SDS Graduate Courses 2026-2027

Students enrolled in the SDS collaborative program are required to take our core course, SDS1000H.

SDS1000H Theory and Methods in Sexual Diversity Studies

Instructor: Julie Moreau

Time: Winter 2027, Fridays 1-3pm

This course serves as the core requirement for the collaborative specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies. It covers important theories, methods, and historical movements in queer, trans, and sexuality studies across the disciplines. It approaches sexuality studies through an intersectional lens by examining how colonialism, settler colonialism, migration, class structure, and neoliberalism shape and are shaped by gender and sexual minorities locally and globally.

Enrollment in SDS1000 is restricted to students in the SDS collaborative specialization. Students in the SDS collaborative can request enrolment through ACORN. Students outside of Faculty of Arts and Science may also have to submit an add/drop form.

If space remains available, students from outside the collaborative specialization can apply for enrolment by filling out an SDS1000 ballot as well as an add/drop form. The course is limited to 15 spaces.

SDS1999H Pedagogies of Abolition: Queer/Trans Black Radical Traditions

Instructor: Qui Alexander, Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at OISE

Time: Fall 2026, Tuesdays 3-5pm

Grounded in queer/trans iterations of the Black radical tradition, this course explores the relationship between abolitionist praxis, political education, and queer/trans life. Exploring epistemological and political commitments, as well as the everyday practices, of abolitionist praxis students will be pushed to think critically about what enacting abolitionist values in our teaching, research and scholarship looks like. The course focuses on texts that analyze historical and contemporary abolitionist struggles in the US and Canada, in addition to narratives of community organizers and movement leaders. This course is also rooted in a practice of self-reflexivity, to explore how carcerality and punitive-based cultures shape our own lives, as well as the communities we are a part of. Students will work to develop a critical analysis of systems of oppression that animate the prison-industrial complex, while engaging in collective experiments (at home and in the classroom) that aim to undo the carceral logics shaping our world. As the course title suggests, this course is not about developing a framework for “abolitionist pedagogy,” instead it is an exploration into the many pedagogies that emerge from abolitionist praxis in community.

Enrolment is open to all graduate students. Students can request enrolment via ACORN. Students outside of Faculty of Arts and Science may also have to submit an add/drop form.