Queering Design (Education)

Required readings/viewings

• What Does “Queering Design Education” Actually Look Like in Practice? (Nicole Killian Interview)︎(Also note the list of additional readings there not all of the links work, in the interest of not simply copypasta-ing that stuff, I will just make sure that you are aware of it)
• Jack Halberstam on Queer Failure, Silly Archives and the Wild︎
  
• You Won’t Believe What This Bizarre Design Cult Eats For Breakfast. The Truth Will Shock U from Elliott Earls’ Studio Practice webseries︎
  
• We Can Listen and Push Back at the Same Time by Kristina Ketola Bore︎
  
• Let’s Talk About Body Reproduction by Nate Pyper︎
  
• We Must Make Queer Praxis Accessible by Ginger Brooks Takahashi︎

Questions to think about as you read these

• Is your work being culturally viable (profitable, employable) part of your view of success? How much of this is presupposed?
  
• Is having a voice part of your view of success? Do you see those two things as mutual exclusive?
  
• How much do you feel this is part of a legacy of heteronormativity, and how much (if at all) does that matter to you?
  
• How much does the “canon” of design matter to you? How much do you think it influences you? Can you see it in work you experience “out in the world?”
• How can we as designers / students / educators “reproduce” by spreading ideas to different institutions?
  
• How valuable is social capital/networking to you?
  
• Is it too transactional for you to view it that way (versus community, friendship, whathaveyou)?

Related, but not required readings to help provide some context

• Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam, Chapter 3︎
• Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance from Genderfail︎
• Impact of the Bauhaus on design education︎
  
• Deprofessionalization by Michael Rock︎
• Allen Iverson “Y’all talking about practice!”︎
  

Things that came up during class (02/24/2021)

• Peter Jackson Beatles is working on a Beatles documentary called Get Back︎
This came up because I mentioned not comparing yourself to other people. The Beatles did Sgt. Peppers when they were like...24 or something.
• Jessica Krug︎ This came up because we were talking about the importance of (white) allies vs. representation. This is the woman who masqueraded as a person of color for mad long; she even wrote a book.
• Stuntmen React by Corridor Crew on YouTube︎ With the Nat Pyper essay this came up with the idea of stunt doubling.  They look at a lot of great stuff like Jackie Chan and Bollywood movies as well as just regular-ass action movies.