Important Dates (write them down!):
Our Course:
March 16: Research and Evaluation Midterm Due
May 11: Hawksite and Reflection Essay Due during Final Time
*Note: Your reading sheets are due on a rolling basis.*
SUNY-wide:
- February 5 – April 2: Course Withdrawal Period A student may withdraw from a course that started at the beginning of the semester ($20 course withdrawal fee).
- March 12: Mid-Point of Spring 2018 semester.
- March 19 – March 23: Spring Break (no classes)
- April 2: Last day for Course Withdrawal.
- April 24-May 8: Student Evaluation of Instructor Period
- May 7 Last day of classes for Spring 2018.
Meeting Schedule and Reading Assignments
Tuesday January 23, 2018 | Course Introduction
Friday, January 26, 2018 | What is Subculture?
Readings:
- Hebdige, Dick. 1979. “From Culture to Hegemony” in Subculture: The Meaning of Style.
- Powell, Rachel, and John Clarke. 1979. “A Note on Marginality.” Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Tuesday, January 30, 2018 | Subculture, Popular Culture
Readings:
- Hall, Stuart. 2007. ‘Notes on Deconstructing the Popular’ in Storey, John (ed) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader.
- McRobbie, Angela and Jennifer Garber. 1991. “Girls and Subculture” and “Settling Accounts with Subcultures” in Feminism and Youth Culture.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Friday, February 2, 2018 | Print Culture
Readings:
- Piepmeier, Alison. 2009. “Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community” in Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 | Print Culture
Readings:
- Beins, Agatha. 2017. “Locating Feminism” in Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity.
Note: Dr. Beins will be Skyping in around 9:40AM so please be prepared with questions to ask her!
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Emma L.
Friday, February 9, 2018| Print Culture
Readings:
- Licona, Adela. 2010. “Queer-y-ing Consumption and Production” in Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Sarah G.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | Print Culture
MEET AT THE LIBRARY CHECK IN DESK AT 9:20 TODAY
Readings:
- Regales, Jackie. 2008. “My Identity is Fluid as Fuck: Transgender Zine Writers Constructing Themselves” in Queer Youth Cultures
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Note: Zine Making Workshop with Madeline Veitch in the library 10:00-10:45am
Friday, February 16, 2018| Style Culture
Readings:
- Ramírez, Catherine S. 2009.“Black Skirts, Dark Slacks, and Brown Knees: Pachuca Style and Spectacle during World War II” in The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Note: 24 Hour Zine-Making Challenge
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Hannah B.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | Style Culture
Readings:
- Hernandez, Jillian. 2009. “‘Miss, You Look Like a Bratz Doll’: On Chonga Girls and Sexual-Aesthetic Excess.” By NWSA Journal 21, no. 3, 63–90.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Sara C.
Friday, February 23, 2018 | Musical Culture
Readings:
- Leblanc, Lauraine. 2008. “Punk’s Not Dead It Just Smells That Way” in Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boys’ Subculture.
- Suzy X. 2016. “An Interview With Alice Bag: Chicana Punk Maverick” in Bitch Magazine.
Assignment Due:
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Sam H.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018| Musical Culture
Readings:
- Wilson, Angela. 2008. “The Galaxy is Gay: Examining the Networks of Lesbian Punk Rock Subculture” in Queer Youth Cultures.
- Ngô, Fiona I. B., and Elizabeth A. Stinson. 2012. “Introduction: Threads and Omissions.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 22 (2–3): 165–71.
- Stinson, Elizabeth. 2012. “Writing Zines, Playing Music, and Being a Black Punk Feminist: An Interview with Osa Atoe.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 22 (2–3): 261–74.
- annotated bib/personal soundtrack doesn’t need reading sheet: Nguyen, Mimi Thi. 2012. “Making Waves: Other Punk Feminisms.” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 22 (2–3): 355–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2012.720895.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Esme A.
CLASS CANCELLED: STORM
Friday, March 2, 2018 | Musical Culture
Readings:
- Farrugia, Rebekah. 2012. “Building a Women-Centred DJ Collective: From San Francisco to Cyberspace to Sister USA” in Beyond the Dance Floor: Female DJs, Technology, and Electronic Dance Music Culture.
- Clay, Andreana. 2006. “‘All I Need Is One Mic’: Mobilizing Youth for Social Change in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” by Social Justice, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p105-121.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Note: Go over Research and Evaluation Midterm in class: TOPIC IDEAS DUE!
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Jamie O.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 | Musical Culture
Readings:
- Gaunt, Kyra. 2006. “Mary Mack Dressed in Black: The Earliest Formation of a Popular Music” in The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet and We Will discuss midterm topic ideas!
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Rebecca F. and Jamie O.
Friday, March 9, 2018 | Performance Culture
Readings:
- Vacarro, Jeanne. 2004. “Give Me An F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance” in Performance and Politics in the Americas Volume 1, Issue 1 (I uploaded a PDF but it is so much better with photos and audio files so click the link and read online instead!)
- Ro, Christine. 2016. “Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Where Did Radical Cheerleaders Go?” in Bitch Magazine.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Gracie M.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |Performance Culture
Readings:
- Balén, Jules. 2017. “Practices of Identity: Queering Social Institution” in A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social Justice.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Friday, March 16, 2018 | NO READINGS.
Today is the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Meet in the DASHlab (M36 in STL)!
Assignment Due: Research and Evaluation Midterm
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 | Spring Break
Friday, March 23, 2018 | Spring Break
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 |Performance Culture
Readings:
- Pabón-Colon, Jessica. 2018. “Performing Feminist Masculinity in a Postfeminist Era” in Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Isabella F. and Joan M.
Friday, March 30, 2018 |Performance Culture
Readings:
- Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth. 2010. “Stepping into the African Diaspora: Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Production of Sexuality and Femininity in Sorority Step Performance” in Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Rose S. and Ailise S.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 |Performance Culture
Readings:
- Baker, Ashley and Kimberly Kelly. 2016 “Live Like a King, Y’all: Gender Negotiation and The Performance Of Masculinity Among Southern Drag Kings” in Sexualities.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Joe R. and Griffin S.
Friday, April 6, 2018 | Cultures of Body Modification
Readings:
- Yuen Thompson, Beverluy. 2015. “I want to be Covered: Heavily Tattooed Women Challenge the Dominant Beauty Culture” in Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women, and The Politics of the Body.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Jess S. and Steph K.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 | Cultures of Body Modification
Readings:
- White, Michele. 2015. “Never Cleaning Up Cosmetic Femininity and the Remains of Glitter” in Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Matt P.
Friday, April 13, 2018 | Sports Culture
Readings:
- Kelly, Deirdre, Currie. 2005. “Skater Girlhood And Emphasized Femininity: ‘You Can’t Land An Ollie Properly In Heels’.” in Gender & Education. Aug2005, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p229-248.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Note:
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Christine H.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 | Sports Culture
Readings:
- Garber, Elizabeth and Erin Garber-Pearson. 2012. “Tramps and Bruises: Images of Roller Derby and Contemporary Feminism” in Girls, Cultural Productions, and Resistance.
Guest Skype! Konstance Killjoy
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Rachel B.
Friday, April 20, 2018 | Digital Culture
Readings:
- Chess, Shira. 2017. “Intro” (excerpt) and “Playing with Identity” in Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Jessika L.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | Digital Culture
Readings:
- Watch the entire “Tropes vs Women” Series (there are 7 videos) on FeministFrequency.com
In class: Come to class prepared to workshop your wikipedia edits: laptop, things to work on, what you are stuck on, where you are going, etc. We will work in small groups of 3 to help each other get moving on the edits.
Also, though the link only shows 7 videos it seems there are many more to the Tropes vs Women series if you are interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropes_vs._Women_in_Video_Games
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations:
Friday, April 27, 2018| Digital Culture
Readings:
- McClure, Marissa. 2012. “The Princess’s Protagonist: The Affective and Discursive Work of Managing Masculinity and Femininity in Mexican and Native American Preschool Girls’ Digital Video Productions” in Girls, Cultural Productions, and Resistance.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Emma W, Raine G., and G Ross
Tuesday May 1, 2018 | Revolutionary Culture
Readings:
- Morales, Iris. 2017. “Women Organizing Women” in Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
“What’s Missing?” Presentations: Will B. and Susie P.
Friday, May 4, 2018 | Revolutionary Culture
Readings:
- Taft, Jessica. 2010. “We’ve Got Spirit: A Politics of Hope” in Rebel Girls.
Assignment Due: Reading Sheet, Twitter Activity Log
Note: Last day of classes
Friday, May 11, 2018 | Final Exam Day 10:15 AM 12:15 PM
Wikipedia Show & Tell (Reflection Essay!)