The course presents the historical and theoretical underpinnings of western colonial sexualities in Canada and the United States. Students examine the power of sex and sexuality, and the regulation of sexualities into categories of normal and abnormal. Students consider how sex and sexualities are normatively defined through discourses produced by various institutions, including colonial governments, popular media, corporations, and educational, scientific and medical bodies. Students engage with feminist, queer, Indigenous, and racial theories that trouble and deconstruct these social constructions of normative sexuality.