Harvard University appointed Kareem Khubchandani, a Tufts University associate professor who performs as the drag queen LaWhore Vagistan, as a visiting professor in its Women, Gender, and Sexuality department for this academic year,” reports The College Fix:
Khubchandani will teach “Queer Ethnography” this fall and “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire” in the spring, according to an announcement from Harvard.
“This class introduces students in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to ethnographic research methods as they pertain to exploring questions of bodies, pleasure, power, and desire,” the class description for “Queer Ethnography” states.
In the “RuPaulitics” class, students will examine “contemporary and historical drag archives, as well as critical readings on race and gender” to gain “robust tools to analyze drag, live performance, and queer and trans cultures more broadly”…in 2015, the professor said, “My name is LaWhore Vagistan, my preferred pronouns are ‘she’ or ‘aunty.’”
If a cisgender male student came up with a name like “LaWhore Vagistan” at Harvard, he’d probably be accused of sexual harassment for objectifying women and reducing women to their anatomy. Students have been punished for sexual harassment merely for writing about graphic topics in their essays, even when instructors told them they had the freedom to write whatever they wanted. Harvard has told students in the past that a hostile learning environment can be created by a single offensive sexual joke, although federal courts have tended to dismiss harassment lawsuits brought over exposure to a small number of offensive jokes or remarks. The federal appeals court in Boston recently ruled against the University of Massachusetts on First Amendment grounds, after it punished a graduate student for “sexual harassment” for mildly offensive speech to other RAs.
