Schedule

Last updated: Tue, Nov 25, 2025

Date Module Readings Due Dates
2026-01-21 Introduction Course overview
 Please complete this “Getting to Know You” survey [link to be posted] by 5pm the day before our first day of class (or as soon as possible if you are joining late)
2026-01-26 Part I: Love Eros I
  • Plato, Symposium, up to 194e (just before the start of Agathon’s speech) [CourseWorks > Files]
2026-01-28 Part I: Love Eros II
  • Plato, 195a–212c (till the end of Socrates’ speech)
2026-02-02 Part I: Love Eros III
  • Plato, 212c to the end
2026-02-04 Part I: Love Eros IV
2026-02-09 Part I: Love The Politics of Desires I
  • Auto Anon, Reverse Tomboy: A Novel (2025), pp. i–ix, 98–103, 3–38
2026-02-11 Part I: Love The Politics of Desires II
  • Auto Anon, pp. 38–74 [CW: sexual assault] & some of the poems TBD
Author visits?
2026-02-16 Part I: Love The Politics of Desires III
  • Martha Shelley, “Gay Is Good” (1970) [CourseWorks]
  • Anne Koedt, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” (1968), in Notes I, p. 11
  • Shulamith Firestone, “Love” (1970), in Notes II, pp. 16–27
  • Kate Millet, “Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution,” in Notes II, pp. 111–12
  • Radicalesbians, “The Woman-Identified Woman” (1970), in Notes III, pp. 81–84
  • Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1977) and “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” (1978), in Sister Outsider [audiobook], pp. 36–39, 53–59
  • G.L.O.S.S. [Girls Living outside Society’s Shit], Demo (2015), album, 08:04
2026-02-18 Part I: Love Political Love? I
2026-02-23 Part I: Love Political Love? II
  • Peters, pp. 40–71