Fall Schedule

Weekly Reading
Discussion references
Further musings

Week 1: Transecological Imaginations

Aug 24, 2022

Stryker, Susan. “Foreword.” In Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature, edited by Douglas A Vakoch, xvi–xviii. Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments. Milton: Taylor and Francis, 2020.

Crawford, Lucas. “A Transgender Poetics of the High Line Park.” Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 4 (2014): 482–500.

Halberstam, Jack. “Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark.” Places (Cambridge, Mass.), no. 2018 (2018).

References from the discussion:

Hayward, Eva. “Lessons from a Starfish.” edited by Noreen Giffney and Mira J. Hird, 277–92. Routledge, 2008. 

Pugliese, Joseph. Biopolitics of the More-than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence. ANIMA. Durham; Duke University Press, 2020. 

———. “Transcendence in the Animal: Guantanamo’s Regime of Indefinite Detention and the Open in the Cage.” Villanova Law Review 60, no. 3 (2015): 573.

Week 2 Jupiter Peraza

Aug 31, 2022

Conversation with Jupiter Peraza

Director of Social Justice & Empowerment Initiatives of The Transgender District https://www.transgenderdistrictsf.com

Invitation funded by the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley

References from the discussion:

Gleeson, Joanne Jules, and Elle O’Rourke, eds. Transgender Marxism. London: Pluto Press, 2021.

www.transgenderhistorymonth.com

Week 3: Trans Justice

Sep 7 2022

Stanley, Eric A., Nat Smith, and CeCe McDonald. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Expanded second edition. Oakland, California: AK Press, 2015.

References from the discussion:

INCITE!, Women of Color Against Violence. The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.

Joseph, Miranda. Against the Romance of Community. NED-New edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctttt4ng.

Malatino, Hil. Trans Care. Forerunners: Ideas First. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Whitlock, Kay, and Nancy A. Heitzeg. Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform. Oakland,California: University of California Press, 2021.

The Abolitionist: https://criticalresistance.org/abolitionist/

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Week 4 Trans Visibility

Sept 14, 2022

Tourmaline, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton. Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2017.

References from the discussion:

Aizura, Aren Z., Marquis Bey, Toby Beauchamp, Treva Ellison, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Eliza Steinbock. “Thinking with Trans Now.” Social Text 38, no. 4 (2020): 125–47.

DeVun, Leah. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. New York, New York State: Columbia University Press, 2021.

Perry Kulper https://www.instagram.com/pkulper/?hl=en

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Week 5 Eric Stanley

Sept 22, 2022

Conversation with Eric Stanley

Associate Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, UC Berkeley https://gws.berkeley.edu/about/department-faculty/eric-stanley/+

References from the discussion:

Simone, AbdouMaliq. The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture. Theory in Forms. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

'Cultural Districts' in San Francisco Exacerbate Issues of Displacement and Affordability

https://www.progressivecity.net/single-post/cultural-districts-in-san-francisco-exacerbate-issues-of-displacement-and-affordability

Urban Alchemy https://urban-alchemy.us

The projection work of Chrisoph Wodiczko

AbdouMaliq Simone's urban life within and beyond capture

Week 6 Abolition Geography

Sept 28, 2022

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Abolition Geography: Essays of Liberation. London: Verso, 2022

References from the discussion:

Hartman, Chester W., and Sarah Carnochan. City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco. Rev. and Updated ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Smith, Neil. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. London ; Routledge, 1996.

Deanna van Buren: https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/career-growth/mass-incarceration-huge-problem-america-architect-deanna-van-buren-wants-n1293587

https://designingjustice.org/about/

Society's cage: https://www.societyscage.com

Week 9 Decolonizing the Tenderloin

Oct 19, 2022

Milliken, Randall. A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1769-1810. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 43. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1995.

References from the discussion:

Dauve, Gilles. Your Place or Mine?: A 21st Century Essay on (Same) Sex. PM Press, 2022.

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. 50th anniversary edition / with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a New afterword by Charlie Jane Anders. New York: Ace Books, 2019.

Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. La Vergne: Heyday, 1997.

Miranda, Deborah A. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. Tribal Memoir. Berkeley, Calif: Heyday, 2013.

———. “Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California.” GLQ 16, no. 1–2 (2010).

Mitchell, Don. “The End of Public Space? People’s Park, Definitions of the Public, and Democracy.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85, no. 1 (1995): 108–33. 

Morgensen, Scott Lauria. Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. 1st edition. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Teran, Jacquelyn May. “Colonial Order and the Origins of California Native Women’s Mass Incarceration California Missions and Beyond.” University of California, Los Angeles, 2015.

Voss, Barbara L. The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

When You Don’t “Dig Religion” But You’re Meeting in a Church: New York City’s Gay Movement and Religious Meeting Spaces After Stonewall, 1969-1970. Heather R. White, Harvard Divinity School. Panel in Queer History Conference, June 12-15, 2022

http://clgbthistory.org/queer-history-conference-2022

https://lightship.dev

New public housing museum https://www.nphm.org/

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Week 7 Black Trans Feminism

Oct 5, 2022

Bey, Marquis. Black Trans Feminism. Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

References from the discussion:

https://afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/marquis-bey.html

Open City of Valparaiso Chile

Hidden Nature https://sites.google.com/sfei.org/hidden-nature-sf

Buried History https://buriedhistory.exploratorium.edu/

Cyark https://www.cyark.org/

Niantic LIghtship https://lightship.dev/ (Wilson Westbrook)

Sinan Goknur, a trans digital artivist https://afvs.fas.harvard.edu/people/sinan-goknur

See inside the building: film by SF Public Defender’s Office, One Eleven Taylor: https://wearedefender.com/111-taylor

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Week 8 Shane Zaldivar

Oct 12

Conversation with Shane Zaldivar

Office of Transgender Initiatives, City of San Francisco, https://sf.gov/departments/city-administrator/office-transgender-initiatives

Invitation funded by the Townsend Center for Humanities, UC Berkeley

References from the discussion:

Some information from Shane: Shane Zaldivar - City & County Bio: https://sf.gov/profile/shane-zaldivar

KQED Video (6 mins) The Courageous Queens of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Inspire a New Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIt_ExhfGJM

Welcome to Compton’s Cafeteria - Play Website: https://comptonscafeteriariot.com/

https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-akihabara/article-a0003246/

yhttps://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_San%20Francisco_Compton's%20Cafeteria_DRAFT.pdf

Week 13 Colleen Rivecca

Nov 16

Conversation with Colleen Rivecca

Director of Community Organizing, Policy & Planning from the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation https://www.tndc.org

Invitation funded by the Townsend Center for Humanities, UC Berkeley

Week 10 Jonathan Cordero

Oct 26

Conversation with Jonathan Cordero

Founder and Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone https://www.ramaytush.org

Invitation funded by the Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley

References from the discussion:

Another example of a museum "from below” or "from the community" like the Holocaust museum is the Lumpkin Slave Jail project: https://www.lumpkinsjail.org

A reference to this exhibition at Santa Fe on ritual and critique of institutions: https://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/jeffrey-gibson/

Week 12 Mapping Resistance

Nov 9, 2022

Anti-eviction Mapping Project. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance. San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021.

References from the discussion:

Gowan, Teresa. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

https://www.hooddesignstudio.com/revelatory

https://www.peoplesprograms.com/pbo

https://westoaklandmuralproject.org/

https://bppaln.org/bpp-tour

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/artist-elon-musk-twitter-17572273.php

Week 11 Urbanism and Inequality

Nov 2, 2022

Hanhardt, Christina B. Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Perverse Modernities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

References from the discussion:

https://lithub.com/ariel-goldberg-on-criticism-queer-art-and-polemics/