This course explores how queer and trans media objects offer new ways to think about technology, the body, the archive, and capital. Through engagement with film, television, audio narrative, visual media, and digital games, students will interrogate critical concepts in queer and trans media theory, including representation, opacity, erasure, memory, subjectification, interactivity, and wildness. Assigned reading will be drawn from work by micha cárdenas, Jian Neo Chen, Alexandra Juhasz, José Estaban Muñoz, Karen Tongson, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, LaVelle Ridley, Viviane Namaste, and Judith Butler, among others. Assessment will include weekly reading annotations, a midterm research proposal, and a final research paper. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students of all identities and from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome.