QUEER THEORY

MACYNSKI: I challenged a 'Queer Wedding' skit at St. Olaf's family concert

When I mentioned that some audience members might find it controversial, a few players told me they hoped to 'trig…

By Carson Macynski '28
Nov 19, 2025

Binghamton University offers students $2k award to make 'Self-Guided Tour' of university's 'Queer History'

The opportunity is part of the Binghamton Library Research Scholars Program, which includes 'significant queer hist…

By Claire Harrington '25
Oct 26, 2025

Puppets, Pop Culture: 5 bizarre degrees offered this fall at sky-high tuition rates

From puppets to sexual identity, universities are cashing in on ideologically driven or impractical degrees that le…

By Emily Sturge
Oct 23, 2025

Taxpayer-funded Minnesota program pushes ‘critical Indigenous theory,’ protest art, and 'Black Marxism'

The University of Minnesota–Twin Cities is offering courses steeped in radical left-wing ideology, including conten…

By Jacob Beckwith '26
Oct 20, 2025

Texas Tech University System bans professors from teaching gender ideology

The Texas Tech University System is banning professors from asserting there are more than two sexes in their course…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Oct 1, 2025

Illinois University celebrating ‘Queertober’ next month featuring ‘Queer Magic After Dark’ event

University of Illinois at Springfield launches 'Queertober' with events on hooking up, queer identity, and pronoun …

By Brendan McDonald '25
Sep 30, 2025

Dept of Ed investigates Massachusetts school district for violating parental opt-out rights

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, Massac…

By CJ Womack '25
Sep 5, 2025

Brown University book club promotes queer theory through marine biology memoir

Brown University’s LGBTQ Center promoted a ‘Lavender Reads’ event on social media, telling attendees that they woul…

By Michael Duke '26
Jun 27, 2025

Tulane University hosts summer program teaching 'queer theory' and 'black feminism' to high schoolers

High school students are learning about 'queer theory,' 'Black feminism,' and 'gender equity' at a Tulane Universit…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jun 23, 2025

University of Richmond offers ‘Queer Bible’ course for students to study ‘queer pleasure in the Bible’

Class topics could include ‘questions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer hermeneutics, queer time, queer affe…

By Justin Choi '26
Mar 24, 2025

Boston University to host ‘Pre and Early Modern Trans Studies Symposium’

‘This conference brings together scholars working at the intersections between the fields of trans studies, medieva…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Mar 18, 2025

New York University hosts events by ‘sexologist’ and ‘neurodivergent,’ ‘queer’ therapist

One of the speakers is the author of ‘The New Sex Bible’ and ‘The Little Book of Kink.’

By Caroline Giuffra '26
Mar 13, 2025

Fordham University theology department held book talk on ‘Queer Possibilities of Black Religion’

The book ‘demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and t…

By Elad Vaida
Mar 3, 2025

Harvard Divinity School course teaches students about 'Queering the World'

Harvard Divinity School is offering a course this semester on 'Queering the World,' subtitled, 'Dismantling Heteron…

By Paris Apodaca '26
Feb 10, 2025

Barnard College's ‘Borders and Bodies’ course goes straight for queer theory

The course will cover a ‘range of novels, short stories, essays and poetry written in the twentieth- and the twenty…

By Jack Kentner '25
Feb 10, 2025

Theater profs, students at University of Michigan arrange ‘BIPOC and queer’ version of Wizard of Oz

The play is a ‘reimagination of The Wizard of Oz through a BIPOC and queer lens.’

By Elad Vaida
Jan 15, 2025

Harvard University’s BGLTQ Student Life office offering ‘Queer Spiritual Care’

Students can book “queer spiritual care conversations” with Matta Zheng, a graduate student in queer Buddhism.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Dec 26, 2024

Cornell to offer music course centered around ‘black-queer-feminist’ identities

The course description states that the class centers around the "black queer ethic of care."

By Benjamin Brown '26
Dec 22, 2024

Boston University to offer graduate-level course featuring ‘trans saints’ and ‘genderfluid angels’

The course is called “Medieval Trans Studies.”

By Brendan McDonald '25
Dec 13, 2024

Fordham University offering course on ‘Visualizing Black Queer Feminisms’

The school’s Art History Department is offering the course.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Dec 12, 2024

Harvard Divinity School to offer ‘Queering the World’ class

The class is being offered under Harvard Divinity School.

By Benjamin Brown '26
Dec 11, 2024

Books related to defunct gender studies program removed by New College of Florida

The New College of Florida (NCF) recently disposed of hundreds of library books, including many related to its now-…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Aug 21, 2024

UMass will teach 'rich tradition' of 'transnational Black feminist' and 'queer Marxist theorizing'

UMass Amherst is offering a course this fall called, 'Geographies of the ‘Imaginaire’: Blackness, Worldmakings & In…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Aug 19, 2024