This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work closely with Gender and Women's Studies faculty, investigating a topic of mutual interest in great depth. Emphasis in on student discussion and collaboration. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Number of units will vary depending on specific course, format, and requirements.

This course offers an overview of a set of innovative connections of signs, subjectivities, collective movements, cosmologies and technologies as creative practices developed by black people in the African diaspora that engage with (un)gender(ing/ed) blackness. This will be a transdisciplinary approach that intersects race, gender, sexuality, class, disability and (trans)nationality through the discussion of afro diasporic transmediatic texts such as poetry, memoir/nonfiction, scriptures, photography, film, art, performance and the remixing, circulation and encoding of race/gender in new technologies. We will make a comparative analysis of archives from the US, Brazil and African countries such as Angola and South Africa.

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