Sexuality and Decoloniality

Course co-directors: Nadiya Chushak (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy / Bard College Berlin) and Olena Dmytryk (Cambridge)

  • The course will cover a range of topics, which include but are not limited to:
  • understanding disability, gender, sexuality, and race as analytical categories;
  • interconnections between modernity and the production of ‘indecent’;
  • the relationship between coloniality and the construction of sexual and gender regimes;
  • the constructs of ‘human’ and ‘non-human,’ and their connection to reproduction and sexuality;
  • racialization, ethnicization, and the ideas of ‘progress’ and ‘transformation’;
  • geopolitics of sexual citizenship;
  • decolonial thinking, feeling, and acting as a political practice