Syllabus
Inspired by the Syllabus Project.
Table of Contents:
- Trans & Intersex
- Alterhumanity
- Queer Science & Philosophy
- Disability
- Queer Werewolves & Feminist Horror
- Indigenity
- Anti-Capitalism
- Miscellaneous
Trans & Intersex
- Gabriel Mac, 'My Penis, Myself', New York Magazine (2021)
- Mad Gender Science - DIY transitioning
- CrimethInc's 'The Fight for Gender Self-Determination: Confronting the Assault on Trans People' (2022)
- @VeggiePandie's DIY Fabric Packer
- Intersex Justice Project's Intersex Resources for Medical Students
- Bogi Takács' list of intersex books by intersex authors
- Cat Graffam, 'The Rift Between Us - Intersex and Trans Discourse', Medium (2015)
- Gender 2.0, a collection of writings on gender, Medium (2015-2017)
- TransHub - a collection of resources for trans Australians
- Andrea James' Transgender Map - a roadmap for transgender people (focused on trans women in the USA)
- Transbucket - a site where transgender people upload photos of their surgery results
- Transgender Teen Survival Guide - a blog full of trans resources (not just for teens!)
- List of Australian queer community support services
- Beyond Safewords: Kink at Pride and BDSM Information Page
- Transient Theology Project - a zine for transgender Christians
- Grackle's Place - a blog of trans & intersex resources, and LGBTI+ archives
- Theo's Transgender Library - an archive / collection of trans docos, books & magazines
- Digital Transgender Archive
- The History Project - documenting queer Boston
- Lesbian Herstory Archives
- Interactive AIDS memorial quilt
- GLBT History's digital collections
- The LGBT Community Center's archives
- JSTOR's HIV, AIDS & the Arts collection
- GLAMA - Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America
- Making Queer History - queer archives
- To Survive on this Shore - photos and interviews with transgender older adults
- A Butch Archive
Alterhumanity
- @schizotaxic on Daemonism & Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Ai Hasegawa's 'Human X Shark', 'I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin...' & 'I Wanna Deliver a Shark...' art projects
- 'The History of Voluntary Nonhuman Identities, And Where We Can Go Now' Alt+H (2020)
- Adeline Rother, 'Becoming Zoö-curious: Reading Sexual Differences in the Field of Animal Life' in Humanimalia, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2017), pp. 87-107
(Queer) Science and Philosophy
- Institute of Queer Ecology
- David Griffiths, 'Queer Theory for Lichens', UnderCurrents (2015)
- Kristin Hugo/@strangebiology's 'America v. Coyotes: The War That Can Never be Won' Odd Salon presentation
- Bryan Nelson, 'A Spider's Web is Part of its Mind, New Research Suggests', Treehugger (2020)
- @woman-loving on post-pansexual
- Donna Haraway, 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century', in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp. 149-181
- Smithsonian Open Access
- Adeline Rother, 'Becoming Zoö-curious: Reading Sexual Differences in the Field of Animal Life' in Humanimalia, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2017), pp. 87-107
Disability
- Jeremy Woody, 'The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison', The Marshall Project (2018)
- Break the Cycle! - a website dedicated to how to stop the cycle of abuse and intergenerational trauma
- Darren Devine, 'Are Autism and ADHD Symptoms of the Same Condition?', Mental Health Today (2020)
- Empty Memories' Dissociative Disorder spectrum page & their library
- Musings of an Aspie's Executive Function Primer (2014)
- Alaina Leary, 'The Joy of Being Autistic in Spaces Built By and For Autistic People', Rooted in Rights (2019)
- @Ozymandias' 'What it's Like Having Borderline Personality Disorder', Thing of Things (2015)
- You Feel Like Shit - a simple, interactive self-care guide (that actually helps)
- PDFs of the DSM-5-TR, the PDM-2, and a link to the ICD-11
- @Ozymandias' 'Generalized Shame Disorder', Thing of Things (2016)
- Mad Study for Abolition - a mad syllabus by Sarah Cavar
- Devon Price, 'Laziness Does Not Exist', Medium (2018)
Queer Werewolves and Feminist Horror
- Erin M. Flaherty, 'Howling (and Bleeding) at the Moon: Menstruation, Monstrosity and the Double in the Ginger Snaps Werewolf Trilogy', Pace University Honors College Thesis (2008)
- 'Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves?', Artsy (2017)
- Caitlin B. Giacopasi, 'The Werewolf Pride Movement: A Step Back from Queer Medieval Tradition', Steton Hall University Thesis (2011)
- Claudia Dey, 'Mothers as Makers of Death', The Paris Review (2018)
- Francesca Fau, 'Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies', Film School Rejects (2018)
- Julia Armfield, 'On Body Horror and the Female Body', Publishers Weekly (2019)
- Alexandra West, 'Alice Kept Secrets: Cinematic Grief and Lake Mungo (2008)', Bloody Disgusting (2018)
- Tyler Malone, 'Every House is a Haunted House', LitHub (2018)
- S. F. Whitaker, 'How Horror Helps with Processing Grief and Trauma', Book Riot (2020)
- Sean T. Collins, 'The Ecstasy of the Agony: A Quick Guide to Transcendental Horror', The Outline (2020)
- Nancy Holder, 'The H Word: H is for Haunted Houses', Nightmare Magazine (2015)
- Jacob Geller, 'Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House', video essay (2019)
- Amanda Bergloff, 'Werewolves that Fish and Fight in Battles: The Scottish Wulver and Irish Faoladh in Folklore', Folklore Thursday (2018)
- Nathaniel Budzinski, '‘It’s All an Indian Burial Ground’: Folk Horror Cinema’s Reckoning with Colonial Violence', ArtReview (2021)
- Eve Tuck & C. Ree, 'A Glossary of Haunting' (PDF), in Handbook of Autoethnography, eds.Stacy Holman Jones et al. (2013)
- 'On Native Horror and the terrors of settler colonialism with Kali Simmons' (podcast), Red Nation (2022)
Indigeneity
- Gemma Pol, 'Diverse First Nations Identities', Common Ground
- Sala Elise Patterson, 'First-Ever Compendium of Indigenous Technologies Provides a Powerful Toolkit for Climate-Resilient Design', Harvard Graduate School of Design (2020)
- Emily Riddle, 'Just Transition Means Returning Indigenous Land - But That Might Look Different Than You Think', Briarpatch Magazine (2019)
- Emily Riddle, '(Indigenous) Governance is Gay', Guts Magazine (2018)
- Jade Delise, 'Decolonizing Ecology', Briarpatch Magazine (2020)
- Elizabeth Hoover, 'Seed Sovereignty and 'Our Living Relatives' in Native American Community Farming and Gardening', Harvard Graduate School of Design (2020) (lecture)
- J. Gabriel Ware, 'Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods', YES! Magazine (2017)
- Gerry Everding, 'Women Shaped Cuisine, Culture of Ancient Cahokia', Phys Org (2019)
- Native Land - a global map of indigenous land
- The Decolonial Atlas - various decolonial maps & data
- Glen Coulthard, 'For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must Die', in Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (2014)
- Thomas Kole's A Portrait of Tenochtitlan, a 3D reconstruction of Tenochtitlan in 1518 AD
Anti-Capitalism, Communio-socialism and Anarchy
- CrimethInc's Surviving the Virus: An Anarchist Guide (2020)
- Kris De Decker, 'How to Build a Low-Tech Internet', Low-Tech Magazine (2015)
- The Tor Project Browser
- GNU / Linux OS (I'm currently using Debian!)
- Let's Crush Capitalism - an Introduction to Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism
- Does Capitalism Work? - an essay, USA focused
- marxist.space - resources, news, and other things on Marxism
- Free Leftist Zines
- An Anti-Capitalism FAQ
- A place to read Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J Sakai
- A collection of communist texts
- A collection of anarchist texts
- An introduction & FAQ on anarchism
- The Mass Line - an introduction to mass leadership & perspective
- Cyberfeminism Index - an introduction to & resources on cyberfeminism
Miscellaneous
- Web Archive's Wayback Machine - save URLs as they are for archiving
- Electronic Journal of Folklore (1996-present)
- T. A. Frank, '"Locked into a Projection Booth that Shows the Films of Your Troubled Youth": The Brilliance and the Sorrow of My Friend Stewart Lupton, Fire-Eater', Vanity Fair (2018)
- CJ Hauser, 'The Crane Wife', The Paris Review (2019)
- Philip Pullman, 'The Sound and the Story: Exploring the World of Paradise Lost', The Public Domain Review (2019)
- Sam Kriss, 'What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us', The Outline (2017)
- Nicholas Evans, 'Words of Life', Little Toller Books (2018)
- Transcript of the Trial of Joan of Arc (1431, translated 1932), Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks (1999)
- Stephen de Bourbon, 'De Supersticione: On St. Guinefort' (1200s, translated 1877), Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebooks (2000)
- Yellowstone Wolf Project Reports (1995-2020)
- Creating a Wildlife Garden & the Tasmanian Bushcare Toolkit (Tasmanian specific, but widely applicable)
- @fogsrollingin's 'Make a Ficlet Booklet' tutorial
- @ArmoredSuperHeavy's 'How to Make a Book From an AO3 Page' tutorial
- International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
- Psychiatric Service Dog Partners
- Assistance Dogs International
- Raquel S. Benedict, 'Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny', Blood Knife (2021)
- Tom Lamont, 'Where oil rigs go to die', The Guardian (2017)
- Interesting Wikipedia articles:
- Sites about sites:
- Marginalia - a search engine for the old web
- ooh.directory - "A collection of 2,059 blogs about every topic"
- Yesterweb - a site about the old web
- Ichigo Directory - "a non-comprehensive guide on cute websites with a focus on pixel art, web materials, and more"
- Social media alternatives:
- Sparklepack
- MelonLand
- Tilde Town
- SpaceHey - MySpace revival project
- Scuttlebutt
- Mastodon
- There's plenty more - look up federated social networks!