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This course examines how visual media–like paintings, magazines, television, and Instagram feeds–teach us to look at one another. What processes cause some bodies, activities, and forms of life  visually coded as “normal” while others are marked as “different?” What techniques can be used to subvert these conventions? Students will learn to conduct visual analysis, as well as to creatively experiment with modes of resisting the visual constructions that shape their own lives.

Taught by

Carmen Merport Quiñones

What is queer theory? LGBTQ studies? In this class, students explore LGBTQ history alongside contemporary queer cultural studies. They explore how historical, social, political, and economic systems have shaped and reshaped what it means to be queer or claim queer identity in the United States and abroad.

Taught by

KJ Cerankowski

Why are interviews useful as a research tool, and how can oral histories deepen how we understand Latinx experience in Northeast Ohio? In this class, students gain background and training in conducting oral histories, collaborate with community partners, and contribute to a growing archive of Latino oral histories in Lorain.

Taught by

Gina Pérez

This course examines the intersectional scope of Indigenous environmental activism within the broader context and histories of Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial movements in North America. It centers Indigenous frameworks of political resurgence, politics of decolonization, and visions for an ecologically just and emancipatory alternative to the destructive logics of the settler state.

Taught by

Jess Arnett