“Cornell University students can take a course on ‘Queer Marxism’ next semester,” reports Campus Reform.
“While queer studies emerged in part as a rejection of Marxism’s totalizing approach and Marxists have criticized the queer emphasis on individuals, this seminar explores the potential of bringing the two fields together,” the course description says.
“We will consider how queer critiques of reproductive futurism, racial capitalism, and homonationalism can transform the legacy of Marxist theory and practice,” it adds. “At the same time, we will examine Marxist notions of totality, reification, and value to re-envision the scope of queer politics.” “After covering these key Marxist and queer theoretical concepts, the seminar will turn to transnational Marxist debates on gender and sexuality in Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union.”
Campus Reform reports that Cornell’s “Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program is offering ‘Queer Marxism.'” The program’s mission is to offer “students the opportunity to study a wide range of fields from the perspectives of feminist and LGBTQIA critical analysis … with the purpose of promoting social justice.”
Colleges have also offered courses on “Queering God” and “How To Be A Bitch.” Divinity schools have proclaimed that Jesus was “queer,” and have attacked marriage, capitalism, and monogamy.
The University of Chicago course “Queering God” questions if God is queer and explores what queerness has to do with the concept of God. “What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?” the course description reads.
Westminster College offers the course “How to Be a Bitch.” Students are encouraged to explore what it means to be a “bitch” and “bossy.”
Occidental College offers the course “Black Queer Thought.” The course critiques “the demands of heteronormativity, white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism.”
The University of California at Berkeley hosted a taxpayer-funded lecture on the “Queering of Agriculture.”
Colleges have also held events such as “Queering Menstruation” and “Anal 101.”
