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Queer Feminism at DePaul University

Posted on | November 23, 2018 | 1 Comment

They’re all about ‘inclusion.’

The last time I paid attention to DePaul University (annual cost of attendance $54,210, including room and board) was in 2016, when students rioted over Milo Yiannopoulos’s appearance on campus and Kayla Johnson, an African and Black Diaspora Studies major, took a swing at the speaker. A nominally Catholic school, DePaul is an overpriced institution providing a second-rate education to third-rate students. No reasonably well-informed Catholic parent would permit their child to attend DePaul, which has become a “social justice” garbage pile of perverse insanity with moral standards even lower than its nearly non-existent intellectual standards. Consider this description of a February 2016 event on the DePaul campus:

The Center for Identity, Inclusion & Social Change, LGBTQ Studies and the LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Network at DePaul University hosted an intergenerational discussion concerning the identity label “lesbian” Feb. 29 at DePaul University’s Student Center.
Faculty members Lourdes Torres (professor of Latin American and Latino Studies) and Ann Russo (associate professor and graduate program director in women’s and gender studies and director of LGBTQ Studies) facilitated the talk.
Also on hand were DePaul University students and staff members Katy Weseman (LGBTQA student services coordinator at the Center for Identity, Inclusion & Social Change), Sara Furr (director, Center for Intercultural Programs) and Suresh Mudragada (assistant director at the Center for Identity, Inclusion & Social Change), among others. . . .
Russo said she identifies as a “lesbian with queer politics and a queer vision.” She noted the work she’s done in the area of lesbian-centered scholarship and activism, including the Battered Lesbian Network (in Boston), Lesbians Against Racism and Dykes Against Oppression.

Isn’t that special? The “inclusion” program at DePaul includes “Social Justice Peer Advocates,”  participating in the Chicago Dyke March, an annual student drag show, Spectrum DePaul, Queer People of Color (QPOC) DePaul, and Act Out DePaul, an “LGBTQIA+ activist organization” that sponsors the annual “Lavender Graduation” for LGBTQIA+ students. Dyke marches, drag queens and social justice — that’s your $54,210-a-year “Catholic” education at DePaul.

‘Social Justice Peer Advocates’ at DePaul University.

Oh, the academic requirements at DePaul are so demanding:

A new course scheduled for the winter quarter at DePaul University will examine how gender plays a role in social media.
“Sex, Gender, and Social Media” (AMS 352) will focus “on the gendered and sex/sexuality content of major social media platforms and networking sites, such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, and Tumblr” to “ground our understanding of social media platforms in the context of established scholarship on social community development, cultural and media studies, and feminist and queer (LGBTQA) studies.”
The course promises to examine scenarios as “multiply-identified,” which means each example and social media platform will be dissected through lenses such as “class, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and ability.”
Sex, Gender, and Social Media aims to “examine how these platforms offer new opportunities for sexual education, sexual and erotic/romantic expression, the negotiation and exploration of sexual and gender identities, and feminist/queer media criticism, social activism, and community.”
It also promotes the idea that “global capitalism” and “neoliberal ideology” are “troubling aspects” of social media. The course will further examine how social media serves as a new outlet through which people can launch “public attacks on women and queer people.”

Basically, it’s a scheme to give academic credit to “social justice” snowflakes for whining about how oppressed they are.

Did I mention that earlier this year, the DePaul Women’s Center held an event with “sex workers” advocating prostitution? One speaker at the event said she is “training to be a professional dominatrix,” and said being a sex worker is “empowering because I’m able to express myself and my sexuality in a way that makes me feel attractive, in a way that makes me feel fun and happy.” Empowering happy whores at DePaul!

Also, DePaul was recognized on the list of “10 worst colleges for free speech” by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.



 

Category: Education, Gays, Sex Trouble

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    […] Queer Feminism at DePaul University The last time I paid attention to DePaul University (annual cost of attendance $54,210, including room and board) was in 2016, when students rioted over Milo Yiannopoulos’s appearance on campus and Kayla Johnson, an African and Black Diaspora Studies major, took a swing at the speaker. A nominally Catholic school, DePaul is an overpriced institution providing a second-rate education to third-rate students. No reasonably well-informed Catholic parent would permit their child to attend DePaul, which has become a “social justice” garbage pile of perverse insanity with moral standards even lower than its nearly non-existent intellectual standards. Consider this description of a February 2016 event on the DePaul campus: […]