thinking about the implications of recognizing the power relations that the sex-gender binary produce and reproduce; imagining strategies for resistance and/or alternative approaches to understanding how we are who we are.

This course calls into question one of the foundational assumptions about how we come to be who we are: the notion that gender identity and sexual orientation are embedded within us and emergent from particularly sexed bodies. For this level, students are invited to spend some time each week reflecting on their experience of this journey, thinking about the implications of recognizing the power relations that the sex-gender binary produce and reproduce; imagining strategies for resistance and/or alternative approaches to understanding how we are who we are. The Reflective Journal must include thoughtful critical reflection into the operations of the discourses around sex, gender and sexuality and may include personal narratives as a springboard to those reflections.