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ABST3035 – Indigenous Queer Theory & Practice

2024 – Session 2, Online-scheduled-weekday

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Madi Day
madi.day@mq.edu.au
Andrew Farrell
andrew.farrell@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above including ABST1000 or ABST1020 and 20cp at 2000 level including ABST2035 or ABST2020 or ABST2060
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description
This unit introduces students to theories and practices for the analysis of race, gender, and settler colonialism. Engaging with Black queer feminism, queer critiques and Indigenous methodologies, students will learn strategies and concepts that challenge Western ideas about love, family, sex, gender, and identity. Students will become familiar with standpoints that view the origins of race, gender and heterosexuality as connected, and as integral to capitalism and colonialism as global projects. This unit teaches strategies and legacies of resistance, emphasizing the complexity and productivity of coalition and solidarity between Indigenous and Black, immigrant and refugee, and queer and transgender activists globally.

Important Academic Dates

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Critically identify Indigenous peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to knowledge relating to gender and sexuality.
  • ULO2: Use a diverse range of texts to inform your understanding of Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality.
  • ULO3: Apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to facilitate an understanding of Indigenous Queer peoples.
  • ULO4: Communicate effectively, in a range of written and spoken formats, within the conventions of the discipline of Indigenous Studies.
  • ULO5: Identify the potential and limitations of multidisciplinary approaches to understanding Indigenous Queer peoples

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Analysis Task based on readings 30% No Week 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
Minor Essay 30% No Mon September 30, 2024
Major Essay 40% No Mon 28 October, 2024

Analysis Task based on readings

Assessment Type 1: Qualitative analysis task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
Weighting: 30%

 

Students will be required to respond to readings with short form analysis. Please see iLearn for further details

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Critically identify Indigenous peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to knowledge relating to gender and sexuality.
  • Apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to facilitate an understanding of Indigenous Queer peoples.
  • Communicate effectively, in a range of written and spoken formats, within the conventions of the discipline of Indigenous Studies.

Minor Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Mon September 30, 2024
Weighting: 30%

 

In this minor essay, you will analyse the impact of one or more queer Indigenous public figures.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Critically identify Indigenous peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to knowledge relating to gender and sexuality.
  • Apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to facilitate an understanding of Indigenous Queer peoples.
  • Communicate effectively, in a range of written and spoken formats, within the conventions of the discipline of Indigenous Studies.

Major Essay

Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Mon 28 October, 2024
Weighting: 40%

 

Students will write a 2500 essay responding to one or more of the weekly topics. Please see iLearn for further details.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Critically identify Indigenous peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to knowledge relating to gender and sexuality.
  • Use a diverse range of texts to inform your understanding of Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality.
  • Apply appropriate theoretical frameworks to facilitate an understanding of Indigenous Queer peoples.
  • Communicate effectively, in a range of written and spoken formats, within the conventions of the discipline of Indigenous Studies.
  • Identify the potential and limitations of multidisciplinary approaches to understanding Indigenous Queer peoples

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

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Results

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Unit information based on version 2024.03 of the Handbook