Queering Syracuse: Remember When?

Alison Mountz; Amy Tweedy

doi:10.59236/rjv9i2pp208-222

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2010 Open Access

Queering Syracuse: Remember When?

Alison Mountz ; Amy Tweedy

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This paper recounts the experiences of co-teaching a community engaged seminar focused on study of sexuality and space in the city of Syracuse. This geographical focus grounded engagement and provides here a platform from which to address the difficulties of identifying communities organized around diverse, socially constructed identities. The study of sexuality and space prompts a rethinking of how and whether sexuality operates in the city as a situated series of locations or, rather, a series of identities shaping all spaces. The paper explores a semester-long, student-driven discussion concerning queer as a category in relation to the study of sexuality and community. Through discussion of this scholarship, we engaged students in the ongoing process of figuring out what it meant to locate queer communities and to queer the broader community.

Journal: Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published: 2010-04-01
DOI: 10.59236/rjv9i2pp208-222
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