This lesson pairs Amy Martin’s chapter in Feminist Making, Doing & Sensing with these episodes from the tv series Sort Of: season 1, episodes 1-3, 6, and 8. It was created by Ada Jaarsma originally for her intro class, Philosophy of Sex & Love.
(episode 6 contains explicit sexual content; the episode can be skipped if that’s preferred).
In this lesson, two prompts suggest specific scenes to rewatch in order for reflections and conversations to emerge directly out of the viewing experiences. These scenes are transcribed on the lesson-handout so that they can be read as well as viewed.
An additional recommended reading is Hil Malatino’s Trans Care(University of Minnesota Press, 2020)
“It is within this comic ecology with its weather patterns, fronts, and opposing air masses that the meeting of funny-huh and funny-haha is shaped. Perhaps it can be reshaped.”
–Amy Marvin, “Weathering the Comic Storm”
“[Sort Of] is a mellow, finely observed comedy, [which] recognizes that almost all of us are in transition in one way or another, if we will only stop to notice.”
–Alexis Soloski, New York Times (Nov 2022)