Harvard’s New Visiting Prof—LaWhore Vagistan

[Anonymous]

This class looks great! I took a Camp and Drag class as part of my Cinema Studies PhD and it was both very enjoyable and educational.

[Anonymous]

Khubchandani holds a BA in sociology and anthropology from Colgate University, an MA and PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University, and was the inaugural Embrey Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Great that this thread can show posters here that Colgate isn’t all fratty lax bros. 🙂

[Anonymous]

Wait the drag Queen professor is Indian?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait the drag Queen professor is Indian?

Yep, they started their career analyzing gay Indian night life. Seems much more interesting than I initially thought.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To teach “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire”.

Someone tell me that this is a joke or NY Post tabloid fiction.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/harvard-hires-drag-queen-named-lawhore-vagistan-as-visiting-professor/

If true, incredible to me that Harvard would make this move, especially given the current political situation. Seems…ill-advised.

That is why Trump gets elected. The left wants to show the middle finger and looks down at the vast majority of the Americans.

No, the Right Wing media pushes this at you to keep you enraged and voting for authoritarianism. Notice that main stream and progressive media don't go crawling through the course catalog of Bob Jones, Liberty looking for class descriptions on guns, etc to hop up "antifa." Ask yourself why are you so easily offended by a single class at a single college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This class looks great! I took a Camp and Drag class as part of my Cinema Studies PhD and it was both very enjoyable and educational.

What looks great? We have a title of a class and just this from the article: the “class will apparently focus on the cable television show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

No one can tell what the class is actually about so what looks great about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This class looks great! I took a Camp and Drag class as part of my Cinema Studies PhD and it was both very enjoyable and educational.

What looks great? We have a title of a class and just this from the article: the “class will apparently focus on the cable television show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

No one can tell what the class is actually about so what looks great about it?

You just said what the class is about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To teach “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire”.

Someone tell me that this is a joke or NY Post tabloid fiction.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/harvard-hires-drag-queen-named-lawhore-vagistan-as-visiting-professor/

If true, incredible to me that Harvard would make this move, especially given the current political situation. Seems…ill-advised.

That is why Trump gets elected. The left wants to show the middle finger and looks down at the vast majority of the Americans.

It doesn't look down on anyone to teach a course on drag, good grief.

It’s a real thing that exists, are we banning discussions on minstrel shows or the history of makeup too because you’re worried about men dressed eccentrically? I seriously don’t get it. Why do you care? What possibly could be the reason you find this so important?

DP.

I find this important bc Harvard is literally risking billions of dollars in funding to offer a class on RuPaul, taught by a professor who goes by “LaWhore”.

That’s idiotic. Tells us something about Harvard’s leadership and judgment.

[Anonymous]

Academic here (and liberal one to boot.) This course and this so-called professor are embarassments.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a fun class!

Wait until you see the new offerings at UVA and Vandy once they sign Trump's government control over universities letter. Likely classes will include: "Women as a Vessel for Birth" and "Genius of Adolph Hitler" and "Muslim conspiracies" and "Downfall of Feminism" among other catchy classes.

1. I don’t have any moral objection to the class, but I’d argue that “RuPaulitics” lacks academic merit. I wouldn’t want to pay $90k for my kid to take it. (FTR, I’d similarly object to “MMA and American Masculinity”). It’s fundamentally frivolous.

2. It’s politically provocative and unwise for Harvard at this time. Billions of $$$ on the line.

“I’d argue that “RuPaulitics” lacks academic merit.” that’s okay. You’re just wrong. It’s a topic of social politics related to trans people and cross dressing communities- that’s pretty nut and bolts anthropology.
“I wouldn’t want to pay $90k for my kid to take it.” No one asked for you to.
“It’s fundamentally frivolous.” Welcome to Sociology and Anthropology and Political Studies.
“It’s politically provocative and unwise for Harvard at this time.” It’s a professor. A qualified professor. Teaching a course they’re qualified to teach. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it is provocative.

You seem deeply allergic to education.

Other than your conjecture, what is your proof of this?

Harvard has a class on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool. Can’t wait for Harvard to hire a white person dressed up in black face who self named them selves a racial slur to teach the young adults of America.

In what way is this a parallel?

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Anonymous wrote:Cool. Can’t wait for Harvard to hire a white person dressed up in black face who self named them selves a racial slur to teach the young adults of America.

Discussing how drag poorly represents women seems like something that could come up in that course- maybe you should take it. You seem interested.

Sounds like you welcome bringing black face to Harvard classrooms to “educate” students how minstrels poorly represent black people.

Interesting perspective.

I hope you get to register for that course! You seem deeply impassioned.

I would not enroll because unlike you I do not participate in the appropriation of immutable physical characteristics of an oppressed class of people by an oppressor class of people for entertainment purposes.

Sounds like an interesting in worthy topic of discussion in an academic setting. I wonder what kind of class this would come up in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To teach “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire”.

Someone tell me that this is a joke or NY Post tabloid fiction.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/us-news/harvard-hires-drag-queen-named-lawhore-vagistan-as-visiting-professor/

If true, incredible to me that Harvard would make this move, especially given the current political situation. Seems…ill-advised.

That is why Trump gets elected. The left wants to show the middle finger and looks down at the vast majority of the Americans.

It doesn't look down on anyone to teach a course on drag, good grief.

It’s a real thing that exists, are we banning discussions on minstrel shows or the history of makeup too because you’re worried about men dressed eccentrically? I seriously don’t get it. Why do you care? What possibly could be the reason you find this so important?

DP.

I find this important bc Harvard is literally risking billions of dollars in funding to offer a class on RuPaul, taught by a professor who goes by “LaWhore”.

That’s idiotic. Tells us something about Harvard’s leadership and judgment.

Harvard has a gender women's studies department, UT has a gender women's studies department, ole miss has a center for gender women's studies (only has a minor), Baylor also has a minor and a center. Look, Harvard today could get rid of every ethnic studies, race studies, etc. department and trump would still try to defund it.

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Anonymous wrote:Cool. Can’t wait for Harvard to hire a white person dressed up in black face who self named them selves a racial slur to teach the young adults of America.

Discussing how drag poorly represents women seems like something that could come up in that course- maybe you should take it. You seem interested.

Sounds like you welcome bringing black face to Harvard classrooms to “educate” students how minstrels poorly represent black people.

Interesting perspective.

I hope you get to register for that course! You seem deeply impassioned.

I would not enroll because unlike you I do not participate in the appropriation of immutable physical characteristics of an oppressed class of people by an oppressor class of people for entertainment purposes.

Yeah you sound super interested- you’re even making race and sex based analysis on this topic when no one asked! Didn’t know DCUM had a resident Gender Women Studies scholar, how amazing. I hope you find your people.

Glad that you can understand that race and sex are both innate immutable physical characteristics which are historically the basis of oppression.

You believe in the intellectually lazy theory of power analysis but trans people are where you draw the line? Interesting.

I don’t; however the people who I am talking to almost always do. So I use their own language to point out logical incoherence of their opinions.

It’s always entertaining to observe them unable to explain why imitating immutable physical characteristics is fun entertainment in some cases but offensive bigotry in others. Pick a side, buddy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cool. Can’t wait for Harvard to hire a white person dressed up in black face who self named them selves a racial slur to teach the young adults of America.

Discussing how drag poorly represents women seems like something that could come up in that course- maybe you should take it. You seem interested.

Sounds like you welcome bringing black face to Harvard classrooms to “educate” students how minstrels poorly represent black people.

Interesting perspective.

I hope you get to register for that course! You seem deeply impassioned.

I would not enroll because unlike you I do not participate in the appropriation of immutable physical characteristics of an oppressed class of people by an oppressor class of people for entertainment purposes.

Yeah you sound super interested- you’re even making race and sex based analysis on this topic when no one asked! Didn’t know DCUM had a resident Gender Women Studies scholar, how amazing. I hope you find your people.

Glad that you can understand that race and sex are both innate immutable physical characteristics which are historically the basis of oppression.

You believe in the intellectually lazy theory of power analysis but trans people are where you draw the line? Interesting.

I don’t; however the people who I am talking to almost always do. So I use their own language to point out logical incoherence of their opinions.

It’s always entertaining to observe them unable to explain why imitating immutable physical characteristics is fun entertainment in some cases but offensive bigotry in others. Pick a side, buddy.

So...you don't have an actual argument? Like the mockery doesn't work if it just jumbles your points.