"Obergefell Syllabus"

Abstract

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: The “Obergefell Syllabus” is a publicly accessible resource on the Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and the movement for marriage equality in the United States. Eric van der Vort created the syllabus in June 2017 with a series of tweets that include academic articles and books, essays, law reviews, anthologies, and podcasts. Each source documents the effect, history, and critiques of the fight for marriage equality. It first features scholarly articles that examine the relation between the state and the family. While the syllabus includes peer-reviewed literature from public policy, sociology, and history, legal studies guides the syllabus. It links to scholarship documenting the potential effect constitutional power has on other marginalized groups, including the connections between Black citizenship and Black marriage, feminist legal advocacy, and undocumented gay migrants. The syllabus concludes with overarching critiques of marriage equality and possible future directions of LGBT legal movements