Queer, as described by anthropologist Martin Manalansan, "is about messing things up, creating disorder, and disruptive commotion within the normative arrangements of bodies, things, spaces and institutions" (2015: 567). And in the words of poet Cameron Awkward-Rich, "transness, at minimum, is the insistence on the human capacity for once unimaginable change" (2020). In this course, we will explore queer and trans in this manner — as mess makers, disruptive forces, and sanctuaries for social difference. We will explore queer, and 2 trans thought as spatial thought, especially via their connections to postcolonial, critical race, and feminist theories. We will consider how dynamics of race, gender, class, colonialism, and geopolitics are central to expressions of sexual and gender identity politics, and how queer and trans theory and social movements build frameworks for social and spatial justice.