Schedule



 WEEK 1   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Xiomara Sebastián Castro Niculescu

How Does It Feel to be Human?

Race, Transness, and the Ends of Performance

READINGS
  • Lugones, María. “Toward a Decolonial Feminism.” Hypatia 25, no. 4 (2010): 742–59.
    Please read
    pages 745-749.
  • Musser, Amber Jamilla. “Introduction: Brown Jouissance and Inhabitations of the Pornotrope.” Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance, 1-26. Sexual Cultures 51. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
    Please read pages 5-15.
  • Wynter, Sylvia. “The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, Its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition.” In Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology, edited by Jason R. Ambroise and Sabine Broeck, 184–252. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2015.
    Please read pages 192-194.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
In addition to the above, please read the documents Xiomara Sebastián Castro Niculescu prepared for Week One, Some Keywords for: María Lugones, “Toward a Decolonial Feminism” and Some Keywords for: Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Found.”



 WEEK 2   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Amber Jamilla Musser
Black Origins of the Universe


READINGS
  • Musser, Amber Jamilla. “Surface Play: Flash, Friction, and Self-Reflection.” Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance, 46-68. Sexual Cultures 51. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
    Please read pages 46-68.



 WEEK 3   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guest Renato Velarde
One Pan Chicken Thighs with Apples


RECIPE




 WEEK 4   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guest Elizabeth Axtman
‘Chocolate’ Plantain Chip Cookies


RECIPE



 WEEK 5   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Son Kit
Code Yellow

Yellowness, Technology, and Missing Personhood

READINGS

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
In addition to the above, you are welcome to also engage with the presentation materials Son Kit prepared for Week Five.



 WEEK 6   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Kareem Khubchandani
Aunties and Queer Kinship


READINGS
  • Khubchandani, Kareem. “Aunty Fever: A Queer Impression.” Essay. In Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings, edited by Clare Croft, 199–204. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.
    Please read pages 199-204.

SCREENING



 WEEK 7   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guests Incred & Camp
Grilled Pork Chops with Cherry Compote


RECIPE

READING



 WEEK 8   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Elliott Powell
Sounds from the Other Side


SCREENING
READING
  • Powell, Elliott H. “Recovering Addict(Ive): The Afro–South Asian Sexual Politics of Truth Hurts’s ‘Addictive.’” Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music, 105–122. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. https://doi:10.5749/j.ctv19cw9tz.
    Please read pages 105-122.

OPTIONAL READING



 WEEK 9   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Marisa Williamson
Misusing the Master’s Tools


READINGS
  • Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” 1984. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 110-114. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007. 
    Please read pages 110-114.



 WEEK 10   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guests Mahtek & Sarah
Lemon Glazed Blueberry Donuts


RECIPE



 WEEK 11   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Constantina Zavitsanos
The Ugly Laws


READINGS
  • Kafer, Alison. “At the Same Time, Out of Time; Ashley X.” Feminist, Queer, Crip, 47-68. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013.
    Please read 47-68.

PRESENTATION MATERIALS
In addition to the above, please review the presentation materials Constantina Zavitsanos prepared for Week Eleven. Links to captioned videos are contained in the PDF. Please watch, read or listen to each.



 WEEK 12   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Midterm with Davecat, Sidore, & Amber
Peach Ginger Chicken Wings


RECIPE



 WEEK 13   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Ilana Babou-Harris
Looking with the Erotic


SCREENING

READING
  • Lorde, Audre. “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” 1978. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 87-91. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007.
    Please read pages 87-91.



 WEEK 14   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Kyla Schuller
Betty Friedan and the Flourishing of the Housewife


READING
  • Friedan, Betty. “Progressive Dehumanization: The Comfortable Concentration Camp.” The Feminine Mystique, 271-298. 1963 NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
    Please read pages 271-298.



 WEEK 15   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Lily Mengesha & Olivia Michiko Gagnon
The Limits of Touch

Race and Intimacy 

READINGS
  • Harris, Jeremy O. Slave Play. American Theatre Magazine. September/August 2019, 38-67.[A PDF of Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play is not available on theharmonyshow.com, however, a synopsis is contained during the seminar session and is available on the Wikipedia entry on Slave Play.]

SCREENING



 WEEK 16   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Vivian L. Huang
Silence and Asian Femininity


READINGS
  • Choi, Franny. “What a Cyborg Wants.” Waxwing Literary Journal: American Writers and International Voices, 15:21, 2018. http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue15/21_Choi-What-a-Cyborg-Wants.php.
  • Huang, Vivian L. “Inscrutably, Actually: Hospitality, Parasitism, and the Silent Work of Yoko Ono and Laurel Nakadate.” Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 28:3, 2018: 187-203. https://doi.org10.1080/0740770X.2018.1524619. 
    Please read pages 187-203.

SCREENING



 WEEK 17   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guests Allison de Fren & Elena Dorfman
Peppermint Patty Cupcakes


RECIPE



 WEEK 18   SEMINAR ︎︎︎

Neda Atanasoski & Kalindi Vora
Surrogate Humanity


READINGS
  • Atanasoski, Neda, and Kalindi Vora. “The Surrogate Human Affect: The Racial Programming of Robot Emotion.” Surrogate Humanity Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures, 108-133. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
    Please read pages 108-133.
  • Atanasoski, Neda, and Kalindi Vora. “Epilogue: On Technoliberal Desire, Or Why There Is No Such Thing as a Feminist AI.” Surrogate Humanity Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures, 188-196. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
    Please read pages 188-196.



 WEEK 19   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guest Nicole of Heal Me Delicious
Stuffed Sweet Potato Cakes


RECIPE

READING



 WEEK 20   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Guest Kino Coursey
Plum Sheet Cake


RECIPE



 WEEK 21   COOKING SHOW ︎︎︎

Final with Davecat, Sidore, & Amber
Banana Milkshake


RECIPE

READING
  • Kim, Eunjung. “Why Do Dolls Die? The Power of Passivity and the Embodied Interplay Between Disability and Sex Dolls.” In Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities, edited by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki, 20-32. New York: Routledge, 2015.
    Please read pages 20-32.





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