Fay Cordeiro - Culture and the Body
Fay is back at home on the south shore of Oʻahu, plotting his return to Oakland where he hopes to spend the next few years playing, organizing, and learning.
Area of Concentration Courses
Public Health 182 - Sexual Health and Sexuality
American Studies C111E - Representing New Orleans
Gender and Women's Studies 129 - Bodies and Boundaries
Gender and Womens' Studies 130AC - Gender, Race, Nation, and Health
Rhetoric 106 - Rhetorics of the North American AIDS epidemic: Rhetoric of Historical Discourse
American Studies 101 - James Baldwin's America, 1953-1974
American Studies C111E - Representing New Orleans
Gender and Women's Studies 129 - Bodies and Boundaries
Gender and Womens' Studies 130AC - Gender, Race, Nation, and Health
Rhetoric 106 - Rhetorics of the North American AIDS epidemic: Rhetoric of Historical Discourse
American Studies 101 - James Baldwin's America, 1953-1974
Thesis
Lou Sullivan: Transness in America
Fay’s thesis investigates transness in America through examining gay trans man, historian, and community organizer Lou Sullivan’s personal accounts. Sullivan’s life and work has been instrumental in the transsexual FTM community, especially for gay men, in San Francisco and internationally. Fay uses Sullivan’s diary entries, correspondence, gender clinic applications, interviews, and more alongside secondary sources such as Susan Stryker’s Transgender History to illustrate Sullivan’s experience of being trans in America, particularly in the late 1970’s.
