen Hester (2018) ‘Xenofeminist Technologies’, in: Xenofeminism (Polity) pp.70-138
     

Winter Semester 2017-18 

  • Negar Mottahedeh (2015) ‘Selfie: Solidarity and Everyday Lift’, in #iranelection: Hashtag Solidarity and the Transformation of Online Life (Stanford University Press) pp.65-104
  • Sara Ahmed (2012) ‘The Language of Diversity’, in: On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke University Press) pp.51-81
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016) ‘Black Lives Matter: A Movement, Not a Moment’, in: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books) pp.153-190
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016) ‘From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation’, in: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books) pp.191-220
     

Summer Semester 2017

  • Judith Butler (2015) ‘Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street’, in: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press) pp.66-98
  • Silvia Federici (2012) ‘Wages Against Housework’, in: Revolution at Point Zero. Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (PM Press) pp.15-22
  • Silvia Federici (2004) ‘The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women: Constructing “Difference” in the “Transition to Capitalism”’, in: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia) pp.61-132
  • Laboria Cuboniks (2015) Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

 

Winter Semester 2016-17

  • Judith Butler (2015) ‘Gender Politics and the Right to Appear’, in: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press) pp.24-65