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RESOURCES

Courses

QS Coordinator & Advisor

The Coordinator for the Queer Studies Program is Dr. Sheena Malhotra.

Please follow the link to Dr. Malhotra's Advising page for her office hours and contact information.

Dr. Sheena Malhotra will also serve as the Advisor for the Queer Studies Program in 2008-09. Please email her to set up an appointment for advising.

Email Dr. Malhotra

Please come in and see the QS Advisor if you have any questions about your class scheduling or if you are considering Queer Studies as a minor.

Affiliated Faculty

Elizabeth Adams

Liberal Studies

Ian Barnard

English

Eli Bartle

Social Work

Beatriz Cortez

Central American Studies

Ramon Garcia

Chicano/a Studies

C. Jacob Hale

Philosophy

Leilani Hall

English

Sabina Magliocco

Anthropology

Sheena Malhotra

Gender & Women's Studies

Gina Masequesmay

Asian American Studies

Kathryn Sorrells

Communications

 

For QS Students...

Links to QS Clubs & Organizations

NEWS AND INFORMATION

Queer Studies Program

California State University, Northridge

18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330

Phone: 818-677-6762
Fax: 818-677-3605

The Queer Studies Program is located in Jerome Richfield 253

 

Announcements

Part-Time Applications

Part-Time Application for QS 301

Part-Time Application for QS 401

LGBTA Student Wins National Video Contest

Michelle "Missy" Dominguez of LGBTA won the Video Contest by the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights. Please follow this link to the announcement of her award. You can watch Missy's video here.

Eve Sedgwick's passing

We are very saddened by the loss of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on April 12th, 2009 to breast cancer. Dr. Sedgwick's work is foundational to the development of Queer Studies as a field and her presence will be greatly missed. Please follow this link to her obituary in The Nation to learn more about her.

 

Spring Event Highlights

April

April 14th - Queer Studies Spring Lecture Series. 7:30 p.m. Whitsett Room, Sierra Hall 451. Dr. Susan Stryker's presentation: "We Who Are Sexy: The Transsexual Whiteness of Christine Jorgensen in the Post-Colonial Philippines"

April 15th - WSSA film screening. For The Bible Tells Me So - Sierra Hall 203. 1:30 - 4:00 p.m.

April 24th - Commemoration for Eve Sedgwick. 12-1 p.m. JR 319. The CSUN Queer Studies Program, English Department, and Institute for Lesbian Bisexual Gay and Transgeder Studies are co-sponsoring a commemoration of the life and work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a founding mother of Queer Theory, who died on April 12 2009. The commemoration will take place on Friday April 24, 12-1 p.m. in JR 319. All students, staff, and faculty are welcome to attend. Anyone who would like to speak or read an excerpt from Sedgwick's work at the commemoration should contact Ian Barnard.


LGBTA General Meeting - Thursdays at 7 p.m. (Thousand Oaks Room).

LGBTA Rap Groups - Mondays at 5 and 6 p.m. - Agoura Room, USU (across from Thousand Oaks room). Please refer to the Calendar link above to find the topic for each week.

Watch this space for announcements on upcoming QS events. QS Calendar


Students at a "Take Back the Night" rally

Prop 8

The QS Program views Prop 8 as a discriminatory proposition that took away the constitutional right to marry from same sex couples in California. While we recognize and respect the diverse critiques of marriage as an institution, we see the passage of Prop 8 as motivated by homophobia and encourage its repeal.  We also encourage protestors against Prop 8 not to target specific ethnic communities, but to recognize that large numbers of Californians of all ethnicities voted both for and against Prop 8.

 

Below are links to video shot by QS faculty and students from the wave of protests against Prop 8.

From Student Billimarie Robinson

http://www.losangelesiam.com/videos/20f26d55fda1

From Prof. Ian Barnard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4wmo1OvKNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msEO4SwWyQ

 

Welcome to Queer Studies

The Queer Studies Program at CSUN began offering classes in the Fall of 2008.

Housed in the College of Humanities, QS is an interdisciplinary minor that questions normative constructions of sexuality and gender.

The Queer Studies minor focuses on histories, contemporary experiences, and community-based knowledges of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, intersexed people, queers, and others who occupy non-heterosexist and non-normative gender positionalities.

Students at a "Take Back the Night" rally

The program explores how heterosexism, heteronormativity and transphobia intersect and collide with national, ethnic, racial, class and other identifications, fostering a community of learners who grapple with issues of diversity, gender, sexuality and social justice.

QS at CSUN provides an academic home for those who wish to study the intellectual, cultural and material conditions that have shaped our current understandings of sexuality and gender variation as well as for those who wish to generate new, resistant theories and practices. The program offers an undergraduate minor, sponsors courses, organizes lecture series, and brings together interested students, faculty, and larger Los Angeles communities.

The Queer Studies Minor

Queer Studies offers a 18 unit minor.

Queer Studies Minor Requirements

Queer Studies Learning Outcomes

Please click the link above or here to view the QS SLO's

Queer students and allies at an Immigration Rights rally

Queer students and allies at an Immigration Rights march.