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Queer Studies at Tufts

At its best, queer studies is an interdisciplinary field that combines gender studies, sexuality studies, and postmodern and performative theories in order to examine, upset, and oppose ideas and practices of normality, examining in particular the ways that human identities and experiences tend to be mapped out in binary and oppositional ways (white/black, male/female, heterosexual/homosexual, middleclass/poor, etc.)  A key focus of queer studies is the intersectionality of issues of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, religion, and culture with issues of sexuality and gender.

The Tufts LGBT Center is committed to the development of Queer Studies at Tufts.  Over the last five years, we have made considerable advancements on this front.  Our accomplishments include (1) creating an LGBTQ-related course list on the LGBT Center’s website; (2) establishing Introduction to Queer Studies as a permanent, core course in Women’s Studies; (3) establishing the Queer Studies Scholars Series, which brings a major queer studies scholar to campus each fall; and (4) overhauling the LGBT Center’s library (catalog now available online) with a focus on queer studies texts.