Eng-Beng Lim
Week 1 From Gender to Gun Performativity
Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”
Think Gender is Performance: You have Judith Butler to thank for that!
Week 2 Surviving Killabilities
“Gender” (Halberstam) and other relevant keyword entries “Race,” “Sexuality,” “Militarism,” “Brown,” “Queer,” “Empire,” “Religion.”
Jose Munoz, “The Future in the Present: Sexual Avante-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia”
After Orlando, Middle East Research and Information Project
LGBT People of Color refuse to be erased after Orlando
American Ugliness: Queer and Trans People of Color Sat “Not in Our Names”
Chelsea Manning, “We must not let the Orlando nightclub terror further strangle our civil liberties”
Start Making Sense Radio Program, “Life and Death in Gay Orlando”
“He’s Not Done Killing Her’: Why So Many Trans Women Were Murdered in 2015.
Queer Suicide: A Teach-in
Malik Gaines, We Are Orlando
Transgender man forced into clothes and jail for women settles with Toronto police
Understanding HB2: North Carolina’s newest law solidifies state’s role in defining discrimination.
Former Minuteman Militia Leader Found Guilty of Molesting 5-Year Old Girl
Week 3 Laughing at Masculinist Rage, Corruption and Mass Shooting
Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger”
Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Chela Sandoval, “New Sciences: Cyborg feminism and the methodology of the oppressed”
#SayHerName: why Kimberle Crenshaw is fighting for forgotten women
Wendy Brown: How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy: YouTube video
Puar and Rai, “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots”
Charlotte Hooper, Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics
Jacques Derrida on “phallogocentrism”
“I’m a gay man. Don’t use an attack on my community as an excuse for Islamophonia”
US House Oks Koch Bros Bill on ‘Dark Money’ Election Donations
Overcompensation Nation: It’s Time to admit that toxic masculinity drives gun violence
Week 4 Getting Toxic and Terrifying
Considering Hate, Whitlock and Bronski 1-71
Cairo, and our comprador gay movements: A Talk
Toxic Masculinity in the U.S Gun Phallocracy
The Hypermasculine Violence of Omar Mateen and Brock Turner
Student Op-Ed: Toxic Masculinity
Understanding Toxic Masculinity: Why Defending Men Isn’t Enough (a conservative take)
The Under-Discussed Role of Toxic Masculinity
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “Bob Kerrey and the ‘American Tragedy’ of Vietnam”
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Considering Hate, 71-147
What the actual f*ck is going on with the Oakland Police Department?
Gun control’s racist reality: The liberal argument against giving police more power
UCLA Shooting suspect identified: Thoughts on Race, Violence, and Graduate Studies
Two Dead in UCLA
Berkeley gunman kills student taken hostage
25 years later: Henry’s hostage crisis remembered
Drag Queen: Anti-Gay Terrorist Omar Mateen was My Friend
Sullivan, “Troubled. Quiet. Macho. Angry. The volatile life of the Orlando shooter.”
Police: Man who killed singer Christina Grimmie was ‘infatuated’ with her
James Downs: Stop saying Omar Mateen was gay”
“Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila tackles homophobia, Islamophobia on U.S tour
The perception of Asian dads and masculinity
“While Press Fawned Over Cops Guarding LGBTQ Bars, NYPD Charged Orlando March with Horses”
Racist at vigil sends online message
Queer, Muslim, & Unwelcome at the “New Stonewall”
Week 5 Empire, Trump
Andrew Hewitt, Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary
Lisa Lowe, “The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique”
Klaus Theweleit, “Male Bodies and the ‘white terror’” 143-269, Male Fantasies Vol 2
Trump says, ‘Ask the Gays,’ Gays make him regret it
Aaron Belkin, Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire
Amy Kaplan, “Manifest Domesticity”
Amanda Taub, “The Rise of American authoritarianism”
I can’t stop watching this bizarre, terrifying and beautiful Trump ad
The braggart with the ducktail who would be president
Meet the shock troops of Trump’s America
As Britain Mourns MP Jo Cox, Her Killer Is Linked to Neo-Nazi National Alliance and Pro-Apartheid Club
Activity among white supremacists continues to surge
States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2016
A journalist went to a Donald Trump rally yesterday and came back shocked. Here are his tweets
If more guns make America safe, why did Trump ban all guns from the GOP convention?
A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment
Week 6 Orlando
Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims
Paricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought
Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here
“Disney and Orlando: Creating the Happiest Place on Earth.”
Shanghai $5.5 Billion Disney Officially Opens
Gunman Pledged Allegiance to ISIS (titled changed from “Orlando nightclub shooting: 50 killed in ‘domestic terror incident’ at gay club; gunman identified”)
Orlando massacre was “revenge”, not terrorism, says man who claims he was gunman’s lover
The massacre at a Mexican Gay Bar that no one talked about
Orlando Victim says Shooter tried to spare black people: he said black people had suffered enough
Hoax: Canadian Prime Minister and opposition leader share kiss to denounce Orlando massacre
The worst mass shooting? A look back at massacres in U.S. history
How G4S incubated the homophobic hatred or Orlando’s IS Terrorist
Blood Ties: Queer Blood, Donations, and Citizenship
Week 7 Gun Phallocracy: Colonial and Capitalist Deadlocks
Taussig, “Culture of Terror, Space of Death. Roger Casement’s Putumayo Report and the explanation of Torture.”
Chong, “Look, An Asian!” The Politics of Racial Interpellation in the Wake of the Virginia Tech Shootings
1000 mass shootings in 1260 days: this is what America’s gun crisis looks like
The NRA’s Complicity in Terrorism
The gay rights movement could take on NRA, and actually win
The Next Time Someone Calls an AR-15 an assault rifle, show them this
The Orlando massacre was one of 43 shootings yesterday
Why the Orlando Shooting Is Unlikely to Lead to Major New Gun Laws
Stop the gun violence: Ban assault weapons
I was able to buy an AR-15 in five minutes
After Sending ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ to Orlando GOP House Chair Blocks LGBT Protections Bill
Strict military gun control should be our model
We need a radical movement for gun control
NRA Tells Parents to Keep Guns in Kids’ Rooms For Safety
The NRA’s Response To The Orlando Shooting Needs to Break the Pattern
Since Sandy Hook, a gun has been fired on school grounds nearly once a week
Connecticut’s Senators, Who Know Something About Gun Violence, Blames Congress for Orlando Slaughter.
Breaking: Senate Blocks Gun Control Measures and Accomplishes Nothing After Orlando Shooting
NRA-Owned Senate Just Told American People to go F*uck Themselves on Guns
Republicans Are Erasing LGBTQ People From Their Own Tragedy
The Democrats are Boldly Fighting For a Bad, Stupid Bill
The Use of Error-Prone and Unfair Watchlists Is Not the Way to Regulate Guns in America
Week 8 Performance & Patriarchal Pathologies
Bechdel, Fun Home
Tennessee Wiliams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Munoz, “The White to Be Angry”: Vaginal Crème Davis’s Terrorist Drag
California pastor celebrates massacre at Orlando gay club
“No Way to Prevent this”: says only nation where this regularly happens
Halberstam, “Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race, and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene” and Female Masculinity
Sylvia Plath reads “Daddy”
Diana DiMassa, The Complete Hothead Paisan
Split Britches, Belle Reprieve (feminist lesbian adaptation of Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire)
No reason is a reason: Zabar’s customer accidentally shoots self while ordering bagel
Week 9 Queer nightlife: safety, joy, erasure and complacence
Ramon Rivera-Servera, “Quotidian Utopias: Latina/o Queer Choreographies”
Christina Handhardt, “Broken Windows and Blue’s: a queer history of gentrification and policing”
I was Born On the Dance Floor: A Playlist for Pulse
I knew 17 who died in Orlando
More than a Safe Space: The Meaning of the Queer Latin Dance Night
Gay Space Cannot Be Straight Women’s Safe Space Until It’s Safe for those who are gay
One kiss and 50 bodies: The Orlando shooting is a reminder that gay people are still hated
Only when I am dancing can I feel this free
Richard Kim, Please Don’t Stop the Music
In praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club
Week 10
Please add to Week 10 of the syllabus with your suggestions of a rubric, book chapters and articles in the comment section below. In solidarity #orlandosyllabus
Bully Bloggers 
13 replies on “The #Orlando Syllabus”
Thank you, Eng-Beng, for this. I’m only going to post a few Spanish language references, which, in this case, I think are important. The Puerto Rican press has done a good job, recently, of covering, and other parts of Latin America have also been producing a lot of good work on #Orlando. (I don’t know if these links will work, but):
Juliana Martínez on why the shooter is not a monster: http://sentiido.com/el-asesino-de-orlando-no-era-un-monstruo/
Hugo Córdova Quero for Pulse, on intersections and violence: http://gemrip.org/pulse-la-interseccion-de-multiples-violencias-en-la-masacre-de-orlando/
Liliana Viola for Página/12, on hate and reactions: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/contratapa/13-301814-2016-06-15.html
Santiago Castellanos for El Comercio, an interview on difference: http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/humanidad-sociedad-diferencia-tolerancia.html
Yoryie Irizarry for 80 grados, on contextualizing violence: http://www.80grados.net/no-nos-detendran/
Javier E. Laureano for 80 grados, on the Latin American dimension: http://www.80grados.net/de-xalapa-a-orlando/
Cezanne Cardona Morales for El nuevo día on homophobia in Latin America: http://www.elnuevodia.com/opinion/columnas/homofobia-columna-2214055/
Joseph M. Pierce for Revista Anfibia on the Sunday at Stonewall: http://www.revistaanfibia.com/cronica/travestis-negras-boricuas-maricas/
Marta Dillon for Revista Anfibia on the kiss that sparked it all:
http://www.revistaanfibia.com/ensayo/beso-cincuenta-muertos/
(Revista Anfibia has actually collected 10 essays/crónicas about Orlando: PDF: http://bit.ly/PDF_MasacreOrlando)
I wrote this for Emergente, a journal in Argentina https://medium.com/@EMERGENTE/no-en-nuestros-nombres-4f8ae8b49d65#.wehwznqon
Love this syllabus! Here’s another one to add: Horacio Roque Ramirez, “Mira, yo soy Boricua y estoy aquí: Rafa Negrón’s Pan Dulce and the Queer Sonic Latinaje of San Francisco,” in CENTRO: Journal of Puerto Rican Studies (2007).
Maybe not the best source, but something to recognize the media lead out to say Orlando was the biggest mass shooting, when it wasn’t, unless using a very narrow category of mass shooting. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-mass-shooting-20160614-snap-story.html
Thank you for the care that you have taken collectively to put this together. I am a poet and Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, where I direct its Writing Center. I have two contributions to share:
“Requiem for Orlando,” a poem that has been circulating on FB and has reached some pockets of the LGBTQ community in Orlando, and an essay that is forthcoming in _Works in Progress_, a progressive Local Olympia social justice newspaper, “Walt Whitman, Orlando, and the Pulse of Justice.” I am not sure where to send them for your consideration for inclusion on the syllabus. Please contact me if interested.
With gratitude, sly
I wrote this for Emergente, here in argentina https://medium.com/@EMERGENTE/no-en-nuestros-nombres-4f8ae8b49d65#.wehwznqon
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WEEK 10
Beauty and faith in / as the face of terror:
Muslim – Arab – South Asian Queer Performance
– Kareem Khubchandani
Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson and Elizabeth W. Son, “Performed Otherwise: The Political and Social Possibilities of Asian/American Performance,” Theatre Survey, 54 (2013) pp 131-139.
For Gay Arabs, A Place to Dance, and Break Down Walls: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/for-gay-arabs-a-place-to-dance-and-break-down-walls/?_r=0
Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, “Bollywood in Da Club: Social Space in Toronto’s “South Asian” Community,” The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad. Ed. Anjali Gera Roy (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2012), pp: 234-53.
Rahim Thawer, Did This Drag Queen Go Too Far?: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rahim-thawer/drag-toronto_b_2323047.html
Bijli (Dir. Adnan Malik, 2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLZ4ozPBTwc
The Queen of My Dreams (Dir. Fawzia Mirza & Ryan Logan) https://vimeo.com/84015998
Sari, LaWhore Vagistan ft. Auntie Kool Jams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op-aSfh6sxQ
Marc Boucai, Narrating Normal: Arabs, Queers, Neoliberal Spectatorship, 2013 (UC Berkeley): http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Boucai_berkeley_0028E_13815.pdf
The Pulse Shooting and Pride through a Different PrYSM: http://www.rifuture.org/the-pulse-shooting-and-pride-through-a-different-prysm.html
What Does the Koran Say About Being Gay?: http://www.newsweek.com/what-does-koran-say-about-being-gay-470570
The Empire of Sexuality: An Interview with Joseph Massad: http://www.photography.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/10461/the-empire-of-sexuality_an-interview-with-joseph-m
Mohammed to Maya (Dir. Jeff Roy, 2012): http://mohammedtomaya.com/
Mashuq Deen, I Am Trans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWl9lVOF8_4
Jasbir Puar, Towelheads, Diapers, and Faggots: Reviving the Turban: http://www.clags.org/articles/towelheads-diapers-and-faggots-reviving-the-turban/
Drone by Kazim Ali: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/opinion/blogs/educationitself/2016/06/20/poem–day—drone-kazim-ali/86129124/
Torture porn: http://markaguhar.tumblr.com/post/2714415678/that-thing-where-you-get-off-to-torture-porn
Khusbhoo Gulati, My turban is Not a Fashion Trend: http://navigatethestream.tumblr.com/post/44253704677/kalisherni-my-turban-is-not-a-fashion-trend
The Hindu in the Northwest: https://www.saada.org/item/20110714-238
Deleted facebook photo of a gay Sikh kissing a man sparks debate on Sikhism and LGBT Rights:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/deleted-facebook-photo-of-a-gay-sikh-kissing-a-man-sparks-de?utm_term=.qv6P6Jv8O#.inK5bX9wA
Loins of Punjab Presents (Dir. Manish Acharya, 2007) (Available on Netflix & Amazon streaming)
Looking at Wafaa Bilal’s Domestic Tension: http://www.ibraaz.org/publications/55
How to do things with hair: http://interviews.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/16598/how-to-do-things-with-hair
A Life In a Poem – Ifti Nasim (Dir. Dustin Nakao Haider): http://www.cultureunplugged.com/storyteller/Dustin_Nakao_Haider#/myFilms
(currently suspended till Dec 2016 – worth the wait!)
Bad Asians: http://markaguhar.tumblr.com/post/3880843615/ps
Thank you for putting this together, and many thanks to commenters adding to it.
Thank you for this resource.
Please don’t take this as a criticism of your work, as I intend it rather to be more critical of the news media than anything else, but I find it troubling that for all that has been written on this tragedy, very little of it seems to be about the victims. I have read, over and over, the same stories about the shooter (not surprising, as focusing on him furthers various political agendas), but when it comes to the victims, it is more than a little disturbing that I have found more material on Donald Trump’s (typically inchoate) responses to the event than discussions of the victims of the tragedy.
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