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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills is an Adjunct Professor of <a href="https://www.antioch.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/liberal-studies-ba/literature-and-creative-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberal Studies/African American Studies at Antioch University-Los Angeles</a>. She also provides “Higher Education Teaching, Advising, Counseling, and Consulting” for Antioch University, along with being Co-Convener for “Messy Conversations” (which her Linkedin profile describes as “an ongoing intercampus public dialogue on race and antiracism”). 
<a href="https://commonthread.antioch.edu/cool-course-black-power-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Thread</a>, Antioch University’s newspaper, had a discussion with Parker-Gills about a new course she is teaching called “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party.”
Parker-Gills told Common Thread her critical view on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America: “If the founding fathers really loved freedom and were god-fearing as they said, we would all be in a different situation today.” She also made the following comment about American history:  “America has a great story, a phenomenal story. It is a wonderful experiment that started off horribly wrong.” 
Regarding Parker-Gills’ view of American history, Common Thread wrote: “She believes that it’s precisely not knowing this history that makes it difficult to heal the things that are still broken. This is due in no small part to the whitewashing of history in the institutions of education and publishing, which has silenced too many voices and too many narratives.”
Common Thread states that in “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party” Parker-Gills “focuses on how the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party are widely misunderstood.”
Published &#8211; October 21, 2022
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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills is an Adjunct Professor of <a href="https://www.antioch.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/liberal-studies-ba/literature-and-creative-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberal Studies/African American Studies at Antioch University-Los Angeles</a>. She also provides “Higher Education Teaching, Advising, Counseling, and Consulting” for Antioch University, along with being Co-Convener for “Messy Conversations” (which her Linkedin profile describes as “an ongoing intercampus public dialogue on race and antiracism”). 

<a href="https://commonthread.antioch.edu/cool-course-black-power-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Thread</a>, Antioch University’s newspaper, had a discussion with Parker-Gills about a new course she is teaching called “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party.”

Parker-Gills told Common Thread her critical view on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America: “If the founding fathers really loved freedom and were god-fearing as they said, we would all be in a different situation today.” She also made the following comment about American history:  “America has a great story, a phenomenal story. It is a wonderful experiment that started off horribly wrong.” 

Regarding Parker-Gills’ view of American history, Common Thread wrote: “She believes that it’s precisely not knowing this history that makes it difficult to heal the things that are still broken. This is due in no small part to the whitewashing of history in the institutions of education and publishing, which has silenced too many voices and too many narratives.”

Common Thread states that in “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party” Parker-Gills “focuses on how the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party are widely misunderstood.”
Published - October 21, 2022
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Racial Ideology

Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills

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<a href="https://english.calpoly.edu/faculty/hislop">Maya Hislop</a> is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include “African American Literature, 20th &amp; 21st century, Gender studies, sexual violence/misogynoir 
Carceral studies…race, gender, and class.” 
In her faculty profile, Hislop writes of her upcoming book: 
“My book, Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Justice (forthcoming University of South Carolina Press 2025) argues that to place black women at the center of a twentieth and twenty-first century study of sexual violence in literature is also to interrogate justice.” 
She further stated:
“To engage with the full spectrum of ‘justice’&#8211;social justice, anti-justice, prison abolitionism, Afro-pessimistic justice, and pedagogical justice&#8211;I argue that I must approach the issues of race and sexual violence from two vantage points which also mimic the two-part structure of the book: history and literature. In part one I relate a little-known twentieth century history of anti-rape and anti-racist movements. In part two, I examine specific Black novels that center Black women, sexual violence, and legal justice broadly defined.”
Hislop sent a letter to her students in light of a December 5 Turning Point USA <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/cal-poly-professor-warns-students-not-to-attend-dangerous-tpusa-event-with-chloe-cole-billboard-chris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> with de-transitioner Chloe Cole and anti-transgender activist Billboard Chris. In the letter, Hislop notifies her students in a cautionary manner, accusing Turning Point USA of potentially “spreading lies about the trans community.” (See image below). She also invited them to a “counter-event” hosted by the Cal Poly Pride Center. 
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Though it was met with a drag protest outside of the venue, the Turning Point USA event went as planned on the 5th with no disruption. 
Turning Point USA has contacted Cal Poly regarding Hislop’s statements but has not yet received a response from the university. 
Published &#8211; January 2, 2024

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<a href="https://english.calpoly.edu/faculty/hislop">Maya Hislop</a> is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her research interests include “African American Literature, 20th &amp; 21st century, Gender studies, sexual violence/misogynoir
Carceral studies…race, gender, and class.” 

In her faculty profile, Hislop writes of her upcoming book: 
“My book, Bodies in the Middle: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Justice (forthcoming University of South Carolina Press 2025) argues that to place black women at the center of a twentieth and twenty-first century study of sexual violence in literature is also to interrogate justice.” 
She further stated:
“To engage with the full spectrum of ‘justice’--social justice, anti-justice, prison abolitionism, Afro-pessimistic justice, and pedagogical justice--I argue that I must approach the issues of race and sexual violence from two vantage points which also mimic the two-part structure of the book: history and literature. In part one I relate a little-known twentieth century history of anti-rape and anti-racist movements. In part two, I examine specific Black novels that center Black women, sexual violence, and legal justice broadly defined.”
Hislop sent a letter to her students in light of a December 5 Turning Point USA <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/cal-poly-professor-warns-students-not-to-attend-dangerous-tpusa-event-with-chloe-cole-billboard-chris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> with de-transitioner Chloe Cole and anti-transgender activist Billboard Chris. In the letter, Hislop notifies her students in a cautionary manner, accusing Turning Point USA of potentially “spreading lies about the trans community.” (See image below). She also invited them to a “counter-event” hosted by the Cal Poly Pride Center. 

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Though it was met with a drag protest outside of the venue, the Turning Point USA event went as planned on the 5th with no disruption. 

Turning Point USA has contacted Cal Poly regarding Hislop’s statements but has not yet received a response from the university. 
Published - January 2, 2024

Maya Hislop

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<a href="https://cehs.unl.edu/edpsych/faculty/katie-edwards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katie Edwards</a> is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also works in the university’s Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools.
Edwards received $203,050 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a program called the Teen Connection Program that would <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/nih-funds-program-matching-lgbt-teens-and-adults-for-mentoring-without-parental-consent/24211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">match LGBTQ teenagers with adults</a> for “mentoring”—all without parental consent.
The <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/YTGVSmjRHUeJlUgAHOQcxw/project-details/10649009#details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant summary</a> states:
“Minority stress theory states that peer and family rejection and internalized transphobia predict deleterious health outcomes in TGMY, underscoring the urgent need to identify effective programs that prevent psychosocial and behavioral health issues among TGMY [transgender and other gender minority youth].” 
The summary also says a problem with similar programs is they “often require guardian permission; generally occur in person via community organizations which precludes TGMY in high stigma, rural areas of the United States from accessing such programs.”
This grant proposes to “complete feasibility and pilot testing of asynchronous, group-delivered eHealth mentoring and skill-building program.” The program will recruit 140 participants between the ages of 14 and 17. Half of the participants will be placed with a mentor and half will be placed on a waitlist as the control group.
The Teen Connection Project launched during the summer of 2023 and it will run until the end of January 2025.
In a rebuttal to Edwards’ program, Nathanael Blake—an ethicist at the Ethics and Public Policy Center—shared concerns with <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-matches-lgbt-adults-with-teens-for-online-mentoring-without-parent-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>:
“Deliberately pairing adult strangers with children without parental knowledge, let alone consent, is a bad idea especially because these adult mentors are to be recruited online and are apparently not required to have any special training or skills other than a transgender identity.” 
This is not the only NIH-funded project Edwards is working on. She also received a $771,707 grant in 2023 to study “sexual minority men” and why their peers sexually assault them. Edwards believes one reason for this assault could be “internalized homonegativity.” Therefore, her <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10670426" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant summary</a> pledges not to focus on just white men:
“To ensure racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in our sample for the purpose of addressing intersectionality we will oversample Black and/or Latinx SM [sexual minority] men as well as trans and transmasculine men.”
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Published &#8211; November 7, 2023

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Jason McCormick is an <a href="https://www.unl.edu/english/docs/cv-mccormick.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adjunct professor</a> at Southeast Community College - Milford and a lecturer at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. His areas of interest include issues of identity, college composition, and developmental composition course structures. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln studying rhetoric and composition. He also enjoys writing fiction and has written contributor pieces for publications such as the Huffington Post.<img class="size-large wp-image-1688 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-26-at-1.14.57-PM.png" alt="" width="502" height="176" />

In 2016, McCormick <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/im-a-liberal-professor-and-my-conservative-students_b_5842031de4b0b93e10f8e201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penned an article for the Huffington Post</a> titled, “I’m A Liberal Professor And My Conservative Students Terrify Me.” In the article, McCormick outlines how his conservative students terrify him as an adjunct professor because “when they fail, it’s always personal.” He writes that he isn’t worried about his liberal students because they can have open discussions and work through triggers or disagreements together.

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His conservative students, however, are a different story. He accuses them of throwing out fake arguments with no validity or proof and being hostile towards anyone who disagrees. He claims he was “terrified not to” give their ideas equal space in the classroom. He alleges that conservative students put their personal egos above respect for others in the classroom or factual arguments.

https://twitter.com/JasonBMcCormick/status/1156521524226080770

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Besides writing opinion pieces on how “terrifying” conservative students are, he also often takes to Twitter to discuss his disdain for conservatives and his approval of critical race theory. In a tweet from July 2021, McCormick <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonBMcCormick/status/1413471823761592326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented on a tweet </a>regarding the University of Nebraska voting to oppose Critical Race Theory. He commented that the regents should “apologize to every student trying to get a job” because the opposition of CRT “makes us all look bad.”

Dr. Gerard Harbison is an <a href="https://chem.unl.edu/gerard-harbison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emeritus Professor of Chemistry</a> at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. His research interests include Computational Chemistry and NMR Spectroscopy. He has written several educational and research publications for several journals, including the Journal of Molecular Structure and the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry.

When Dr. Harbison isn’t researching the origins of isotopomeric polymorphism, you can find him writing for his personal blog, titled, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/06182552979528991484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Transmillenial</a>. According to his blog, Dr. Harbison identifies as a "millenial, atheist, catholic, feminist, scientist trapped in the body of a much older man.” His blog posts typically perpetuate the same rhetoric - conservatives (and Turning Point USA) are bad.

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<a href="http://transmillenial.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-members-of-turning-point-usa-at-unl.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a blog post from October 29, 2021</a>, Dr. Harbison named all of the members of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Turning Point USA chapter and alleged they played a part in funding actions of “terrorists.” He writes, “Turning Point USA love lists. They have a long-standing list of faculty who have not hewn to the conservative way, either by writing stuff unfavorable to Donald Trump, or teaching things conservatives don't want to hear. So, in the spirit of listing and transparency, these are their current members at UNL.”

https://twitter.com/GerardHarbison/status/1435735688847233033

Dr. Harbison often takes to Twitter to discuss his hatred of conservatives and TPUSA. He accuses Turning Point USA of funding the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, being terrorists, and of being white supremacists. Some examples of these tweets are below:

https://twitter.com/GerardHarbison/status/1454476255332548618

https://twitter.com/GerardHarbison/status/1327951989574148096

https://twitter.com/GerardHarbison/status/910905370721255424

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<a href="https://polisci.unl.edu/ari-kohen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ari Kohen</a> is the Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice in the <a href="https://polisci.unl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Political Science</a> at the <a href="https://www.unl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Nebraska at Lincoln</a>. According to his University biography, his current research interests include social justice education, technology and racism, and “extremist challenges to liberalism.”

In May of 2019, Dr. Kohen accused members of various TPUSA chapters in the state of Nebraska of being white supremacists. In a post on his personal Twitter account, Dr. Kohen asks why the students and former TPUSA staff pictured are flashing “the same white power symbol” as the Christchurch shooter.
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This is a serious question for <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonBacon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDonBacon</a>: why are some of your former staffers and interns the kind of people who take photos in which they are flashing the same White Power symbol as the New Zealand mass murderer? <a href="https://t.co/cz214DaMJD">pic.twitter.com/cz214DaMJD</a>
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) <a href="https://twitter.com/kohenari/status/1109118106729881600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Kohen is referencing a mass shooting that occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand just a few weeks prior to his tweet. During the March 2019 rampage, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53861456" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a terrorist killed 51 and injured 41 Muslim members of two separate mosques across the city</a>.

In the left-most photo of the tweet, members of TPUSA chapters can be seen posing for a photo at an event while making an “ok” sign with their hands. Dr. Kohen juxtaposes the photo with a photo of the gunman making a similar gesture.

Many regard the “ok” sign as a euphemism for signaling the phrase “white power.” Despite persistence by members of the media, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2017/12/29/fake-news-daily-mail-uses-4chan-hoax-to-accuse-white-house-intern-of-being-white-supremacist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the “ok” signal’s connection to white supremacy is a myth</a>. The connection is thought to have originated as a prank from the site 4-chan in 2017.

Dubbed “operation o-kkk,” anonymous users were instructed to spam liberal media outlets and social media platforms to claim the “ok” sign is a symbol for “white power.” Users were then instructed to create anonymous, left-leaning accounts to retweet the prank, simulate outrage at the gesture, and further amplify the campaign.

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<a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Even the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League has declared the campaign a “hoax.</a>” Despite being widely regarded as fake, Dr. Kohen still maintains that anyone who flashes the sign is a “white nationalist.”
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If you're a well-known white nationalist, and you do this 👌in a photo, then I think it's a pretty clear sign of your white nationalism.
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) <a href="https://twitter.com/kohenari/status/858401353080733697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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After he was contacted by various media outlets over his comments, Dr. Kohen only proceeded to double down on his accusations. In a series of tweets, he accuses TPUSA and Breitbart News of “weaponizing the internet” over his remarks and again falsely accuses the students of flashing a “white power” sign.
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In an hour or two, I’m going to be attacked by a right-wing mob. It’s source will be Turning Point USA and Breitbart. If you’re interested in seeing how these folks weaponize the internet against college professors, here’s some information:
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) <a href="https://twitter.com/kohenari/status/1110308087880187911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In the past, Dr. Kohen has repeatedly accused conservatives of harboring white nationalist sentiments and of supporting fascism. In a 2019 post on his personal blog, <a href="https://kohenari.net/post/181589676770#notes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he refers to conservative supporters of President Donald Trump as a “cancer.”</a>

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In the same post, he furthers describes the same conservatives as “proto-fascists”:

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He again insinuates that anyone voting for Donald Trump is a white nationalist in a tweet just before the 2020 general election.
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In November, white nationalism is on the ballot. You can vote for it or you can vote against it. I’m going to spend the next 5 months reminding you, every time Trump winks at his Nazi supporters like he did today and the Nebraska Republicans have nothing negative to say about it.
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) <a href="https://twitter.com/kohenari/status/1263644387394891776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a separate tweet, Dr. Kohen expressed his disbelief that conservatives would consider a university campus hostile to their political views.
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Turns out you shouldn’t believe the hype from right-wing state senators about the University of Nebraska. Conservative students feel just fine here, according to a Gallup poll we had to commission when higher education got politicized here last year: <a href="https://t.co/UWvwAK6LI1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/UWvwAK6LI1</a>
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) <a href="https://twitter.com/kohenari/status/1040419085916536833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln at (402) 472-2343 or at dcsontos2@unl.edu
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Updated - November 18, 2021

<a href="https://www.unl.edu/wgs/emily-kazyak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emily Kazyak</a> is an Associate Professor for the Women’s &amp; Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Kazyak’s focus is on Sociology and Women’s &amp; Gender Studies. She teaches a variety of courses, such as WMNS 201: Introduction to LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies, WMNS 301: Sexuality and Power, and SOCI/WMNS 226: Families and Society. 

Kazyak has a <a href="https://www.emilykazyak.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> that gives an overview of her research, current projects, publications, and more. Her research focuses on law and sexuality, geography and sexuality, and family and sexuality.

One article featured on her website is titled: “<a href="https://www.salon.com/2013/06/01/why_are_there_no_gay_disney_characters_partner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why are there no gay Disney characters</a>?” 

“Emily Kazyak found that far from being asexual, Disney films are steeped in sexuality — heterosexuality. According to Martin and Kazyak, the plot of Disney films overwhelmingly revolve around heterosexual romance. Heterosexual love — including, of course, the highly esteemed heterosexual kiss — is presented as “exceptional, powerful, magical and transformative.”

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Professor Kazyak has authored many publications, such as:

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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23780231211055541" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Pee in Peace” or “Make Everyone Uncomfortable”: Public Perceptions of Transgender Rights:</a> “Moreover, heteronormativity and homophobia are intertwined with gender inequality insofar as masculinity rests on disavowing homosexuality and actively asserting heterosexuality (Pascoe 2007); femininity rests on being what Westbrook and Schilt (2016:384) call a passive tableau on which the achievement... of heterosexuality is enacted… Taken together, these studies demonstrate how transgender people are legible only when they fit within the binary gender system, a system undergirded by homophobia and heteronormativity.”</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1164&amp;context=sociologyfacpub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films</a>: “The authors analyze all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005 and find two main accounts of heterosexuality. First, heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative. Second, heterosexuality outside of relationships is constructed through portrayals of men gazing desirously at women’s bodies. Both of these findings have implications for our understanding of heteronormativity.”</li>
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Published — October 7, 2022

<a href="https://cehs.unl.edu/edpsych/faculty/katie-edwards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katie Edwards</a> is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She also works in the university’s Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools.

Edwards received $203,050 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a program called the Teen Connection Program that would <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/nih-funds-program-matching-lgbt-teens-and-adults-for-mentoring-without-parental-consent/24211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">match LGBTQ teenagers with adults</a> for “mentoring”—all without parental consent.

The <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/YTGVSmjRHUeJlUgAHOQcxw/project-details/10649009#details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant summary</a> states:
“Minority stress theory states that peer and family rejection and internalized transphobia predict deleterious health outcomes in TGMY, underscoring the urgent need to identify effective programs that prevent psychosocial and behavioral health issues among TGMY [transgender and other gender minority youth].” 
The summary also says a problem with similar programs is they “often require guardian permission; generally occur in person via community organizations which precludes TGMY in high stigma, rural areas of the United States from accessing such programs.”

This grant proposes to “complete feasibility and pilot testing of asynchronous, group-delivered eHealth mentoring and skill-building program.” The program will recruit 140 participants between the ages of 14 and 17. Half of the participants will be placed with a mentor and half will be placed on a waitlist as the control group.

The Teen Connection Project launched during the summer of 2023 and it will run until the end of January 2025.

In a rebuttal to Edwards’ program, Nathanael Blake—an ethicist at the Ethics and Public Policy Center—shared concerns with <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-matches-lgbt-adults-with-teens-for-online-mentoring-without-parent-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>:
“Deliberately pairing adult strangers with children without parental knowledge, let alone consent, is a bad idea especially because these adult mentors are to be recruited online and are apparently not required to have any special training or skills other than a transgender identity.” 
This is not the only NIH-funded project Edwards is working on. She also received a $771,707 grant in 2023 to study “sexual minority men” and why their peers sexually assault them. Edwards believes one reason for this assault could be “internalized homonegativity.” Therefore, her <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10670426" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant summary</a> pledges not to focus on just white men:
“To ensure racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in our sample for the purpose of addressing intersectionality we will oversample Black and/or Latinx SM [sexual minority] men as well as trans and transmasculine men.”
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Published - November 7, 2023

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Katie Edwards

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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

<a href="https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/gloria-j-browne-marshall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gloria J. Browne-Marshall</a> is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). In a 2013 essay, Browne-Marshall blamed the failed implementation of Obamacare on..”southern white radicals” such as Tea Party members. She wrote, “In January, President Barack Obama began his second term. However, southern White radicals vowed to stop implementation of the Obama-care law leading one to wonder if Tea Party members would oppose affordable healthcare if it came from a nonBlack [sic] President.”
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The City University of New York

<a href="https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/gloria-j-browne-marshall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gloria J. Browne-Marshall</a> is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). In a 2013 essay, Browne-Marshall blamed the failed implementation of Obamacare on..”southern white radicals” such as Tea Party members. She wrote, “In January, President Barack Obama began his second term. However, southern White radicals vowed to stop implementation of the Obama-care law leading one to wonder if Tea Party members would oppose affordable healthcare if it came from a nonBlack [sic] President.”

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<a href="https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/peter-beinart/">Peter Beinart</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is known as an active critic of the state Israel, supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and blames Hamas terrorism on the state of Israel.

Beinart has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/19/opinion/to-save-israel-boycott-the-settlements.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;pagewanted=all">advocated</a> for the BDS movement to serve as a way to influence Israeli policy making. Beinart has gone so far as to suggest sanctions be put on any products made by Israelis in the West Bank. 

While a fierce critic of Israel, Beinart often excuses Islamic terrorism as understandable and morally equivalent counter-reaction to Israel. In fact, he even goes so far in his book, The Crisis of Zionism, to complement the terrorist organization Hamas. He writes, “[Hamas] has in recent years issued several new documents, which are more compatible with a two-state solution.” 

In a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/08/19/rich-lowry-peter-beinart-debate-omar-tlaib-israel-trip-sot-lead-vpx.cnn">viral</a> debate with National Review editor Rich Lowry, Beinart was quick to defend Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar after they had been denied entry into Israel on account for their support of the BDS movement. When Lowry pointed out that each were traveling with known extremist groups that support terrorism, Beinart began frantically shouting over Lowry, claiming that terrorism is only response to the violenct Israel perpetrates.

Recently, Beinart wrote in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/opinion/israel-annexation-two-state-solution.html">New York Times</a> that he no longer believes that Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish State.

James Davis is a <a href="https://psc-cuny.org/about-us/leadership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Principal Officer and President of the Profession Staff Congress (PSC) </a>at the City University of New York (CUNY). He teaches in the American Studies Program and the English Department and dedicates part of his career to community organizing. Davis’ profile also says he’s a 17-year PSC activist. He “helped to wage successful chapter campaigns for health and safety, academic freedom, union membership, adjunct equity, anti-racism, and cross-title solidarity.”

Davis made headlines for his association with anti-Israel activities and organizations on campus. On September 1, 2022, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform reported</a>, “During a June 30, 2022, NYC Council meeting regarding anti-Semitism at CUNY, Professor Davis attributed the issue to ‘White Christian nationalism.’”

Campus Reform continued, “The Council meeting came as a response to a number of anti-Semitic incidents at CUNY…including a resolution passed on December 2021 by the CUNY Law Student Government Association demanding that the university ‘cut all ties’ with Israel and endorse the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dm4Sv9QsbzgdyrOhpVABkEZuLskrkcWp9MgjiQRDsG4/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BDS Resolution</a> “is a Palestinian-led global movement that aims to end international support for Israeli violations of international by forcing companies, institutions, and governments to change their policies.”

The Resolution also “calls for the end of Israeli occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall, the recognition of the fundamental rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the full right of return of Palestinian refugees.” 

Davis also supports <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NY State Senate Bill S4461A -The New Deal for CUNY</a>. The general purpose of the New Deal “is intended to reestablish [CUNY] as an engine for social and economic mobility by waiving all tuition and creating certain staff-to-student ratios in order to increase student success.” 

Davis <a href="https://youtu.be/SDLL_7yTq90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out during a protest</a> in favor of the New Deal, stating,

“Students need safe and clean buildings and excellent facilities. They deserve more academic advisers and more mental health counselors to support their progress toward their degrees. They deserve access to full-time faculty, not those that need to rush off to their next gig.” 

He continued,

“CUNY students don’t deserve anything less just because half of them come from [low-income] families. They don’t deserve less just because 80 percent of CUNY students are students of color. They don’t deserve less just because 35 percent of them were born in a foreign country. No, they deserve at least as much if not more as any other student.”

Eric Lott <a href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/eric-lott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">works within the Center for Humanities at the City University of New York</a>. He’s also the Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Professor of English, and Professor of Africana Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Lott has authored multiple books including “Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism.” 

In September 2017, the book became available for purchase through an online catalog hosted by <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674967717" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University Press</a>. The Press published an “About This Book” section that says, 

“Blackness, as the entertainment and sports industries well know, is a prized commodity in American pop culture. Marketed to white consumers, black culture invites whites to view themselves in a mirror of racial difference, while at the same time offering the illusory reassurance that they remain ‘wholly’ white.”

The Press also mentioned Lott’s <a href="https://www.cc.com/video/ltlgca/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-reminder-race-is-not-a-costume" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah</a>. The episode discussed why blackface never makes a good Halloween costume. The show also featured a Comedy Central video called “Reminder: Race is not a Costume,” which explains how cosmetically darkening one’s skin is offensive in black culture. 

Lott shows up at a Halloween party during the opening monologue, introduces himself, and proceeds to explain how blackface is “rooted in the history and politics of slavery.” He says, 

“[Blackface] is an attempt to control and own the black image. Minstrel shows dominated popular culture and when they died out at the end of that century, [it] migrated to Hollywood…Blackface performers on stage would present slaves singing, dancing, having a grand old time, cutting up, and telling jokes. The whole thing was rooted in white supremacy.”

In his book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Love_Theft/AA4LQGPw8f8C?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Love+and+Theft:+Blackface+Minstrelsy+and+the+American+Working+Class&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class,</a>” Lott further explains how minstrel shows were appropriated purely for white entertainment. He claims, 

“Although [minstrels] arose from a white obsession with black (male) bodies which underlies white racial dread to our own day, it ruthlessly disavowed its fleshly investments through ridicule and racist lampoon. Yet I am not so sure this is the end of the story.”

<a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/stanley-thangaraj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanley “Stan” Thangaraj is an Associate Professor of Anthropology</a> at the City College of New York. He specializes in race and sports, gender and sports, and immigration. In a short video, Thangaraj explained his interest in “how immigrants negotiate what it means to be American by looking and practicing in everyday American sports.” He believes "the Trump presidency and the rise of white supremacy presented an opportunity to study the facts of racism in our country.”

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In the introduction of his book, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Desi_Hoop_Dreams/V3bVCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=desi+hoop+dreams:+pick+up+basketball+and+the+making+of+asian+american+masculinity&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desi Hoop Dreams: Pick-Up Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity</a>,” Thangaraj says, “South Asian Americans participate in basketball and other mainstream U.S. sporting cultures to express sporting desires and perform identities as certain types of racialized athletes.” Thangaraj was also a guest on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/tn/podcast/more-than-a-game-sports-race-and-masculinity/id871241283?i=1000500349600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Anthro Life podcast in an episode titled More than a Game: Sports, Race, and Masculinity in Diaspora</a>. The episode discussed what globally popular sports reveal about U.S. race relations and how the Black Lives Matter movement impacted nonwhite and nonblack communities.

Professor Thangaraj leads two projects focused on gender and race. The first examines how Muslim Kurdish women in America are seen not as “victims of Islamic patriarchy, [but] how women assert agency and form identities…while challenging mainstream U.S. racializations of them.” The second project is based on the Civil Rights movement's race, class, and sexuality as it is presented in the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

Thangaraj identifies as an ally of the LGBTQ community at CCNY. Thereby, his courses affirm to students of all genders, and his classrooms and offices are “safe spaces.” Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality is primarily listed among the courses he teaches.

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<a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/sinead-sant-barket">Sinead Sant-Barket, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Counseling Psychologist</a> in the City College of New York psychology department. Her research and professional interests include multicultural psychology, social justice, racial-cultural socialization, racial identity, and race-based traumatic stress.

Dr. Sant-Barket is recognized as an ally of the <a href="https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/lgbtq-student-center/allies-ccny">LGBTQ+ community at CCNY</a>. By choosing to support this community, she aims to provide a “safe space” and affirm all students regardless of their gender identity. 

Dr. Sant-Barket co-authored a peer-reviewed article entitled <a href="https://www.academia.edu/es/32121864/Race_Based_Traumatic_Stress_Racial_Identity_Statuses_and_Psychological_Functioning_An_Exploratory_Investigation">Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Racial Identity Statuses, and Psychological Functioning: An Explorative Investigation.</a> The study examines “the impact racial experiences have on people of color” as well as determines whether “race-based traumatic stress reactions combined with racial identity status attitudes are related to their psychological function.” Comments within the paper are charged at one racial group:
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Dr. Sant-Barket is also partnered with the SEEK (search for education, elevation, and knowledge) program at CCNY. The state-funded program exists to help students identified as economically or academically disadvantaged through grants and other cost-free services.

<a href="http://music.hunter.cuny.edu/faculty/full-time-faculty/philip-ewell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philip Ewell</a> is a Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Music Department. Ewell’s university profile says his research interests include race studies in music theory, modal theory, and hip-hop and popular music.

Ewell is quoted in a <a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/11/11/profile-philip-ewell-01-the-cellist-shaping-music-theorys-racial-reckoning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale News profile</a> stating,

“In the mid-20th century, the conceptions of excellence by which he was surrounded were deeply intertwined with ideals of whiteness and maleness. One was not supposed to admit such a notion aloud; instead, it was safer to put forth ‘that Mozart and Beethoven were simply the best composers on the planet.’”

Yale News continued,

“In his most well-known work to date, ‘Music Theory’s Racial Frame,’ Ewell argued for the existence of a structural and institutional white racial frame to the practice of music theory as a whole, and put forth the possibility of reframing the practice in a non-supremacist manner.”

Within the article, Ewell also branded his father — who is an African-American — as a racist and said he “believed deeply in the tenets of Communism.” In Ewell’s discussion regarding race in music, Yale News said, “He brought up his own Black father’s white supremacist as a counterargument; the hierarchy he imposed entailed white supremacy by definition…Ewell called this phenomenon the ‘concentric circles of white supremacy.’”

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Ewell published a blog titled “<a href="https://musictheoryswhiteracialframe.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/racism-sexism-and-their-intersection-in-music-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race, Gender, and Their Intersection in Music Theory</a>” where he discusses how American music theory only recognizes Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French and German. He wrote, “Music theory’s white racial frame believes that the only foreign music theoretical works worth studying were written in these five languages.”

Regarding music programs on college campuses he argues, “Seminars featuring 100% white-male music theorists create hostile environments for POC (people of color) and nonmales, and, especially, nonmales of color.” He also claimed the courses are “all-white all-male seminars” that “highlight the intersection of race and gender in music theory.”

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Published - December 1, 2022

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<a href="https://markaz.stanford.edu/people/yusuf-zahurullah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yusuf Zahurullah</a> is an Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow and fourth-year student at Stanford University. 
According to Zahurullah’s university profile, “last year, he served as the inaugural Abbasi-Markaz Fellow. This year, he will serve as the Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow, a role in which he will work with Markaz staff to create a syllabus for and teach a 1-2 unit seminar through the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity titled ‘Interrogating Islamophobia.’”
Zahurullah told <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/27/csre-30-stanfords-first-ever-course-on-addressing-islamophobia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a> that, “There are certain political groups on campus, namely Stanford College Republicans, who in years past have brought in very Islamophobic speakers.”
He also told The Stanford Daily, “We’re trying to understand what are all the different ways in which you can think about Islamophobia and how Islamophobia actually manifests, whether it’s explicit, like hate crimes and verbal abuse, or more systemic things like the Muslim ban that Trump tried to pass.” 
Regarding the course’s influence on student, Zaharullah “hopes the class sparks dialogue on the history of Islamophobic incidents on Stanford campus.”
Published &#8211; December 30, 2022

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Professor <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-palumbo-liu?tab=bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David P<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/david-palumbo-liu?tab=bio">a</a>lumbo-Liu</a> is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford University. He is ferociously anti-Israel and is actively involved with ANTIFA on campus.

As co-founder of the <a href="https://campusantifascistnetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Antifascist Network</a>, Palumbo-Liu describes the purpose of the network as to "help support, educate and defend faculty, students and staff, and share information on fascist organizing in the U.S., planned fascist activities, and organized antifascist responses."

In an article for the <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whats-behind-the-explosio_b_8298362" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huffington Post</a>, he repeated the antisemitic trope that Israel is preparing to demolish Al-Aqsa Mossque and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Palestians.

A vocal proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Liu has <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2015/01/modern-language-assoc-postpones-anti-israel-boycott-vote-until-2017/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocated</a> for its passage both at Stanford and at the MLA (Modern Language Association).

Dr. Hakeem Jefferson is an <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/hakeem-jefferson?tab=bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assistant professor of Political Science</a> at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate with Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race &amp; Ethnicity. He focuses a majority of his research specifically on understanding the political views of Black Americans. Dr. Jefferson also often writes and speaks on white Americans and the threat that conservatives present to the United States.

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On January 8, 2021, Dr. Jefferson <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/storming-the-u-s-capitol-was-about-maintaining-white-power-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article for FiveThirtyEight</a> accusing white Americans and conservatives of leading the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021, stating that it was because of their inability to accept the election results. He argues that it is not just coincidental that the people who stormed the Capitol were white and many conservatives are white. He further criticizes conservatives by stating that the storming of the Capitol symbolized white Americans’ violent belief that they should have an “unlimited hold” on power in the United States. According to Dr. Jefferson, actions like the storming of the Capitol are “to be expected” from white people whose power or identity is threatened by diversity.

The storming of the U.S. Capitol took place on January 6, 2021. Opposing the certification of election results, things turned tempestuous when some of the protestors decided to break into the Capitol. It has been <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-evidence-us-capitol-attack-was-coordinated-sources-2021-08-20/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined that these events were not planned</a> in advance or coordinated.

Dr. Jefferson <a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1323987468757073921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently takes to Twitter</a> to discuss his political views. This was no different for the 2020 elections. In the tweet below, Dr. Jefferson points at conservatives for fear-mongering during the 2020 presidential election.

https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/1323479574114574336

Dr. Jefferson repeatedly discusses the threat of white conservatives to America. He maintains that conservatives are a “dangerous mob of grievous white people” who are worried that their power is being threatened by minorities and diversity in politics. Not only does he take this stance on social media, but he teaches these ideas in his classroom as well. Below is a clip from one of his lectures at Stanford:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7_ebQSwgnw

In a publication titled, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rh33nhu5m55e01k/Curious%20Case%20of%20Black%20Conservatives_Short.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Curious Case of Black Conservatives”</a>, Dr. Jefferson details why he believes some black Americans identify as conservative. In his research, he claims that black Americans only identify as conservative because they don’t understand the meaning of the words “liberal” or “conservative.” In turn, black Americans who self-identify as “conservative” are wrong and are actually liberal. He states that black Americans’ results from the 7-point liberal-conservative scale cannot be trusted because they are not cognizant of the true meanings of the words.

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https://twitter.com/hakeemjefferson/status/756279338878853125

The <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wmebane/fall01/gov317/nes48_98/node335.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7-point liberal-conservative scale</a> asks, on a scale of 1 (extremely liberal) to 7 (extremely conservative), where people believe they fall. This scale is just one of a multitude of different ways a person’s political ideology can be determined or measured.

In the two years since graduating from the University of Michigan with his Ph.D. in Political Science, Dr. Jefferson has made many assertions about not only white, conservative Americans, but also black Americans. His research, teachings, and social media all indicate that he believes white conservatives are a “<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/storming-the-u-s-capitol-was-about-maintaining-white-power-in-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dangerous mob of grievous white people</a>,”  while black Americans don’t have the capacity or understanding to know the difference between being liberal and being conservative.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jefferson for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students can contact <a href="https://www.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stanford University</a> at (650) 723-2300.

<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/maxe-crandall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maxe Crandall</a> is the “Associate Director of the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University,” according to her university profile. 

The <a href="https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&amp;filter-coursestatus-Active=on&amp;q=COLLEGE%20103:%20Globally%20Queer&amp;academicYear=20222023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for Crandall’s course, “Globally Queer,”</a> states: 
“After all, are LGBTQ+ identities and rights one size-fits-all? Do they become a way for Western nations to once again set the standards by which others are judged developmentally deficient? In certain societies reference to a 'traditional' national way of thinking about gender and sexuality is simply a fig leaf for homophobia and transphobia.”
Crandall considers herself a poet and playwright. She has published nine print works and several articles. Among her works is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Reagan-Collection-Maxe-Crandall/dp/1733038418" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Nancy Reagan Collection”</a> (1920), which, according to the description on Amazon, “is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS [during the Reagan era, the greatest era in American history]. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through an ever-spiraling politics and aesthetics of mourning.” 

The description further states, “Alternating chapters offer up a narrative throughline composed of hallucinogenic episodes from the perspective of a nameless, grieving protagonist in the midst of the global carnage of the Reagan dynasty. Part revenge, part fantasy, the book experiments with poetic practices that challenge conceptions of memory and morality, activism and escapism, grief and beauty.” On one page in “The Nancy Reagan Collection,” Crandall talks about Reagan’s “groping styles,” and a particular style of blouse she wears (see image below):

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In line with the content of her book, on Twitter Crandall tweeted that, during the AIDS Epidemic, First Lady Nancy Reagan abandoned the gay community which had been most afflicted by the disease. She tweeted the following (which has since been deleted upon the publication of this profile on November 2, 2022):
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"My book opens w/ a revenge poem called “Red Ribbon,” a dressing down of Nancy in this exact portrait. To me, this portrait is a creepy foreshadowing, a harbinger of mass death—her standing alone in her own shadow having abandoned us all <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/forevertraitor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#forevertraitor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AIDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#AIDS</a>"
In a poem called “Hands on Deck”, Crandall says the following:
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“I bend hard sex toward you
as if
starring
in a beach commercial
for my paradise of leaning”
Published -- November 2, 2022

<a href="https://markaz.stanford.edu/people/yusuf-zahurullah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yusuf Zahurullah</a> is an Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow and fourth-year student at Stanford University. 

According to Zahurullah’s university profile, “last year, he served as the inaugural Abbasi-Markaz Fellow. This year, he will serve as the Anti-Islamophobia Teaching Fellow, a role in which he will work with Markaz staff to create a syllabus for and teach a 1-2 unit seminar through the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity titled ‘Interrogating Islamophobia.’”

Zahurullah told <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2022/11/27/csre-30-stanfords-first-ever-course-on-addressing-islamophobia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a> that, “There are certain political groups on campus, namely Stanford College Republicans, who in years past have brought in very Islamophobic speakers.”

He also told The Stanford Daily, “We’re trying to understand what are all the different ways in which you can think about Islamophobia and how Islamophobia actually manifests, whether it’s explicit, like hate crimes and verbal abuse, or more systemic things like the Muslim ban that Trump tried to pass.” 

Regarding the course’s influence on student, Zaharullah “hopes the class sparks dialogue on the history of Islamophobic incidents on Stanford campus.”
Published - December 30, 2022

<a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/ameer-loggins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ameer Hasan Loggins</a> is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. He also appears to be <a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/ameer-hasan-loggins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employed</a> by the University of California - Berkeley in the African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies Department. 

According to <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2023/10/18/stanford-suspended-a-lecturer-for-identity-based-targeting-heres-what-students-say-happened/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Stanford Daily</a>, Loggins has been reported and investigated for “identity-based targeting of students, according to an Oct. 11 University statement.” 

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/stanford-teacher-suspended-for-singling-out-jewish-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports the following about Loggins’ actions in class in light of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel in October 2023: 
“The lecturer… reportedly justified the slaughter of more than 1,300 Israelis by Hamas terrorists over the weekend, saying it was part of Palestinians’ resistance.”
“The teacher then asked Jewish students to raise their hands, separated them from their belongings and ordered them to stand in a corner, saying that is what Jews were doing to Palestinians, according to Nourya Cohen, one of the Israeli association presidents.”  
Loggins also asked his class, “how many Jews died in the Holocaust?” After a student responded “6 million,” Loggins replied, “Yes. Only 6 million.”

The university addressed Loggins’ status, in “<a href="https://news.stanford.edu/report/2023/10/11/update-stanford-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Update for the Stanford Community</a>,”:
“We have received a report of a class in which a non-faculty instructor is reported to have addressed the Middle East conflict in a manner that called out individual students in class based on their backgrounds and identities. Without prejudging the matter, this report is a cause for serious concern. Academic freedom does not permit the identity-based targeting of students. The instructor in this course is not currently teaching while the university works to ascertain the facts of the situation.”
Published - October 23, 2023

Yusuf Zahurullah

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Dr. Reza Aslan is <a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/aslanr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Professor of Creative Writing </a>at the University of California, Riverside. He considers himself to be a scholar of religions and has penned many books, including a New York Times bestseller titled, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/201653/zealot-by-reza-aslan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth</a>. When he isn’t teaching or writing publications, he often takes to social media to express his strong dislike of conservatives.
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In early 2019, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/13/reza-aslan-likely-be-sued-over-now-deleted-punchab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aslan made headlines</a> for threatening a conservative boy from Covington Catholic High School. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Dr. Aslan asked his 286,300 followers if they’ve ever seen a “more punchable” face than Nick Sandmann’s face. Sandmann and other boys from Covington Catholic High School were wrongly accused of harassing indigenous people at the Lincoln Memorial in 2019. The boys ultimately filed a lawsuit against Dr. Aslan for false and defamatory accusations.
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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it probably like 27 times: if you support a racist who enacts racist policies, you are a racist. Period. <a href="https://t.co/b7A3uc7Vaq">https://t.co/b7A3uc7Vaq</a>
&mdash; Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1274144748823957504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Aslan frequently tweets about his disdain for conservatives. In a tweet from May 2020, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/30/twitter-fails-to-fact-check-reza-aslan-for-claiming-trump-supporters-are-looting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter failed to fact-check</a> Dr. Aslan when he <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1266773788638670848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1266773788638670848%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Ftech%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Ftwitter-fails-to-fact-check-reza-aslan-for-claiming-trump-supporters-are-looting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made the claim</a> that conservatives were the ones responsible for the violence and looting around the country after the death of George Floyd. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-riots-looting-destroy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">While many sources</a> believe the riots were the doing of Antifa groups, Dr. Aslan maintains conservatives are at-fault while having no evidence to back up the claim. His tweet can be viewed below:
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White Supremacists=Trump Supporters. These are Trump supporters burning and looting. <a href="https://t.co/DKyvP6mUJk">https://t.co/DKyvP6mUJk</a>
&mdash; Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1266773788638670848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/janew">Jane Ward</a> is a professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California - Riverside. According to her personal website, Ward <a href="https://www.janewardphd.com/">teaches</a> courses in feminist, queer, and heterosexuality studies. She also <a href="https://gsst104thewitch.weebly.com/">teaches</a> a course titled, “Witches, Gender and Religion.” A “Witch,” according to Ward–who instructs the course with a “postcolonial feminist lens”–threatens capitalism, settler colonialism, and Christianity.

Ward is the <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/professor-heterosexuality-tragic-causes-societal-problems">author</a> of a book titled, “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality.” Ward’s central premise of the book–<a href="https://www.insider.com/why-straight-relationships-are-doomed-according-to-sex-researcher-2020-12">outlined</a> in a 2020 article for Insider_ is her belief that heterosexuality strains relationships between the sexes, and causes men to objectify women.

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According to Ward, the idea of heterosexuality formed the “romanticized narrative” of a gender binary and “pigeon-holed” men into a toxic-masculine culture. She states that Covid-19 is now exposing the “tragedy” of heterosexuality, citing the uptick in divorce since the pandemic began.

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She has also previously <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-white-supremacist-origins-of-modern-marriage-advice-144782">detailed</a> her belief that marriage advice for heterosexual couples is rooted in white supremacy. Ward alleges that the marriage advice offered by figures in the 19th-eugenics movement is the cause of “violence and inequity” between heterosexual couples today.

In a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16693">statement</a> to Campus Reform, Ward explained that she “loves straight couples” and wants them to have better relationships.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Ward <a href="https://www.janewardphd.com/resources.html">offers</a> “Childhood Gender Diversity Training” seminars. According to her personal website, Jane advocates for “celebrating” a child’s gender diversity and self-expression, and offers the training to help adults, parents, and teachers refrain from “policing” a child’s gender expression. Ward is also a <a href="https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/support-affirmative-care-for-trans-kids">signatory</a> to an open petition urging the Canadian government and others “to join us in calling for additional funding to develop more services to better support gender diverse children.”

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Updated - Spring, 2021

Dr. Reza Aslan is <a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/aslanr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Professor of Creative Writing </a>at the University of California, Riverside. He considers himself to be a scholar of religions and has penned many books, including a New York Times bestseller titled, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/201653/zealot-by-reza-aslan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth</a>. When he isn’t teaching or writing publications, he often takes to social media to express his strong dislike of conservatives.

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In early 2019, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/13/reza-aslan-likely-be-sued-over-now-deleted-punchab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aslan made headlines</a> for threatening a conservative boy from Covington Catholic High School. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Dr. Aslan asked his 286,300 followers if they’ve ever seen a “more punchable” face than Nick Sandmann’s face. Sandmann and other boys from Covington Catholic High School were wrongly accused of harassing indigenous people at the Lincoln Memorial in 2019. The boys ultimately filed a lawsuit against Dr. Aslan for false and defamatory accusations.

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Dr. Aslan frequently tweets about his disdain for conservatives. In a tweet from May 2020, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/30/twitter-fails-to-fact-check-reza-aslan-for-claiming-trump-supporters-are-looting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter failed to fact-check</a> Dr. Aslan when he <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1266773788638670848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1266773788638670848%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Ftech%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Ftwitter-fails-to-fact-check-reza-aslan-for-claiming-trump-supporters-are-looting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made the claim</a> that conservatives were the ones responsible for the violence and looting around the country after the death of George Floyd. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-riots-looting-destroy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">While many sources</a> believe the riots were the doing of Antifa groups, Dr. Aslan maintains conservatives are at-fault while having no evidence to back up the claim. His tweet can be viewed below:

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<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-being-super-straight-on-social-media-part-of-white-supremacy-colonialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> reported that Robinson wrote an <a href="https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/3/1-2/7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies (BATS) titled “Super Straights.” The article criticizes the “super straight” concept of sexuality <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphRoV_3CmE">coined</a> by TikTok influencer “KyleRoyce.” Robinson defined this as a sexual identity adopted by straight people who claim that they are not attracted to “transgender” people.

Robinson’s purpose for writing the article was to study those who identify as super straight “in order to more broadly examine strategies and discourses around how people engage in transphobia without wanting to be seen as transphobic.”

One of Robinson’s assessments of this “super straight” community is that heterosexuality entails something more than a biological desire for the opposite sex: 
“For the super straights, heterosexuality has moved beyond desire for biological sex. The social maintenance of heterosexuality, though, often requires policing trans people and genitals, especially within intimate settings (Schilt and Westbrook 2009). For certain straight people to maintain heterosexuality and to reinvest in heteronormativity, they developed a new concept. This concept of super straight reasserts notions of bioessentialism, especially gender essentialism, as the heart of sex, sexuality, and sexual identity (Stearns 1995). That is, some super straights work to reassert genitals and dominant notions of biological sex as essential to heterosexuality — or what makes it super.”
Robinson also claims that the notion of sexual identity was invented by Western civilization. Moreover, the process of the Atlantic slave trade supposedly “ungendered” black slaves and the perception of their gender by non-blacks. 
“Through the transatlantic slave trade, the Eurocentric gender binary also gets constructed in and through whiteness, whereby Black people became ungendered — seen as not having a gender but only seen as a slave — and whereby only white people were seen as being a man or a woman.”
For the article, Robinson studied user commentary in several Reddit communities centered around the subject of sexuality. 

Robinson concluded his article by calling for “transgender liberation” — and overall gender liberation — in the face of those who allegedly oppose it:
“While overt transphobia is on constant display in this historical moment of rising anti-trans laws and anti-trans backlash, understanding more covert — and at times progressive and liberal — ways that transphobia operates is also crucial in addressing trans antagonism and working toward trans liberation. Indeed, the logics and discourses examined on Reddit such as biological essentialist discourses of sex often operate in other settings, including some feminist spaces, to exclude trans people. 
“As these logics of transphobia without transphobes might be harder to challenge compared to more overt transphobia, it is imperative to name and expose these ideologies and logics, including their historical links to white supremacy, in order to resist them. We can learn from trans people pushing back against these discourses and logics through reason, parody, and play to continue the work of ending violence and discrimination and building a world of gender liberation.”
Updated - August 8, 2024
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<a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/brandonr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson</a> is a Chair and Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSST) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). He uses the pronouns they/them and his Twitter name is “<a href="https://twitter.com/DrKittyGirl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DrKittyGirl.</a>”

According to UCR’s Gender and Sexuality Studies  <a href="https://gsst.ucr.edu/gender-and-sexuality-studies-major">page</a>, GSST students “learn about the history and contemporary structures of cisheteropatriarchy and white supremacy and engage with strategies for resistance.”

In a GSST “Faculty Letter to Students Regarding the Impact of Covid-19”, <a href="https://gsst.ucr.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the GSST department (of which Robinson is Chair) wrote:</a>

“As a department committed to critical feminist, queer, and trans research, we understand that the devastating effects of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has disproportionately impacted – and continues to disproportionately impact – Black and Brown communities due to systemic racism, misogyny, misogynoir, empire and colonialism, occupation and extraction, and xenophobia and white supremacy.”

Dr. Robinson claims that sex is not biological but a social construct. In December of 2021, he <a href="https://twitter.com/DrKittyGirl/status/1466504431462084608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that gender liberation can take place only when “the institution of heterosexuality” has been abolished:
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Heterosexuality is doing what it is meant to do (and on steroids because of COVID) - subordinate women, extract their labor, and keep men on top. I hate to break it to straight women, but there will be no gender liberation without abolishing the institution of heterosexuality.
— Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson (@DrKittyGirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrKittyGirl/status/1466504431462084608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In a response to a tweet from President Biden about capitalism, Dr. Robinson tweeted that capitalism is “exploitation” (see image below):
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Lolololololol 🤡🤡🤡
All capitalism by definition is exploitation lololololol how do you think the capitalists become rich 🙃🙃🙃 <a href="https://t.co/kCAziwet5T" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/kCAziwet5T</a>

— Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson (@DrKittyGirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrKittyGirl/status/1574603882063228928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Robinson has also criticized law enforcement and politicians supporting it. In a tweet written in September of 2022, Robinson equated the police with fascism (see image below):
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Law enforcement literally does not keep communities safe. This is an anti-fact and anti-science ideology that the Dems keep pushing. Law enforcement will enforce anti-trans laws and anti-abortion laws though. Dems are investing in fascism. STOP VOTING FOR THEM. <a href="https://t.co/cWIIJLAuTI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/cWIIJLAuTI</a>
— Dr. Brandon Andrew Robinson (@DrKittyGirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrKittyGirl/status/1573014948417966080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Professor Robinson is writing a book entitled “Trans Jouissance: Gender Liberation and the Abolition of Sexual Identities.” According to <a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/brandonr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCR’s profile page for Professor Robinson</a>, this book is an attempt “to theorize about trans joy and pleasure as ways to disrupt and dismantle the settler colonial institution of compulsory heterosexuality and the Eurocentric gender binary.”

Students and parents may contact the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UCR at <a href="https://gsst.ucr.edu/contact-us">(951) 827-4843</a>
Published - September 29, 2022

Violence

Reza Aslan

<a href="https://www.polk.edu/people/lj-russum/">LJ Russum</a>, a Professor of Humanities at Polk State College, allegedly gave a female student a failing grade because she would not declare Jesus Christ a “myth.”

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<a href="https://www.polk.edu/people/lj-russum/">LJ Russum</a>, a Professor of Humanities at Polk State College, allegedly gave a female student a failing grade because she would not declare Jesus Christ a “myth.”

Anti-1st Amendment

Lance “Lj” Russum

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/291312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashad Shabazz</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU). Shabazz’s university profile says his “academic expertise brings together human geography, black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.” He also holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California-Santa Cruz.
Shabazz teaches several race-based courses including “<a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2227/88026">AFR301:</a> Race and Racism in the Black Diaspora.” The course description says, 
“Through slave rebellion in Haiti, black notions of freedom, black ideas of ‘being,’ and what on thinker calls ‘black reason,’ this class aims to show that race and racism is more than a tapestry of dominion, but…a reservoir of revolutionary ideas that…transform the world.”
In response to the killing of Tyre Nichols &#8211; a black man who was arrested and beaten and later died in the custody of black police officers &#8211; Shabazz <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-police-officers-arent-colorblind-theyre-infected-by-the-same-anti-black-bias-as-american-society-and-police-in-general-198721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> in The Conversation entitled, “Black police officers aren’t colorblind–they’re infected by the same anti-black bias as American society and police in general.”
In the article, Shabazz argued, “Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies. From slave patrols…to the murder of George Floyd, and now the death of Nichols, law enforcement officers often have viewed black people as what…W.E.B. Du Bois called a ‘problem.’”
He continued, “It’s hard to investigate the minds of the officers who beat Nichols so savagely and say for sure what motivated them. But there is ample research that suggests anti-blackness is a factor in American policing. And black officers, agents of an institutionally racist system, are affected by this.” 
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Arizona State University Professor David Boyles—who <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while”—appeared to physically assault a Turning Point USA Frontlines cameraman.  

TPUSA’s Frontlines team confronted Boyles after <a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learning</a> that he founded the Arizona chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour. Boyles refused to respond to the Frontlines reporter who asked how long he’d had the obsession with sex education and why he felt children should be exposed to drag queens.

The video of Boyles assaulting the cameraman can be viewed below:
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🚨ASU Professor assaults TPUSA cameraman, caught on video 🚨
Our TPUSA Frontlines reporter tried to ask self-professed “sex education obsessed” queer ASU Professor David Boyles, a few simple questions. Refusing to answer, our cameras caught the exact moment Mr. Boyles assaulted,… <a href="https://t.co/YJWBEzSgRx">pic.twitter.com/YJWBEzSgRx</a>

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1712691864850317436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Security camera footage shows Boyles initiating physical contact:

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Following the attack of the TPUSA staff member, Boyles posted the following statement on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.boyles3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>: 

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According to<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/10/asu-professor-who-founded-drag-story-hour-assaults-reporter-claims-hes-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AZ Free News</a>, “Boyles accused the TPUSA men of terrorism for filming him while asking him questions…Boyles also stated on Instagram that he was jumped from behind by the TPUSA reporter.”

AZ Free News also reported, “The <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftempe-breaking%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fasu-police-investigating-after-queer-faculty-member-assaulted-in-tempe%2F71160761007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Republic</a> claimed in its headline that Boyles was targeted in a campus garage for his sexuality. The original headline read: ‘Targeted’: ASU Investigating After Queer Instructor Confronted by Turning Point USA ‘Crew.’”

12 News reports the incident from another angle as seen below:

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Turning Point USA said in a statement:
 Our team fully intends to share this footage with local law enforcement, and if our cameraman decides to press criminal charges against Professor Boyle, we will fully support that decision. @FrontlinesTPUSA
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Updated - October 19, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/280652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Boyles</a> is a Professor of English Writing at Arizona State University (ASU). His “areas of expertise” include but are not limited to “Rhetoric,” “Public Communication,” and “Gender Studies.”

<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AZ Free News</a> featured Boyles in an article titled “Meet the ASU Professor Behind Arizona’s Drag Queen Story Hour.” The source writes:

“Boyles established Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona in 2019, a chapter of the national Drag Queen Story Hour organization…Boyles has been featured in several ‘The Art of Drag’ events alongside one of his drag queen storytellers…The most recent event occurred on Wednesday [September 20, 2023].  During the <a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a>, Boyles said that the notion that drag shows are harmful to children was a ‘myth.’ He also said that drag queens have been long considered the leaders of LGBTQ+ communities.”

During “<a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Drag</a>” talk, Boyles claimed Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona has been “targeted by acts of violence” and “neo-Nazis showing up to disrupt events.” He also presented what he believed to be the beginning of drag culture in America using the newspaper clip featured below:

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On May 16, 2023, Boyles <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a blog</a> - “Queer Joy Summer Planting #3: Promote Radical Queer Sex Education” - in which he stated he was “trying to plant more queer joy in the world.” He also said:

“Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while…In 2021, I did a three-part ‘<a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queering-sex-ed-part-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering Sex Ed</a>’ series on the history of sex education in America and the ways in which it has traditionally erased queer people, as well as the ways in which queer people have resisted this erasure and cared for their communities by creating their own sex ed underground.”

In the “Queer Sex Ed” blog, Boyles also wrote that sex education has been traditionally racist since “black people and immigrants were typically viewed as being sexually promiscuous and aggressive and sex education was designed to keep good white kids from being ‘infected’ by them.”

In <a href="https://lookoutphx.substack.com/p/bomb-threat-made-against-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another publication</a> promoting his Drag Queen Story Hour initiative, Boyles said:

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<a href="https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/faculty-and-leadership/faculty/gilgerbio">Kristin Gilger</a> is the Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism and the interim dean at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theres-No-Crying-Newsrooms-Learned/dp/1538121492">“There’s No Crying in Newsrooms”</a> and has served in various roles at ASU since 2002.

Gilger has been mired in controversy since assuming her role as dean this past summer. The previous candidate, Sonya Forte Duhe, was replaced by Gilger after <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/after-tweet-supporting-good-police-officers-arizona-state-revokes-journalism-dean-offer/">her offer was rescinded by the university</a>. After tweeting an image that was considered too positive towards police officers, Duhe was condemned by university faculty for showing “poor judgment.”

Gilger has come under fire after pressuring Rae’Lee Klein, a senior journalism major, and station manager for ASU’s Blaze radio, to resign from her position after <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/?preview_id=16209831">tweeting and soon deleting a New York Post article</a> detailing the warrant issued for Jacob Blake’s arrest;

“Always more to the story, folks. Please read this article to get to the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted“ 

Blake—who was wanted for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend—was shot in the back by police after resisting arrest and allegedly reaching for a knife on the floor of his car.

Facing immediate backlash for her tweet, the Board of Directors at the station <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/arizona-student-journalist-cancelled-over-jacob-blake-tweet/">voted unanimously to remove her from her position</a>. Later releasing a statement, the board announced that “Blaze Radio firmly believes that Black Lives Matter.”

“The board gave Klein an opportunity to step down under her own will. As of the time of this statement, Klein has not made the decision to resign…In light of this, we do not recognize Rae'Lee Klein as the station manager of Blaze Radio.”  

Gilger has claimed that the University is not moving to remove Klein. In a statement to the New York Post, Gilger stated that Klein is not being targeted by the university for her views.

“Any actions that are unfolding are not punishment for a tweet. I have been clear with Rae’Lee that she would not be removed as station manager of Blaze Radio, a student internet radio station, because of the views she expressed,”  

However, in email exchanges between Klein and Gilger, she did in fact act to pressure Klein to resign, contrary to her statement.

In their exchange (pictured below) Gilger clearly states that Klein remaining in her position, “is not an option,” as she had lost the confidence of the board.

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Although suggesting new roles that Klein may assume, Gilger cites the "Media Guidelines for Student Journalists" to warn her to refrain in the future from posting information “that could call into question your ability to act independently as a journalist.” This seems to contradict Gilger’s claim that Klein was not being targeted by the university for her views.

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At this time, Klein has refused to step down from her role, and officially remains the station’s manager.

Update: In February of 2021, Klein announced that she <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/college-pays-settlement-conservative-student-ousted-manager-role/">has reached a settlement with Gilger</a> over a lawsuit she had filed against ASU several months prior.
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UPDATE: I am happy to announce we've reached a resolution with Arizona State University for events that took place in September. With the support of my attorney, Jack Wilenchik, and countless other individuals, I am proud to have stood up, fought back and eventually, won.
— Rae'Lee Klein (@RaeLeeKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaeLeeKlein/status/1365067995052085254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
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According to a <a href="https://newsroom.asu.edu/press/statement-latest-update-asu-and-klein-story-0">statement released by ASU</a>, the University agreed to pay Klein a total of $7,040 for "reimbursement of her school fees."

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Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asao Inoue</a> is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Science and Arts at Arizona State University. According to his University biography, Inoue’s <a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> focuses on “antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments.”

Prior to his role at Arizona State, Inoue served as the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Washington-Tacoma. As Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/college-writing-center-declares-american-grammar-a-racist-unjust-language-structure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Inoue <a href="\&quot;https://stjenglish.com/standing-against-racism-in-the-field-of-writing-dr-asao-inoue-uw-tacoma/\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> an anti-racist poster in an effort to ensure that his staff did not “embrace racist practices.” Inoue maintains that racism is embedded in the English language as well as in society itself, writing that “racism is the normal condition of things.

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According to the text of the poster, recorded by The College Fix, Inoue writes that his goal is to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-writing-center-combats-racist-unjust-language-structures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help students become more critical of “unjust language structures”</a> in order to succeed in what Inoue claims is a racist society.

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Inoue would later author a book on his beliefs titled, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom.” In an excerpt from the book, Inoue declares that he focuses on grading students for their efforts, and not the “quality” of their writing.

“This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

As Daily Wire reports, Inoue writes that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-state-dean-grading-writing-based-on-quality-is-racist-promotes-white-language-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beliefs and teaching practices are based on “critical-race theory,” or “labor-based theory.”</a>As Breitbart documents, c<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ritical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a> that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy.

He writes further that grading students only perpetuates white supremacy.

“The traditional purposes and methods used for grading writing turn out to be de facto racist and White supremacist….Grading by a standard, thus, is how White language supremacy is perpetuated in schools”

Inoue also draws an analogy between issuing grades for English and the institution of slavery, stating that grading is a “slave-making mechanism.”

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Inoue believes that even the physical proximity of white people causes racism. In a YouTube video of Inoue speaking before the 2019 Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Inoue <a href="https://youtu.be/brPGTewcDYY?t=994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states that even the presence of white people “perpetuates racism.</a>”

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Inoue delivered this speech while <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving as the Conference Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication</a>, which bills itself as the <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest professional organization for researching and teaching writing composition</a>. It is the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, which <a href="https://ncte.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts over 25,000 English and Language Arts teachers as members all over the country</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Inoue for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents May Contact Arizona State University at (855) 278-5080.
Updated - November 10, 2021

<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/597528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lorraine Moya Salas</a> is an Instructor in the <a href="https://socialwork.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Social Work</a> at <a href="https://campus.asu.edu/dohttps://campus.asu.edu/downtown-phoenixwntown-phoenix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix</a>.

During a lecture in one of her courses—titled, “Foundations of Social Work”—Dr. Lorraine can be heard describing the United States as a “white supremacist system,” that was founded for the benefit of white people at the expense of Native Americans and people of color.

In the class—recorded and provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist team by an anonymous source—Dr. Salas urges her students to confront the “implicit biases” present in themselves and American society. Claiming that stereotypes and prejudices construct implicit bias, she warns that unconscious actions can cause serious harm.

Attempting to provide an example to bolster her claim, Dr. Salas states that implicit bias causes doctors to act as if their black patients are slaves. She proceeds to cite a study that claims doctors give less pain medication to black patients as compared to white ones.

Dr. Salas alleges this is the product of the legacy of slavery; slave owners viewed blacks as subhuman and able to withstand a large amount of pain, so therefore doctors continue to believe that blacks can withstand a large amount of pain. Doctors will therefore prescribe black patients less pain medication.

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Dr. Salas additionally cites a study that claims teachers will call on boys more often than girls in their classrooms. She claims this as proof that teachers think boys answer questions correctly more often than girls.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. Salas alleges that numerous racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in society are a result of implicit bias. She urges her students, as future social workers, to confront their own implicit biases and assigns an “implicit bias test” for them to complete before the next class.

Dr. Salas additionally claims that institutional racism produces inequality and disparities, attributing it to the legacy of slavery in the Americas. Although acknowledging that all cultures practiced slavery, she claims that no slave trade was enforced along racial lines until the Europeans did so in order to specifically oppress people of color.

Citing slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and discriminatory, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Salas claims that  America was constructed as a “white supremacist culture” for the sole benefit of white people who have maintained their “white power structures” ever since.

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In the accompanying slides, Dr. Salas cites Critical Race Theory to define white supremacy as a, “political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level”.

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As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

Dr. Salas had previously published a paper on critical theory, titled, “Critical Theory: Pathway from Dichotomous to Integrated Social Work Practice.” In it, she urges social <a href="https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/file/4791/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workers to embrace critical theory in order to accomplish social justice</a> “at all levels of practice.”

Dr. Salas further states that while people of color can hold prejudiced views, they cannot be racist as they have no institutional power in a system that values whiteness. She urges white students in the class to be “allies” in order to help minorities access the resources available to them by way of “white privilege.”

The full audio of the lecture is provided below.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Salas prior for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the School of Social Work at Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix at (602) 496-0800 or at <a href="mailto:social.work@asu.edu">social.work@asu.edu</a>
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Updated - October 26, 2021
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/888543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katelyn Cooper</a> is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biology Education Research for Arizona State University’s  Center for Biology and Society Program . 

In 2019, Cooper founded the “<a href="https://katelyncooper1.wixsite.com/bioedlab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooper Biology Education Research Lab</a>” because she, as a gay woman, was “worried about biology research not being inclusive enough of “LGBTQ+ people,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/inclusive-lab-for-lgbt-students-created-by-arizona-state-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix. </a>

Cooper is “upset that heterosexual white [men] dominate the biological sciences.” She told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/professor-making-biology-education-inclusive-lgbtq-undergrads-rcna28813" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> that “The goal isn’t just to make classrooms more inclusive, she explained, but to bring more diversity to a field that has traditionally been dominated by straight white men.” 

Cooper also told NBC News her hopes for collegiate science education: “Cooper said science educators can make their classrooms more inclusive by being openly supportive of LGBTQ students.” According to Cooper, “Educators can, for example, put an inclusivity statement on their syllabus or website, foster safe environments for students to reveal their LGBTQ identities and familiarize themselves with on-campus LGBTQ resources in case students come to them for support.”

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="http://www.breannefahs.com/">Breanne Fahs</a>, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, believes women have been, more or less, brainwashed by "the patriarchy" and "sexism" to ignore the "liberatory, political, and social implications of fatness." Fahs, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and women's studies from the University of Michigan, came to this conclusion after she conducted an experiment in which all 20 of her subjects "expressed terror at the thought of suddenly gaining 100 pounds."

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2193787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Loebenberg</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her faculty profile says she “teaches a range of classes and seminars on urban spaces and landscape, architecture, cities, and…play and game studies.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was a protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3177657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Wheatley</a> teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise are “Cultural Anthropology” and “Transnational Migration.”

Wheatley is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2608679">Adam Rigoni</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. He teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “Special Topics.”

Rigoni is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3171591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Young</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include violence, “Colonial and Post-Colonial theory,” “American and Ethics Studies,” English, and “Critical Theory.”

Young is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2192175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Miller</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Miller teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction. Her areas of expertise include “20th Century American Literature,” “Film Studies,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Fong</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. <a href="https://sst.asu.edu/content/center-work-and-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Center</a> conducts research into election initiatives and organizes protests during times of political crisis.

Fong is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Honors Thesis," "Aesthetics and Society," and "Special Topics" with expertise in “Diaspora Studies,” “Digital Humanities,” and “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics.”

Fontinha de Alcantara is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3333726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dagmar Van Engen</a> is an Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Writing Center at Arizona State University. As a member of the LGBT community, Van Engen’s preferred pronouns are they/them/their. Van Engen’s areas of expertise include “Gender and Sexuality,” “Feminist and Queer Theory," and "Science Fiction."

Van Engen is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746835" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Agruss</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include “Victorian Literature and Culture,” “Gender and Sexuality,” “Critical Theory,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Agruss is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/228488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Fette</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Fette teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “The Human Event.”

Fette is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2471599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Meloy</a> is an Associate Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics," "Individualized Instruction," and "Barrett Honors Internship."

Meloy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/675885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriella Soto</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “undocumented migration,” “migrant death and disappearance”, and “archaeology.” 

Soto is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3515243" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgette Briggs</a> is a Senior Lecturer and Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Honors Independent Study.”

Briggs is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3319768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Irina Levin</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor, a Jewish Studies Faculty Affiliate, and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include the former Soviet Union, migration, nationalism, and gender and sexuality.

Levin is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/45849" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacquie Scott-Lynch</a> is a Teaching Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty Fell at Arizona State University. She teaches "Special Topics" and "Individualized Instruction." Her areas of expertise include Irish studies, world literature, and race and ethnicity.

Scott-Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/866912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Brian</a> is a Faculty Chair and a Honors Faculty Fellow at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist and Queer Theory,” “Feminist Ethics,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Brian’s <a href="https://jennydyckbrian.com/">website</a> goes in further detail as to what she teaches. For instance, her “Queer Bioethics” seminar course covers the challenges “LGBTQIA” people supposedly face that stem from bioethics and health policy.

The course <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2187/92008/pdf;jsessionid=CF01C07A3B0D3B971CE00A931AEA8ACD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> — which  includes the “ethical issue” of “intersex children” gaining access to treatments — says:

“Some of the pressing ethical issues include access to health care and culturally competent mental health resources, treatments for intersex children, standards for blood donation from same-sex sexually active men, access to assisted reproductive technologies and adoption, health insurance coverage, violence (self and other-inflicted) toward gay and transgender youth, exclusion from clinical trials, and so-called ‘psychotherapies’ designed to change sexual orientation.”

The subjects of puberty blockers, gender diversity, transgenderism among adolescents, and gender dysphoria, are covered in the course. (See image of syllabus below):

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Brian is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Updated August 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/50294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Lynch</a> is a Principal Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Lynch teaches “Special Topics,” “Honors Directed Study,” and “Undergraduate Research.”  

Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/266886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Foy</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized Instruction.” 

Foy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph O’Neil</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University.  He teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “The Human Event.”

O’Neil is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/973834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laura Jakubczak</a> is an Affiliate Faculty member in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Jakubczak’s areas of expertise include Anthropology, Paleobotany, Climate Change, and Climate Science.

Jakubczak is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2457458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laurie Stoff</a> is the Assistant Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Stoff’s areas of expertise include “Russian and East European Studies,” “War and Society,” and “Women and Gender Studies.”

Stoff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2012013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Barca</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Barca’s area of expertise includes "Animal Studies," "Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability," and "Feminism and Gender Studies."

Barca is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2740395" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mathew Sandoval</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Sandoval’s areas of expertise include “Activism and Social Movements,” “Cultural Studies,” and “Race and Ethnicity.”

Sandoval is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2454381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthew Voorhees</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Voorhees teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “Special Topics.”

Voorhees is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Ostling</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Ostling’s university biography says he’s a “religious studies scholar focusing on the history,  historiography, and representation of witches and witchcraft."

Ostling is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2009484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mina Suk</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Freshman Seminary,” “The Human Event,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Suk is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 13, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1992537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nilanjana Bhattacharjya</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Ethnomusicology,” “Film and Media Studies,” and “Popular Music.”

Bhattacharjya is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/85114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Schmidt</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “History of Ideas,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Schmidt is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4002947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Cortes</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “The Human Event,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized instruction.”

Cortes is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/247692" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Fedock</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include “Feminist Ethics,” “Moral Psychology,” “Feminism and Gender Studies,” and “Race and Gender Politics.”

Fedock is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2450227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Soares</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her research interests include “Spiritualism,” “Transatlantic Studies,” and “Print Culture.”

Soares is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/538564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Mack</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “The Human Event,” and “Special Topics.”

Mack is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1796349" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Graff</a> is a Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Individualized Instruction,” “The Human Event, and “Special Topics.”

Graff is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/786008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Hines</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise include critical social theory and critical theory.

Hines is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 14, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/291312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashad Shabazz</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU). Shabazz’s university profile says his “academic expertise brings together human geography, black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.” He also holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Shabazz teaches several race-based courses including “<a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2227/88026">AFR301:</a> Race and Racism in the Black Diaspora.” The course description says, 

“Through slave rebellion in Haiti, black notions of freedom, black ideas of ‘being,’ and what on thinker calls ‘black reason,’ this class aims to show that race and racism is more than a tapestry of dominion, but…a reservoir of revolutionary ideas that…transform the world.”

In response to the killing of Tyre Nichols - a black man who was arrested and beaten and later died in the custody of black police officers - Shabazz <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-police-officers-arent-colorblind-theyre-infected-by-the-same-anti-black-bias-as-american-society-and-police-in-general-198721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> in The Conversation entitled, “Black police officers aren’t colorblind–they’re infected by the same anti-black bias as American society and police in general.”

In the article, Shabazz argued, “Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies. From slave patrols…to the murder of George Floyd, and now the death of Nichols, law enforcement officers often have viewed black people as what…W.E.B. Du Bois called a ‘problem.’”

He continued, “It’s hard to investigate the minds of the officers who beat Nichols so savagely and say for sure what motivated them. But there is ample research that suggests anti-blackness is a factor in American policing. And black officers, agents of an institutionally racist system, are affected by this.” 

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2426729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stuart Rhoden</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona State University. He primarily teaches "Mindset Connections" and "Academic Success."

Rhoden is also a City of Scottsdale Human Relations Commission board member. According to the <a href="https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/human-relations-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commission’s website</a>, the organization “will advocate and promote all dimensions of diversity.” Board members also commit to making “recommendations on ways to encourage mutual respect and understanding among people to discourage prejudice and discrimination, and to work towards cultural awareness and unity.”

In April 2022, <a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2022/04/14/scottsdales-dei-gurus-accuse-black-dj-of-wearing-blackface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Daily Independent</a> featured Rhoden in an article titled, “Scottsdale’s DEI Gurus Accuse Black DJ of Wearing Blackface.” The Daily said, “[Rhoden]...attacked the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for hiring Koko Kim Hunter to host a charity auction.” Rhoden said he believed Hunter was wearing blackface during the event. After it was confirmed that Koko is in fact a black man, Rhoden clarified his position with the following social media post:

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Published March 1, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1658062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce McCall</a> is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. McCall’s biography says her research “centers on how race, class and culture impact educational equity in music learning and teaching.”

<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASU News</a> announced McCall’s position in 2021, stating that she was “one of the few scholars whose music education research focuses on race and racism through critical race theory [CRT] and double consciousness theory…”

The article goes on to say that McCall was the only African-American student to earn a doctorate in music education from ASU. McCall also reportedly said that she feels she can offer “an informed perspective based on experience and expertise” that can optimize K-12 learning experiences.

In July 2022, McCall was featured in a <a href="https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/critical-race-theory-music-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Classic FM article</a> titled, “Music professor breaks down [CRT] and why it’s crucial for 21st-century music education.” McCall told the publication:

“‘[CRT] is a tool that was conceptualized and born out of critical legal studies as a means to analyze, critique and to help dismantle racism…Even though…we like to think of ourselves as being more progressive and more innovative…When you look at a university curriculum in America, it gives you a really nice snapshot of Western Europe.’”

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In a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marginalized-Voices-Music-Education-Talbot/dp/0415788331/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JZJC8AXCLXQL&amp;keywords=marginalized+voices+in+music+education&amp;qid=1687280532&amp;sprefix=marginalized+voice%2Caps%2C161&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marginalized Voices in Music Education</a>,” McCall authored an introduction with the title, “Speak No Evil: Talking Race as an African American in Music Education.” McCall told “her story” about growing up in a predominantly white school and participating in band class. 

She informs readers of her experiences as an “African American in music education…whose structures and social actors attempted to silence [her] voice.” Although McCall experienced notable success and received much encouragement throughout her pursuits, she wrote: 

“Despite my professors and peers at ASU ensuring me that I was in a safe place, I didn’t believe it because I knew that outside of ASU, society viewed my voice differently and that the profession did not want to hear what I had to say. These were my perceptions…” 
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3016173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Sampson</a> is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). According to Sampson’s faculty profile, “Her research focuses on educational leadership, policy, and equity from three interrelated perspectives—democracy, community advocacy, and politics.” Sampson’s areas of expertise include “Critical Race Theory,” “Feminist Theory,” “Race and Racism in Education,” and “Social Justice in Education.”

Sampson has published several gender- and race-based articles. In 2016, Sampson <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2020.1842346?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored</a> “Engaging (or not) in coalition politics: a case study of Black and Latinx community advocacy toward educational equity.” In the abstract notes, Sampson et al. state: 
“We use ‘Latinx’ as a gender-neutral reference to the people of Latin-American heritage. To not negate gendered experiences, we use Latino/Latina, or Chicano/a when acknowledging individuals or past research identifying with these gendered identities … Although both ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ are politicized categories, we recognize the reality of the identities are diverse, intersecting, and fluid.”
In an article titled “Over 1,200 ‘Educators for Palestine’ Sign Open Letter Demanding Ceasefire,” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-a-thousand-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20academics%20from%20universities,has%20killed%20more%20than%2011%2C000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout</a> gave a biased account of a statement signed by several university professors, including Sampson. The statement was crafted after the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel. 

Truthout said, “Hundreds of academics from universities and institutions of higher learning from … across North America have signed on to a joint letter, calling on their governments to demand Israeli ceasefire in Gaza … The signers, calling themselves ‘Educators for Palestine,’ are Palestinian academics and their allies who denounce Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BA7ddNwiUF9ns3zJK3t-nrTpn8R4s3ZB_wbZstAo2iY/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter Sampson signed</a> states, in part:
“We have paid careful attention to consistent invocations of children in public officials’ responses to and media portrayals of the attack in Israel on October 7, which took 1400 lives. We mourn this loss of life, and we are also struck by the ways that this concern for children does not extend to the unspeakable number of Palestinian children’s lives taken by Israeli state violence, harmed by apartheid rule, and traumatized by intergenerational experiences of settler colonial dispossession for over [75] years.”
Please send information on Carrie Sampson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dylan Richard</a> is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Richard’s faculty profile — which contains the preferred pronouns of “they/them” — says his professional interests include:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Trauma-informed psychotherapy”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender- and sexuality-affirmative interventions”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sex and kink positivity” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“LGBTQ+ workplace concerns”</li>
</ul>
Richard’s Instagram page, “<a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_punk_psychologist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Punk Psychologist</a>,” reveals an apparent obsession with anal sex, “transgenderism,” and multiple sexualities.

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The description for Richard’s 300+ level <a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2241/28325" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biology of Human Sexuality</a> course states: “By the end of the semester you will be able to understand how the following behaviors[sic] in regards to their learning and motivation and the research involved in these discoveries. The list of behaviors includes, but is not limited to:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexuality Today”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Development and Education”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Adult Sexual Relationships”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“‘Alternative’ Sex and Polyamory”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Power and Coercion”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sexual Images and Selling Sex”</li>
</ul>
During ASU’s “<a href="https://eoss.asu.edu/cultural-connections/events/honor-heritage/trans-awareness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Awareness Week</a>” celebration in November 2023, Richard offered a session called “<a href="https://asu.campuslabs.com/engage/event/9588130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lunch with a Queer Psychologist</a>.” The event registration included the following description of Richard:

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Despite <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4856539">holding</a> multiple psychology degrees and participating in numerous presentations, Richard has only published one article in the field back in 2020. 

Please send tips and information on Dylan Richard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 25, 2024
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<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20240221-law-journalism-and-politics-jemele-hill-deliver-lecture-race-relations-asu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jemele Hill</a> was the featured speaker at the 2024 A. Wade Smith and Elsie Moore Memorial Lecture on Race Relations at Arizona State University (ASU). Hill is primarily known for her incendiary commentary as an American sports journalist on ESPN from 2006 to 2017.  Hill departed from ESPN after posting tweets calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist” and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaining</a> about “conservative culture” in the workplace.

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Hill also tweeted a statement accusing artist Kid Rock of being racist:

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In an August 2022 article, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/08/05/jemele-hill-opens-up-leaving-espns-conservative-culture/10249552002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today published</a> comments from Hill about her departure from ESPN:
 “‘I wasn’t a good fit for the ‘SportsCenter’ culture. Definitely not a good fit for the management that was overseeing the ‘SportsCenter’ at the time. And I got tired. I got really tired of fighting everyday to be myself … It’s the conservative culture at ESPN and so this idea that ESPN is being run by flower children is just a lie. That’s not how it is. It’s the opposite, if anything … 
‘Once critics started seeing my face … then suddenly ESPN is too liberal because what they’re really trying to say is ‘Oh, y’all must be liberal-leaning because you got all these women and all these [b]lack people who are suddenly on my TV everyday.’”
Hill further details the ESPN incident in her book “<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250624376/uphill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uphill</a>.”

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In January 2024, <a href="https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/jemele-hill-agency-wme-1235887820/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety announced</a>, “Hill has signed with WME for representation in all areas … She is also a co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media. At present, Hill is an executive producer on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/01/colin-kaepernick-kneeling-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colin Kaepernick </a>documentary series … which is directed by Spike Lee and will air on ESPN.”

Around the same time, Hill <a href="https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-jemele-hill-race-baiter-fans-slam-ex-espn-analyst-post-criticizing-lions-hc-dan-campbell-resurfaces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went viral again</a> after past tweets resurfaced of her blaming Detroit Lions Coach Don Campbell for the lack of black head coaches in the NFL.
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This is who black coaches are losing opportunities to. <a href="https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q">https://t.co/K2o4aZLJ2Q</a>
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1352377843758600197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In turn, one commenter declared Hill a “race baiter.”

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Please send tips and information on Jemele Hill to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4399703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shannon Portillo</a> is a Professor and the Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. According to Portillo’s biography, “Her work helps scholars and practitioners understand how inequities are institutionalized in public organizations … [She also] served as co-chair of Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s Commission on Racial Equity and Justice.”

Portillo’s <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Kw7ABu8AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published works</a> include topics such as “Social Equity,” “Law &amp; Society,” and “Street-Level Bureaucracy.” She co-authored a paper entitled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advancing Social Equity in the Minnowbrook Tradition</a>,” which discussed the “goals of valuing social equity and using it as a guide in managing public programs.” 

In her work, Portillo refers to a meeting called Minnowbrook I that took place following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook 50 Social Equity Manifesto</a>, “[A] group of public administration scholars met to reflect on the implications of the social and environmental circumstances for [their] discipline … [Their] call to action … focused on ways to intersect and integrate social equity in the research, teaching, and practice of public administration.”
In the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6j6mAfv3ycBqEtPvz4qR70Tjk8GBjgH/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnowbrook paper,</a> Portillo et al. wrote:
“In 40 years since Minnowbrook I, the concern for social equity has grown to the point where it now occupies a firm place within the academy … However, despite its growth and general acceptance as a core area of research and concern, evidence of gross societal inequities in the United States and the global community abound.”
Portillo was featured in the <a href="https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2022/02/17/public-administration-should-consider-effects-whiteness-masculinity-well-representation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KU News article</a> titled “Public administration should consider effects of whiteness, masculinity as well as presentation, researchers say,” where she offered her perspective on gender and racial discrimination in the industry.

Portillo states that during President Woodrow Wilson’s term, a push for segregation led to discrimination and the “normalization of white men in bureaucratic roles.” Any truth in this statement is neutralized by her contradictory claim that “[w]hite men have been in charge pretty much forever,” and, at the same time, “[w]e need more empirical evidence” to know whether white men in leadership have helped or harmed professional communities.

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Shannon Portillo to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 24, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/4219914" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lydia HaRim Ahn</a> is an Assistant Professor in Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. According to her university profile, Ahn’s academic interests include the following:

“1) examining the detrimental effects of racism and oppression on marginalized communities with an emphasis on within group differences, 2) developmental protective and risk factors between racism and health outcomes with a focus on ethnic-racial socialization and parenting, and 3) enhancing positive psychological outcomes and change through psychotherapy, evidence-based videos, and prevention and intervention programming.” 
In February, Ahn and Thomas P. Le co-wrote an <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Asian American Women’s Racial Dating Preferences: An Investigation of Internalized Racism, Resistance and Empowerment against Racism, and Desire for Status.” In the abstract for the article, the authors state their purpose for writing it: 
“To further understand racialized desire among this underrepresented population, the present study examined the extent to which three sociocultural factors (i.e., internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status) were associated with two attraction outcome variables (i.e., dating preferences, physical attraction) across four racial categories of men: Asian men, Black men, Latino men, and White men.” 
They claim the factors of “internalized racism, resistance and empowerment against racism, and desire for status” have caused Asian American women to have a “stronger dating preference toward White men and weaker dating preference and physical attraction to Asian men.”  

In a section of the article titled “Internalized Racism,” the authors address their research on male dating preferences based on race. Focusing on Asian American women, the authors state that the demographic faces “gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism.” They then focus on the differences between Asian and white men with regard to Asian women and dating: 
“Asian American women have reported a desire to date White men for the sake of economic security, as well as to assimilate into White American society, even if their White male partners engaged in racial fetishization of Asian women (Nemoto, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR50" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2006</a>). This preference may promote stereotypes of Asian American men as undesirable and perpetually foreign (Wong &amp; McCullough, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021</a>) and Black and Latino men as inferior to white men (Cascalheira &amp; Smith, <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>). Furthermore, Asian American women face gendered racism (Gamst et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR15" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023</a>), or experiences of discrimination that are based upon the intersections of their race and gender, which contributes to their disempowerment and negative self-worth within the United States (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>).”
The authors conclude their study:
“Overall, our findings highlight how Asian American women’s romantic and intimate desires may be shaped by internalized racism, resistance and empowerment, and desire for social status. Asian American women face gendered racial microaggressions and model minority stereotypes that produce internalized racism (Ahn et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022</a>; Juang et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018</a>; Wei et al., <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-024-01450-9#ref-CR68" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2008</a>).”
Published - June 3, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/202508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University. Lober also serves as the director of ASU’s Academy of Lactation Programs and the clinical research director at Banner University Medical Center–Phoenix.

During an ASU presentation in March 2023, Lober pointed out that part of the Lactation Programs vision is to “normalize breastfeeding and human milk feeding as an act of social justice and health promotion.”

View the presentation below.

<iframe title="Edson College Speakers Bureau - Angela Lober" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g9TnlMr0cAI" width="1039" height="584" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

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On August 30, 2024, Lober was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” Lober partnered with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jennyirish" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> who <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized an event</a> to discuss abortion.

According to The Fix, “Lober opened the one-hour moderated discussion by stating she ‘got into this space because the United States hates women and everything the female body does.’” 

The School Board Watchlist did not uncover the original audio from the event. However, <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/news/cannibalism-forced-breeding-professors-fearmonger-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live Action </a>pointed out:
“Lober also argued that she is discouraging her children from having children, and said the decline in birth rates is a good thing—because the planet is overpopulated. Yet, ironically, the ASU <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events page</a> states that Lober’s ‘research is focused on establishing lactation and breastfeeding as a public health imperative’ and that she ‘is dedicated to working for a better world for families’...How, exactly does not create a better world for families or better health for children by encouraging abortion?”
Conservative lawyer and journalist, Jonathan Turley, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/01/the-united-states-hates-women-asu-event-offers-dystopian-anti-capitalist-vision-of-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mentioned</a> Lober in an article titled “‘The United States Hates Women’: ASU Event Offer Dystopian, Anti-Capitalist Vision of America.” Reflecting on Lober’s resolution for a future America without abortion, Turley said she called for the audience “to help ‘dismantle capitalism’ and ‘elect a female president.’”

Since the event, Lober has not commented publicly on her role in the conversation with Irish. Based on mainstream media reactions, both professors are committed to espousing anti-American and anti-family values. 
Please send tips and information on Professor Angela Lober to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1903524" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jenny Irish</a> is a Professor of English at Arizona State University.

In a 2023 <a href="https://www.kjzz.org/2024-04-30/content-1878588-stephen-king-seen-just-horror-author-asu-professor-argues-hes-much-more" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with 91.5 KJZZ Phoenix, Irish discussed her thoughts on horror author Stephen King, whose books are currently being <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-king-florida-book-ban-viral-post-1947396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from school libraries</a> in Florida. The KJZZ host asked Irish to comment on her “associations” with the King novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Carrie-Stephen-King/dp/1984898108/ref=asc_df_1984898108/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=692875362841&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=14364719003284224040&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvtargid=pla-2281435178818&amp;psc=1&amp;mcid=d9f4354e402c38979d3d64dbfc2a5893&amp;hvocijid=14364719003284224040-1984898108-&amp;hvexpln=73" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie</a>”—the story of a high school outcast with telekinetic powers who eventually murders her bullying classmates by setting the town on fire. 

Irish responded to the interviewer stating:
“‘Carrie’ is amazing in the fact that [it] was written 50 years ago, but there’s so much about it that feels pretty tragically contemporary. If Carrie White had had access to a decent sex ed class, the town of Chamberlain, Maine, would still be standing…[I]t’s not hard to think about that in the midst I feel of our current kind of sociopolitical moment, where there’s such an assault on bodily autonomy and considerations of the rights of people to define their own identity and their own bodies and their relationships to them.”
On August 30, 2024, Irish was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> entitled “U.S. ‘hates women,’ faces future of cannibalism, ‘forced breeding campus’: ASU event.” In <a href="https://lincolncenter.asu.edu/wb-workshop-HATCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partnership</a> with ASU Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angelalober" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Lober</a>, Irish <a href="https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/jenny-irishs-hatch-speculative-future-reproductive-rights?eventDate=2024-08-28&amp;id=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted an event</a> centered on releasing her new book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hatch/9sHtEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover">Hatch</a>,” a collection of prose poems exploring the future of the human race surviving through AI.

According to <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146969/hatch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern University Press</a>:
“The prose poems in Jenny Irish’s newest collection, Hatch, trace the consciousness of an artificial womb that must confront the role she has played in the continuation of the dying of the human species. This apocalyptic vision engages with the most pressing concerns of this contemporary sociopolitical moment: reproductive rights, climate crises, and mass extinction; gender and racial bias in healthcare technology…and the possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence.”
In the following excerpt, Irish appears to describe an abortion from the artificial womb’s perspective.

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The Professor Watchlist did not recover any original video of the “Hatch” presentation. However, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-s-hates-women-faces-future-of-cannibalism-forced-breeding-camps-asu-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote, “Irish also talked about transgenderism and said there is an ‘all-out assault on the trans community and people’s ability to self-identify.’ It is disgusting, immoral, and wrong,’ she said.”

Please send tips and information on Professor Jenny Irish to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - September 9, 2024

*RECOMMENDED PROFESSOR*
<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/843137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Owen Anderson</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Arizona State University. He teaches courses focused on philosophy, morality, and religion. As a Christian in a secular institution, Dr. Anderson has been subjected to discrimination and exclusion by the college. 

On September 20, 2024, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix featured</a> Anderson in an article titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” Quoting Dr. Anderson’s phone interview, the Fix wrote:
“If a class does not have a general education designation, most students won’t enroll and his college will be hesitant to offer it because it won’t attract many students.” 
Dr. Anderson’s Intro to Christianity class was canceled because he said ASU “[doesn’t] want it taught from a Christian perspective.” He provided The Fix with a member from ASU <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/juliasarreal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor Julia Sarreal</a> who said, “The syllabus reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kids of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit">here</a>. A screenshot of the learning objectives can be viewed below. A detailed view of course requirements can be read <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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After being canceled by ASU, Dr. Anderson posted a response on social media:
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Christian scholars and anyone who cares about academic freedom, I need your help. Please help me share widely to expose what is going on at ASU. <a href="https://twitter.com/HdxAcademy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HdxAcademy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CollegeFix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CollegeFix</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prageru</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/megbasham?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@megbasham</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConceptualJames</a> <a href="https://t.co/yDPIqyYl5i">pic.twitter.com/yDPIqyYl5i</a>
— Dr Owen Anderson (@dr_owenanderson) <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_owenanderson/status/1831925907613007950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom">interview with Turning Point USA</a>, Dr. Anderson stated that he, and his colleagues, were asked to “decolonize” their course syllabi. He described decolonization according to ASU’s definition:
“Decolonize means you become aware of any Western, and especially Christian, influences in your syllabus, and you replace those with what they would call ‘Indigenous people’s perspectives.’ Decolonizing comes out of a communist philosophy…It’s a political philosophy that’s being adopted by ASU to push on the students.”
During the interview, Dr. Anderson also said since he teaches world religions and philosophies, he believes his courses are culturally diverse, therefore, his lesson plans don’t need to be revised.

On March 19, 2024, Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Complaint-Final-with-exhibits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint</a> with the Arizona Board of Regents after ASU mandated diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for faculty and staff members. In <a href="https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/case/dismantling-asus-discriminatory-dei-regime/">partnership</a> with the Goldwater Institute, he brought the lawsuit to prohibit the college from using race, ethnicity, or sex—which goes against state and federal laws—to hire and retain employees.

In a June 18 <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/06/my-university-required-dei-training-im-suing/">opinion editorial</a> titled “My University Required DEI Training. I’m Suing,” Dr. Anderson wrote:
“I’m in favor of each of those terms: Diversity…equity…and inclusion…are undoubtedly good things. But when I began the mandatory training, I found something troubling: It engaged in race blaming, warning of the supposed ‘problem’ of whiteness and encouraged judgment of people based on their skin color. I could not, in good conscience, continue such racist training.”
Dr. Anderson <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/asus-dr-owen-anderson-warns-of-new-policies-threatening-academic-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> TPUSA that he believes these cultural shifts occurred as a result of ASU’s evolving definition of “multiculturalism,” which he also said, “caused respect for Christians to deteriorate on campus.” 

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Send feedback on this post to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Dr. Anderson presents a balanced perspective in the classroom and encourages students to think objectively. He upholds constitutional, conservative values despite pressure and ostracism from fellow ASU faculty and administrators. 
The Professor Watchlist considers Dr. Anderson a good professor. 
Published - September 23, 2024
On January 27, Professor Anderson <a href="https://crossexamined.org/a-guide-to-choosing-a-humanities-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> “A Guide To Choosing a Humanities Professor” for Cross Examined. 

In the guide, Anderson listed a series of qualities and defects found in humanities professors throughout the U.S. that should be sought after or avoided by students. Overall, he says students should pursue a degree that prepares them for life and teaches them to be wise.

Anderson wrote:
“Many professors in these classes don’t know how to teach what is good or what it means to be wise.”
He then explains the purpose of a humanities degree:
“But what about a degree in the humanities? How does it prepare you for life? To do so it would have to teach you what is good for a human life.”
According to Anderson, a humanities degree encourages students to learn and gain wisdom and reach the highest good in life:
“Wisdom is understanding the highest good and knowing how to live your life in a way that helps you reach the good. What is good for a person depends on human nature…The highest good is the ultimate goal we aim for in everything we do. We might have smaller goals along the way, but those are just steps toward something greater. ”
For Anderson, seeking the knowledge of God is an endeavor to reach the highest good that should be embedded into a humanities program:
“Most philosophers agree that the ultimate good for a human is to know God. Thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, and Locke all point to this idea in their work, even if they describe it in different ways. Even philosophers who don’t use the word “God” often still believe that knowing the highest reality—whatever they call it—is what makes life truly good for a person.”
Anderson cautions students to avoid skeptics and nihilists, ask professors what they believe is good, and find a professor who knows what is good. 

“These three steps will help you determine if a professor is wise and capable of teaching you wisdom,” Anderson wrote.

Even if professors who fit Anderson’s criteria cannot be found, the professor concluded with the following consolation:

“The good news is that you can still graduate without taking their classes.”
Updated - January 31, 2025

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1429800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Sarreal</a> is a Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. Sarreal’s research interests include Latin American Studies, Food, Drugs, and Capitalism. Her top area of expertise is “Consumerism.”

On September 20, 2024, Sarreal was featured in The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-professors-intro-to-christianity-class-torpedoed-at-asu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Christian professor’s ‘Intro to Christianity’ class torpedoed at ASU.” The piece covers the cancelation of <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/drowenanderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Dr. Owen Anderson’s</a> religious studies course. 

After the college rejected his class, it was revealed that Sarreal objected to the premise of Christianity being taught on campus. The Fix recorded her comments:

“The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/771107095/REL-270-Introduction-to-Christianity-ASU-Dr-Owen-Anderson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a> reflects a Christian way of teaching Christianity, which is to say the course does not adequately provide the kinds of critical, reflective, disciplinary skills that students need to have in order to study religious traditions.”

“Furthermore, the focus on ‘Western Civilization’ is problematic. It is true that Christianity has been ‘influential’ in European history, it has also been deeply influential elsewhere in ways that are completely ignored in the syllabus.” 

Based on the feedback Sarreal received from Dr. Anderson, it appears she either did not read the syllabus or chose to interpret the lesson plans through an objectionable lens. Sarreal specifically described one of the modules as being “focused on ‘the’ biblical worldview” and called this a “fraught oversimplification.”

Dr. Anderson’s rebuttal to Sarreal’s and other’s concerns about the course can be read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ONMoLSpqoWzMlY84nc4fThVk7RKCCNPHZZwnJKUPnS8/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send tips, updates, and information on Julia Sarreal to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - September 25, 2024

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3924315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruben Espinosa</a> is Professor of English and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University (ASU). According to his faculty profile, Espinosa’s studies are chiefly focused on the work of William Shakespeare. 

On September 16, 2024, ASU’s <a href="https://humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu/events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Humanities Institute</a> hosted a panel with Espinosa and Professor Curtis Austin on cultural appropriation concerning the plays of Shakespeare. The <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> is described by the university as such: 
“What constitutes cultural appropriation, and when is it unethical? Should we adopt voices beyond our own, and if so then what factors must be weighed beforehand?”
“Pressing on hard research questions may lead to ethical dilemmas of how to speak in relation to another. This panel will discuss what it means to think, research, and write across cultures and ways of being.”  
In an audio recording of a l<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/arizona-state-u-scholars-condemn-white-ownership-of-shakespeare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecture</a> obtained by the College Fix, Espinosa connected the alleged “white exceptionalism” of January 6 rioters U.S. Capitol protesters to Shakespeare. These two are both claimed to be symbols of “white exceptionalism” and “racial hierarchy.” The professor stated:

“It kind of has this origin in anti-immigrant sentiments, right, all the way to January 6th, when we think about that white exceptionalism, and this notion of a kind of white ownership of Shakespeare.”
Espinosa believes that “Shakespeare is the epitome or the marker of white exceptionalism” and sits at the top of the “racial hierarchy.” Thereby, he attached the poet to “whiteness” exclusively over humanity independent of race. 

In 2021, Espinosa published a book titled “<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-on-the-Shades-of-Racism/Espinosa/p/book/9780367183004">Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism</a>.” The publisher’s description states:
“Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism.”
Please send information and tips on Ruben Espinosa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - September 30, 2024

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1256527" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lela Rankin</a> is a professor in the Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson. According to her faculty profile, “Rankin’s scholarship focuses on preventive interventions for children and families, particularly in vulnerable populations.”

According to a January report from the <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/maternal-instinct-is-socially-constructed-myth-arizona-state-u-professor-says/">College Fix</a>, in a lecture Rankin claimed that the maternal instinct is a fabricated myth with no biological reality. 

“[T]his idea of this maternal instinct, it struck me as potentially problematic because it really places the primacy on biological mothers, and then it relegates other people…to essentially secondary babysitters or assistants, right?”

The claims in this lecture are based on  research that can be found in a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953624006257#:~:text=We%20did%20not%20find%20empirical,knowledge%20strengthened%20attachment%20over%20time." target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> Rankin co-authored with Haley G. Krouskop b, Maryanne L. Fisher.

In the study, titled “Mother-infant attachment from the perspective of young mothers: Does the data support a maternal instinct?,” the authors claim the following:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We did not find empirical evidence to support an innate maternal instinct.•</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Young mothers' qualitative experiences with attachment at birth were diverse.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Physical touch-based parenting and parental stress impacted the bonding experience.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Reciprocity and parenting confidence/knowledge strengthened attachment over time.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Mothers developed an “instinct” through repetitive interactions with their infant.”</li>
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Further addressing the above points, the authors find that no maternal instinct is inherent during the processes of pregnancy and childbirth; rather, a mother infant connection is developed after birth during childcare:

“Despite diverse experiences with felt attachment at birth, all mothers perceived that the mother-infant connection was influenced by contextual factors after birth and was strengthened over time with more care-taking experience. ​​This suggests that mothers likely developed a ‘maternal instinct’ through repetitive interaction with their infant as the primary caretaker rather than a genetic predisposition to be superior nurturing parents.”

In the article’s conclusion, the authors maintain that caregiving and nurturing behaviors are a necessity and should be present during pregnancy or right at childbirth. They cite British psychoanalyst John Bowlby’s concept of attachment theory, among other theorists, in an attempt to backup their claims:  

“If mothers possess an innate instinct for the purposes of bonding, breastfeeding, and other caregiving behaviors… then arguably this instinct should be felt during pregnancy or at childbirth.”
Published - February 12, 2025

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sally L. Kitch</a> is a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. 

According to her faculty profile, Kitch “specializes in three major research and teaching areas: 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“[F]eminist theory, including the intellectual history of gender and racial ideology in the U.S. and other countries and the impact of gender representation in visual and narrative culture on the lived realities of diverse women's lives; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">feminist epistemology, the epistemology of the humanities, and theories of interdisciplinary knowledge production; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">environmental humanities, including the importance of the humanities to sustainability science and the relationship of sustainability to gender and racial ideologies.”  </li>
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In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade through the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs Decision</a>, Kitch wrote an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369989167_Reproductive_Rights_and_Ecofeminism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism.” 

Ecofeminism is <a href="https://hcwc.college.harvard.edu/education/workshops/ecofeminism#:~:text=Ecofeminism%2C%20also%20called%20ecological%20feminism,merits%20of%20intuition%20and%20collaboration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> as a practice using “the basic feminist tenets of gender equality, a revaluing of non-patriarchal or nonlinear structures, and a view of the world that respects organic processes, holistic connections, and the merits of intuition and collaboration.”

In the article, Kitch aligns herself with ecofeminism, and argues that the “Dobbs decision invites an ecofeminist interpretation of its relationship to the destruction of our planet and to the biopolitics of environmental sustainability.”

The professor claimed that there is a connection between the bodies of women, enslaved, disabled, and racialized people, along with animals and nature as “terrains” of conquest: 

“Ecofeminism in the 2020s links those forces by articulating ‘a clear connection between the treatment of the bodies of women, the enslaved, the disabled, and the racialized, and the treatment of lands, animals, and plants: they are all naturalized terrains of experimentation or conquest.”

The term “ecofascist” is used in the article a few times. Kitch’s cited <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-november-december/feature/eco-fascism-uncovered-el-paso-texas">source</a> defines the term as “violence in the name of environmental conservation.” Kitch further writes on “ecofascists”:

“Many ecofascists in the U.S. oppose action to reduce global warming by eliminating carbon emissions as an affront to white patriarchal/capitalist/colonial power, which allegedly emanates from industrial might and its key driver, fossil fuels (Hernandez-Simmons 2022; Westervelt 2022).”

Kitch is still listed on the ASU faculty site as an active professor, yet the <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last course</a> she taught was a practicum in 2022.
Published - March 6, 2025

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Rashad Shabazz

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Dr. Sumi Cho is a <a href="https://law.depaul.edu/faculty-and-staff/Documents/Cho%20cv.10.2018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenured law professor at DePaul University College of Law.</a> Dr. Cho lectures on many subjects for the university but most commonly teaches a Critical Race Theory seminar and courses on Employment Discrimination, Feminist Jurisprudence, and Race, Racism &amp; U.S. Law.
In 2018, DePaul University <a href="https://depauliaonline.com/38281/news/front-news-law-school/">began an investigation into Dr. Cho</a> after claims of “disruptive, bullying workplace behavior” came to light. Pending an internal investigation, she faced two years of unpaid suspension. Dr. Cho then countersued against DePaul University and the law school’s Dean. In the suit against the Dean, Dr. Cho alleged she was retaliated against for being outspoken on racial issues and discrimination within the law school, claiming she and others were racially discriminated against. In the suit against the university, she claimed she was not getting equal pay to white, male cohorts. <a href="https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/a-recent-spate-of-gender-discrimination-and-equal-pay-lawsuits-filed-by-female-law-professors-has-shined-a-light-on-the-otherwise-opaque-academic-compensation-process">The university eventually settled in mediation.</a>
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In August 2021, Dr. Cho was one of the core faculty members at the AAPF’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210813210238/https://www.aapf.org/crtsummerschool" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CRT Summer School event</a>. She lectured on racism in the United States and was <a href="https://twitter.com/JossTGreene/status/1425852304046104585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted by Joss Greene</a>, an attendee and postdoctoral fellow, as stating that “anti-blackness is at the root of antidemocratic projects.” Another attendee quoted Dr. Cho accusing conservatives of “co-opting and commandeering the liberal concept of academic freedom to be used as a sword and shield, in terms of ideological warfare.” Dr. Cho was also quoted asserting that today’s bans on CRT in schools are precursors to “school vouchers and white segregation academies.” The Twitter user has since made their profile private.
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Dr. Cho has been featured many times as a “legal scholar”  on a Q&amp;A website titled, <a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Race: The Power of an Illusion”</a> discussing several subjects. Dr. Cho <a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/qa/why-do-recent-immigrants-do-better-african-americans-socioeconomically" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses conservatives of pushing</a> a false distinction, not only between race and ethnicity, but also immigrants vs. African Americans. She criticizes conservatives by arguing that they use Asian Americans as the example for why affirmative action is not necessary for other minorities.
<a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/qa/are-reparations-slavery-appropriate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In another Q&amp;A</a>, Dr. Cho details the necessity for reparations for slavery. She writes that she thinks reparations are absolutely necessary. She believes that both individual payments and payments to African American institutions are crucial to make things “equitable”.
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Correction: A previous version of this profile stated the court dismissed the racial claims in Dr. Cho’s lawsuit. The case was allowed to proceed in part before it was settled in mediation in accordance with the Equal Pay Act. The profile has since been corrected.
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Parents and students can contact <a href="https://law.depaul.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DePaul University College of Law</a> at 312-362-8701.
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Updated &#8211; August 22, 2022

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DePaul University

<a href="https://offices.depaul.edu/mission-ministry/about/contact-us/Pages/Abdul-Malik-Ryan.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abdul-Malik Ryan</a> is the Assistant Director of Religious Diversity and Pastoral Care at <a href="https://www.depaul.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DePaul University</a> in Chicago, Illinois.

Ryan routinely alleges on his <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a> that white supremacy is embedded into American society. Several of these tweets are listed below.
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"Confederate statutes and Memorials are the idols of white supremacy" <a href="https://twitter.com/omarsuleiman504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@omarsuleiman504</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MASCON2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#MASCON2017</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/946176601766719489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
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If one didn't understand the dynamics of race/white supremacy, almost nothing about US politics would make any sense. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/theideathatgoprepresentsreligiousvaluesisajoke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#theideathatgoprepresentsreligiousvaluesisajoke</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/957988132766519296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In additional tweets <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/05/26/meet-depauls-radical-director-of-religious-diversity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncovered</a> by Breitbart News, Abdul-Malik Ryan quotes the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/court-rules-militant-rap-brown-64679973" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> cop killer H. Rap Brown, also known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
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"Allah holds Islam out to us and it is a serious thing. We are not going to stay standing still; we are either going up or down."<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImamJamil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImamJamil</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/688526633779769344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2016</a></blockquote>
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"Racism and xenophobia are just as American as baseball and apple pie." --<a href="https://twitter.com/TinyMuslimah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TinyMuslimah</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/deeplyrooted?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#deeplyrooted</a>
— Abdul-Malik Ryan (@chaplainabunoor) <a href="https://twitter.com/chaplainabunoor/status/756491823766528000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/">While writing for his personal blog</a>, Ryan praised Islamic terrorists and openly called for jihad. Ryan was identified as the author of the blog—titled, "Abu Noor Al-Irlandee,"—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090302111536/https://muslimmatters.org/about/mm-associates/">by the site MuslimMatters</a>.

In a <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081021002740/http://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/alternative-visions-part-3a-shaykh-anwar-al-awlaki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted post</a>, he extols Anwar al-Awlaki, the former leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, as an articulate and “fearless” speaker. Al-Awlaki <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anwar-al-Awlaki" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was the mastermind </a>behind the Fort Hood Shooting and the attempted Christmas Day bombing attack of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit, Michigan.

Ryan <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20081021002740/http://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/alternative-visions-part-3a-shaykh-anwar-al-awlaki/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further applauds</a> the “Mujahideen,” or Islamic guerrilla fighters, for resisting the American presence in Iraq and bringing an “Islamic revival” that will establish an Islamic State in the Middle East.

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In 2008, Ryan posted a “nasheed” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/09/nasheed-how-isis-got-its-anthem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sung</a> by Islamic jihadists and fundamentalists. Nasheeds are religious Capellas that are popular in the Muslim world. In this particular one–titled, "Ghurabaa,"—<a href="https://abunooralirlandee.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/rebel-nasheed-of-the-day-ghurabaa/">the lyrics feature a chant that calls for jihad</a>.

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According to the website, Muslim Matters, Ryan <a href="https://muslimmatters.org/author/abdul-malik-ryan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">converted</a> to Islam in 1994, accrediting heavy influence from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malcolm-X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malcolm X,</a> the National Representative for the Nation of Islam and a prominent black nationalist.

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You may contact the Division of Mission and Ministry at DePaul University at (312) 362-8000
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Last Updated - January 20th, 2022

<a href="http://offices.depaul.edu/student-affairs/about/staff-directory/Pages/eugene-zdziarski.aspx">Dr. Eugene Zdziarski </a>is the Vice President of Student Affairs at DePaul University, Chicago. Students attending DePaul are not allowed to chalk political messages around campus. In a campus-wide email Zdziarski said, “The university has been addressing campus climate issues in an effort to provide an inclusive and supportive educational environment. In this context, many students, faculty and staff found the chalk messages offensive, hurtful and divisive.” These messages included pro-Trump and pro-police slogans.

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<a href="http://las.depaul.edu/academics/political-science/faculty/Pages/valerie-johnson.aspx">Dr. Valerie Johnson</a> is an Associate Professor of Urban Politics at DePaul University. Dr. Johnson encouraged and assisted students in disrupting a campus event featuring Milo Yiannopoulos. Student Edward Ward, a protege of Johnson, allegedly threatened Mr. Yiannopoulos physically on stage during the disruption.

Dr. Sumi Cho is a <a href="https://law.depaul.edu/faculty-and-staff/Documents/Cho%20cv.10.2018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenured law professor at DePaul University College of Law.</a> Dr. Cho lectures on many subjects for the university but most commonly teaches a Critical Race Theory seminar and courses on Employment Discrimination, Feminist Jurisprudence, and Race, Racism &amp; U.S. Law.

In 2018, DePaul University <a href="https://depauliaonline.com/38281/news/front-news-law-school/">began an investigation into Dr. Cho</a> after claims of “disruptive, bullying workplace behavior” came to light. Pending an internal investigation, she faced two years of unpaid suspension. Dr. Cho then countersued against DePaul University and the law school’s Dean. In the suit against the Dean, Dr. Cho alleged she was retaliated against for being outspoken on racial issues and discrimination within the law school, claiming she and others were racially discriminated against. In the suit against the university, she claimed she was not getting equal pay to white, male cohorts. <a href="https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/a-recent-spate-of-gender-discrimination-and-equal-pay-lawsuits-filed-by-female-law-professors-has-shined-a-light-on-the-otherwise-opaque-academic-compensation-process">The university eventually settled in mediation.</a>

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In August 2021, Dr. Cho was one of the core faculty members at the AAPF’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210813210238/https://www.aapf.org/crtsummerschool" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CRT Summer School event</a>. She lectured on racism in the United States and was <a href="https://twitter.com/JossTGreene/status/1425852304046104585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quoted by Joss Greene</a>, an attendee and postdoctoral fellow, as stating that “anti-blackness is at the root of antidemocratic projects.” Another attendee quoted Dr. Cho accusing conservatives of “co-opting and commandeering the liberal concept of academic freedom to be used as a sword and shield, in terms of ideological warfare.” Dr. Cho was also quoted asserting that today’s bans on CRT in schools are precursors to “school vouchers and white segregation academies.” The Twitter user has since made their profile private.

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Dr. Cho has been featured many times as a “legal scholar”  on a Q&amp;A website titled, <a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Race: The Power of an Illusion”</a> discussing several subjects. Dr. Cho <a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/qa/why-do-recent-immigrants-do-better-african-americans-socioeconomically" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses conservatives of pushing</a> a false distinction, not only between race and ethnicity, but also immigrants vs. African Americans. She criticizes conservatives by arguing that they use Asian Americans as the example for why affirmative action is not necessary for other minorities.

<a href="https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/qa/are-reparations-slavery-appropriate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In another Q&amp;A</a>, Dr. Cho details the necessity for reparations for slavery. She writes that she thinks reparations are absolutely necessary. She believes that both individual payments and payments to African American institutions are crucial to make things “equitable”.

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Correction: A previous version of this profile stated the court dismissed the racial claims in Dr. Cho’s lawsuit. The case was allowed to proceed in part before it was settled in mediation in accordance with the Equal Pay Act. The profile has since been corrected.

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Parents and students can contact <a href="https://law.depaul.edu/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DePaul University College of Law</a> at 312-362-8701.
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Updated - August 22, 2022

Feminism

Sumi Cho

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<a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/melissa-e-sanchez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Sanchez</a> is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the Director of the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies</a> and the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/center/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies</a>. According to her university profile, Sanchez’s research and literature focuses on “feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.”
Sanchez is the author of three books.“<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Faith-Promiscuity-Tradition-Cultures/dp/1479840866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Faith</a>: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition” reassesses “key texts of the pre-history of modern monogamy &#8211; from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare &#8211; to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the perversity of desire and the elusiveness of self-knowledge.”
Her other books are “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Queer-Theory/dp/1474256678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shakespeare and Queer Theory</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Subjects-Sexuality-Politics-Literature/dp/0199754756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erotic Subjects</a>: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature.” The latter “examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers used scenarios of erotic violence and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance.”
In April 2022, Sanchez participated in one of the School of Arts and Sciences “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PennSAS/videos/60-second-lecture-melissa-sanchez/1309588992779918/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-Second Lectures</a>.” She discussed why the executive board of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) changed the name of their research center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies (FQT Center).
“This change was meant to signal a more inclusive understanding of who our center is for, and more explicitly to demonstrate the center’s and the program’s commitment to solidarity with all women and all sexual and gendered minorities across campus.” 
Sanchez said GSWS and the FQT Center have a particular focus on “trans affirmative policies.” She discusses her opinion on the supposed lack of all-gender bathrooms on campus and the difficulty of accessing gender-affirming care. Sanchez claimed:
“These conditions in higher education are but a piece of a national climate in which the human rights and dignity of trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming persons are at best neglected and at worse willfully violated.” 
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Sanchez was quoted in an article titled, “‘<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/07/abortion-penn-philadelphia-supreme-court-roe-wade-upenn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A gut punch</a>’ Penn community reacts to uncertainty of abortion rights in Pennsylvania.” Sanchez stated:
“The ruling was like a gut punch, and in other ways it was exactly what I was expecting and exactly what’s been coming for decades. [This ruling is] not so much like a turning point as a culmination of what’s been happening since the 1970s. It’s more like a nail in the coffin.” 
Sanchez is also an outspoken supporter of <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divesting from fossil fuels</a>. In November 2019, students from Fossil Free Penn interrupted the University’s Board of Trustees meeting to demand that administrators agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment. In the wake of this incident, several faculty—including Sanchez—signed an open letter to the university that stated, in part:
“At the very least, the University leadership should agree to the town hall that the students are calling for and commit to a candid and open-minded deliberative dialogue on this uniquely pressing issue. Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.”
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Published &#8211; September 22, 2023

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University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania Professor <a href="https://rels.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> penned an MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> responding to the controversial 2024 Olympics' opening ceremony where “transgender” performers mocked Leonardo da Vinci’s depiction of The Last Supper.

Butler offered the following explanation in light of the sacrilegious production:
“[I]t wasn’t about the Last Supper at all. The so-called re-enactment was a scene of a bacchanal, a fest of the Greek god Dionysus …  Thell that, though, to those unable to see the scene outside the lens of their conservative religious convictions … Tolerance, sadly, isn’t what conservatives are noted for, especially since many of them deemed the 2024 Olympics ‘woke.’”
She further claimed that Christians have a “limited” worldview that “doesn’t consider views that fall outside their faith.”

Butler has a history of demonizing Christianity, including this quote from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Evangelical-Racism-Politics-Morality/dp/1469661179?asin=B08JG7NHXQ&amp;revisionId=37269deb&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1">her book</a>, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America” :
“White Evangelical Racism tells a concise history of the evangelical movement and—here is the hard part—the racist and racial elements that imbue its beliefs, practices, and social and political activism. It is racism that binds and blinds many white American evangelicals to the vilification of Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans … Racism is a feature, not a bug, of American evangelicalism.”
In response to the outrage among religious conservatives after viewing the Olympics ceremony, Butler <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:

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Butler’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the 2024-25 academic year.

Please send tips and updates on Anthea Butler to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 

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Updated - August 6, 2024
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<a href="https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> is an Associate Professor of African and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

Identity Politics

Butler advocates for professors to strike on the job in order to promote social justice causes. First tweeting her support for an NBA-style<a href="https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/emotional-frustrated-raptors-discussed-boycott-wake-jacob-blake-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strike</a> to protest “police violence,” Butler then created her own strike aimed at school and university staff called “Scholar Strike.” 

<a href="https://www.scholarstrike.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instructing</a> professors and faculty members of colleges and universities to walk out of their positions and teaching duties for two days, Scholar Strike intends to “call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash [sic] of police shootings and racialized violence.” As a result, hundreds of academics<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/28/professors-plan-strike-racial-justice"> pledged</a> to join the strike.

In a 2020 Twitter thread, Butler also<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15673" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> describes</a> conservatives as “craven and evil.” She levels<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ivy-league-professor-award-carson-coon-of-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> attacks</a> against Dr. Ben Carson as the  “the coon of the year” over comments he made regarding the confederate flag.<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Dr. Ben Carson</a> is a renowned neurosurgeon who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump Administration.

Butler believes that conservative candidates continue to receive support en masse from evangelicals due to fear.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-evangelicals-love-trump-aren-t-confused-about-why-no-ncna1046826" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Writing</a> for NBC News, Butler accuses conservatives of voting in order to preserve what political power they still have. Historically a dominant force, Butler states, evangelicals turn to authoritarians like Trump in order to protect themselves from societal change. She continues, stating that this is not a unique phenomenon, as Evangelicals have a long history of supporting racist movements and institutions.

The core of Butler’s popular authorship is her allegations of the overlap between evangelicalism and white supremacy, having written a book entitled,<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangelical-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> White Evangelical Racism</a> explaining this indictment. Interviewing on “Act. tv,” she<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZpsrYGLeA&amp;ab_channel=act.tv" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> claims</a> that the history of Christianity in the United States is interwoven with the institution of slavery and support of the Ku Klux Klan.

During the same interview, Butler claims that evangelicals believe that police are “ordained” by God to kill black people.

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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/AntheaButler/status/1351922696989380609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> from January 2021, Butler repeated a claim from the same book that racism is inherent in evangelicals.

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In 2013, Butler went as far as to claim that a “white-racist” is the god<a href="https://antheabutler.com/americas-racist-god/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> worshipped</a> by this country.

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Anthea Butler served as a<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/ncr-exclusive-campaign-names-three-dozen-catholics-biden-co-chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-chair</a> of “Catholics for Biden” in 2020.
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Published Spring 2021

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/jonathan-d-katz">Dr. Jonathan Katz</a> is an Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Practice and the History of Art at the <a href="https://www.upenn.edu/">University of Pennslyvania</a>. According to his university biography, Katz’s positions deal with the “intersections of art history and queer history.”

In a 2016 article, Professor Katz<a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2016/06/katz-orlando.html"> blamed</a> conservatives for the Pulse Nightclub shooting that claimed 49 lives. He wrote, “What we are trying to do here is camouflage the root of the problem, which is a long history of violent political rhetoric and homophobic policies by Republican officials and their conservative allies.”

Rather than Islamic Terrorism, he argued that anti-gay bigotry from the Christian right is a greater threat than ISIS.

Katz had previously<a href="https://www.catholicleague.org/the-american-taliban-catholic-league-2/"> referred</a> to The Catholic League, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, as “the American Taliban.”

<a href="https://mshp.med.upenn.edu/people/nadia-dowshen-md-mshp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadia Dowshen</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania’s (CHOP) Sexuality and Gender Development Clinic. According to her university profile, the clinic provides medical and psychosocial support to more than 500 gender variant children and adolescents.

The Post Millennial reports that Dr. Dowshen <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/chops-gender-clinic-founder-says-age-is-just-a-number-when-advocating-for-double-mastectomies-for-healthy-14-year-old-girls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified before the Pennsylvania Health Committee</a> in a September 2020 hearing titled “Appropriate Care Models for Transgender Adolescents.” During the hearing, Representative David Zimmerman asked Dowshen what would be the youngest age that her clinic would refer a girl for a double mastectomy, or the removal of a girl's healthy breasts.

Dowshen replied that the majority of bilateral mastectomies performed at the clinic are performed on girls ages 16 through 18 but that she would refer children “as young as age 14.” She justified her decision by saying:
“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number. As an adolescent medicine and development specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than the exact number of their age.” 
Dr. Dowshen also commented on puberty blockers for children, stating “the major medical intervention that is considered fully reversible is puberty blocking medication.” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-chop-gender-clinic-co-founder-praises-rachel-levines-initiatives-for-medical-transition-of-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a> reports that puberty blockers can cause brain swelling, vision loss, stunted growth, cognitive issues, and bone density loss, among other problems. When combined with cross-sex hormones, they can lead to sterility and a lack of sexual function.

During the Q&amp;A portion of the hearing, Dr. Dowshen admitted that the clinic <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-perform-medical-gender-transition-on-minors-in-foster-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepts referrals from youth homeless shelters and the foster care system.</a> When asked by Representative Pamela A. Delissio how children “find their way” to the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic, Dowshen replied:
“We are really getting referrals from a variety of resources. We’re also getting a lot more referrals from other institutions … Sometimes from within the foster care system, the mental health system, through homeless shelters for youth.” 
Dr. Dowshen co-published an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211227195726/https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/transgender-athletes-sports-ban-pennsylvania-new-jersey-20210610.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘They just want the chance to play’: Reject transgender sports bans.”</a> The article states:
“The authors of bills to deny trans youth these opportunities say they want to protect other children and, particularly, prevent transgender girls from having what they say is an unfair advantage over other girls.” 
Dowshen then argues that there are not biological differences between girls and boys in sports:
“But these claims are based on misunderstandings of biology and hormones, have not been backed by any concrete examples of unfair athlete advantage, and are irrelevant to K-12 school sports.”
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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/elle-lett-phd-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elle Lett</a>, Ph.D., is an Associate Fellow and MD Candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. According to his university profile, Lett is a transgender woman who “applies the theory and principles of Black feminism to understanding the health impacts of systemic racism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination on oppressed groups in the United States.”

Lett is also a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>, “the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender lives.” According to the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">center’s website</a>, their mission is to inform “policy-making and public discourse in ways that improve quality of life for the transgender community.”

Lett was quoted in a September 2021 article for STAT titled, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/23/health-equity-tourists-white-scholars-colonizing-health-disparities-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities.”</a> The paper discusses how the field of health equity research has grown in recent years, but argues “researchers with little or no background or training in health research, often white and already well-funded, are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.”

Lett states, “For this to be ethical and just, it requires you to redistribute some of your privilege and benefit.”

The article goes on to discuss a study, led by a white author, that “documented the lack of black medical school faculty.” STAT claims the study had similar findings to a study published three years earlier by black researchers, including Lett. In response to this, Lett says:
“It is troubling that a white man, who has had every privilege conferred on him, is writing a paper about the plight of Black academics. He is extracting from our pain for his career advancement.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

Political Science Professor <a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/anne-norton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Norton</a> was featured on the StopAntisemitism Twitter account after the announcement of her Norton’s <a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/node/9810" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new course</a> called “Why Palestine Matters to America.”

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Shocking new low at UPenn - Anne Norton is set to teach a class on “Why Palestine Matters to America.”
The same Anne Norton that claims Jews play the victim card and calls for physical violence - “kneecap then”.

Why has this barbaric antisemite not been fired by UPenn? <a href="https://t.co/vv3qZjAGam">https://t.co/vv3qZjAGam</a> <a href="https://t.co/7SUPvu3acR">pic.twitter.com/7SUPvu3acR</a>

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1856150222381941066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In October, the Twitter account belonging to Eyal Yakoby <a href="https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1845981387741860343?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">republished</a> a post liked by <a href="https://x.com/annenortonnow?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norton</a> that said, “Playing the victim is what Jews are best at.”

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Norton was featured in an <a href="https://jewishunpacked.com/when-professors-cross-the-line-into-antisemitism-on-social-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by Yakoby wherein he discussed Norton and other UPenn professors who used their personal social media accounts to promote “hatred for the Jewish people.” In particular, Norton was quoted telling her audience “Please don’t amplify” allegedly speaking about the Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. The <a href="https://www.ajc.org/IsraelHamasWar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violent terrorist attack</a> included rape, kidnapping, slaughtering infants, and burning victims alive.

Norton also made headlines in May 2024 when the media arm of Stop Antisemitism <a href="https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/anne-norton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a profile revealing her leftist views on Israel. Additionally, Norton was named in a 2023 <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/news/upenns-anne-norton-losing-professorship-over-anti-israel-posts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by the New York Post that said top donors were divesting from the university due to her outspoken antisemitic views. The Post said:

“Investors…confirmed to the Post they are in talks with UPenn to cut ties with Norton following a string of controversial posts and tweets, including endorsing a post claiming Jewish people are best at ‘playing the victim.’ The [donors] have sponsored Norton through [her] President’s Distinguished Professorship since 2018.” 

As of publication, the University of Pennsylvania has neither released a statement denouncing Norton’s views. 

Please send tips and updates on Anne Norton to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - November 19, 2024
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<a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/anne-norton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Norton</a> is the Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. According to her university profile, Norton’s research interests include “identity and history, gender and race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and tradition and revolution.”

Professor Norton has been outspoken about her support for the student-led <a href="https://www.fossilfreepenn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fossil Free Penn</a> club. In November 2019, she <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter supporting the group</a> after the club interrupted a Board of Trustees meeting and demanded a town hall meeting with leadership about fossil fuel divestment.

The letter reads:
“While not all of us agree on every tactic the students may employ, we as faculty urge our colleagues and University administrators to hear them out, engage them constructively, and take much bolder action.”
It continues:
“Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.” 
In April 2022, Norton <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/04/49-penn-faculty-support-ffp-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed another letter</a> in support of Fossil Free Penn — the activist group had camped out for six days on campus to urge the university “to take a leadership role in stabilizing the world’s climate.” The letter says: “We believe that student activists are right to call for Penn to do more and we support their peaceful protest.”

In June 2021, Professor Norton signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.”
Published - December 13, 2022

<a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/beans-velocci">Beans Velocci</a>, who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science and Core Faculty in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Velocci describes her work as using “queer, trans, and feminist methods to interrogate classification systems and how they become regarded as biological truths, primarily in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States and its colonial and white supremacist context.”

In a Penn Today article titled, “<a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/going-beyond-binary-historical-explorations-sex-and-gender">Going beyond the binary in historical explorations of sex and gender</a>,” Velocci describes how she first became interested in the field. She recounts being in an undergraduate course and reading a book called “Herculine Barbin,”—“a memoir of a person described as a ‘hermaphrodite.’” Velocci says:
“And it was in that moment that I was like, ‘There’s not something wrong with me. The issue is that gender is constructed!’” 
Velocci says she began plotting a career path with the goal, “to be a historian and destroy the gender binary with history and primary source analysis.”

When asked by Penn Today about the relevancy of her work, Velocci says:
“I don’t have the privilege to not be relevant; state legislators are making it impossible not to be. I hope the conversations we have in class help my students think about and make sense of what’s going on in the world right now.” 
In June 2020, Velocci wrote an article titled “<a href="https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2020/06/04/these-uncertain-times/">These Uncertain Times</a>.” In this piece, she argues that much of what the news and social media classify as ‘uncertain’ is rather ‘inconvenient knowledge’ or ‘manufactured ignorance’ that someone is benefitting from. To provide an example, she claims:
“The US government acknowledging that people aren’t so easily classified as male and female would, at the very least, mean they would have to find something to do other than legislate against trans people trying to pee in public (maybe they could have spent that time preparing for a pandemic instead).” 
Velocci argues that “Covid-19 is disproportionately killing black and brown people” and “the Trump administration has spent the pandemic thus far artificially lowering the caseload numbers by refusing to make testing widely accessible (how’s that for manufactured ignorance).” She claims:

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/mae-eskenazi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mae Eskenazi</a> is a Graduate Associate in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eskenazi is teaching a fall 2023 course titled, “Intro to Disability Studies.” According to the course description, this class “fuses disability studies, queer theory, Black feminist theory, visuality studies, film theory, and disabled artistic practices.”

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<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/06/disability-studies-new-fall-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> reports, “Eskenazi said that the questions explored through the course remain extremely relevant to the contemporary world, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, current financial precarity, and ‘ongoing racialized and gendered logics of colonialism and imperialism.’” Additional <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-disability-studies-course-to-fuse-visuality-studies-queer-black-feminist-and-film-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course topics</a> include crip theory, the AIDS epidemic, and sensorial artistic practice, among others.

When discussing the course, Eskenazi stated:
“Disability, debilitation, and illness are facets of everydayness, so I hope that this course removes disability from the visual spectacle that it causes and instead posits lived experiences of disability and debilitation into everyday life for the students who are studying.” 
According to Eskenazi’s university profile, she is a “transgender person” who uses they/them pronouns. Her profile reads,
“Mae Eskenazi (they/them) is a visual artist and ritualist whose interdisciplinary approach extends across sculpture, lens-based media, installation, plant medicine, and performance. Calling upon lineages of disabled/trans carework, Mae is interested in the enmeshment of BDSM, the medical industrial complex, mobility, and disability as it relates to biopolitical surveillance, control, and dichotomies of pain/pleasure. 
Curious about the invocation of the somatic and haptic, their work situates itself within questions of grief, memory, and collective amnesia as it unfolds beyond teleological temporalities within trans, disabled, chronically ill, and queer life.” 
Her <a href="https://www.meskenazi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> features several pieces of her “work,” including the “(Im)Mobility Appendage.

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The description reads,
“(Im)Mobility Appendage is a live performance that explores the tension between the visible wound and the tacit wound. Over the course of one hour, viewers watch a kneeling figure get pierced twenty-six times followed by each piercing being strung to the wall like outstretched wings. The performance calls upon viewers to actively bear witness to the intimacy and eroticization of pain.” 
Eskenazi’s other works include projects titled “The Tetherings” and “Offerings to Bob Flanagan” among other less family-friendly projects that can be found on her website.

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Published - July 7, 2023

<a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/melissa-e-sanchez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Sanchez</a> is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the Director of the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies</a> and the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/center/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies</a>. According to her university profile, Sanchez’s research and literature focuses on “feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.”

Sanchez is the author of three books.“<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Faith-Promiscuity-Tradition-Cultures/dp/1479840866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Faith</a>: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition” reassesses “key texts of the pre-history of modern monogamy - from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare - to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the perversity of desire and the elusiveness of self-knowledge.”

Her other books are “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Queer-Theory/dp/1474256678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shakespeare and Queer Theory</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Subjects-Sexuality-Politics-Literature/dp/0199754756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erotic Subjects</a>: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature.” The latter “examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers used scenarios of erotic violence and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance.”

In April 2022, Sanchez participated in one of the School of Arts and Sciences “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PennSAS/videos/60-second-lecture-melissa-sanchez/1309588992779918/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-Second Lectures</a>.” She discussed why the executive board of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) changed the name of their research center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies (FQT Center).
“This change was meant to signal a more inclusive understanding of who our center is for, and more explicitly to demonstrate the center’s and the program’s commitment to solidarity with all women and all sexual and gendered minorities across campus.” 
Sanchez said GSWS and the FQT Center have a particular focus on “trans affirmative policies.” She discusses her opinion on the supposed lack of all-gender bathrooms on campus and the difficulty of accessing gender-affirming care. Sanchez claimed:
“These conditions in higher education are but a piece of a national climate in which the human rights and dignity of trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming persons are at best neglected and at worse willfully violated.” 
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Sanchez was quoted in an article titled, “‘<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/07/abortion-penn-philadelphia-supreme-court-roe-wade-upenn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A gut punch</a>’ Penn community reacts to uncertainty of abortion rights in Pennsylvania.” Sanchez stated:
“The ruling was like a gut punch, and in other ways it was exactly what I was expecting and exactly what’s been coming for decades. [This ruling is] not so much like a turning point as a culmination of what’s been happening since the 1970s. It’s more like a nail in the coffin.” 
Sanchez is also an outspoken supporter of <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divesting from fossil fuels</a>. In November 2019, students from Fossil Free Penn interrupted the University’s Board of Trustees meeting to demand that administrators agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment. In the wake of this incident, several faculty—including Sanchez—signed an open letter to the university that stated, in part:
“At the very least, the University leadership should agree to the town hall that the students are calling for and commit to a candid and open-minded deliberative dialogue on this uniquely pressing issue. Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.”
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Published - September 22, 2023

<a href="https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/people/huda-fakhreddine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huda Fakhreddine</a> is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Fakhreddine helped organize the <a href="https://nelc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2023/09/22/palestine-writes-literature-festival" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a> that was held on the University of Pennsylvania campus in September 2023. After the university came under fire for hosting the event, Fakhreddine said the festival’s promoters “reject the suggestion that we would invite or engage anyone who is antisemitic or endorses antisemitism.”

Fakhreddine shared her frustration with the “conflation between criticism of Israel and antisemitism.” She added, “The assumption that supporting Palestinians means antisemitic sentiment is ignorant and racist.”

However, festival participant Refaat Alareer was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/upenn-reportedly-sponsored-palestinian-writer-who-joked-about-hamas-burning-baby-in-oven-after-it-allegedly-ignored-warnings-/24292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after he “took to X to mock the Jewish baby that Hamas terrorists cooked alive in an oven during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.”

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3242" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-02-at-4.17.20-PM-1024x502.png" alt="" width="640" height="314" />

<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/09/12/are-most-jews-evil-top-us-university-hosting-palestine-literature-festival-featuring-avid-anti-zionists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Algemeiner</a> notes that Alareer has shared antisemitic sentiments on his X/Twitter account since 2018, when he tweeted, “Are most Jews evil? Of course they are.”

On October 16, 2023, Fakhreddine <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/18/israeli-jew-has-bastardized-judaism-pro-palestinian-rally-upenn-descends-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a walkout</a> at the University of Pennsylvania to “protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.” Fakhreddine spoke at the walk-out rally, stating:
“Israel is the epitome of antisemitism … it desecrates the memory of the Holocaust victims. It humiliates every Jewish person.” 
<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/09/penn-palestine-writes-literature-festival-magill-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> reports that participants in the rally also criticized University President M. Elizabeth Magill’s statement on the conflict. Magill’s statement referred to the Hamas attacks as a “terrorist assault” and clarified the university’s stance on the Palestine Writes Literature Festival:
“The University did not, and emphatically does not, endorse these speakers or their views. While we did communicate, we should have moved faster to share our position strongly and more broadly with the Penn community.” 
In <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-walkout-palestine-rally-march-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to Magill’s comments</a>, Fakhreddine said, “[The statement] was a complete shock to me. I could not fathom that in the midst of actual literal genocide being broadcasted live on the air, [Magill] had time and energy to write that letter without a single mention of Palestine.”

On October 27, 2023, Fakhreddine posted a petition titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfklLdVWlH1yNSK3T4mINpIhbx8T6uiBxReVOMhTNb9EbitRQ/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academics Against the Assault on Gaza</a>” on her <a href="https://twitter.com/FakhreddineHuda/status/1717946669004710374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, with the message “Sign and Circulate.” The letter states:
“We are concerned academics watching with horror as Israel subjects 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, more than half of them refugees, to industrial-scale violence of unfathomable proportions, to war crime after grotesque war crime, to siege and starvation.”
“We say, ‘Enough!’ No to another forced mass displacement of Palestinians! No to fascist incitement! No to the sadistic collective punishment of a captive population! No to this nihilistic and gainless war!” 
Fakhreddine <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOnCRPGqU6IMiq9p_2xthefc9g8R_3UE0UOpXc6nlAO_FL_g/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">circulated another statement</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/FakhreddineHuda/status/1714944831649182082" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> that stated:
“Israel is a racist apartheid regime. It hates innocence so kills children. It hates the truth so kills journalists. It hates nature so uproots olive trees.”
It concludes:
“We, the undersigned, take this opportunity to stand with our people in Gaza, in particular, and Palestine in general, in solidarity with their legendary resilience and their struggle in defense of their historical right to their land. We salute their courageous stance against the forces of colonization, fascism, and racism.” 
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Published - November 3, 2023

<a href="https://creative.writing.upenn.edu/people/ahmad-almallah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ahmad Almallah</a> is a Palestinian poet and artist in Residence in the Creative Writing and English departments at the University of Pennsylvania.

On October 16, 2023, Almallah <a href="https://www.jns.org/upenn-fire-your-antisemitic-professors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a walkout</a> on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus to “protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.” Almallah was the first faculty member to speak at the rally and shared that he had missed two of his classes to be present at the event.

Professor Almallah led chants of “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” and “resistance is justified, when you are occupied.” <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/upenn-palestine-rally-what-the-editorials-wont-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Times of Israel</a> writes,
“The former implies a desire for a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and, consequently, the erasure of the State of Israel entirely. The latter seems to justify Palestinian terrorism without qualification, be it bombing civilians on buses or murdering entire families in Israeli villages.” 
Almallah told the crowd:
“When for 17 years, a piece of earth was removed from the world, only to sustain the slow murder of its jailed population … its mothers who have been giving birth to human animals, according to the other side. SHAME!” 
He concluded his speech by shouting “Intifada, intifada, intifada,” which has long been a Palestinian call to murder Jews and Jewish Israelis. The protest lasted roughly seven hours, with protesters waving Palestinian flags and <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/18/israeli-jew-has-bastardized-judaism-pro-palestinian-rally-upenn-descends-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chanting slogans</a> such as, “Israel, Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”

Almallah told <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-walkout-palestine-rally-march-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> he wanted to participate in the event because he wanted to “do something to reaffirm [his] humanity.” He also told the newspaper, “I feel as though I am a lonely Palestinian, that nobody has reached out from the institution or extended any words of sympathy to me.”

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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/sophie-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sophie Lewis</a> is a visiting scholar at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. According to her university profile, her scholarship “operates in the spheres of trans feminist cultural criticism and queer social reproduction theory, and [her] interests include utopian critiques of the family, Marxist feminisms, Black radicalism and antiwork theory.” Lewis authored “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Abolish-Family-Manifesto-Care-Liberation/dp/1839767197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation</a>” which makes the case for family abolition. She also wrote “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Full-Surrogacy-Now-Feminism-Against/dp/1786637294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family</a>” which advocates for higher rates of surrogacy to “overthrow” the family.

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Lewis <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> titled, “Writers in Solidarity with Palestine.” The letter begins, “We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of ‘Israel’ and the violent settler colonial apartheid state.”

Some of the letter’s claims include: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The west is actively backing the ongoing settler colonial project that endorses either a slow or fast genocide, but is genocide either way.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Any form of Palestinian resistance is in no way equivalent to the daily violence of ‘Israeli’ settlers, the IOF (‘Israeli’ Occupying Forces), and the entire ‘Israeli’ state apparatus. Palestinian resistance exists because settler colonial occupation exists.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the west, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobic and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine, heighten surveillance and policing domestically, and suppress any manner of showing solidarity with Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The writers end with several “calls to action” for the signatories and their institutions, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To stand in firm, vocal, and unwavering solidarity with Palestinian resistance against their occupation until liberation, by amplifying Palestinian voices in a time of mass disinformation and silencing; and by openly discussing the occupation in your workplace, home, on social media, in your work.” </li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To boycott all other literary institutions who profess Zionist affiliations.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To engage with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led movement to end international support for ‘Israel’s’ oppression of Palestinians and all institutions complicit in ‘Israeli’ apartheid and settler colonialism.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been removed but can still be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Lewis also shared the following on her <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>:

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Please send any information regarding Sophie Lewis to <a href="mailto:watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/dwayne-booth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dwayne Booth</a> is a Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Booth, who goes by the pen name Mr. Fish, joined the faculty in 2015 and has been a cartoonist for 20 years.

Booth came under fire after the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-lecturer-is-behind-grotesque-anti-semitic-cartoons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a> discovered political cartoons about the Israel-Hamas war that were posted on his website. The Free Beacon reports:
“[Booth] has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.” 
<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3421" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-14-at-9.56.23-AM-1024x820.png" alt="" width="640" height="513" />

Another cartoon shows Jews in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs with slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Gaza, The World’s Biggest Concentration Camp.”

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Several more examples of Booth’s cartoons can be seen below:

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3423" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-08-at-2.05.25-PM-1024x931.png" alt="" width="640" height="582" />

<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-3424" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-08-at-2.05.40-PM-1024x980.png" alt="" width="640" height="613" />

In <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/dwayne-booth-penn-political-cartoons-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to Booth</a>, Penn’s Interim President J. Larry Jameson wrote:
“I will not, and should not, respond to every event on our campus, but I want it understood that these political cartoons, posted on a personal website, were not taught in the classroom and do not reflect the views of the University of Pennsylvania or me, personally. I find them reprehensible, with antisemitic symbols, and incongruent with our efforts to fight hate.” 
Jameson added:
“At Penn, we have a bedrock commitment to open expression and academic freedom, principles that were unanimously reaffirmed last week by our Faculty Senate Executive Committee. We also have a responsibility to challenge what we find offensive, and to do so acknowledging the right and ability of members of our community to express their views, however loathsome we find them.”
In a follow-up article, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-president-will-not-act-to-remove-anti-semitic-cartoonist-from-faculty-citing-bedrock-commitment-to-open-expression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Beacon</a> criticized Jameson’s response, saying he made it clear the university would not act to discipline or remove Booth from the faculty:
“Jameson’s tepid response … raises questions about whether the school has implemented meaningful changes in the wake of former president Liz Magill’s dismissal in December and the establishment of a task force on anti-Semitism.” 
In response to the university’s statement, Booth <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/penn-lecturer-criticized-for-creating-reprehensible-antisemitic-cartoons/3766737/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended his comments</a> and argued that work could be “misread.”
“Political artists have always had to grapple with the possibility that a misreading of their work, willing or otherwise, could disrupt the intention and usability of their commentary, thereby complicating the trajectory of whatever debate might follow.” 
“In the case of the international conversation about the current war in Gaza, it will be impossible to have a substantive debate over the specifics and potential outcomes so long as there remains a lazy conflation that makes the State of Israel and the politics that guide its actions as a nation inseparable from Judaism, itself.” 
On February 5, 2024, Booth <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-lecturer-political-cartoons-antisemitism-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a cartoon</a> entitled “Quiet!” which showed Uncle Sam with his hand over a person’s mouth. The caption read, “Critical thinking is bad for America.”
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Published - February 15, 2024

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In 2016, Alba Isabel Lamar was a graduate student and instructor at Michigan State University. 
On December 7, 2016, Lamar was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/msu-instructor-mocks-christians-class-presentation/8501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform article</a> titled “MSU Instructor Mocks Christians in Class Presentation.” The source said, “[Lamar] used a PowerPoint presentation in her class to mock Christians and cajole students to bring up police brutality and white privilege at Thanksgiving … [She] gives her students pointers on how to promote and defend progressive views at the Thanksgiving dinner table.”
Links to Lamar’s presentation appear broken or public access has been restricted.
In a <a href="https://lansingcitypulse.com/stories/this-weeks-lansing-city-pulse-cover-artist-alba-isabel-lamar,13034?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2SODtFWyFak_dUqJ4VltTuq-SqqhoI6jvAnkQdpTPU0G68Y8hsssdLcSw_aem_y1gnNLgDVaKyxQUQvi0Uiw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 interview with Lansing City Pulse</a>, Lamar answered questions about her identity as a descendant of migrants from Ecuador. When asked, “You say you are Indigenous to America but isn’t Ecuador technically South America?”, Lamar responded:
“Do you know why the Olympics has five fings? It’s because most of the world sees five continents. That’s just an American thing … The funny thing too is those are all colonial words — North, Central and South America. We call this land Abya Yala, which best translates to ‘land of vital blood.’ Every tribe basically had different words for this land, but in the last 20 years there was a really big movement — among native people in Latin America and Canada — to establish what we call this land.”
When asked whether she thought Americans should celebrate the Fourth of July, Lamar said:
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Lamar <a href="https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/tag/gradlife/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a profile</a> on the MLA Grads Blog where she lists her pronouns as “They/She” and discusses her thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic. Lamar stated:
“Ironically, the current crisis has helped me refocus my life by centering the principle that Johanna Hedva highlighted: ‘If only some of us are well, none of us are well’ … Because it is my praxis to uplift my intersectional, interrelated communities on Pachamama, I work in solidarity with abolitionists movements towards [b]lack liberation and Indigenous sovereignty.”
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3735" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1-1024x791.png" alt="" width="640" height="494" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1-1024x791.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1-300x232.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1-768x594.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1-1200x927.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
As of July 2024, Lamar is no longer listed as an instructor at Michigan State University.
Please send tips, updates, and information for Alba Lamar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated &#8211; July 2024 
Published &#8211; December 2016

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<a href="http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/william-penn/">William Penn</a> teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Michigan State University. Penn was recorded complaining in one of his creative writing classes about “dead white Republicans” who “raped his country.” As a student videotaped his rant, Penn antagonized students and asked, “You look like you’re frowning. Are you frowning?”.

Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews is a <a href="https://education.msu.edu/people/carter-andrews-dorinda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chairperson and Professor</a> at Michigan State University in the College of Education. Her research interests include racial justice and educational equity. Dr. Andrews has published articles for many media outlets and journals and has given two <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3N23MXsow8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TED Talks</a> in relation to critical race theory and racial gaps in education.

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In an <a href="https://www.hourdetroit.com/education-schools/a-critical-race-theory-expert-on-how-something-benign-became-toxic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article for Hour Detroit</a>, Dr. Andrews accuses conservatives of “gaslighting” by being against critical race theory. Dr. Andrews alleges conservatives “cry CRT” any time an educator teaches something from America’s history that puts them in a “bad light,” even if it’s true. She goes on to insinuate that conservatives don’t want educators teaching black history at all.

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Dr. Andrews has lectured all over the nation about critical race theory. In the video below from June 2021, she identifies as a critical race theorist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIOWFdt-Os

In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOrgf3wTUbo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TED Talk given in 2014</a>, Dr. Andrews discussed racial inequity in the education system. She argues that the education system was founded in white supremacy,  making it nearly impossible for students of color to get ahead. She claims that students of color and poor students are already behind the curve before they even step foot into the classroom, and it’s unfair to expect the same levels of success for them compared to white students.

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When Dr. Andrews isn’t teaching, lecturing, or writing publications, she often takes to Twitter to discuss CRT, racial equity, and anti-white rhetoric. Some examples are below:

https://twitter.com/DrDorindaCA/status/694285220351217664

https://twitter.com/DrDorindaCA/status/1062013677040132099

https://twitter.com/DrDorindaCA/status/1367512182443954178

Dr. Andrews is a critical race theorist who pushes anti-white rhetoric in the classroom. In her opinion, racism is so deeply embedded into our education system that students of color have no chance of getting ahead if critical race theory isn’t taught in the classroom. In her eyes, conservatives are only against critical race theory because they fear it paints them in a negative light.

Carla Pfeffer is an <a href="https://socialwork.msu.edu/directory/pfeffer-carla.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Social Work</a> and Director of the Consortium for Sexual and Gender Minority Health at Michigan State University.

Professor Pfeffer is outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs. She was quoted in an MSU Today article titled: <a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2022/Roe-V-Wade-decision-MSU-experts-discuss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Roe v. Wade overturned: Michigan State University experts discuss.”</a> Pfeffer stated:
“Consistent governmental inaction in regard to protecting all children from poverty, gun violence, and police violence reveals the hypocrisy of legally restricting abortion. Rather than protecting children, banning abortion is about governmental power and control over marginalized bodies and crass political maneuvering to appease a conservative base.” 
She continued:
“In discussions about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, people who are lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary tend to be left out of the conversation.”
She finished her statement by claiming that members of the LGBTQ community “often face disproportionately higher rates of unintended and unwanted pregnancy” and that abortion access is “critical for ensuring physical and mental health.”

In September 2022, Pfeffer wrote an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-men-and-nonbinary-people-are-asked-to-stop-testosterone-therapy-during-pregnancy-but-the-evidence-for-this-guidance-is-still-murky-187672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> where she argued that transgender men and nonbinary people should not have to stop testosterone therapy while they are pregnant. Although many doctors told Pfeffer that there is “not enough or inconclusive research on supplemental testosterone during pregnancy,” Pfeffer argues that “testosterone therapy is often essential to the mental and physical health” of transgender people.

Pfeffer believes that “careful attention to the physical and mental health and well-being of trans and nonbinary people before, during and after pregnancy is long overdue in medicine” and that:
“Instead of approaching testosterone therapy during pregnancy as a yes/no question or a one-size-fits-all standard, investigating how various dosages of testosterone may affect all stages of pregnancy and chestfeeding could lead to better outcomes for both trans patients and their children.” 
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You can contact the School of Social work by email: socialwork@ssc.msu.edu or by phone: 517-353-8616.
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Published - October 20, 2022

Dr. Melissa Fore is a <a href="https://jmc.msu.edu/about/directory/Fore.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the James Madison College Reading and Writing Center</a> at Michigan State University. Dr. Fore teaches in the first-year writing program and is a core faculty member MSU’s Center for Gender in a Global Context.

Dr. Fore’s professor biography states:
“Her writing classroom explores how concepts of race, class, gender, and sexuality are culturally constructed through social, political, and economic values. She asks students to consider how the cycles of socialization have influenced their understanding of identity and community in order to engage in writing assignments that examine structural racism, the affordable housing crisis, and challenging gender norms.” 
In April 2019, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=12117" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported that Professor Fore canceled class to allow her students to attend a conference on race and socialism. The James Madison College Office of Diversity Programming described the event as “fundamentally designed to examine systems of power and privilege in the United States, especially the impact of these ‘systems’ on communities of color.”

Dr. Fore is a facilitator for <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AWARE (Advancing White Anti-Racist Education) Together.</a> The AWARE Together website states that the organization “offers white anti-racist education programs for groups and associations that are committed to seeing the realities of racism and taking anti-racist action.” Further, the <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/purpose.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Purpose’ page</a> states: “White people benefit from the social and economic systems that perpetuate racism. Ending the terror and injustice of white supremacy can only be accomplished if white people work to be anti-racist.”

Professor Fore’s <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/facilitators.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facilitator biography</a> states:
“In examining her own identity as a white woman, Melissa came to see how identity formation is linked to power and privilege, and how dismantling white supremacy is central to social, political, and economic justice.” 
Dr. Fore co-founded the Marble Elementary School Equity Team and is the Co-Chair of the <a href="https://elps.us/our-district/board-of-education/committees/reproductive-health-advisory-committee/sex-education-advisory-board-members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">East Lansing Sex Education Advisory Board.</a> The Sex Education Advisory Board has a document titled the <a href="https://elps.us/downloads/school_board_-_committee_documents/k-5_consent_toolkit_moash_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘K-5 Consent Toolkit.’</a> The document is intended for Michigan educators, parents, caregivers, and students and includes standards and curriculum for elementary school students.

The document states that by the end of second grade, students should be able to: list medically accurate names for genitals, define gender, gender identity, and gender role stereotypes, and discuss the range of ways people express gender and how gender role stereotypes may limit behavior.

The document also provides links to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IJ2hD7bECD1gkWoDND5s5sRYG37RYPRf/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested lesson plans.</a> One of these lesson plans, titled “Understanding Our Bodies - The Basics,” tells students that “There are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have.”

Another lesson plan, titled “Pink, Blue and Purple,” instructs students on gender identity, stating: “You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl. You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.”

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Published - October 7, 2022

Dr. Rashida Harrison is an <a href="https://jmc.msu.edu/about/directory/Harrison.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy</a> with the James Madison College at Michigan State University (MSU). She teaches courses on social theory, social movements, intersections of Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality, Global Citizenships, and Race and Citizenship.

Her MSU biography states:
“Harrison’s research focus on transnational black and multiracial feminist social movements uses the Black British feminist movement as a case study to examine the impact of Western imperialism on black women’s nationality and immigration rights, reproductive justice and agency within public organizations.” 
Harrison is an Advisory Board member at <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AWARE (Advancing White Anti-Racist Education) Together.</a> The AWARE Together website states that the organization “offers white anti-racist education programs for groups and associations that are committed to seeing the realities of racism and taking anti-racist action.”

Further, the <a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/purpose.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Purpose’ page</a> of the website states: “White people benefit from the social and economic systems that perpetuate racism. Ending the terror and injustice of white supremacy can only be accomplished if white people work to be anti-racist.”

<a href="https://www.awaretogether.org/advisory-board.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Harrison’s biography</a> describes her as a:
“Black Feminist who has worked with several community and activist organizations, including Black Lives Matter; providing workshops on histories of Black social movements, various issues related to Black Social and Political life, working in coalition across racial and ethnic identities for gender equality, etc.” 
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Published - October 7, 2022

<a href="https://poverty.umich.edu/research/faculty-experts/lisa-lapeyrouse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Lapeyrouse</a> is an Associate Professor of Health Science and Administration at the University of Michigan. According to her university profile, her areas of expertise include “racial/ethnic disparities in mental health and health care access among Latino communities, including immigrant and border populations.” Lapeyrouse is also the principal investigator of “Beyond Rhetoric: Confronting and Combating Racism in Genesee County, Michigan.”

The <a href="https://www.beyondrhetoricmovement.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Rhetoric Project</a> began in 2020 after Genesee County commissioners passed a <a href="https://gfhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GFHC-AntiRacismResolution.061520ks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that formally recognized racism as a public health crisis. The project is led by Lapeyrouse and <a href="https://publichealth.msu.edu/flint-research/flint-public-health-research/kent-key-phd-mph#:~:text=Key%20is%20the%20Deputy%20Director,extension%20of%20his%20doctoral%20dissertation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Key</a>, the executive deputy director of Community-Based Organization Partners and assistant professor in the Division of Public Health at Michigan State University.

Lapeyrouse stated:
“Racism has serious and harmful health repercussions for the community. But, if you’re not looking at racism as a systemic problem, then it becomes a lot easier to ignore. Even when people are willing to talk about racism, there often isn’t a clear understanding of systemic racism. There is a reluctance to acknowledge how we all participate in racist policies and practices.” 
The project also formed a community action council to establish a strategic plan to end racist policies and practices in Genesee County. <a href="https://news.umich.edu/beyond-rhetoric-offers-road-map-for-responding-to-racism-as-a-public-health-crisis/#:~:text=The%20Beyond%20Rhetoric%20project%2C%20which,as%20a%20public%20health%20crisis." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council recommendations</a> included hiring more health care professionals of color, reforming school discipline policies, and making community services accessible to people with disabilities and people with limited English proficiency.

Lapeyrouse said she believes <a href="https://news.umflint.edu/2023/02/08/um-flint-professor-students-working-with-beyond-rhetoric-project-to-fight-racism-in-genesee-county/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-racism work</a> is more important now than ever, and she makes sure to instill that in her students.
“I see this move as acknowledgment by people making decisions that impact the health and wellbeing of everyone in our community that racism exists. We need policies in place that ensure equity. We can’t ignore what is right here in front of us.” 
Lapeyrouse has also been outspoken about her support for COVID vaccines. In July 2021, she tweeted:
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Extremely grateful and proud that the <a href="https://twitter.com/UMich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UMich</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UMFlint?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UMFlint</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/UM_Dearborn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UM_Dearborn</a> will require all students, staff, and faculty to be <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccinated?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#vaccinated</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#COVID19</a> Thank you for choosing our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PublicHealth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#PublicHealth</a>
— Lisa M. Lapeyrouse (@DrL_LLapeyrouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrL_LLapeyrouse/status/1421176031419981828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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She <a href="https://news.umflint.edu/2021/08/25/a-neighbors-guide-to-the-covid-vaccine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led a project</a> that created “A Neighbor’s Guide to the COVID Vaccine.” According to UM-Flint News, the “informational booklet was created with the goal of providing vaccine-hesitant residents in Flint with credible health information related to the COVID-19 vaccine, so they may feel empowered to make the best decision for their health.”

Lapeyrouse used one of her master’s level courses as a service-learning course that focused on this project. She adds:
“When students know the work they’re doing is for actual people, their effort and what they are able to accomplish is so much greater than what I see in my non-service learning courses. These types of classes are a tremendous amount of work, but the payoffs for both our students and community make it well worth it.”
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Published - February 16, 2023

<a href="https://broad.msu.edu/profile/arifinis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iskandar Arifin</a> is a Finance Professor at Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business. His list of courses taught includes “Introduction to Investment,” “Theory of Investments,” and “Managerial Finance.”

As of March 1, 2024, Arifin was <a href="https://statenews.com/article/2024/03/msu-professor-charged-with-possession-of-child-pornography-placed-on-administrative-leave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> to be on administrative leave pending an investigation into child pornography charges dating back to 2022.

The State News wrote, “[Arifin] has been charged with six counts of ‘child pornography-related allegations’ … [He] was charged with three counts of possessing ‘child sexually abusive material’ and three related counts of using a computer device to commit a crime.”

According to the <a href="https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/03/01/msu-professor-charged-child-pornography-iskandar-arifin/72808364007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lansing State Journal</a>, “[Arifin] was placed on administrative leave Friday afternoon … He is prohibited from reporting to work, being on campus or having contact with students … He was arraigned on Friday and his bond was set at $75,000.”

The source also said Arifin was “investigated by MPS [Michigan State Police] Computer Crimes Unit, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. Court records indicate the alleged crimes took place in May 2022.”

Arifin could spend up to 25 years in prison if convicted. He is due for a probable cause conference on March 12 and a preliminary exam on March 19, according to Lansing State Journal. 

The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring this story. Please send tips and information on Iskandar Arifin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 4, 2024

<a href="https://cal.msu.edu/news/college-welcomes-41-new-faculty-and-staff-members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shlagha Borah</a> is listed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University (MSU). However, her profile information is missing from the directory page. 

Borah’s poem and profile on the <a href="https://brooklynpoets.org/community/poet/shlagha-borah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooklyn Poets website</a> confirms her self-proclaimed identity as a “queer immigrant” woman. The site also contains the transcript of a podcast interview wherein Borah discussed her ethnic roots.

On November 6, 2024, Borah was featured in a Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/msu-prof-cancels-class-grieve-trump-win-queer-immigrant-woman-colour-report/26739" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “MSU prof cancels class to ‘grieve’ Trump win as ‘queer, immigrant woman of colour.’” The Reform included the viral social media post from the “End Wokeness” Twitter account.
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MSU Professor: "As a queer, immigrant, woman of color, I cannot just go on"

Class has been canceled <a href="https://t.co/OEsDfFAnjJ">pic.twitter.com/OEsDfFAnjJ</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1854245769483547062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Borah’s original post (pictured below) is sourced from End Wokeness.

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Since posting that she was canceling class to “grieve the presidential election results,” Borah appears to have deleted or removed access to her <a href="https://x.com/shlaghaborah?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media page</a> and <a href="https://www.shlaghaborah.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a>.

The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education. 

Please send tips, updates, and information on Shlagha Borah to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 12, 2024
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<a href="https://psychology.msu.edu/directory/veenema-alexa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alexa Veenema</a> is a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at Michigan State University (MSU). Her <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rCQu5AUAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> “explores the neural basis of social behavior.”

Veenema was featured in The State News <a href="https://statenews.com/article/2024/11/conservative-student-group-wants-accountability-after-msu-professor-called-trump-supporters-naive-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Conservative student group wants accountability for MSU professor who called Trump supporters ‘naive.’” The source said:

“Behavioral neuroscience professor Alexa Veenema wrote to students after the election that it was ‘unbelievable’ that ‘so many Americans are so utterly naive and would fall for this and support misogyny, racism, xenophobia, hate, and violence.”

The source also said, the conservative student group, Turning Point USA, called for MSU to immediately discipline Veenema according to the <a href="https://hr.msu.edu/policies-procedures/faculty-academic-staff/faculty-handbook/recommendations.html#:~:text=MSU%20tenure%2Dsystem%20faculty%20create,significance%20of%20an%20artistic%20performance." target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSU Faculty Handbook</a> after she displayed a lack of civility and respect.

On November 15, 2024, the Lansing State Journal <a href="https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/campus/2024/11/15/msu-professor-alexa-veenema-trump-email/76336245007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Veenema had not been disciplined but the provost’s office “had conversations with Veenema” and the psychology department. The following screenshot of Veenema’s email is sourced from the Journal:<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3894" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-4.00.40 PM.png" alt="" width="962" height="762" />

Please send tips and updates on Alexa Veenema to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 22, 2024

In 2016, Alba Isabel Lamar was a graduate student and instructor at Michigan State University. 

On December 7, 2016, Lamar was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/msu-instructor-mocks-christians-class-presentation/8501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform article</a> titled “MSU Instructor Mocks Christians in Class Presentation.” The source said, “[Lamar] used a PowerPoint presentation in her class to mock Christians and cajole students to bring up police brutality and white privilege at Thanksgiving … [She] gives her students pointers on how to promote and defend progressive views at the Thanksgiving dinner table.”

Links to Lamar’s presentation appear broken or public access has been restricted.

In a <a href="https://lansingcitypulse.com/stories/this-weeks-lansing-city-pulse-cover-artist-alba-isabel-lamar,13034?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2SODtFWyFak_dUqJ4VltTuq-SqqhoI6jvAnkQdpTPU0G68Y8hsssdLcSw_aem_y1gnNLgDVaKyxQUQvi0Uiw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 interview with Lansing City Pulse</a>, Lamar answered questions about her identity as a descendant of migrants from Ecuador. When asked, “You say you are Indigenous to America but isn’t Ecuador technically South America?”, Lamar responded:
“Do you know why the Olympics has five fings? It’s because most of the world sees five continents. That’s just an American thing … The funny thing too is those are all colonial words — North, Central and South America. We call this land Abya Yala, which best translates to ‘land of vital blood.’ Every tribe basically had different words for this land, but in the last 20 years there was a really big movement — among native people in Latin America and Canada — to establish what we call this land.”
When asked whether she thought Americans should celebrate the Fourth of July, Lamar said:

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Lamar <a href="https://mlagrads.mla.hcommons.org/tag/gradlife/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a profile</a> on the MLA Grads Blog where she lists her pronouns as “They/She” and discusses her thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic. Lamar stated:
“Ironically, the current crisis has helped me refocus my life by centering the principle that Johanna Hedva highlighted: ‘If only some of us are well, none of us are well’ … Because it is my praxis to uplift my intersectional, interrelated communities on Pachamama, I work in solidarity with abolitionists movements towards [b]lack liberation and Indigenous sovereignty.”
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As of July 2024, Lamar is no longer listed as an instructor at Michigan State University.

Please send tips, updates, and information for Alba Lamar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - December 2016

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Professor <a href="https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/walker-barnes/">Chanequa Walker-Barnes</a> is an associate professor of practical theology at <a href="https://www.mercer.edu/">Mercer University</a> in Georgia. According to her university <a href="https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/walker-barnes/">profile</a>, Professor Walker-Barnes teaches courses in pastoral care and counseling, spiritual formation, and reconciliation studies.
Professor Walker-Barnes describes herself as a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and ecumenical minister on her personal <a href="https://www.drchanequa.com/">website</a>. She states <a href="https://www.drchanequa.com/about">in her biography</a> that her work focuses on healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. Walker-Barnes is also the author of, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620320665/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1620320665&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=3ae5c05e9427e9c2f5696c179e772f6a">Too Heavy a Yoke</a>, and, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802877206/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0802877206&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=511642e6dd4b20da33d6671cff2ff43e">I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist for Racial Reconciliation</a>.
In the book <a href="https://www.sarahbessey.com/books/rhythm-of-prayer">A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal</a> (edited by Sarah Bessey), there is a chapter authored by Walker-Barnes. Titled <a href="https://www.drchanequa.com/blog">Prayer of a Weary Black Woman</a>, Professor Walker-Barnes uses this chapter to write a letter to God in which she:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Asks God to “help me hate White people”;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Asks God to help her to “stop caring about [White people], individually and collectively”;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Claims she wants to “stop believing that [White people] can be better, that then can stop being racist”; and</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prays that God will “harden my heart” so that she can “imagine [White people] … as white-hooded robes standing in front of burning crosses”.</li>
</ul>
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In her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620320665/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1620320665&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=3ae5c05e9427e9c2f5696c179e772f6a">Too Heavy a Yoke</a>, Dr. Walker-Barnes writes about what she perceives as stereotypes forced on African-American women. One example she <a href="https://www.scribd.com/read/399736984/Too-Heavy-a-Yoke-Black-Women-and-the-Burden-of-Strength">lists</a> is the expectation for her to be a “StrongBlackWoman,” a concept she claims is rooted in a late nineteenth-century “racial uplift movement” and “developed as a racialized version of the cult of true womanhood—a White, middle-class ideal characterized by piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.”
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In an interview with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A-gadEfYag&amp;t=79s">WIPF and Stock Publishers</a> about her book, Dr. Walker-Barnes states that stereotypes are imposed on Black women because Christian doctrine has been constructed by “white, European, and US men.”
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Later in the same video, Dr. Walker-Barnes absolves Black women of alleviating racism in America. She states that “White identity” oppresses women of color and it is therefore incumbent upon only White Christians to interrogate their own “whiteness”.
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Dr. Walker-Barnes further details her beliefs about “whiteness” in a lecture titled, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5VzRLgK_4">Pathological Whiteness</a>, stating its purpose is the maintenance of white supremacy. She contends the 2016 election of President Donald J. Trump is proof that America is afflicted with the problem of “whiteness.” After claiming this problem exists in the “bodies” of white people, Dr. Walker-Barnes proceeds to ask the white members of the audience “How does it feel to be a problem?”
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In her book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802877206/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0802877206&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=511642e6dd4b20da33d6671cff2ff43e">I Bring the Voices of My People</a>, Dr. Walker-Barnes writes that the solution to dismantling whiteness is “racial reconciliation”, which she <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C_ayDwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">defines</a> as follows: “Racial reconciliation focuses its efforts upon dismantling white supremacy.” 
Dr. Walker-Barnes further details her definition of reconciliation during a presentation titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDBTwMQ70Y4&amp;t=461s&amp;ab_channel=BiolaUniversity">The Curse of Reconciliation</a>, at <a href="https://www.biola.edu/">Biola University</a>. At one point, Dr. Walker-Barnes claims that Christians cannot gain salvation unless racism is ended.
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Further in the same sermon, Dr. Walker-Barnes claims that reconciliation requires that law enforcement “lay prostrate” and beg for forgiveness. She additionally claims that America is in a “racial mess” because white Christians pledge more allegiance to the flag than to the cross.
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The full sermon may be viewed below.
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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Walker-Barnes for comment but has not received a reply at the time of publication.
To read more, readers may view TPUSA Contributor Isabel Brown’s article on Chanequa Walker-Barnes at <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/target-is-promoting-woke-christianity">TPUSA Live</a>.
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Parents and students may contact <a href="https://www.mercer.edu/">Mercer University</a> at (800) 637-2378
Updated &#8211; Spring, 2021 
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Professor <a href="https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/walker-barnes/">Chanequa Walker-Barnes</a> is an associate professor of practical theology at <a href="https://www.mercer.edu/">Mercer University</a> in Georgia. According to her university <a href="https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/walker-barnes/">profile</a>, Professor Walker-Barnes teaches courses in pastoral care and counseling, spiritual formation, and reconciliation studies.

Professor Walker-Barnes describes herself as a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and ecumenical minister on her personal <a href="https://www.drchanequa.com/">website</a>. She states <a href="https://www.drchanequa.com/about">in her biography</a> that her work focuses on healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression. Walker-Barnes is also the author of, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620320665/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1620320665&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=3ae5c05e9427e9c2f5696c179e772f6a">Too Heavy a Yoke</a>, and, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802877206/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0802877206&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=511642e6dd4b20da33d6671cff2ff43e">I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist for Racial Reconciliation</a>.

In the book <a href="https://www.sarahbessey.com/books/rhythm-of-prayer">A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal</a> (edited by Sarah Bessey), there is a chapter authored by Walker-Barnes. Titled <a href="https://www.drchanequa.com/blog">Prayer of a Weary Black Woman</a>, Professor Walker-Barnes uses this chapter to write a letter to God in which she:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Asks God to “help me hate White people”;</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Asks God to help her to “stop caring about [White people], individually and collectively”;</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Claims she wants to “stop believing that [White people] can be better, that then can stop being racist”; and</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Prays that God will “harden my heart” so that she can “imagine [White people] … as white-hooded robes standing in front of burning crosses”.</li>
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In her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620320665/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1620320665&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=3ae5c05e9427e9c2f5696c179e772f6a">Too Heavy a Yoke</a>, Dr. Walker-Barnes writes about what she perceives as stereotypes forced on African-American women. One example she <a href="https://www.scribd.com/read/399736984/Too-Heavy-a-Yoke-Black-Women-and-the-Burden-of-Strength">lists</a> is the expectation for her to be a “StrongBlackWoman,” a concept she claims is rooted in a late nineteenth-century “racial uplift movement” and “developed as a racialized version of the cult of true womanhood—a White, middle-class ideal characterized by piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness.”

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In an interview with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A-gadEfYag&amp;t=79s">WIPF and Stock Publishers</a> about her book, Dr. Walker-Barnes states that stereotypes are imposed on Black women because Christian doctrine has been constructed by “white, European, and US men.”

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Later in the same video, Dr. Walker-Barnes absolves Black women of alleviating racism in America. She states that “White identity” oppresses women of color and it is therefore incumbent upon only White Christians to interrogate their own “whiteness”.

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Dr. Walker-Barnes further details her beliefs about “whiteness” in a lecture titled, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5VzRLgK_4">Pathological Whiteness</a>, stating its purpose is the maintenance of white supremacy. She contends the 2016 election of President Donald J. Trump is proof that America is afflicted with the problem of “whiteness.” After claiming this problem exists in the “bodies” of white people, Dr. Walker-Barnes proceeds to ask the white members of the audience “How does it feel to be a problem?”

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In her book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802877206/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0802877206&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=drchan-20&amp;linkId=511642e6dd4b20da33d6671cff2ff43e">I Bring the Voices of My People</a>, Dr. Walker-Barnes writes that the solution to dismantling whiteness is “racial reconciliation”, which she <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C_ayDwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">defines</a> as follows: “Racial reconciliation focuses its efforts upon dismantling white supremacy.” 

Dr. Walker-Barnes further details her definition of reconciliation during a presentation titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDBTwMQ70Y4&amp;t=461s&amp;ab_channel=BiolaUniversity">The Curse of Reconciliation</a>, at <a href="https://www.biola.edu/">Biola University</a>. At one point, Dr. Walker-Barnes claims that Christians cannot gain salvation unless racism is ended.

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Further in the same sermon, Dr. Walker-Barnes claims that reconciliation requires that law enforcement “lay prostrate” and beg for forgiveness. She additionally claims that America is in a “racial mess” because white Christians pledge more allegiance to the flag than to the cross.

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The full sermon may be viewed below.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Walker-Barnes for comment but has not received a reply at the time of publication.

To read more, readers may view TPUSA Contributor Isabel Brown’s article on Chanequa Walker-Barnes at <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/target-is-promoting-woke-christianity">TPUSA Live</a>.

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Parents and students may contact <a href="https://www.mercer.edu/">Mercer University</a> at (800) 637-2378
Updated - Spring, 2021 
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<a href="https://theology.mercer.edu/faculty-and-staff/gushee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reverend Dr. David Gushee</a> is a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University. According to his university profile, Gushee is “one of the world’s leading Christian ethicists” and was elected “Past-President” of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics.

Gushee claims conservative white Christians are a <a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/01/09/religious-scholar-on-the-civil-war-within-christianity--and-the-urgency-of-stopping/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threat to our country’s democracy</a>. In discussing his latest book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Democracy-Its-Christian-Enemies/dp/0802882935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies</a>”, Gushee says his “thesis is that many Christians in the United States and elsewhere today are demonstrating an attraction to a dangerous <a href="https://baptistnews.com/article/my-argument-in-defending-democracy-from-its-christian-enemies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authoritarian and reactionary politics</a> that poses a grave threat to free and open democracy.”

He believes this population has been “powerfully seduced by authoritarian ideology” and “could be ushering in a democracy-free future with open arms.” When asked in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240116014001/https://www.businessinsider.com/david-gushee-christian-nationalists-support-trump-reelection-authoritarianism-2024-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider</a> interview what particular incident caused him concern, Gushee answered, “The immediate crisis is the phenomenon of Donald Trump and the strong conservative support for Trump, which continues to this day.”

He argues many Christians have not accepted the cultural changes that have taken place since the 1960s, including legal abortions, the feminist movement, and “large-scale immigration from non-European countries” which has caused “significant racial backlash to a multiracial society with equal rights for people of color.”

He says this has created a population of “reactionary” Christians who are “willing to sacrifice democracy to get what they want politically.” He believes that this demographic would be willing to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-ethics-professor-says-trump-evangelical-voters-enemies-of-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolish the two-term limit</a> for U.S. presidents, support the imprisonment of political opponents, and “officially enshrine Christian values into the Constitution.”

Gushee also told Business Insider:
“One way to interpret what’s gone wrong is that America’s democracy was always damaged by white supremacy because of allowing and enshrining slavery and then allowing and enshrining Jim Crow, lynching, then segregation.” 
He explains:
“And so one way to focus on the racial dimension of the reactionary move is a certain percentage of white Americans who say ‘no, we prefer 18th-century versions of democracy where white people are in charge. We don’t like this thing where Barack Obama, a man of his background and race, could become president. This society belongs to white people.’” 
He concludes:
“And so it’s either we either move forward into genuine multiracial, equal democratic citizenship or we are pushed backward into something like white ethnocratic quasi-democracy, and I think there are people who really want that.”
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Published - February 5, 2024

Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

Chanequa Walker-Barnes

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<a href="https://www.einsteinmed.edu/faculty/16220/lauren-roth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren T. Roth</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/medical-school-professor-says-parents-must-implement-gender-ideology-for-babies-starts-birth?dicbo=v2-txjMGKs">Fox News</a>, reports that, during an interview with BronxNet in 2021, Roth promoted the idea that “parents must start including gender ideology in their families before a baby is born.” This happens to be her “favorite topic” to discuss, she says (see video below):
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&#8220;Like, this is a normal thing. And we have to understand that gender is on a spectrum. There&#8217;s not just men and women. Sometimes [a child&#8217;s gender identity] matches the chromosomes or the genitals that they were born with, but sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Roth suggested that parents allow their children to wear clothing of the opposite gender if they desire to do so: 
&#8220;If your child was assigned male at birth and one day they tell you, ‘I want to wear [a] pink sparkly dress. Instead of saying what a lot of people say, ’Boys don&#8217;t wear dresses, girls do.&#8217; How about you know, say something like, ‘Tell me more about why you want to wear a dress today.’&#8221;
She further commented about parents “having open conversations” with their children about their gender: 
&#8220;You know be open and curious and just start the conversation. I really think having open conversations like that and just asking questions allows your child to share a little bit about themselves. And it shows that you support them, and it gives them that space to explore who they are.&#8221;
Roth said that she became interested in transgender studies and an advocate for transgender people when her brother “transitioned” to a “female.” Roth’s Twitter profile bio, which has been deleted, included her pronouns and the phrase “Twin‍♀️”,  the latter referring to her brother. 
According to Fox News, “Dr. Roth serves as co-chair of the LGBTQ Health and Well-Being Special Interest Group of the Academic Pediatric Association, where she is working to bring standardized training to future pediatricians.”
Published &#8211; June 1, 2023

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<a href="https://www.einsteinmed.edu/faculty/16220/lauren-roth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lauren T. Roth</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.”

<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/medical-school-professor-says-parents-must-implement-gender-ideology-for-babies-starts-birth?dicbo=v2-txjMGKs">Fox News</a>, reports that, during an interview with BronxNet in 2021, Roth promoted the idea that “parents must start including gender ideology in their families before a baby is born.” This happens to be her “favorite topic” to discuss, she says (see video below):

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"Like, this is a normal thing. And we have to understand that gender is on a spectrum. There's not just men and women. Sometimes [a child's gender identity] matches the chromosomes or the genitals that they were born with, but sometimes it doesn't."
Roth suggested that parents allow their children to wear clothing of the opposite gender if they desire to do so: 
"If your child was assigned male at birth and one day they tell you, ‘I want to wear [a] pink sparkly dress. Instead of saying what a lot of people say, ’Boys don't wear dresses, girls do.' How about you know, say something like, ‘Tell me more about why you want to wear a dress today.’"
She further commented about parents “having open conversations” with their children about their gender: 
"You know be open and curious and just start the conversation. I really think having open conversations like that and just asking questions allows your child to share a little bit about themselves. And it shows that you support them, and it gives them that space to explore who they are."
Roth said that she became interested in transgender studies and an advocate for transgender people when her brother “transitioned” to a “female.” Roth’s Twitter profile bio, which has been deleted, included her pronouns and the phrase “Twin‍♀️”,  the latter referring to her brother. 

According to Fox News, “Dr. Roth serves as co-chair of the LGBTQ Health and Well-Being Special Interest Group of the Academic Pediatric Association, where she is working to bring standardized training to future pediatricians.”
Published - June 1, 2023