WGSS 262
Indigenous Feminisms Fall 2020
Division II Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed AMST 260
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Indigenous women, Two Spirit and trans people have always stood on the frontlines of decolonization struggles in the Americas, from treaty negotiations to self defense against settler invasion, to the Standing Rock Sioux struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, to creating independent databases and mutual support networks amongst the loved ones of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans and Two Spirit people. This course maps out some of the intellectual and political interventions of Indigenous feminists in analyzing and struggling against genocide, heteropatriarchy, conquest and racial capitalism in settler states like the US and Canada. This course will focus on how Indigenous women, Two Spirit and trans people have analyzed and struggled against the imposition of colonial constructs of gender and sexuality that mark Indigenous lives and lands as sites of extraction. It will examine how carceral regimes of control produced by the intertwined histories of conquest and Transatlantic slavery have been imposed upon Indigenous lives through the child protection system and the prison industrial complex. Students will be invited to consider how Indigenous feminist practices ‘make a future’ (Brant 1981) against and beyond the settler state. This course aims to familiarize students with historical and contemporary Indigenous feminist works, as well as provide an overview of Indigenous feminist political formations, poetry, fiction, and making practices. Pedagogically, this course will also facilitate the development and sharpening of skills in social analysis, writing and argumentation.
The Class: Format: seminar; Hybrid online/in-person
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1959
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Three one page reading responses, 30%; One two-page critical peer response 10%; One Final paper, 50%; Course participation and attendance 10%
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Preferences: American Studies majors or potential majors have first preference, WGSS majors have next priority.
Distributions: Division II Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 260 Division II WGSS 262 Division II
DPE Notes: This course has as its core mission -- both in subject matter and in pedagogical approaches -- the exploration of difference, power and equity.
Attributes: AMST Critical and Cultural Theory Electives

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