Course Description: This course proposes an interdisciplinary examination of LGBTQ/ Queer experiences as seen in Hispanic cultures. This course presents a historical overview of gender and sexuality studies beginning with indigenous concepts of gender in Latin America and examines corresponding social-political movements of the 20th/21st centuries. LGBTQ and queer cultural products are examined with intersectional approaches to language, race/ ethnicity, migration/ exile, and hybrid identities. Taught in Spanish.
Course Narrative: This course focused on the internal experiences of writers, filmmakers, and people belonging to the Latinx and Spanish society as part of the LGBTQ+ community and their acceptance into a machista society. By reading poems, and book chapters and watching documentaries and films, we were able to analyze the difficulties and complex reality that they go through because of racism, prejudices, and derogatory comments and actions by their families and communities during the 20th/21st centuries by social-political movements. In this class, we were able to individually analyze a documentary or reading to make connections about gender, sexuality, and the political or historical context. I examined the film, “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios”, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. This film emphasizes a dramatic change in women’s roles by the end of the Spanish Civil War and the arrival of “La Movida Madrileña”, in which the youth and the marginalized population started to show their cultural and ideological freedom but demonstrated mainly by artistic movements. Also, this film exposes a large number of women’s stereotypes and the contempt for social norms that had been established during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship to build a better and more modern Spanish society. This class encouraged me to give support even more to the LGTBQ+ community, be more open-minded, and express myself better regarding taboo topics that have been imposed in our culture.
Course Narrative: This course focused on the internal experiences of writers, filmmakers, and people belonging to the Latinx and Spanish society as part of the LGBTQ+ community and their acceptance into a machista society. By reading poems, and book chapters and watching documentaries and films, we were able to analyze the difficulties and complex reality that they go through because of racism, prejudices, and derogatory comments and actions by their families and communities during the 20th/21st centuries by social-political movements. In this class, we were able to individually analyze a documentary or reading to make connections about gender, sexuality, and the political or historical context. I examined the film, “Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios”, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. This film emphasizes a dramatic change in women’s roles by the end of the Spanish Civil War and the arrival of “La Movida Madrileña”, in which the youth and the marginalized population started to show their cultural and ideological freedom but demonstrated mainly by artistic movements. Also, this film exposes a large number of women’s stereotypes and the contempt for social norms that had been established during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship to build a better and more modern Spanish society. This class encouraged me to give support even more to the LGTBQ+ community, be more open-minded, and express myself better regarding taboo topics that have been imposed in our culture.
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