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<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

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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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<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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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”).

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<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”).

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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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<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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<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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<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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<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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Published February 13, 2023

<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”).

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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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<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”).

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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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<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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<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">“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>
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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.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
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>
</ol>
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

Protests

Georgette Briggs

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Hugo Schwyzer was a Professor of Gender Studies at Pasadena City College before he resigned from his tenured position.
Schwyzer taught a class called Navigating Pornography in which<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-class-pasadena-city-college-navigating-pornography_n_3085208" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> students discussed pornography and watched pornographic films for homework.</a> The controversy began when Professor Schwyzer invited a porn star to talk to the class. The public portion of the appearance was canceled after backlash. According to Schwyzer, his course focused on “giving students tools to understand pornography as a historical and contemporary phenomenon.”
According to CBS Los Angeles,<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/pasadena-professor-who-taught-porn-class-resigns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer resigned</a> after he “admitted on his website that he had sex with several students in recent years.” He has also admitted to “sexting” with a 27-year-old sex worker activist. He originally became known for an article discussing how men should be attracted to women their age instead of much younger women.<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-professor-hugo-schwyzer-comes-clean-about-his-twitter-meltdown-and-life-as-a-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer has since stated</a>, “it is morally fraudulent in that I am living a life that is deliberately in direct contradiction to what I am recommending.” He continues, “but the fact that I am guilty of hypocrisy doesn’t invalidate the truth of what I was saying. I was just too weak to live up to what it was I was writing.”
When speaking about his inappropriate relationships with students, Schwyzer states, “before 1998 I slept with two dozen female students, somewhere in there, it’s a ballpark thing.” He continues, “I was just so toxically addicted to affirmation I would do anything to get it.”
Schwyzer has shown interest in teaching again. “I think I would like to go back to teaching. But everything is fluid and up in the air at the moment.”
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Hugo Schwyzer was a Professor of Gender Studies at Pasadena City College before he resigned from his tenured position.

Schwyzer taught a class called Navigating Pornography in which<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-class-pasadena-city-college-navigating-pornography_n_3085208" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> students discussed pornography and watched pornographic films for homework.</a> The controversy began when Professor Schwyzer invited a porn star to talk to the class. The public portion of the appearance was canceled after backlash. According to Schwyzer, his course focused on “giving students tools to understand pornography as a historical and contemporary phenomenon.”

According to CBS Los Angeles,<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/pasadena-professor-who-taught-porn-class-resigns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer resigned</a> after he “admitted on his website that he had sex with several students in recent years.” He has also admitted to “sexting” with a 27-year-old sex worker activist. He originally became known for an article discussing how men should be attracted to women their age instead of much younger women.<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-professor-hugo-schwyzer-comes-clean-about-his-twitter-meltdown-and-life-as-a-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer has since stated</a>, “it is morally fraudulent in that I am living a life that is deliberately in direct contradiction to what I am recommending.” He continues, “but the fact that I am guilty of hypocrisy doesn’t invalidate the truth of what I was saying. I was just too weak to live up to what it was I was writing.”

When speaking about his inappropriate relationships with students, Schwyzer states, “before 1998 I slept with two dozen female students, somewhere in there, it’s a ballpark thing.” He continues, “I was just so toxically addicted to affirmation I would do anything to get it.”

Schwyzer has shown interest in teaching again. “I think I would like to go back to teaching. But everything is fluid and up in the air at the moment.”

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Published - October 20, 2022

LGBTQ

Sexualization

Hugo Schwyzer

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<a href="https://www.fairmontstate.edu/cola/faculty-staff.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John O’Connor</a> is a Professor and Chair of the Humanities Department at Fairmont State University.
On July 12, 2023, O’Connor was arrested and <a href="https://wvmetronews.com/2023/07/12/fairmont-state-university-professor-charged-with-multiple-sex-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged with 28 sex crimes</a>. State troopers say O’Connor <a href="https://www.wboy.com/news/crime/fairmont-state-professor-arrested-sexually-abusing-4-year-old/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to</a> “14 counts of first-degree sexual abuse intrusion and 14 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or person of trust in regard to a four-year-old child.”
O’Connor allegedly also admitted to using his cell phone, “Samsung iPad,” and work computer to research “Preteen porn,” “young porn,” and “kiddy porn.”
State troopers were initially called in regard to a sexual abuse incident that took place on July 9. On July 11, troopers asked O’Connor to come to the State Police and make a statement, where he confessed to the charges.
Fairmont State University released the following statement:
“Fairmont State University leadership today learned of the arrest of a current faculty member. The alleged offenses are serious, and due to their gravity, it is important for us to learn more about the still-emerging details before commenting further, so that we can appropriately address the situation. We intend to cooperate fully with law enforcement and help them in any way we can.” 
The <a href="https://www.timeswv.com/news/local_news/fairmont-state-professor-charged-with-sex-crimes/article_b5bee714-20f2-11ee-a91c-5ba6e26bbc28.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Times West Virginian</a> says court officials have not released the criminal complaint, even in redacted form. Due to a new law that went into effect in June 2023, court officials are prevented from releasing to the public any information involving cases in which sexually-related charges include minors.
O’Connor <a href="https://www.timeswv.com/news/local_news/fairmont-state-professor-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-four-year-old-released-on-1m-bond/article_a089e5a8-2195-11ee-b30d-733403aca240.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waived his right</a> to a preliminary hearing in court on July 12. He has been released on a $1 million bond.
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<a href="https://www.fairmontstate.edu/cola/faculty-staff.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John O’Connor</a> is a Professor and Chair of the Humanities Department at Fairmont State University.

On July 12, 2023, O’Connor was arrested and <a href="https://wvmetronews.com/2023/07/12/fairmont-state-university-professor-charged-with-multiple-sex-crimes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged with 28 sex crimes</a>. State troopers say O’Connor <a href="https://www.wboy.com/news/crime/fairmont-state-professor-arrested-sexually-abusing-4-year-old/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted to</a> “14 counts of first-degree sexual abuse intrusion and 14 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or person of trust in regard to a four-year-old child.”

O’Connor allegedly also admitted to using his cell phone, “Samsung iPad,” and work computer to research “Preteen porn,” “young porn,” and “kiddy porn.”

State troopers were initially called in regard to a sexual abuse incident that took place on July 9. On July 11, troopers asked O’Connor to come to the State Police and make a statement, where he confessed to the charges.

Fairmont State University released the following statement:
“Fairmont State University leadership today learned of the arrest of a current faculty member. The alleged offenses are serious, and due to their gravity, it is important for us to learn more about the still-emerging details before commenting further, so that we can appropriately address the situation. We intend to cooperate fully with law enforcement and help them in any way we can.” 
The <a href="https://www.timeswv.com/news/local_news/fairmont-state-professor-charged-with-sex-crimes/article_b5bee714-20f2-11ee-a91c-5ba6e26bbc28.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Times West Virginian</a> says court officials have not released the criminal complaint, even in redacted form. Due to a new law that went into effect in June 2023, court officials are prevented from releasing to the public any information involving cases in which sexually-related charges include minors.

O’Connor <a href="https://www.timeswv.com/news/local_news/fairmont-state-professor-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-four-year-old-released-on-1m-bond/article_a089e5a8-2195-11ee-b30d-733403aca240.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waived his right</a> to a preliminary hearing in court on July 12. He has been released on a $1 million bond.

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Published - July 24, 2023

Violence

John O'Connor

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<a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/bret-gustafson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bret Gustafson</a> is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Gustafson describes himself as a “political anthropologist with an interest in climate politics, fossil fuels, and the energy transition.”
In November 2023, Gustafson came under fire for <a href="https://www.kmov.com/2023/11/28/washington-university-professor-under-fire-anti-israel-bias-after-social-media-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antisemitic social media comments</a>. After protesters in Los Angeles threw smoke devices and vandalized the home of the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Gustafson <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1729509403676598707" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly posted</a> the following:
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/bretgustafson?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">user’s account</a> has since been made private, but his Twitter biography includes a link to his faculty page at Washington University in St. Louis. The university provided the following statement to First Alert 4:
“Bret Gustafson is currently employed by Washington University. The opinions he has expressed as an individual do not represent the university’s position. We do not condone intimidation and we will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or threatening behavior.” 
In 2021, after a student destroyed a flag display that was part of a 9/11: Never Forget Project, Gustafson <a href="https://yaf.org/news/nearly-50-washu-professors-sign-statement-defending-9-11-vandal-american-flag-is-symbol-of-american-imperialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> in support of the vandal, calling the crime a “protest.” <a href="https://www.studlife.com/forum/2021/09/14/community-statement-against-islamophobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The letter</a> further said the American flag is “the symbol of American imperialism and violence in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and beyond.”
Gustafson is also a proponent of fossil fuel divestment. In March 2023, he participated in a <a href="https://www.studlife.com/uncategorized/2023/03/01/green-action-rally-demands-university-divestment-from-fossil-fuels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Action rally</a> that called on the university to divest from fossil fuels and “recognize the impacts of environmental racism.” He said the university “directly contributes to violence against all of us” because “everybody breathes the toxic impacts of burning coal to produce electricity.” He stated:
“It’s really quite embarrassing to be a faculty member at WashU. It should be [embarrassing] for students and alumni to be associated with a University that’s really far behind a lot of things.” 
He added:
“When Chancellor Martin says they can’t do anything because they’re just trying to protect the money for the University, there are plenty of other places you can invest your money in this daily sick capitalist system that we live in.”
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<a href="https://search.med.wustl.edu/s/search.html?f.Tabs%7CmedPeople=People&amp;query=kaytlin+reedy-rogier&amp;profile=medicine&amp;collection=wustl-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier</a> is an Instructor in Clinical Medicine for Washington University in St. Louis’s School of Medicine. 

<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-u-lecturer-warns-medical-students-not-debate-systemic-oppression-shut-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reports that Reedy-Rogier was caught on camera warning students that if they try to debate her on critical race theory and “systemic oppression,” she “will shut that s— down real fast.” During a lecture, she said: 
“I have a really hard time being neutral around issues of systemic oppression. So oftentimes you will know how I feel. This does not mean that I am opposed to hearing other perspectives, I would like to be very clear about that: I am always willing to engage in dialogue with folks that may disagree with me. Always.” 
She continues: 
“And I will not think less of you, nor will I try to fight you or debate you. And in fact, if you try to fight me or debate me, I will shut that s— down real fast.” 
Reedy-Rogier also has argued the field of medicine “<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11551901/Washington-Uni-St-Louis-lecturer-says-race-implications-practice-medicine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has a really bad racism issue</a>,” stating: 
“We are very firm in race being a social construct, and that that has implications for how we practice medicine. That has implications for how we understand research, and that has implications for how we understand health disparity. And so when we are asking you all to engage in this, we’re really asking you to think about your own identities, and what that means to be anti-racist, which is an active stance in medicine that we know has a really bad racism issue.” 
Reedy-Rogier’s lecture is part of the <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lecturer-cautions-students-not-to-challenge-her-on-systemic-oppression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical school’s “Health Equity &amp; Justice” lessons</a> within the “Gateway Curriculum” that was rolled out in 2020. In the wake of the riots and protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, the medical school vowed to “require diversity and bias training for all searches and admissions processes including student, resident, fellow, faculty, and staff positions in education.”
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Published - January 17, 2023

<a href="https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/people/sarah-garwood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Sarah Garwood</a> is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. According to her university profile, Dr. Garwood “provides care for complex adolescent patients.” She also designed and serves as co-director of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

The Transgender Center <a href="https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center#:~:text=The%20Washington%20University%20Transgender%20Center,that%20addresses%20your%20specific%20needs." target="_blank" rel="noopener">provides a range of services</a> including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and menstrual suppression. The center’s website states: “Gender affirming care isn’t meant to influence people in any particular direction. We don’t ‘treat’ anyone’s identity or tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t do.”

The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11754435/Emails-doctors-St-Louis-transgender-clinic-telling-teachers-affirm-fifth-graders.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington University Transgender Center is being investigated</a> by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the office of Senator Josh Hawley after a former employee <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored an article “blowing the whistle”</a> on the “morally and medically appalling” actions happening at the center.

The whistleblower, who previously worked at the center for four years, <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed the center’s aggressive and early intervention</a> and its “lack of regard for the rights of parents.”

<a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/2023-02-09-Senator-Hawley-Letter-to-WashU.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a letter</a> to the university chancellor, hospital president, and the center’s co-directors, Senator Josh Hawley writes:
“That report presented substantial evidence that, like so many other pediatric gender clinics across the United States, this Missouri-based clinic appears to have been operating without transparency, oversight, and accountability - and causing devastating harm to children in the process.” 
Dr. Garwood has also been in the news after emails were discovered by <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/emails-reveal-school-district-sought-out-advice-from-st-louis-childrens-hospital-transgender-center-regarding-multiple-fifth-graders-transitioning-at-the-same-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents Defending Education (PDE)</a> that show her encouraging the Parkway School District not to disclose students’ chest-binding practices to parents. When school officials asked for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/childrens-hospital-advised-school-district-not-require-disclosure-students-chest-binding-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advice on how to handle chest-binding</a>, a staff member from the Transgender Center responded by quoting Dr. Garwood, saying:
“I would actually decline any requirements for disclosure by students or from school to parents.” 
Similarly, when asked for advice on how to handle fifth graders who are suffering from gender dysphoria, Dr. Garwood responded:
“The best we can do is affirm, validate and allow for the exploration, if in a few weeks or months, a student wants to go by their legal name and pronouns that match their sex assigned at birth, no harm was really done in affirming them before.” 
As of publication, Dr. Garwood is still employed by the university.

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Published - February 17, 2023

<a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/bret-gustafson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bret Gustafson</a> is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Gustafson describes himself as a “political anthropologist with an interest in climate politics, fossil fuels, and the energy transition.”

In November 2023, Gustafson came under fire for <a href="https://www.kmov.com/2023/11/28/washington-university-professor-under-fire-anti-israel-bias-after-social-media-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antisemitic social media comments</a>. After protesters in Los Angeles threw smoke devices and vandalized the home of the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Gustafson <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1729509403676598707" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly posted</a> the following:

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The <a href="https://twitter.com/bretgustafson?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">user’s account</a> has since been made private, but his Twitter biography includes a link to his faculty page at Washington University in St. Louis. The university provided the following statement to First Alert 4:
“Bret Gustafson is currently employed by Washington University. The opinions he has expressed as an individual do not represent the university’s position. We do not condone intimidation and we will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or threatening behavior.” 
In 2021, after a student destroyed a flag display that was part of a 9/11: Never Forget Project, Gustafson <a href="https://yaf.org/news/nearly-50-washu-professors-sign-statement-defending-9-11-vandal-american-flag-is-symbol-of-american-imperialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> in support of the vandal, calling the crime a “protest.” <a href="https://www.studlife.com/forum/2021/09/14/community-statement-against-islamophobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The letter</a> further said the American flag is “the symbol of American imperialism and violence in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and beyond.”

Gustafson is also a proponent of fossil fuel divestment. In March 2023, he participated in a <a href="https://www.studlife.com/uncategorized/2023/03/01/green-action-rally-demands-university-divestment-from-fossil-fuels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Action rally</a> that called on the university to divest from fossil fuels and “recognize the impacts of environmental racism.” He said the university “directly contributes to violence against all of us” because “everybody breathes the toxic impacts of burning coal to produce electricity.” He stated:
“It’s really quite embarrassing to be a faculty member at WashU. It should be [embarrassing] for students and alumni to be associated with a University that’s really far behind a lot of things.” 
He added:
“When Chancellor Martin says they can’t do anything because they’re just trying to protect the money for the University, there are plenty of other places you can invest your money in this daily sick capitalist system that we live in.”
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Published - December 4, 2023

<a href="https://brownschool.wustl.edu/faculty-and-research/vanessa-fabbre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanessa Fabbre</a> is an Associate Professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Her focus areas are “LGBTQ aging,” “Social work practice,” and “Interpretive methodology.” She’s also an affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Fabbre <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has a history</a> of writing and co-authoring LGBTQ-centered publications:
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 	<li>“The manifestation of multilevel stigma in the lived experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming older adults” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:3fE2CSJIrl8C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>)</li>
 	<li>“The State of Theory in LGBTQ Aging: Implications for Gerontological Scholarship” (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30626272/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Agency and social forces in the life course: The case of gender transitions in later life” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2017</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Gender transitions in later life: A queer perspective on successful aging” (<a href="https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/144/2957454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2015</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Gender transitions in later life: The significance of time in queer aging” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2014</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Social work and transitions of care: Observations from an intervention for older adults” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2011</a>)</li>
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Fabbre <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Intersections-Ageing-Gender-Sexualities-Multidisciplinary-ebook/dp/B07PHVCC1R/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uIzuBBXouRy-mXXoLg4PiIj0ZXRyM8Wi2MG9Sn2eSuA.7tbFaegOBzScIl-yR4_PRsJXtvmbB4Il5IVA4d467_Q&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;qid=1715985535&amp;refinements=p_27%3AVanessa+Fabbre&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2&amp;asin=B07PHVCC1R&amp;revisionId=e5aa79e8&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">edited a book</a> called “Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives.” The introduction states :

“Since its inception in black feminist scholarship in the late 1980s, intersectionality has been influential across, and been explored beyond, disciplinary boundaries … Intersectionality is not used in this book to look specifically at the oppressions that come from gender and race alone … Instead, we are following important work that has utilised intersectionality and made important contributions to exploring the relationship between class and sexuality and to the exploration of ageing sexualities.”

Fabbre’s work was featured in a video entitled, “Transgender Research - Gender Transition in Later Life - Selected Works of Dr. Vanessa D. Fabbre.”

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In May 2024, Fabbre added her signature to an <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZWaALNM0vYF1wWloU28WIZhP0Wl2VdTa6mcLVLBreI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter from Brown School students</a> to support pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The letter states, “As social work, public health, and social policy students, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians. We condemn the continued silence of the administration at the Brown School and Washington University in St. Louis.”

Please send tips and updates on Vanessa Fabbre to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - May 20, 2024
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<a href="https://jimes.wustl.edu/people/david-h-warren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David H. Warren</a> is a Lecturer of Middle East Studies and Arabic at Washington University in St. Louis. Aside from <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Rivals-in-the-Gulf-Yusuf-al-Qaradawi-Abdullah-Bin-Bayyah-and-the-Qatar-UAE/Warren/p/book/9780367280628" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publishing a book</a> in 2021 and his 2022 <a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022%20Religious%20Freedom%20Tolerance%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that “examine[d] the intersection of religious tolerance promotion and authoritarianism in the Gulf,” Warren has no other notable scholarly contributions.

In the paper, he uses the term “religious tolerance promotion” or RTP to indicate how friendly authoritarian regimes are toward those who openly practice their beliefs in society. Understandably, Warren did not include Palestine or Gaza in the piece. This could be due to the Gazan government <a href="https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1449-A-Short-History-of-Palestinian-Rejectionism-Cohen-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejecting statehood multiple times</a> and the fact that its terrorist branch, Hamas, does not tolerate any religion outside of its <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic Resistance Movement</a>.  

<a href="https://x.com/davidhwarren/with_replies?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Warren’s Twitter account</a> confirms his antisemitic views. On August 29, 2024, he posted about pro-Palestinian protests that occurred on Washington University’s campus. 

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The tweet links to a <a href="https://www.studlife.com/forum/2024/08/28/opinion-submission-a-letter-from-suspended-faculty-against-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university newspaper</a> article titled “Opinion Submission: A letter from suspended faculty against genocide.” Since Warren is only a non-tenured lecturer, his signature does not appear on the letter. The Professor Watchlist couldn’t confirm if Warren was off work in April when his superior colleagues <a href="https://www.studlife.com/news/2024/04/30/the-aftermath-of-april-27-protesters-denounce-police-response-administration-condemns-encampment-and-students-and-faculty-suspended" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined one</a> (of many) anti-Jewish protests that resulted in the arrest of four faculty members. 

The statement says, in part:
“As faculty members who were suspended and banned from campus this spring for standing with students against the genocide of Gaza, we know that our school remains gripped by a moral crisis stemming from its complicity in the occupation of Palestine. In April [2024], we experienced firsthand how the University prioritizes its ties to weapons contractors like Boeing over its commitment to the safety and well-being of its community members.” 
The following antisemitic and anti-American posts are also sourced from Warren’s social media:

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Published - October 3, 2024

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Peter Dreier

<a href="http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/peter-dreier">Dr. Peter Dreier</a>, a professor at Occidental College, has been a longtime activist for socialism in the U.S. He worked on a number of progressive projects and campaigns including the campaign of President Obama. He teaches a class called “Movements in Social Justice,” which requires reading the infamous A People&#8217;s History of the United States, authored by Marxist historian Howard Zinn. He also says the NRA has blood on its hands for supporting pro-gun rights legislation.

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<a href="https://lisa-wade.com/full-cv/">Dr. Lisa Wade</a> is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College. Dr. Wade called for abolishing all fraternities and sororities, although she allowed an exception for African-American fraternities and sororities.

<a href="http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/peter-dreier">Dr. Peter Dreier</a>, a professor at Occidental College, has been a longtime activist for socialism in the U.S. He worked on a number of progressive projects and campaigns including the campaign of President Obama. He teaches a class called “Movements in Social Justice,” which requires reading the infamous A People's History of the United States, authored by Marxist historian Howard Zinn. He also says the NRA has blood on its hands for supporting pro-gun rights legislation.

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<a href="https://www.prescott.edu/faculty-staff-directory/craig-willse">Craig Willse</a> is an associate faculty member of Social Environmental Arts Practice and Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College in Arizona. Craig led faculty and administrators at George Mason University in protesting the renaming of its law school after Antonin Scalia and regularly engages in Anti-Israel protests.

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Censorship 
In 2016, following an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/05/politics/george-mason-university-antonin-scalia-law-school-name-change">announcement</a> from George Mason University that they would be renaming their law school after the recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Willse, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/george-mason-university-professors-oppose-naming-law-school-after-antonin-n552501">according</a> to NBC, was then a cultural studies professor at  George Mason, led the protests by George Mason faculty and administration to oppose the decision. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonin-Scalia">Scalia </a>had served on the Supreme Court 30 years and was known for his  “originalism,” or interpretation of the United States Constitution as Scalia believes our founding fathers had intended.

As part of the protest, Willse <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/george-mason-university-professors-oppose-naming-law-school-after-antonin-n552501">authors</a> a letter protesting the university’s decision. The <a href="https://nojusticeforgmu.wordpress.com/">letter</a>, which appears on the site, “No Justice for GMU,” details Willse’s opposition to Scalia. He “denounces'' the renaming of the law school after Scalia and describes the university’s decision as an “affront” to those targeted by Scalia’s, “racism, sexism, and homophobia.” Willie specifically <a href="https://nojusticeforgmu.wordpress.com/who-was-scalia/">accuses</a> Scalia’s “constitutional originalism” of being “widely criticized” by historians and scholars, citing left-leaning publications such as Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, and The Huffington Post in doing so.

The same letter accuses Scalia of causing “direct harms” to GMU students, including “students of color, women, and LGBT students.”

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The protest was ultimately unsuccessful and the law school was officially <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/05/17/its-official-george-masons-law-school-is-named-in-honor-of-antonin-scalia/">renamed</a> the Antonin Scalia Law School later that year.

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Antisemitic 
Willse accuses Israel of being responsible for police brutality and racist profiling in the United States. In an article for the site, “Deadly Exchange” Willse <a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/building-safety-through-solidarity-an-interview-with-dean-spade-craig-willse/">states</a> that policing is a project of colonial and racial control.

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<a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/">Deadly Exchange</a> is a campaign by the anti-Israel group, <a href="https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/">Jewish Voice for Peace</a>. The campaign intends to end any collaboration between US and Israeli police forces. According to the official site for “Deadly Exchange,” security cooperation with Israel promotes “racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportation and detention, and attacks on human rights defenders.”

In the same <a href="https://deadlyexchange.org/building-safety-through-solidarity-an-interview-with-dean-spade-craig-willse/">article</a>, Willse compares policing with slave patrols in the Jim Crow-era and therefore says policing “fundamentally anti-black.” He states that police cannot be reformed, and his long-term goal is to abolish police and prisons.

As <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Craig_Willse">documented</a> by the site, <a href="https://canarymission.org/">Canary Mission</a>, Willse holds other anti-Israel stances and takes part in protests accusing Israel of being an “apartheid state.” In an article for the site Truthout, Willse <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-and-israeli-police-are-sharing-violent-and-repressive-tactics/">describes</a> Israel and the US “as the world's most racist, repressive and violent police and military forces.”

In the video below, Willse can be seen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e6jULCCh3Y&amp;ab_channel=AriWohlfeiler">disrupting</a> a pro-Israel parade in New York. As <a href="https://forward.com/scribe/373862/jvp-targeted-queer-jewish-youth-at-israel-parade/">reported</a> by The Forward, members of the New York Police Department stated that Willse and 4 others “targeted”  the parade on behalf of Jewish Voice for Peace and were arrested for disorderly conduct.

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To learn more, check out TPUSA Contributor Erin Elmore's <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/beware-of-prescott-college-professor-craig-willse">article</a> on Willse at TPUSA Live.

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<a href="https://www.otis.edu/faculty/patrisse-cullors">Patrisse Cullors</a> is a Lecturer at the Otis College of Art and Design and served as the faculty director of Prescott College's MFA degree (Social and Environmental Arts Practice) in Prescott, Arizona. A seasoned organizer, Cullors is one of the co-founders of the <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/">Black Lives Matter</a> (BLM) movement and <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/27/black-lives-matter-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-resigns-amid-controversy/">served as executive director until resigning in 2021</a>. Along with its parent organization, the <a href="https://m4bl.org/">Movement for Black Lives</a>, the BLM is dedicated to the abolition of police, direct action to combat what Patrisse deems as systematic racism, and has maintained an active presence in the nationwide riots that followed the death of George Floyd.

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder. After a jury acquitted Zimmerman of the murder in 2013, Cullors (who refers to Zimmerman as “white-passing” even though he is Hispanic), joined with <a href="https://aliciagarza.com/">Alicia Garza</a> and <a href="https://www.opaltometi.org/">Opal Tometi</a> to form an organization, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/">as stated on its website</a>.

“....whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.”

BLM came to further prominence following the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gunshots-looting-after-grand-jury-in-ferguson-case-does-not-indict-officer-in-michael-brown-shooting">riots in Ferguson, Missouri</a> in reaction to the acquittal of police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of <a href="https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-nn-na-watch-video-michael-brown-robbery-20140815-story.html">robbery-suspect</a> Michael Brown. Although later determined that Brown had attacked the officer, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims">BLM was instrumental in spreading the lie</a> that Brown was shot at point-blank range with his hands raised.

Although purporting to be a civil-rights organization dedicated to fighting police brutality and white supremacy around the world, Cullors, BLM, and the Movement for Black Lives advocate for positions championed by radical leftists. BLM advocates for the abolishment of prisons, defunding the police, dismantling the nuclear family, cutting off aid to Israel (which they label a racist state), are inspired by the Black Panther Party and other prominent Marxists, and encourages rioting and looting, all the while receiving millions of dollars through organizations connected to the Democratic party.

BLM and its affiliates have been inspired by a litany of figures from the radical Left. Cullors herself has boasted of being <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/24/black-lives-matter-founder-mentored-by-ex-domestic-terrorist-who-worked-with-bill-ayers/">mentored by Communist Eric Mann</a> of the Labor/Community Strategy Center. Mann was also a member of Students for a Democratic Society, which was founded by domestic terrorist, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/williamayers">Bill Ayers</a>. In an interview from 2015, Cullors herself stated that she and her co-founders are “<a href="https://youtu.be/Zp-RswgpjD8?t=337">trained Marxists</a>.”

 “...we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.” 

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On the podcast <a href="https://youtu.be/0tOm0rOgGUE?t=1726">The People’s Party</a> with antisemitic rapper <a href="https://www.israellycool.com/2016/03/27/rapper-talib-kweli-greene-goes-on-an-antisemitic-rampage-on-twitter/">Talib Kweli</a>,  Cullors described how the <a href="https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm">Black Panther Party’s 10-Point Program</a> inspired BLM’s guiding principles. <a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm">The Panthers</a> were a Marxist-Leninist organization, co-led by Huey Newton, whose involvement is <a href="https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/">suspected in multiple murders</a> allegedly committed by the Panthers. Cullors has also spoken of her affinity for and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiAUYJXv2Yo&amp;ab_channel=NewYorkTimesEvents">appeared at events </a>with <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/opposing-honors-for-angela-davis-isnt-racist/">Angela Davis</a> (who wrote the forward to Cullor’s book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-They-Call-You-Terrorist/dp/1250171083">When They Call You a Terrorist)</a>. Davis, who frequently toured and vocally defended the Soviet Union, is an open Marxist and former Communist Party candidate for President, whose firearms were used in a courtroom shoot-out in 1970 that left 4 dead.

Cullors and the Movement for Black Lives have routinely condemned the nation of Israel. In their policy platform, the Movement for Black Lives <a href="https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/invest-divest/">describes Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state</a>;

“....approximately 3 billion dollars in US aid is allocated to Israel, a state that practices systematic discrimination and has maintained a military occupation of Palestine for decades.”

“The US justifies and advances its global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian People...it makes US citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli government. Israel is an apartheid state with over 50 laws on the books that sanction discrimination against the Palestinian people.” 

“Every day, Palestinians are forced to walk through military checkpoints along the US-funded apartheid wall.”  

Cullors has made her anti-Israel stances a focal point in her activism. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZXNypWKbE&amp;t=1050s&amp;ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish=38m28s">She has bragged</a> about how one of BLM’s first delegations was sent to Israel, in which Cullors used the trip to <a href="https://www.ebony.com/news/dream-defenders-black-lives-matter-ferguson-reps-take-historic-trip-to-palestine/">degenerate Israel as an apartheid state</a>. She claimed,

“This is an apartheid state. We can’t deny that and if we do deny it we are part of the Zionist violence.”

<a href="https://youtu.be/mQ8z-gGMSIY?t=4183">Speaking at the US Campaign for Palestinian rights</a>, she accused Israeli’s of “Jewish supremacism” and oppressing “black folks in Palestine.”

“Zionists have used anti-Semitic rhetoric to uphold Jewish supremacism and the illegal state of Israel.” 

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One of the most striking aspects of BLM’s platform is the call to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-lives-matter-disrupt-nuclear-family-website">abolish the nuclear family</a>.

Their official website claims, “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” 

Core to BLM’s actions is the central belief that America is an inherently racist nation. On a number of occasions, Cullors has described how black Americans are at a fundamental disadvantage and are actively discriminated against in America. She has also indicated that in order to fight racism, black Americans have to separate themselves from other whites.

Rather than citing specific acts of racism, Cullors states that “all white Americans have inherent white supremacy” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OE0a87wHbA&amp;ab_channel=HOT97=23m58s">during a radio interview in New York</a>. She claimed that “...if you’re white...you have white supremacy in you, you have racism in you, that’s just what happens with whiteness”

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In a separate interview, Cullors suggested that black people have to re-assert their “blackness” in order to <a href="https://youtu.be/Zp-RswgpjD8?t=546">resist becoming white</a>.

“The US is very clever at turning other groups white, and making them white, and we’ve seen that throughout history when groups were not white and when the white power structure was threatened, they figured out a way to make groups white. And I think as we move forward we have to figure out political alignments that hold blackness as a broader framework than just sort of the skin we are in, but as a political statement.” 

To Cullors, revered American institutions like law enforcement are the pillars of systematic racism. She, along with BLM, regularly vilify police as racists who disproportionately target African-Americans. Following the death of George Floyd, BLM released an official statement <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/defundthepolice/">alleging that police don’t protect black communities</a>. The statement read:

“George Floyd’s death was a breaking point - an all too familiar reminder that for Black people, law enforcement doesn’t protect or save lives. They often threaten and take them.”   

BLM then encouraged the reader to sign a petition below the statement that called for a defunding of police departments nation-wide:

“We call for an end to the systematic racism that allows this culture of corruption to go unchecked and our lives to be taken. We call for a national defunding of police. ” 

In calling for the defunding of police, the <a href="https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/end-the-war-on-black-communities/">policy platform</a> for the Movement for Black Lives actually equates funding law enforcement with an increase of rapes committed in black communities.

“The investment in punishment over prevention has not made us any safer. On the contrary, it has contributed to skyrocketing levels of police killings, rapes, and sexual assaults, physical violence, harassment, and criminalization in Black communities.” 

The Movement for Black Lives has listed as a resource the <a href="https://www.thejerichomovement.com/home">National Jericho Movement</a>, under their <a href="https://m4bl.org/policy-platforms/political-power/">End Criminalization of Political Activity Policy Brief</a>. The National Jericho Movement is an organization that <a href="https://www.thejerichomovement.com/about">advocates for the release</a> of convicted cop killers, including <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/22/the-never-ending-saga-of-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jama/">Mumia Abu-Jamal</a>, <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/97/the-curious-case-of-jamil-al-amin">Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin</a>, and <a href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/23/anthony-bottom-convicted-of-killing-2-nypd-officers-in-1971-ambush-granted-parole/">Anthony Bottom</a>.

Cullors herself has repeatedly called for abolishing the police. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYa1WjHtzKc&amp;ab_channel=NowThisNews">interview with NowThis News</a>, she called for defunding police departments and that law enforcement is “rarely used” as a source of justice for the black community. She stated that defunding the police is the best available option because officers are trained to use force first, and that cannot be untrained. Answering the obvious question as to what would replace law enforcement, Cullors suggested that social workers would be sent to settle cases of domestic violence

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When she was invited to <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/31/black-lives-matter-founder-dnc-platform-must-call-for-defunding-police-abolishing-ice/">address the Democratic National Committee</a>, Cullors used the platform to advocate for abolishing the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). and all prisons and federal detention centers.

“Until and unless our leaders become a signatory to the BREATHE Act — to legislation that eliminates the federal government’s ability to give multi-million dollar grants to militarize police forces; dismantles punitive like ICE, Border Patrol, and the DEA; ends the use of surveillance systems being used to target protesters, and bans the use of police agencies to suppress political dissent — the Democratic Party of today will be remembered as the party of complicity.”
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"Without the sea changes our movement recommended for the 2020 Democratic platform, any to claims ally-ship in solidarity with our work to fight for Black liberation are for not." <a href="https://twitter.com/OsopePatrisse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OsopePatrisse</a>'s speech to the DNC Platform Committee <a href="https://t.co/U9FXxAgoNZ">https://t.co/U9FXxAgoNZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/VSd5rXOkVO">pic.twitter.com/VSd5rXOkVO</a>
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Writing in the <a href="https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/04/abolition-and-reparations-histories-of-resistance-transformative-justice-and-accountability/">Harvard Law Review,</a>  she further detailed her positions and so-called “struggle” against “racism, patriarchy, and capitalism.” Going further than just condemning law enforcement agencies, Cullors designates the United States as the premier violator of human rights in the world. She wrote, “The United States, the world’s largest jailer, is also the world’s greatest perpetrator of war and the most extensive purveyor of human rights atrocities at home and abroad, laying claim to over 800 military bases around the world.”  

Seemingly written as a warning, Cullors describes exactly how she will confront the “white supremacy” that she considers embedded in the fabric of our society. She continued, “Abolition calls on us to not only to destabilize, deconstruct, and demolish oppressive systems, institutions, and practices, but also to repair histories of harm across the board. Our task is not only to abolish prisons, policing, and militarization, which are wielded in the name of “public safety” and “national security.” We must also demand reparations and incorporate reparative justice in our vision for society and community building in the twenty-first century.”  

BLM has been <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">implicated in a number of riots</a> around the country following the death of George Floyd. A report by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project stated that 95% of riots over the summer of 2020 were linked to BLM activism or had BLM activists present. The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion.">causing an estimated $2 Billion in damages</a> and 47 deaths.

Despite the tragedy, Cullors has been, at best, ambivalent towards the destruction caused by riots. Hosted by Seth Myers, <a href="https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/ramy-youssef-and-patrisse-cullors-on-how-to-help-the-fight-against-police-brutality/4179038">Cullors dismissed looting and rioting</a>, excusing it as paling in comparison to the destruction caused by police.  On the program, she stated,

“I think, and what I’m often describing to people is, we are very obsessed with property damage. Property damage is seen as sort of like the pinnacle of destruction and violence, and we rarely hear the media focus on police violence or police terror...And so there’s this conservation that I think is an uneven conversation in the media about people who are looting versus the infrastructure and the structure of racism and the police officers who continue to cause havoc and chaos in our communities.” 

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Patrice has seemingly advocated for rioting. Interrupting Martin O’ Malley at Netroots Nation in 2015, <a href="https://youtu.be/chXJq-VaXXs?t=615">Cullors began chanting slogans</a> that now, with hindsight, seem ominous:

“If I die in police custody, avenge my death, by any means necessary!” 

“If I die in police custody, burn everything down! Because no building is worth more than my life! Because that's the only way motherf****** like you will listen!”  

This is not the only documented pattern of BLM's destructive impact on communities. Since 2014, researchers have identified a resurgence of homicides in inner-cities where police have withdrawn their presence following intense scrutiny by BLM activists. Coined, "<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/ferguson-effect-inner-cities">The Ferguson Effect</a>," thousands of additional deaths of black men and women have been attributed to this sudden absence of law enforcement.

Cullors and her other co-founders have accepted millions in donations since BLM’s inception. <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/tides-center-takes-control-of-black-lives-matter-global-network/">Publicly available documents</a> reveal that BLM accumulated more than $3 million in assets in 2019. This is before BLM officially joined <a href="https://www.tides.org/">The Tides Center</a>, a left-leaning organization that reported more than $636 million in revenues. As an official project under the umbrella of the Tides Foundation rather than a stand-alone organization, Cullors and BLM will now be shielded from the same IRS scrutiny that many non-profit organizations face.

Notable donors to the Tides Center include <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/connoisseur-chaos-14954.html">George Soros</a> and the <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/31/foundation-with-biden-campaign-ties-funding-leftist-agitators-on-u-s-streets/">Ford Foundation</a>. Donations to BLM are handled by <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2018&amp;strID=C00401224">ActBlue</a>, a progressive fundraising platform that is set to raise more than $2.5 billion for left-leaning causes in 2020 alone.

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<a href="https://directory.cortland.edu/?Search=Nikolay%20Karkov">Nikolay Karkov</a> is a professor in the Philosophy Department at SUNY Cortland. 
Karkov opposed a Turning Point USA chapter at SUNY Cortland. According to <a href="https://sites.cortland.edu/dragon-chronicle/2024/02/29/turning-point-usa-takes-legal-action-against-suny-cortland-over-campus-access-denial/">The Dragon Chronicle</a>, during a February meeting proposing the establishment of a TPUSA chapter, Karkov issued a series of allegations aimed at the conservative non-profit organization. 
He addressed the students first: 
“I trust that you’re probably well-intentioned, you’re probably wonderful people, but I want to list a couple of things about the organization itself; what the organization has done, what its key members have done because you can only disaffiliate so much from them.”
The Dragon Chronicle states that “Prof. Karkov then went on to list an alleged instance of a hate crime committed by TPUSA members, Charlie Kirk calling for transgender people to be ‘dealt with’ like men did ‘in the 50s and 60s’ referring to lynching, and TPUSA members calling Critical Race Theory ‘the most racist thing to ever happen in this country.’”
Karkov concluded his address with a warning to the students:
“I would like to ask what you think, whether you affiliate or disaffiliate, because if this is the organization you represent you can only go so far to disaffiliate…I would like to hear what you think and why you think the organization should be chartered to be present at SUNY Cortland. That is the simple question that I have, thank you.”
The U.S. District Court Northern District of New York oversaw a <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TPUSACortlandComplaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> filed by Plaintiffs Turning Point USA at SUNY Cortland; Gabriella De Lorenzo; and Megan Rothmund against Defendants Cortland College Student Association, Erik Bitterbaum, and Nikolay Karkov. 
The lawsuit, filed with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges the Defendants mistreatment of the students who tried to establish a TPUSA chapter:
“…Defendants Student Government and Bitterbaum withheld recognition from Plaintiff TPUSA under their Nonrecognition Policy because the Student Government’s Student Senate and Defendant SUNY Cortland Professor Defendant Nikolay Karkov objected to and attacked Plaintiffs’ views.”
According to ADF, “in March, SUNY Cortland officially <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/after-adf-attorneys-file-lawsuit-ny-college-reverses-vote-approves-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> the TPUSA chapter shortly after ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit, but the student government failed to fully address its unconstitutional policy that allowed the conservative group to be denied recognized status in the first place.” 
The SUNY Cortland student government eventually agreed to revise the <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-07-10-Policy-Update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy.</a> 
In August, a <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-08-05-Settlement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> was made between the Plaintiffs and Defendants. According to the Court:
“The Parties to this Agreement wish to resolve all claims the Parties have against each other related to the events alleged in the Litigation.”
Please send information on Nikolay Karkov to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published &#8211; October 25, 2024

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<a href="https://directory.cortland.edu/?Search=Nikolay%20Karkov">Nikolay Karkov</a> is a professor in the Philosophy Department at SUNY Cortland. 

Karkov opposed a Turning Point USA chapter at SUNY Cortland. According to <a href="https://sites.cortland.edu/dragon-chronicle/2024/02/29/turning-point-usa-takes-legal-action-against-suny-cortland-over-campus-access-denial/">The Dragon Chronicle</a>, during a February meeting proposing the establishment of a TPUSA chapter, Karkov issued a series of allegations aimed at the conservative non-profit organization. 

He addressed the students first: 
“I trust that you’re probably well-intentioned, you’re probably wonderful people, but I want to list a couple of things about the organization itself; what the organization has done, what its key members have done because you can only disaffiliate so much from them.”
The Dragon Chronicle states that “Prof. Karkov then went on to list an alleged instance of a hate crime committed by TPUSA members, Charlie Kirk calling for transgender people to be ‘dealt with’ like men did ‘in the 50s and 60s’ referring to lynching, and TPUSA members calling Critical Race Theory ‘the most racist thing to ever happen in this country.’”

Karkov concluded his address with a warning to the students:
“I would like to ask what you think, whether you affiliate or disaffiliate, because if this is the organization you represent you can only go so far to disaffiliate…I would like to hear what you think and why you think the organization should be chartered to be present at SUNY Cortland. That is the simple question that I have, thank you.”
The U.S. District Court Northern District of New York oversaw a <a href="https://adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net/files/TPUSACortlandComplaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> filed by Plaintiffs Turning Point USA at SUNY Cortland; Gabriella De Lorenzo; and Megan Rothmund against Defendants Cortland College Student Association, Erik Bitterbaum, and Nikolay Karkov. 

The lawsuit, filed with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges the Defendants mistreatment of the students who tried to establish a TPUSA chapter:
“…Defendants Student Government and Bitterbaum withheld recognition from Plaintiff TPUSA under their Nonrecognition Policy because the Student Government’s Student Senate and Defendant SUNY Cortland Professor Defendant Nikolay Karkov objected to and attacked Plaintiffs’ views.”
According to ADF, “in March, SUNY Cortland officially <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/after-adf-attorneys-file-lawsuit-ny-college-reverses-vote-approves-conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> the TPUSA chapter shortly after ADF attorneys filed a lawsuit, but the student government failed to fully address its unconstitutional policy that allowed the conservative group to be denied recognized status in the first place.” 

The SUNY Cortland student government eventually agreed to revise the <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-07-10-Policy-Update.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy.</a> 

In August, a <a href="https://dm1l19z832j5m.cloudfront.net/2024-08/TPUSA-at-SUNY-Cortland-v-CCSA-2024-08-05-Settlement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> was made between the Plaintiffs and Defendants. According to the Court:
“The Parties to this Agreement wish to resolve all claims the Parties have against each other related to the events alleged in the Litigation.”
Please send information on Nikolay Karkov to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - October 25, 2024

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Bradley Schaefer

<a href="http://www.lsu.edu/physics/people/faculty/schaefer.php">Dr. Bradley Schaefer </a>is a distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. In one of Dr. Schaefer&#8217;s courses he paused class to ask his students how they thought the government should combat global warming, and made students sit in different areas of the classroom based on their answers. He then proceeded to openly mock the “conservative” students by stating that they were “part of the problem” and that blood would be on their hands.

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Louisiana State University

<a href="http://www.lsu.edu/physics/people/faculty/schaefer.php">Dr. Bradley Schaefer </a>is a distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. In one of Dr. Schaefer's courses he paused class to ask his students how they thought the government should combat global warming, and made students sit in different areas of the classroom based on their answers. He then proceeded to openly mock the “conservative” students by stating that they were “part of the problem” and that blood would be on their hands.

<a href="https://www.lsu.edu/hss/religious-studies/people/finley.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Stephen Finley</a> is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies &amp; African and African American Studies—in addition to serving as the Director for the latter department—at <a href="https://lsu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana State University</a>.

Dr. Finley is a scholar and contributes positive articles about the Nation of Islam (NOI). He has <a href="https://laist.com/news/nation-of-islam-leader-hails-nipsey-hussle-as-a-prophetic-voice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further praised Louis Farrakhan,</a> the organization’s leader, for allegedly brokering peace between gangs in an article for LAist.

A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/louis-farrakhan-what-to-know-controversial-nation-of-islam-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prominent black nationalist</a> that has led the NOI for decades, <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2018/03/24/the-20-worst-quotes-from-louis-farrakhan-liberal-americas-favorite-racist-n2463869" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Farrakhan is known for virulent anti-white and antisemitic statements.</a> He has called for the formation of black militias, stating that “white people need to die,” and even praised Adolf Hitler as a “very great man” in a speech comparing himself to the Nazi dictator.

As a critical race scholar, the bulk of Finley's work is concentrated on “whiteness studies,” itself a branch of critical race theory.

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges that <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.

<a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-whiteness-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whiteness studies</a>, itself a branch of critical race theory, examines the place of white people in modern society. The theory argues that white people—whether aware or unaware of their privilege—contribute and benefit from racialized systems of oppression. Therefore, critical theorists work to dismantle “whiteness” and the structures that underline it.  Another facet of whiteness studies—one that Dr. Finley subscribes to—notes that when people of color attempt to replace these systems, white people will oppose the efforts to achieve racial equity—oftentimes violently—in order to preserve their own racial privilege.

As the author of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.3.4.0443" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“God IS a White Supremacist</a>,” Dr. Finley, defines “God” as the current state that manifests as white supremacy in everyday life, particularly in the lives of black Americans. This state inflicts racial violence towards black Americans through institutions like the police There is no recourse for this carnage as this God-like state is “divine and above reproach” to many white Americans.

Dr. Finley is also a contributing author of the book, “<a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46538/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Religion of White Rage</a>,” which alleges how white people go to great lengths to preserve their own racial privilege. Over the course of his chapters, Dr. Finley develops his own concept, positing that whiteness—and thus, “white rage”—is a religion to most white people.

Dr. Finley defines religion as a mechanism for people to comprehend their place and purpose in the world. In this context, whiteness is the framework for white Americans to position themselves apart from people of color in order to maximize the benefits of racial privilege that our society confers. This is done through a series of institutions that explicitly benefit white Americans—such as the police—at the expense of black Americans.

Dr. Finley posits that all whites benefit from and work to uphold these racist structures. Whenever they are challenged by the social progress of African Americans, white Americans will often respond violently.

The term that Dr. Finley uses to define this phenomenon is “white rage;” Whiteness causes white Americans to react violently whenever their privilege is challenged by social or racial progress.

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The specific instances that Dr. Finley cites are the white supporters of Donald Trump and the “MAGA Movement” at large. He alleges that the rise of Donald Trump is a backlash to the racial progress brought on by a black president (Barack Obama).

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This in turn drew a “violent response of white communities” over their perceived loss of racial entitlements.

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He writes further that Donald Trump draws upon the “myth of the white worker”—or a nostalgic return to a mythical era—to “activate the white populace” to protect their privilege.

Rather than a fringe scholar, Dr. Finley’s work is openly promoted by the university. At his most <a href="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/theadvocate.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/ae/2aed5752-7568-11eb-8871-4f0d6325ef45/6034426fa5d8a.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent event</a>, the communications department hosted Dr. Finley to discuss his book alongside other whiteness and critical race scholars.

The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEcLCvgE6rc&amp;ab_channel=LSUManshipSchoolofMassCommunication">full lecture may be viewed below</a>.

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In a press release preceding the event, Dr. Finley characterizes the <a href="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/theadvocate.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/ae/2aed5752-7568-11eb-8871-4f0d6325ef45/6034426fa5d8a.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">religion of the white people as the “motivating factor” for the rise in white supremacist </a>sentiment, which in turn resulted in the “Capitol Insurrection.”

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Finley for comment, but he declined to respond prior to publication.

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`Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.lsu.edu/hss/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Humanities and Social Sciences</a> of Louisiana State University at (225) 578-3141
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Updated - March 30th, 2022
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Marcus Venable is a current graduate student and previous graduate assistant at Louisiana State University. According to the university’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230124144033/https://www.lsu.edu/hss/sociology/people/graduate_students.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, his interests include “criminology, sexual assault, sex-offender recidivism, and sex-offender registries.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lsu-sociologist-calls-republican-legislator-f-moron-for-opposing-trans-surgeries-for-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Venable left a vulgar message for State Senator Michael “Big Mike” Fesi. Venable called him a ”f*cking moron” for overriding a bill regarding transgender surgeries for children which Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed. 

He called the Senator a “fat f*cking piece of sh*t" and said "I can't wait to read your name in the f*cking obituary. I will make a g*dd*mn martini made from the tears of butthurt conservatives when we put your f*cking ass in the ground.”

You can listen to the full voicemail below. Warning: vulgar and inappropriate language is used. Listener discretion is advised.
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UNHINGED: This is a voicemail that was sent to Louisiana State Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_BigMikeFesi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sen_BigMikeFesi</a> after he voted to override Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto on the bill to ban child sex changes in which <a href="https://twitter.com/LSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LSU</a> Professor Marcus Venable calls him a "fat fucking piece of shit" and says "I can't… <a href="https://t.co/IEKisCF6mg">pic.twitter.com/IEKisCF6mg</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1681844952362303490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/lsu-graduate-assistant-banned-from-teaching-over-f-bomb-filled-voicemail-to-state-senator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, Venable will no longer be eligible to teach at the university. However, he can continue his graduate studies. 

​​Legal analyst Franz Borghardt told <a href="https://www.wafb.com/2023/07/20/lsu-grad-student-no-longer-allowed-teach-university-after-allegedly-leaving-profanity-laced-voicemail-state-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WAFB</a> that First Amendment rights are not guaranteed in all situations. Furthermore:
“If your words or your expression are threatening, if they are harmful, they are not necessarily absolutely protected. So, can LSU respond to a faculty member, albeit an LSU grad student making a profane, potentially threatening voicemail to a member of the legislature, yes I think they can. Because candidly at the end of the day, the call borderlines on a criminal act, whether it be assault, whether it be terrorizing. So, I think LSU can act, but LSU didn’t expel the grad student who is also a teacher.”
The Professor Watchlist team contacted Venable at his listed LSU address and the LSU media relations team. 

LSU media relations shared a statement with the Professor Watchlist team: 
“As a university, we foster open and respectful dialogue. Like everyone, graduate students with teaching assignments have the right to express their opinions, but this profanity-filled, threatening call crossed the line. This does not exhibit the character we expect of someone given the privilege of teaching as part of their graduate assistantship. The student will be allowed to continue their studies but will not be extended the opportunity to teach in the future.”
As of publication, Venable has not responded to the Professor Watchlist's request for comment. 

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Published – July 21, 2023

<a href="https://law.lsu.edu/directory/profiles/ken-levy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Levy</a> is a Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Law. According to his faculty profile, Levy “teaches criminal law, criminal theory, international criminal law, white-collar criminal law, and tort law.”

According to <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/01/30/deja-vu-lsu-prof-who-talked-trump-class-faces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed</a>, during a January 14 lecture, Levy exclaimed multiple expletive-filled rants to his class. 

After saying “F*** the governor!’” Levy ranted to his class about his political views and opinions of the President:


“You probably heard I’m a big lefty, I’m a big Democrat, I was devastated by — I couldn’t believe that f***er won, and those of you who like him, I don’t give a s***, you’re already getting ready to say in your evaluations, ‘I don’t need his political commentary.’ No, you need my political commentary, you above all others.”

Having a no-recording policy in his class, Levy said jokingly that anyone who records his lectures will be put in prison. 

On X, Governor Landry called on LSU to <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2025/02/10/landry-lsu-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discipline</a> the professor. Levy was forthwith removed from his teaching status at LSU for the remarks. 

The professor defended his comments and claimed they were protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. His legal defense argued his academic freedom and right to due process were violated by the university.

However, on February 11, a judge in the 19th Judicial District ruled to reinstate the professor to his classroom. According to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lsu-professor-louisiana-landry-trump-571c90b3c939ca2d187120957318777a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>:

“During two days of testimony, law students and another professor spoke about the ‘chilling effect’ Levy’s removal had on them and that it exacerbated fears over speaking freely in the classroom.”
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<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/yazzi014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melanie Yazzie</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. According to her university profile, she writes and teaches about numerous topics including “Indigenous feminisms,” “queer Indigenous studies,” and “Marxism.”
Yazzie participated in a December 2023 <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/professor-calls-dismantling-us-greatest-predator-empire-1855115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> with fellow University of Minnesota professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nickestes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick Estes</a> titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” During the event, Yazzie <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-u-s-a-genocidal-settler-colonial-state-that-needs-to-be-dismantled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called for people to “dismantle” and “decolonize” the United States</a>:
“And what we really want you to take away tonight … We’re all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the United States government. And of course, the U.S. bank rules the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’re one in the same, really.” 
“And so, it’s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place. Because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed. So we want [the] U.S. out of everywhere … and the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.” 
Yazzie also argued that giving <a href="https://alphanews.org/u-of-m-professor-i-hope-you-seek-to-dismantle-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land back to Native Americans</a> is “non-negotiable” and “is going to happen.”
“The United States, also built on stolen land like the settler nation of Israel, does not have the authority to speak in this place and on this land. It is the Indigenous people, who belong to Indigenous nations that predate the advent of the United States and that will be here after the United States is gone, that have the authority.” 
The panel discussion was hosted by <a href="https://therednation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Red Nation</a>, which, according to its website, is “dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism.” Estes is a co-founder of the organization and Yazzie hosts a podcast through The Red Nation called the Red Power Hour. The group’s Principles of Unity declare:
“We are anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. We are Indigenous feminists who believe in radical relationality. We do not seek a milder form of capitalism or colonialism &#8211; we demand an entirely new system premised on peace, cooperation, and justice. For our Earth and relatives to live, capitalism and colonialism must die.” 
When Yazzie was a PhD student at the University of New Mexico, she was outspoken against the school seal, which features a conquistador and a frontiersman. At a <a href="https://www.liberationnews.org/activists-speak-out-against-racist-seal-university-president-stands-with-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest over the school seal</a> in 2016, Yazzie stated: “[Then-University of New Mexico President] Bob Frank you have blood on your hands! We are going to keep holding this university accountable until it concedes to our demands!”
The full video of the December 2023 panel discussion can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbZXRMpWTk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed here</a>.
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Published &#8211; January 4, 2024

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University of Minnesota

Wayne Bendickson, also known as <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/sisoka">Sisoka Duta</a>, is a Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Bendickson requires all of his students to pick a topic from a list, which includes ‘why Native American mascots should be banned from sports,’ and explain in the assignment why it is important. A counter-argument was not allowed.

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/ais/people/faculty">Dr. Nick Estes</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the founder of <a href="https://therednation.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Red Nation</a> blog and hosts a podcast with the same name. 

Dr. Estes has called for the dissolution of the United States, praised communism, and castigates white people. 

Referring to the United States as a settler colonial nation, Dr. Estes states that America is committed to the destruction of native Americans. In an article for The Guardian, Dr. Estes describes the country <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/27/only-racist-ignorance-lets-rick-santorum-think-america-was-birthed-from-nothing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a “white supremacist empire,” and a “savage nation built on untold violence” against indigenous people</a>. 

“The erasure of Native histories and peoples – which existed long before and despite a white supremacist empire – is a founding principle of the United States. In fact, it’s still codified in US law.” 

Dr. Estes’s world views are encapsulated in The Red Nation’s <a href="https://therednation.org/10-point-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“10 Point Program,”</a> which calls for the following: 

- Return of all the nation’s land to the “original caretakers” or tribes, which would dissolve the United States. 

- Abolish all police, which Estes describes as “Indian killers” and the “foot soldiers of US occupation, racism, and misogyny.” 

- Abolish the “racist system” of capitalism.   

Dr. Estes elsewhere advocates for the total erasure of national borders. Among the demands listed on the “<a href="https://therednation.org/caucuses/beyond-borders-caucus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Border Caucus</a>”—which is hosted on The Red Nation’s website—Estes calls for abolishing all borders but specifically cites America and Israel for elimination. 

In a blog post titled, <a href="https://therednation.org/the-liberation-of-palestine-represents-an-alternative-path-for-native-nations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations,”</a> Dr. Estes urges his readers to support Arab “resistance in any and all forms” against Israel. This includes the adoption of the BDS movement, which embraces the following tenets: 

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel.

His post further demands the “Right of Return,” which calls for the forcible relocation of over 7 million self-identifying Palestinian “refugees” into Israel’s current borders. This would demographically swamp Israel and transform it into a majority-Arab state.  

Dr. Estes further cites <a href="https://therednation.org/revolutionary-socialism-is-the-primary-political-ideology-of-the-red-nation-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“revolutionary socialism</a>” as the “primary political ideology of the Red Nation.” He declares Communism the “greatest expression of love,” and promises that socialism will replace capitalism once the latter is destroyed. 

Throughout the site, the Hammer and Sickle is <a href="http://therednation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">displayed prominently</a>. The symbol was the insignia of the Soviet Union, which was responsible for as many as <a href="https://fee.org/articles/the-staggering-toll-of-the-russian-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61 million deaths</a>. 

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Dr. Estes uses his personal Twitter account to denigrate white people as “pilgrims,”
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Destroy the Pilgrim Mythology. <a href="https://t.co/s4ksOqoLKJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/s4ksOqoLKJ</a>
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1200102585929068544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ok, pilgrim. 🤡 <a href="https://t.co/j6cyUvMAyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/j6cyUvMAyw</a>
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1382557629327630336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On several occasions, he even instructs followers to “kill the pilgrim.” 
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Kill the Pilgrim in your head.
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1198786308342079493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It’s also the first all Lakota show!
Kill the Pilgrim, Save the man.

— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1198786230684545026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 16, 2022

J.B. Mayo is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. <a href="https://www.cehd.umn.edu/people/mayo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Mayo’s university profile</a>, his interests include “LGBT and Queer Studies, teacher education, critical pedagogies, multicultural education, social justice, [the] intersectionality of race, gender, and sexual orientation.”

Mayo has taught a variety of courses. A few are listed below:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Multicultural Gender-Fair Curriculum</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Developing Civic Discourse in the Social Studies</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Teaching Theory and Research</li>
</ul>
Mayo’s research also focuses on “how to bring LGBTQ histories into public school curriculums.” He has a variety of publications, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681811.2015.1094944?journalCode=csed20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adults’ complicity in limiting students’ understanding of sex, gender and sexuality at school</a>. The commentary states that “Sexuality enters the classroom during school-sanctioned celebrations like Halloween, but is understood in distinct ways, gendered, and judged differently based upon enduring stereotypes of Latino women that are ever present in popular media (Boas, 91-104).”</li>
 	<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pcssonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SSJSpring2019-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Engaging two-spirit knowledge as a means to deconstruct the gender binary</a> (6-19). In this section, Mayo presents his research on gender and social studies. The design of this project is based on “two-spirit people” in the present tense, which Mayo and another colleague outlined in a 10-day social studies unit on gender. Back in 2017, this curriculum was taught throughout several classroom discussions. Additionally, the passage encourages educators to introduce and incorporate strategies, lessons and talks about gender issues, sexuality, and more. “We decided to include information about the various lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities as well, given our assumption that students would already bring this topic into the overall conversation with their questions.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/2yE4fgIww6IMs/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Pedagogy Enacted in the Gay Straight Alliance: New Possibilities for a Third Space in Teacher Development</a>. Mayo argues “that the GSA advisor at Freedom High School utilized pedagogy that is critical at its core and led to effective, transformative learning outcomes for student GSA members. This pedagogy is characterized by students’ (a) access to information and issues that are important to queer youth, (b) participation in schoolwide and community-focused activities, and (c) reflections upon significant incidents in their lives when they encountered and responded to homophobia.”</li>
</ul>
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Published — December 1, 2022

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/kfajardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kale B. Fajardo</a> is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Some of his interests include “gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, queer of color critique, masculinity studies, transgender studies” and more.

Fajardo teaches a variety of courses, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Critical Perspectives on American Dreams </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the US: Focus on Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Freshman Seminar: Reading the Mississippi River: Place, Race, Gender, and Empire</li>
</ul>
A few of his publications include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9780816667574/Filipino-Crosscurrents-Oceanographies-Seafaring-Masculinities-0816667578/plp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities and Globalization</a>. In this text, “Fajardo invites readers to reconsider the meanings of masculinity and manhood.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">He is also co-editor of the Q&amp;A: <a href="https://tupress.temple.edu/books/q-a-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voices from Queer Asian North America</a> (with Martin F. Manalansan IV and Alice Y. Hom; Temple University Press, 2021). This passage “address[es] activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism and diaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilience.”</li>
</ul>
Fajardo is a fellow at the “<a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/fajardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies</a>” (CATS), an organization that features professors, Ph.D. candidates, and faculty from universities nationwide. CATS is an “independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.”

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Published — December 5, 2022

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/yazzi014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melanie Yazzie</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. According to her university profile, she writes and teaches about numerous topics including “Indigenous feminisms,” “queer Indigenous studies,” and “Marxism.”

Yazzie participated in a December 2023 <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/professor-calls-dismantling-us-greatest-predator-empire-1855115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> with fellow University of Minnesota professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nickestes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick Estes</a> titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” During the event, Yazzie <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-u-s-a-genocidal-settler-colonial-state-that-needs-to-be-dismantled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called for people to “dismantle” and “decolonize” the United States</a>:
“And what we really want you to take away tonight … We’re all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the United States government. And of course, the U.S. bank rules the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’re one in the same, really.” 
“And so, it’s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place. Because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed. So we want [the] U.S. out of everywhere … and the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.” 
Yazzie also argued that giving <a href="https://alphanews.org/u-of-m-professor-i-hope-you-seek-to-dismantle-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land back to Native Americans</a> is “non-negotiable” and “is going to happen.”
“The United States, also built on stolen land like the settler nation of Israel, does not have the authority to speak in this place and on this land. It is the Indigenous people, who belong to Indigenous nations that predate the advent of the United States and that will be here after the United States is gone, that have the authority.” 
The panel discussion was hosted by <a href="https://therednation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Red Nation</a>, which, according to its website, is “dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism.” Estes is a co-founder of the organization and Yazzie hosts a podcast through The Red Nation called the Red Power Hour. The group’s Principles of Unity declare:
“We are anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. We are Indigenous feminists who believe in radical relationality. We do not seek a milder form of capitalism or colonialism - we demand an entirely new system premised on peace, cooperation, and justice. For our Earth and relatives to live, capitalism and colonialism must die.” 
When Yazzie was a PhD student at the University of New Mexico, she was outspoken against the school seal, which features a conquistador and a frontiersman. At a <a href="https://www.liberationnews.org/activists-speak-out-against-racist-seal-university-president-stands-with-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest over the school seal</a> in 2016, Yazzie stated: “[Then-University of New Mexico President] Bob Frank you have blood on your hands! We are going to keep holding this university accountable until it concedes to our demands!”

The full video of the December 2023 panel discussion can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbZXRMpWTk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed here</a>.

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Published - January 4, 2024

<a href="https://directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/rachel-hardeman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Hardeman</a> is the Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity at the University of Minnesota. Hardeman’s university profile describes her as a “reproductive health equity researcher” who “leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and reproductive justice to inform her equity-centered work.” Hardeman is also the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity and serves on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood of the North Central States.

In October 2022, Hardeman and two other researchers penned an article titled “<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abortion Access as a Racial Justice Issue</a>.” The authors argue that abortion is “essential for protecting the full humanity of anyone with the capacity for pregnancy.” The paper claims that, within the United States, “the full humanity of Black and Indigenous people has long been denied.” Hardeman et al. conclude:
“We believe that clinicians have a professional obligation to champion policies that improve the lives of their patients and potential patients, including doing whatever is in their power to expand and protect abortion access. Abortion access is a racial justice issue, and it is today’s civil rights battle worthy of tenacious engagement by professionals in medicine, policy, and public health.” 
Hardeman co-developed a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-birthing-people-course-offered-by-u-of-minn-planned-parenthood-board-member/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing education course</a> for health professionals titled “Dignity in Pregnancy &amp; Childbirth: Preventing Racial Bias in Perinatal Care.” The <a href="https://www.diversityscience.org/proven-elearning-2/minnesota-perinatal-care/#MN-Individual" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course website</a> says the goal is to give medical care providers the knowledge they need to ensure that “Black and Indigenous women and birthing people receive fully equitable patient-centered, respectful, high-quality care free of bias and discrimination.” Through the course:
“[H]ealthcare professionals have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the impact of structural racism on the health and healthcare of Black and Indigenous birthing people. They will learn strategies to interrupt institutional racism and racial bias and protect the health and well-being of Black and Indigenous mothers, birthing people, and infants.” 
One <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/684704097/Critical-Race-Practice-Clinicians-Guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handout</a> for the course discusses how clinical care providers can apply a “critical race lens to relationship-centered care in pregnancy and childbirth.”

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Hardeman <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/minnesota-professor-receives-800k-to-study-racialized-police-violence-and-pregnancy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received $800,000 in grant funding</a> to study “racialized police violence” and its association with “adverse reproductive health outcomes.” The project—titled “Community Events and Pathways to Inequities in Birth Outcomes”—has a timeline from April 2021 to March 2025 and promises to “[center] racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities.” Hardeman stated:
“The findings will offer a more complete picture of the ways that community trauma, structural racism, individual-level physical and mental health consequences, and population-level disparities affect reproductive health outcomes.” 
In December 2021, Hardeman authored a paper that <a href="https://pop.umn.edu/about/announcements/over-policing-linked-higher-odds-preterm-birth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked preterm births to “racist policing.”</a> The study’s results “suggest that racialized police patterns borne from a history of structural racism in the United States may contribute to racial disparity in [preterm births].” However, Hardeman et al. admit, “We did not (and would not have been able to) ascertain whether the pregnant people in our study had personal contact with the police before or during pregnancy.”

In an announcement about the study published by the university’s Minnesota Population Center, Hardeman stated:
“Racism is a fundamental cause of health inequity, which means we have to apply antiracism to institutions that affect the fundamentals of our lives and communities. Our research focused on residents of Minneapolis and found that U.S.-born Black birthing people and their babies were hit the hardest by over-policing, which is a form of structural racism.”
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Published - January 4, 2023

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/sshakhsa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sima Shakhsari</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women &amp; Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Shakhsari’s university profile says she uses the pronouns “they/he/she” and teaches several courses including “Queering Theory” and “Queer and Feminist White Savior Complex.”

Shakhsari was nominated for an associate dean position at the College of Liberal Arts’ Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As part of the interview process, she gave a one-hour testimony to the university review panel where she <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-who-denies-hamas-raped-israelis-not-selected-for-top-dei-role/24553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied that Hamas committed rape against Israeli women</a> during the October 7 attacks. She claimed she hadn’t seen evidence of sexual violence, stating:
“Of course, any person who has been raped, I am a rape crisis counselor, I believe the survivors. I am yet to see Israeli rape survivors of Hamas come and speak.” 
Shakhsari went on to claim it’s racist to say that Hamas committed rape.
“Part of our work and part of my experience… was how men of color in the U.S. have been demonized and have been falsely accused of rape. Exactly because of racism. We know the history of lynching, of black men, lynching, of indigenous man lynching Latinos in this country… because of accusations and they’re kind of violating the innocence of white women, right?” 
“And I think this is also the force that is repeated in the context of Israel and Palestine, because Arab men have been demonized and have been marked as monstrous people who are rapists and for violence.” 
Shakhsari did not end up getting the associate dean position, which was instead given to Amelious Whyte.

<a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/sima-shakhsari-university-of-minnesota-professor-hamas-oct-7-atrocities-denial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Insider</a> reached out to Shakhsari for comment and received an automatic email reply signed, “I stand with the people of Palestine in their struggle for freedom and justice, and condemn the Israeli state’s settler colonial violence and genocide in Gaza.”

In October 2023, University of Minnesota Interim President Jeff Ettinger <a href="https://www.startribune.com/tensions-on-minnesota-campuses-rise-as-colleges-and-universities-grapple-with-the-israel-hamas-war/600317258/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a statement condemning the Hamas attacks</a> and lamenting “the countless innocent civilians who have lost their lives, been injured, or are being held captive.” Shakhsari was one of several faculty members who penned an <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewuCmiruS5i9Fo3Av1OdOlVi5vE9KZLGB0ww4mLUjnZikqVQ/viewform?vc=0&amp;c=0&amp;w=1&amp;flr=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> to Ettinger calling his statement “biased” and demanding an apology.

The letter, which was signed by over 750 university faculty and staff, stated:
“Our university’s Interim President Jeff Ettinger has issued biased statements condemning Hamas, but not holding the Israeli state responsible for its violent crimes against Palestinians … Ettinger’s statements, while intended to address the recent situation, have presented a one-sided perspective showing solidarity and concern only for Israel with no acknowledgment of the ongoing and historical suffering and death of Palestinians.” 
The letter demands an apology from President Ettinger and if one is not received, the signatories call for his statement to “be treated as an incident that merits bias reporting and investigation.”

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Published - January 9, 2024

<a href="https://www.hhh.umn.edu/directory/christina-ewig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Ewig</a> is a Professor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. According to her university profile, Ewig teaches courses on Gender and Public Policy. She is also a curator for the <a href="https://www.hhh.umn.edu/directory/christina-ewig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Policy Report</a> at the University of Minnesota.

Among Ewig’s academic interests are “gender, race and Latin American social policy including the historical formation of Latin American social policy; the politics and effects of market-oriented social policy reforms following economic adjustment in the 1990s and 2000s; and the more recent shift toward more generous and equitable social policies.”

Ewig’s <a href="https://www.hhh.umn.edu/directory/christina-ewig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X profile</a> biography states, “I tweet about Gender and Politics, US and Latin America.” She goes by the pronouns of “She/her/hers.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.genderjustice.us/its-time-to-invest-in-resilience-a-conversation-with-erin-maye-quade-and-dr-christina-ewig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Justice</a>, Ewig discussed masculinity and its relation to the actions of men amid national health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, stating:
“[For instance], hand washing – [they] do not do that, wash their hands. And part of this is like the idea – Well, I’m resilient, and I’m strong so I don’t need to do these things.”
She claims that this resistance to taking health measures such as washing hands “has been inculcated in our society among men and boys.”

Ewig discusses gender on an institutional level and how it allegedly affects the socioeconomic status of the United States: 
“So I think really gender also, the third level I would talk about is really the institutional level, the way in which gender over the long-term through a variety of different practices – structures our society, structures our economy, and that’s really where state and national policy makers can step in and try to generate policies that can address these disparities that we’re seeing, whether it is of disparities care work or whether it is also other disparities that we’re also seeing in the economy in particular, as a result of this crisis.”
Toward the end of the interview, Ewig claims that various health crises in America have shown certain “structural inequalities” within the nation:
“I think that if there’s one thing that this crisis is showing us, it is showing the degree to which we have deep, deep inequalities within this country whether gender or race or class, and it’s showing the damage that those inequalities are doing to our resilience long-term, so shoring up our resilience as a nation in terms of facing another crisis of this sort will require investment, instead of austerity.”
Please send information on Christina Ewig to Watchlists@tpusa.com.
Published - June 17, 2024

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<a href="https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/kerwin-k-charles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kerwin Charles</a> is the Dean of the School of Management (SOM) at Yale University. According to his university profile, Charles is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economics.
One SOM partnership includes Yale College Council (YCC). On a social media post, YCC announced a celebration of &#8220;Black Joy&#8221;:
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The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/whites-should-put-coats-on-ground-for-blacks-to-walk-over-yale-student-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured Charles in an article</a> titled “Whites should put coats on ground for blacks to walk over: Yale student government.” Charles is quoting saying, 
“‘Black History Month is an important opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of the African diaspora across a range of fields—including science, music, literature, art, and leadership. It is a critical part of our efforts to reflect on and address challenges of racism, exclusion, and injustice in our institution and in broader society.’”
A <a href="https://som.yale.edu/story/2023/yale-som-celebrates-black-history-month" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale press release</a> says, “SOM’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity is collaborating with students, staff, and faculty to offer more than a dozen ways to meaningfully celebrate Black History Month. Programming will focus on sharing experiences and perspectives of the black community.”
Published February 15, 2023

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<a href="https://provost.yale.edu/people/jason-killheffer">Jason Killheffer</a> is the Assistant Provost of Academic Integrity Programs at Yale University. As part of an undercover operation by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, Killheffer called the Constitution propaganda. He told an undercover journalist “If your freedom of expression impacts other people’s ability to engage actively in the community, to engage in their education or really take full advantage of everything that the university has to offer, then that’s when things cross that line.” In other words, Killheffer believes that being triggered by a Constitution is a valid reason for the university to step in and possibly prevent distribution.

Daniel Martinez HoSang is <a href="https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/daniel-hosang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an Associate Professor</a> of Ethnicity, Race &amp; Migration and American Studies at Yale University. He has written many publications and focuses his work on racism and race in politics. He holds strong opinions about conservatives and has both written and lectured several times on the subject.

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Dr. HoSang recently wrote a book with <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/josephlowndes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Lowndes</a>, who is also on the Professor Watchlist. The book, titled “<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/producers-parasites-patriots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity</a>,” discusses white supremacy in conservative politics. In the book, Dr. HoSang accuses conservatives of being racist and participating in “multiracial white supremacy.”

According to Dr. HoSang, white conservatives work to maintain their economic power while also highlighting and praising minority conservatives in an effort to portray the concept that they aren’t racist.

https://twitter.com/yale/status/1292782749611429888?lang=en

Dr. HoSang has also recently become involved in K-12 learning. He was one of the founders of an organization in Connecticut called the <a href="https://antiracistteaching.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective</a>, or ARTLC. The organization works with students and teachers alike to push anti-racism, and in turn, Critical Race Theory, in K-12 schools across Connecticut. In an article for the CT Mirror, Dr. HoSang alleges that “if we want to address racism in society at large, we have to address it in policing, and housing, and health care — but we also need to address it in the 3rd grade music classroom, in the 7th grade social studies classroom.”

https://twitter.com/AAPolicyForum/status/1415803068617220096

Dr. HoSang also leads workshops for K-12 teachers that perpetuate the ideals that racism runs deep in education and teaching across all subjects. He helps teachers create curriculum centered on anti-racism and Critical Race Theory.  In the summers of 2020 and 2021, Dr. HoSang was a core faculty member of the AAPF’s Critical Race Theory Summer School lecture series for teachers and scholars. The program’s purpose is to counter conservative and republican efforts to keep Critical Race Theory out of the classroom.

According to the DailyMail, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11418747/Yale-sophomore-student-20-reveals-hid-attempted-suicide-college-raped.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Hoffman is the psychologist</a> in charge of student mental health at Yale University. Hoffman is at the center of a story involving Yale’s policies that ban suicidal students from campus. 

DailyMail said, “To return to class, [students] must reapply - writing an essay, and sending in letters of recommendation…Those who left for mental health reasons also had to demonstrate to Yale that they’d addressed their problems.”

Hoffman’s <a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/paul-hoffman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a> says he’s Chief of Mental Health and Counseling, Voluntary Faculty for Departments and Organizations, and the <a href="https://yalehealth.yale.edu/directory/clinicians/paul-hoffman-phd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of Mental Health</a> and Counseling for Yale. No further information is available regarding Hoffman’s employment.

After a student attempted suicide, Hoffman attended an unpublicized Zoom call between the student, her parents, and Yale representatives. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/11/yale-suicides-mental-health-withdrawals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post reported</a>, “In an interview, Hoffman and other Yale officials declined to discuss Yale’s withdrawal policies or specific student cases.”

Washington Post continued, “As soon as the Zoom call with Hoffman ended, hospital staffers handed [the student her cellphone]. She began typing out the email Hoffman had asked her to send.” The email eventually played a role in the student’s expulsion. 

Yale’s <a href="https://yalecollege.yale.edu/policies-procedures/leave-absence-withdrawal-and-reinstatement#:~:text=Any%20student%20may%20voluntarily%20withdraw,activities%2C%20or%20use%20University%20facilities." target="_blank" rel="noopener">mandatory medical withdrawal and reinstatement</a> policy says, 

"Any student may voluntarily withdraw; Yale College also reserves the right to require students to withdraw in certain cases. Students on withdrawal may not stay in residencies on campus, attend classes, participate in extracurricular activities, or use University facilities. They may come to campus only upon receiving prior permission from their residential college dean or the Dean of Student Affairs.”

<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11418747/Yale-sophomore-student-20-reveals-hid-attempted-suicide-college-raped.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to DailyMail</a>, Hoffman said mandatory medical withdrawals are “very rarely used.” The source also said, “Hoffman said the majority of students are now able to keep therapy appointments within two weeks, and Yale is planning on increasing its mental health resources.”

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Published - November 17, 2022

<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/psychology/profile/christy_olezeski/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christy Olezeski</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. She serves as the Director and Co-Founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program. 

In a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/yale-professor-blasted-program-working-3-year-olds-gender-journey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted video</a>, Olezeski states, “the Yale gender program, is an interdisciplinary program working with gender-expansive individuals 3-25.” Continuing, she says the program “helps individuals who are questioning their gender identity as transgender or non-binary” and vows to help children on “their gender journey.”

The <a href="https://www.yalemedicine.org/departments/pediatric-gender-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program’s website</a> claims that surgeries are only preformed on individuals over the age of 18. The website further alleges, “Social transition is the only medically accepted form of gender-affirming care–and the only form of care we provide–for that age group.” 

Continuing it states, “Some youth are exploring their identity. Others know that how they feel inside does not match up with the gender they were assigned at birth. We help sort through these questions.” 

Yale has since deleted the YouTube video in which Olezeski discusses the gender program. She has also made her personal social media pages private. 

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Published - December 28, 2022
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<a href="https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/zareena-grewal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zareena Grewal</a> is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Grewal’s faculty profile says her research “focuses on race, gender, religion, nationalism, and transnationalism across a wide spectrum of American Muslim communities.”  

The university profile also describes <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Foreign-Country-American-Authority/dp/1479800562" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grewal’s book</a> - “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority”- as “an ethnography of transnational Muslim networks that link US mosques to Islamic movements in the post-colonial Middle East through debates about the reform of Islam.”

<a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479800568/islam-is-a-foreign-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYU Press</a> further promotes the book with questions like “What does it mean to be Muslim and American?” and “Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims?”

Grewal was featured in the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/radical-yale-professor-faces-calls-to-be-fired-over-comments-on-hamas-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> after she allegedly defended the Hamas terrorist organization’s attack against Israel in October 2023. According to the Post, “[Grewal] is facing calls to be ousted over her social media posts in which she appeared to justify Hamas terrorists killing Israeli civilians—and called Israel a ‘murderous, genocidal settler state.’”

While Grewal’s <a href="https://twitter.com/ZareenaGrewal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media posts</a> remain in a protected and private status, the following screenshot from her account was shared across the internet:

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<a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/10/12/petition-to-oust-pro-palestine-professor-for-promoting-lies-and-violence-gains-25000-signatures-in-just-over-a-day/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale News said</a>, “The University defended Grewal’s right to free speech in comments to the News.” The source also quoted Yale University spokesperson Karen Peart saying: “‘Yale is committed to freedom of expression, and the comments posted on Professor Grewal’s personal accounts represent her own views.’”

A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/remove-zareena-grewal-from-the-yale-faculty-for-hate-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition to terminate</a> Grewal has amassed over 53,000 signatures at the time of this post.
Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/meredithe-mcnamara/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meredithe McNamara</a>, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Affiliate Faculty at Yale School of Medicine. Her university profile says she “cares for youth aged 11–25” and is interested in “implementing best practices in the care of youth facing complex trauma and high-risk social situations.” Dr. McNamara’s Yale New Haven Health <a href="https://www.ynhh.org/physicians/meredithe-mcnamara" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> biography states:
“Adolescent medicine is a one-stop shopping for all of a youth’s health needs, including general care, mental health and coping with trauma…safe sex and birth control, substance use support, and gender-affirming care.”
In a video titled “<a href="https://vimeo.com/839075778" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Transition in Young People</a>,” Dr. McNamara is asked how policies that restrict gender transition in minors affect their mental health. She stated:
“They’re very harmful to the mental health of trans and gender-diverse young people. The intrusion of legal interference in standard healthcare is not something that we’re really used to. This is kind of like a brand new and dangerous force that’s infiltrating not only our healthcare but also our social networks…”
She goes on to say that sex reassignment bans are “causing a lot of existential dread” and “deprive young people of life-saving healthcare that affirms who they are.”

Dr. McNamara appeared as a guest on <a href="https://youtu.be/9iHKUJPvjtc">News Nation</a>, with host Chris Cuomo, where she advocated for transitioning children from an early age:

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In a <a href="https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/day-of-silence-q-and-a/">Yale article</a> titled “Day of Silence Q + A with Meredithe McNamara,” Dr. McNamara further claims that “anti-gay legislation” negatively threatens the health and rights of LGBTQ people in five ways: 
“(1) perpetuates stigma and disrupts access to healthcare…
(2) leads to social and economic marginalization…
(3) gives tacit approval for violence and harassment,
 (4) worsens mental health, and 
(5) fuels persecution.”
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When <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/yale-doctor-cant-name-a-study-that-supports-trans-drugs-surgeries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testifying before Congress</a> in 2023, Dr. McNamara couldn’t cite any legitimate medical study to prove her claims:
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Dr. Meredithe McNamara also can’t name a single study that shows transition helps kids.<a href="https://t.co/yCHyWYrHIz">pic.twitter.com/yCHyWYrHIz</a>
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1698788221029912731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Please send information regarding Meredithe McNamara to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 6, 2023

<a href="https://wgss.yale.edu/people/kalindi-vora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kalindi Vora</a> is a Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Vora’s <a href="https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/kalindi-vora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">areas of research</a> include:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Feminist Science and Technology Studies”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Postcolonial Studies”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies/American Studies”</li>
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The description for Vora’s course “<a href="https://www.kalindivora.com/teaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Futures</a>” states,
“To understand speculation as a political practice, this course brings together critical texts from materialist theory, feminist science studies, queer kinship and affect studies (including queer of color critique), women of color feminism and transnational ethnic studies…”
Vora’s “Marxist Thought” class “examines critical engagements between scholarship from postcolonial, feminist and other radical Marxist traditions” while focusing on “philosophical and political debates stemming from issues of race and gender…”

Vora <a href="https://www.kalindivora.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on The Harmony Show podcast alongside a co-host who identified as a “robosexual/idolator” to discuss Vora’s book “Surrogate Humanity: Race Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures.” She described the concept of the book:
“[T]he whole book is trying to explain how we think that this is a new kind of antiracist and feminist analytic that we can use to think through the way that racial and gender politics come up around labor in technology…
“And we start the book by thinking alongside the historian and black feminist, Saidiya Hartman, who wrote a book called ‘Scenes of Subjection.’ In that book, Hartman talks about the concept of the surrogate…in the context of US chattel slavery.”

In 2017, the University of California, Davis <a href="https://research.ucdavis.edu/fri_director/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Vora as the Director of its Feminist Research Institute (FRI). The institute exists as a “collaborative, trans-disciplinary hub for exploring how gender, sexuality, race, and other social structures inform the design, execution, and interpretation of research.”

During her time as the Director, Vora led a <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/news/kalindi-vora-and-sarah-mccullough-antiracist-approaches-sts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> on “antiracist approaches to STS [science, technology and society].” She also joined a <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/events/mellon-racial-capitalism-speaker-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> to analyze “racial capitalism” and <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/news/director-kalindi-voras-feministfutures-closing-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared in an article</a> explaining “abolitionist care.” 

Vora defines abolitionist care as “an antidote to violence that demands a [commitment] to maintaining, repairing and attending survivors of violence while [fighting] capitalism’s anti-rationality [and] the materiality enforced by racial capitalism.”

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Published - November 16, 2023

<a href="https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/megan-ranney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Ranney</a> is the Dean of Yale University’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on “developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, as well as on COVID-related risk reduction.” Ranney previously served as the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University.

In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/opinions/public-trust-in-scientists-ranney-jetelina/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial for CNN</a>, Ranney addressed the decline in trust of physicians due to the over-administering of COVID-19 vaccines. Ranney writes:
“[Physicians are] worried about what lies ahead if we don’t turn the ship on trust in science. Imagine if there’s another pandemic, a climate disaster or a biosecurity hazard like anthrax—and we haven’t fixed the trust problem. Think about what might happen if we, as a country, stop funding the science innovation that has allowed our dramatic gains in human health. And what if more Americans refuse to get their kids vaccinated or if our public health institutions are shut down?”
On November 29, 2023, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gun-crime-expert-blasts-red-state-cherry-picking-by-yale-professor-in-senate-hearing-political-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News featured Ranney</a> in an article titled “Gun crime expert blasts red state ‘cherry-picking’ by Yale professor in Senate hearing: ‘Political bias.’” While testifying before Congress about gun violence, Ranney was suspected of naming certain states based on her political ideology.

When asked why she thought “Chicago has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range?”, Fox said, “Ranney responded by comparing Chicago to three [conservative-led] states and claiming Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri ‘actually have higher firearm death rates.’”

When further pressed about Chicago’s crime statistics, Ranney stated:
“I think there’s easy access to firearms combined with environmental conditions, lack of great education. There have actually been studies that when you green vacant lots and repair abandoned buildings in urban neighborhoods you see decreases in gunshots and violence as well as stress and depression in the neighborhoods around them.”
<a href="https://president.yale.edu/president/yale-talk/approaching-gun-violence-public-health-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During her talk</a> with Yale University President Peter Salovey, Ranney <a href="https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yaletalkepisode39-ranney-transcript.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded to the question</a> of funding for firearm death research:
“The biggest reason is that from 1996-2020, there was virtually no federal funding…partly because it wasn’t defined as a public health problem, but partly because in 1996 [a representative] from Arkansas…passed the Dickey Amendment, which told the CDC that it was prohibited from using funds to promote or advocate for gun control.”
Please send information on Megan Ranney to <a href="mailto:Wathlists@tpusa.com">Wathlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - January 9, 2024

<a href="https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/phillip-atiba-solomon-fka-goff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Atiba Solomon</a> (formerly known as Phillip Atiba Goff) holds three positions at Yale University:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Chair of African American Studies</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Carl I. Holland Professor of African Studies</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Professor of Psychology</li>
</ul>
Solomon’s faculty profile says, “He quickly became a national leader in the science of racial bias by pioneering scientific experiments that exposed how our minds learn to associate [b]lackness and crime implicitly — often with deadly consequences.”

Solomon also co-founded the <a href="https://policingequity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Policing Equity</a>. According to the “What We Do” page, the organization claims to “promote justice” by:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Reducing harm within existing law enforcement systems, pursuing strategies that address the racist behaviors, policies, and practices of law enforcement.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Redesigning and implementing new models that safeguard and empower communities to enhance and maintain collective public safety.”</li>
</ul>
In 2019, Solomon <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_phillip_atiba_solomon_how_we_can_make_racism_a_solvable_problem_and_improve_policing/footnotes?referrer=playlist-talks_to_help_you_understand_r&amp;delay=2m&amp;subtitle=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented a TEDx Talk</a> titled “How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing.” In his introduction, he said:
“Police chiefs like talking to me because I’m an expert on a problem that feels impossible for them to solve: racism in their profession. Now my expertise comes from being a scientist, who studies how our minds learn to associate blackness and crime and misperceive black children as older than they actually are.”

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A 2023 revised version of the <a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Department of Justice document</a> entitled “Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2018–Statistics Tables” shows that out of 61.5 million American residents who had contact with police that “whites (26%) were more likely than blacks (21%), Hispanics (19%), or persons of other races (20%) to experience police contact.” 

Although the statistics show that “a higher percentage of blacks (4%) and Hispanics (3%) than whites (2%) experience threats or use of force,” a <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 FBI report</a> reveals black people commit higher rates of murder/manslaughter and robbery. These are daunting demographics considering black people make up <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14% of the total population</a> in the United States (depending on the source of information).

Solomon contributed an <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/abolition-isn-t-a-relic-of-our-past-it-s-the-key-to-revitalising-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> to the World Economic Forum entitled “‘Abolition’ isn’t a relic of our past. It’s the key to revitalizing democracy.” He opened by asking, “Are you an abolitionist?” and lists flashpoints of history where the term was used to fight slavery (e.g. Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln). He proceeded to write:

“Abolition, however, is not a relic of history. It is an ongoing movement to rethink the systems that produce inequity and build a society that values the lives of the most vulnerable. It permeates almost every issue that the World Economic Forum includes on its <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 Agenda</a>, from COVID-19 to tax policy.”

He further encouraged readers to take on a mindset of “abolition democracy,” the term coined by radical activist and NAACP co-founder, <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/web-du-bois-black-reconstruction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W.E.B. Du Bois</a>. Solomon <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/abolition-isn-t-a-relic-of-our-past-it-s-the-key-to-revitalising-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
“In my own work as the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for Policing Equity, that means fundamentally reimagining public safety … It means measuring justice along with crime, and aligning our mechanisms of public safety with the values of the communities — particularly communities that have historically faced discrimination and disinvestment.”
“Charity alone, kindness from those who have benefitted most from institutions that marginalize the vulnerable, cannot lead us to justice. Abolition democracy, the working of rebuilding our systems with equity at their core, just might be able to.” 
Please send tips, updates, and information on Professor Phillip Atiba Solomon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - June 27, 2024
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<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/amanda-calhoun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amanda Joy Calhoun</a>, MD, MPH is Chief Resident of the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program at Yale University. According to her faculty profile, Calhoun “specializes in the effects of medical anti-Black racism.”

After the 2024 U.S. General Election, Calhoun is facing criticism after telling Vice President Kamala Harris supporters to disassociate from relatives who voted for President-Elect Donald Trump. She explained her reasoning on the MSNBC show The ReidOut:

“So, if you are going through a situation where you have family members or you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, that are against your livelihood, then it’s completely fine to not be around those people, and to tell them why.”

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Calhoun told Reid that setting boundaries between Trump-supporting family members and telling them “I have a problem with the way you voted” is a necessary action. She claimed this may be beneficial to one’s mental health.

The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education.

Please send information and tips on Amanda Joy Calhoun to Watchlists@tpusa.com.

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

<a href="https://som.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/kerwin-k-charles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kerwin Charles</a> is the Dean of the School of Management (SOM) at Yale University. According to his university profile, Charles is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economics.

One SOM partnership includes Yale College Council (YCC). On a social media post, YCC announced a celebration of "Black Joy":

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The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/whites-should-put-coats-on-ground-for-blacks-to-walk-over-yale-student-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured Charles in an article</a> titled “Whites should put coats on ground for blacks to walk over: Yale student government.” Charles is quoting saying, 

“‘Black History Month is an important opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of the African diaspora across a range of fields—including science, music, literature, art, and leadership. It is a critical part of our efforts to reflect on and address challenges of racism, exclusion, and injustice in our institution and in broader society.’”

A <a href="https://som.yale.edu/story/2023/yale-som-celebrates-black-history-month" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale press release</a> says, “SOM’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity is collaborating with students, staff, and faculty to offer more than a dozen ways to meaningfully celebrate Black History Month. Programming will focus on sharing experiences and perspectives of the black community.”
Published February 15, 2023

Kerwin Charles

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Jennifer Adair

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/jennifer_adair">Dr. Jennifer Adair</a> is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Adair proposed indoctrinating children as young as kindergarten in racial issues, in order to ‘prevent another Ferguson.&#8217; One proposed project involved having the students make protest signs about racial injustice or other art projects about school integration or bus boycotts. Adair and the other professors working with her drew heavily from the philosophy of historian Howard Zinn in their effort.

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University of Texas - Austin

Published – December 13, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) launched a new LGBTQ course in Fall 2024. “<a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to LGBT Studies</a>,” taught by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibeksahinler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Ipek Sahinler</a>, features assigned reading that promotes the sexualization of minors. The course description states:
“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”
Learning outcomes for the course include, but are not limited to:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate a strong understanding of LGBTQ+ studies and its historical context–both locally and globally,” </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate how gender intersects with race, class, ability, and other social constructs,” and </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Use and produce language to go beyond binaristic ways of thinking.”</li>
</ul>
Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 
In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:
“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”
The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” is only one hyper-sexualized course among several undergraduate credit hours available to students in the <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/wgss/courses/lgbtq-studies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBT Studies</a> and Women’s, <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lgbtq/undergraduate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> programs.
Send feedback on The University of Texas at Austin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/jennifer_adair">Dr. Jennifer Adair</a> is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Austin. Dr. Adair proposed indoctrinating children as young as kindergarten in racial issues, in order to ‘prevent another Ferguson.' One proposed project involved having the students make protest signs about racial injustice or other art projects about school integration or bus boycotts. Adair and the other professors working with her drew heavily from the philosophy of historian Howard Zinn in their effort.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jn324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Joan Neuberger</a>, a professor at University of Texas-Austin led anti-campus carry efforts, including a petition to bar students who conceal carry from entering classrooms, in violation of Texas law. A change.org petition organized by the same group said, “WE OPPOSE GUNS IN OUR CLASSROOMS AS A DIRECT ASSAULT ON OUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS.” Despite her proclamations about the dangers of guns, Neuberger is not actually a statistician or criminal justice professor, but a Russian history professor.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/rs/faculty/jt27">John Traphagan</a> is a Professor Emeritus in the Religious Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin.

In 2015, Traphagan wrote an opinion piece for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151014135802/http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20150518-john-traphagan-when-will-we-examine-our-heavily-armed-culture.ece">The Dallas Morning News</a> titled “When will we examine our heavily armed culture?” In his article, Traphagan calls for gun control measures and says “Americans do not seem to be able to handle gun ownership in a way that permits maintenance of a civil society.” He writes:
“There is simply no need for a civilized society to tolerate the type of gun-related violence that Americans seem to accept as normal. Other modern industrial countries have realized, in some cases long ago, that it is unnecessary for people in a free society to have easy access to guns.” 
Traphagan claims “the solution to gun-related crime is not further arming the public.” Rather, he argues:
“It involves enacting comprehensive gun control laws that prohibit many forms of gun ownership, significantly curtailing or eliminating access to and the ability to purchase guns, and implementing programs in which the government confiscates or purchases illegal guns already in circulation among the public.” 
Furthermore, Traphagan claims that “Americans need to recognize that one of the greatest threats to national security is their own heavily armed population.” To fix this problem, he writes, “Unfortunately, our proven inability to handle widespread gun ownership suggests strongly that the way to do this is to deeply restrict access to and ownership of most types of guns.”

He concludes his article by saying that people would be better off in a society with no guns because they would have “peace of mind and experience freedom from violence and the freedom to pursue their lives in safety and happiness rather than fear.”

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Updated - August 2024

<a href="http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/robert-jensen">Dr. Robert Jensen</a> is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas, Austin. In an essay on a social justice website, Jensen argued that rape is part of the larger violent, patriarchy. He told Campus Reform that, “I don’t believe there will be any serious progress toward eliminating men’s violence against women if we do not address the toxic notions about masculinity in patriarchy—masculinity understood as rooted in control, conquest, aggression.” Jensen also attacked a major anti-sexual assault group for blaming the perpetrators for rape, instead of focusing on the patriarchal culture as the main cause.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/sas347">Snehal Shingavi</a> is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin.

While teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Shingavi co-founded the anti-Israel group <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/sjp">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP) with Professor Hatem Bazian.  SJP is known for its vitriolic campaigns and aggressively confronting Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus. They are also known for their active role in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns on university campuses.

Snehal first generated controversy at UC Berkeley in 2002 for his <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/7789/hardball-interview-with-snehal-shingavi">course</a>, "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance." The course description alleged that Israel has “systematically displaced, killed and maimed millions of Palestinian people.”

The course also all, but outright barred conservative students from attending: “This class takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination. Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.”

Now teaching at UT Austin, <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Snehal_Shingavi">Shehal</a> is a regular at protests and events committed to demonizing Israel. During a 2014 lecture, he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGtcdPL244&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=13m15s">likened</a> Israel to Nazi Germany, claiming, “This is not me being hyperbolic…..Gaza is the biggest open air concentration camp in the world today and the condition of life in Gaza is not dissimilar to life in Auschwitz and Dachau.”

Thomas K. Hubbard was the James R. Dougherty Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190905194331/https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/354/thomas_k_hubbard_curriculum_vitae.pdf">who taught at the University of Texas-Austin from 1988 t0 2021</a>. Hubbard’s body of research included ancient pederasty – adult male sexual relations with underage boys  – which Hubbard calls the “<a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/17/ut-students-protest-professors-house-over-his-writings-on-sexual-relations-between-men-and-boys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">romantic courtship</a>” of teenage boys by older men.

Writing in the peer-reviewed Thymos Journal of Boyhood Studies, Hubbard detailed this position in an article titled, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276216200_Sexual_Consent_and_the_Adolescent_Male_or_What_Can_We_Learn_from_the_Greeks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sexual Consent and the Adolescent Male, or What Can We Learn From the Greeks</a>. Hubbard <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/12/18/a-ut-professor-advocates-pedophilia-why-are-we-paying-for-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that there are great benefits to relationships between older men and teenage boys by appealing to the portrayal of these relationships in Greek artworks and myths.

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Hubbard also <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/12/18/a-ut-professor-advocates-pedophilia-why-are-we-paying-for-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that sexual relationships between teenage boys and adult men can replace the lack of intimacy that a boy might experience if the young man has an absent father.

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Hubbard utilizes his research on pederasty to buoy his advocacy for lowering the federal legal age for sexual consent. Hubbard also <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/17/ut-students-protest-professors-house-over-his-writings-on-sexual-relations-between-men-and-boys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decries age-of-consent laws</a>, calling them a “sad by-product” of the Victorian era that prevented sexual liberation.

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Hubbard made the distinction, in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200216112913if_/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wGGrODNSdwudrF1G4uerU2DsRxcSx3DR1Nbn6JOd7ho/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted google document</a>, that he was speaking on behalf of pederasty and not pedophilia. He continues in the Doc by extolling several nations for having age-of-consent laws that were lower than the United States.

Hubbard’s work has been distributed and used by <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/12/17/ut-students-protest-professors-house-over-his-writings-on-sexual-relations-between-men-and-boys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">groups like the North American Man/Boy Love Association</a> (NAMBLA), which advocates for the abolishment of age-of-consent laws between children and adults.

The University of Texas-Austin’s administration reaffirmed Hibbard’s right to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/students-want-thomas-hubbard-fired-for-work-on-pederasty-but-university-of-texas-says-its-protected-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“explore controversial and offensive ideas</a>.” As of December 2020, <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2020/07/23/ut-professor-accused-of-promoting-pedophilia-sues-student-for-libel/42515639/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hubbard is suing a student and 10 others for libel</a> after they distributed flyers labeling him a pedophile.
UPDATE 
A university spokeswoman has informed the Professor Watchlist team that Thomas Hubbard is no longer employed at the University of Texas. As stated in their response, Dr. Hubbard announced his retirement in July of 2021 and is no longer associated with the University in any capacity.

Despite their written statement, <a href="https://cola.utexas.edu/european_studies/people/faculty/thubbard">Dr. Hubbard was still listed on the university website</a> as a professor in the Center for European Studies at the time of the university's letter

In a follow-up conversation with the university spokeswomen, Dr. Hubbard's profile was removed from the European Studies page and he is no longer listed as a faculty member with the University as of December 15th, 2021.

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Updated - December 15th, 2021

John O. Brennan is a <a href="https://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/about/leadership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distinguished Scholar</a> and <a href="https://www.strausscenter.org/person/john-o-brennan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior Advisor to the Intelligence Studies Project</a> at the <a href="https://www.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas-Austin</a>. Brennan also serves as a <a href="https://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org/fellows#john-o-brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distinguished Fellow for Global Security</a> for the Center on National Security at <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/site/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fordham University</a>.

Prior to both roles, Brennan served as the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) </a>from 2013 to 2017. His service and post-CIA career have been marred with controversies, including allegations of spying on political opponents, overseas clandestine operations, and incendiary comments towards conservatives and libertarians.

In 2014, the CIA was <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2014/03/11/289085076/feinsteins-cia-outrage-splits-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused by California Senator Dianne Feinstein of illegally accessing the computers of Senate staffers</a> investigating the use of “enhanced interrogation” against detainees. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/brennan-denies-claims-cia-hacked-senate-computers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan initially denied the allegations</a>, stating that, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Brennan was later forced to apologize when an Inspector General report found that <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/213933-cia-admits-to-wrongly-hacking-into-senate-computers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate computers were in fact “hacked” by CIA officials</a>.

Brennan has been accused of arming radical Islamists during the Syrian Civil War. As The American Conservative documents, <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-america-armed-terrorists-in-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The CIA—under Brennan's direction—played a significant role in supplying deadly weapons to al-Qaeda affiliates</a> in an attempt to topple the Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad.

In his final years as CIA director, Brennan played a prominent role in what later became known as “Russiagate.” During the 2016 general election, intelligence agencies attempted to determine whether or not then-presidential candidate Donald Trump coordinated with the Russian Government to <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/288883-wikileaks-posts-20000-dnc-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hack and release sensitive emails from the Democratic National Committee</a>. Special Counsel Robert Mueller later found that there was <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/mueller-report-found-no-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-justice-dept/a-48046468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence of any coordination between the Trump Campaign and the Russian Government</a>.

While investigating Trump, John Brennan relied on allegations in what became known as the “Steele Dossier”— <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/08/23/545289362/researcher-behind-unverified-trump-dossier-meets-senate-investigators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of salacious allegations and potentially compromising information against Donald Trump</a> — compiled by British Intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/steeles-dossier-source-was-a-suspected-russian-spy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">source for the dossier was later found to be a suspected Russian Spy,</a> who likely <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/453384-fbis-spreadsheet-puts-a-stake-through-the-heart-of-steeles-dossier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exaggerated or falsified his information</a>.

Despite <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agents flagging the information as false</a>, the Steele Dossier was later used as the basis to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/09/ig-report-confirms-no-fisa-warrant-on-carter-page-without-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtain warrants to surveil members of the Trump campaign</a>. Initially pushing to include the information, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/09/brennan-lied-about-not-including-steele-dossier-in-intelligence-community-assessment-on-2016-russian-election-interference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan later lied under congressional oath, stating he did not include the Steele Dossier in intelligence briefings</a>.

Declassified, handwritten notes from Brennan further show that he assisted in <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/dni-releases-cia-documents-hillary-204337457.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">efforts to tie the Trump campaign to Russia</a> to benefit the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is consistent with testimony accusing <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/12/fox-news-john-brennan-russia-hillary-clinton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brennan of suppressing intelligence that the Russian Government wanted Hillary Clinton to win</a> the 2016 presidential election.

Brennan continued to publically attack President Trump after the 2016 election, accusing <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/19/brennan_on_sunday_i_stand_by_accusing_president_trump_of_treason.html#!" target="_blank" rel="noopener">him of “treason” against the United States on behalf of Russia</a>. Brennan <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/05/25/ex-cia-director-john-brennan-ive-seen-no-evidence-collusion-russia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admits that he has seen no evidence that Donald Trump colluded</a> with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.

Following the Capital Hill riots, John Brennan <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1352007118392582148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1352007118392582148%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwearechange.org%2Feven-libertarians-john-brennan-issues-list-of-ideologies-biden-intel-community-should-go-after%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has described libertarians as terrorists and white supremacists</a>.

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On his personal Twitter account, Brennan demands that conservatives need to publically recant their support of Donald Trump and admit that it was wrong to support the President of the United States.
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Anyone now seeking national redemption by claiming to no longer support Trump must acknowledge how wrong it was to ignore &amp; enable his corrupt, dishonest, &amp; divisive agenda.
Total denunciation of a despot’s legacy is necessary to eradicate any remaining malignancy.

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1348051973174652928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with MSNBC, Brennan <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/fmr-cia-dir-brennan-republicans-will-continue-to-gaslight-the-country-101798469719" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> that many conservatives make him “embarrassed to be a white man.”

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Brennan has admitted in the past that he voted for the Communist Party in past elections. According to CNN, Brennan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounts</a> that he admitted to voting for the Communist Party Candidate, Gus Hall, in the 1976 general election. Brennan is reported <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> that voting for Hall was his way of “signaling his unhappiness of the system.”

As The Spectator <a href="https://spectator.org/john-brennans-president-remembering-comrade-gus-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Gus Hall was a four-time presidential candidate and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Throughout his career, Hall defended atrocities committed by the Soviet Union while secretly receiving tens of millions of dollars from the Kremlin.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://www.utexas.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Texas-Austin</a> at (512) 471-3434
Updated - August 26, 2021

Dr. Kevin Cokley is the <a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/kevin_cokley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology</a> as well as a Professor of African American Diaspora Studies and Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas - Austin. He is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and is published in many outlets, including Journal of Black Psychology, The Huffington Post, and The Hill. Dr. Cokley has taught many courses, some of which are Psychology of African American Experience and Multicultural Counseling.

Dr. Cokley is very openly pro-critical race theory. <a href="https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/2021/07/15/viewpoint-teaching-critical-race-theory-patriotic-not-anti-american/7982099002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In an opinion piece for Courier &amp; Press</a>, Dr. Cokley claims that critical race theory is actually patriotic. He accuses conservatives of pushing a false narrative about critical race theory by claiming it’s “divisive, hostile, and anti-American… and teaches kids to hate each other” which is a “politicized misrepresentation.”

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Later in the article, Dr. Cokley makes the claim that the first line of the U.S. Constitution, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union…” suggests that even our founders believed America is a work-in progress. According to him, critical race theory reminds us that this is still very true.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1842" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-19-at-9.25.31-AM.png" alt="" width="494" height="177" />

Dr. Cokley <a href="https://redstate.com/alexparker/2021/07/09/usa-today-runs-pro-critical-race-theory-piece-professor-says-crts-not-divisive-or-anti-american-n408847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines critical race theory</a> as an idea “which posits that racism is not simply acts of individual bias or prejudice, but rather is embedded in institutions, policies and legal systems.” While he states he has never explicitly taught critical race theory, he does teach ideas consistent with critical race theory by providing students with examples of how Black inferiority and racism are deeply woven into modern school practices. He asserts that conservatives who are against critical race theory are wanting to prevent any type of discussion around racism or putting America in a negative light. Dr. Cokley argues that there is nothing anti-American about acknowledging the fact that racism is woven into the fabric of the United States.

In June of 2021, Dr. Cokley appeared on a <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/video/690219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segment for Fox 7 News Austin</a> discussing racial injustices. The video shows violent riots after the death of George Floyd while Dr. Cokley justifies this behavior because of racial injustice in America. The clip can be viewed <a href="https://www.fox7austin.com/video/690219" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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Parents and Students can contact the University of Texas at Austin at (512) 471-3434.

<a href="\&quot;https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/emma_gargroetzi\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="\&quot;noopener\&quot;">Emma Gargroetzi</a> is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. Gargroetzi’s research focuses on identity, power, and educational justice in the mathematical lives of children and youth. Gargroetzi received her Ph.D. from Stanford University with a dual focus on race, inequality, and language in education and in mathematics education.
Gargroetzi has many <a href="\&quot;https://apps.jsg.utexas.edu/profiles/files/cv/Gargroetzi_UT_Profile_CV_2022.08_.01_.pdf\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="\&quot;noopener\&quot;">publications</a> such as:
“Exploring equitable pay for work. Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice in Grades 3-5…”
“Ethics and identity research in the field of mathematics education: Reflections. In Making visible the invisible: The promise and challenges of identity research in mathematics education…”
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She also co-authored an article: <a href="\&quot;https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=23740\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="\&quot;noopener\&quot;">“I Have Gotten Braver”: Growing and Sustaining Critical Mathematics Pedagogies Through a Teacher Community of Praxis</a>. A few statements from the publication are attached below:

“Rather than asserting one shared definition of critical mathematics pedagogy, we read widely and discuss a range of theory and approaches… Readings have focused on critical pedagogy, culturally relevant, responsive, and sustaining pedagogies, math for social justice, racial justice, gender equity, the involvement of families and communities in classrooms, and questions of equity in mathematics more broadly.”

“Concerns about mathematics education quality in the United States tend to be oriented toward access to participation and success in a fast-paced, rapidly technologizing capitalist economy (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014).”

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Published — September 29, 2022

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/anthony_brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Brown</a> is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas - Austin. Professor Brown’s research focuses on “historical and contemporary issues and discourses concerning African American students in schools and society.” Brown is a director of the <a href="https://teachingtxslavery.education.utexas.edu/#/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teaching Texas Slavery Project</a> which “seeks to help teachers rethink the teaching of slavery and race within the context of the K-12 Texas history curriculum… The overall goal is to transform the teaching of slavery and race across the K-12 social studies curriculum.”

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Professor Brown has authored many publications, such as: 

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279741744_The_Illusion_of_Inclusion_A_Critical_Race_Theory_Textual_Analysis_of_Race_and_Standards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Illusion of Inclusion: A Critical Race Theory Textual Analysis of Race and Standards</a>. Harvard Educational Review, 82(3), 403–424: “In the case of this study, the subjective constructs of race are the ways in which issues of race and racism are rendered in the Texas standards… Racism plays out in schools through the context of unequal and oppressive social relationships among different racial groups (Omi &amp; Winant, 1994). For example, CRT scholars (e.g., Lopez, 2003) suggest that racially neutral macro-level educational laws and policies may dis-guise the salience and impact of racism in schools.” (407). “This is of particular concern because, as scholars note, White, middle-class teachers—who make up the majority of practicing and preparing teachers in the United States (Sleeter, 2008)—often resist addressing the topic of race and racism, a phenomenon related to their privileged and racially isolated social location (Brown &amp; Brown, 2010a; Epstein, 2009).” (420).</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680939.2010.533289" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Economies of Racism: Grounding Education Policy Research in the Complex Dialectic of Race, Class, and Capital</a>. Journal of Educational Policy, 26(5), 595–619: “The authors maintain that in recent years educational theory and critical policy discourse have unintentionally become splintered in such a way that race and class theories are employed separately, without much analysis of the concomitant ways race and racism are both embedded in and productive of the material processes of production and exploitation that characterize capitalism... The authors propose the framework of economies of racism to make sense of the complex unity that brings white supremacy and capitalist accumulation together in a single dialectic.”</li>
</ul>
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Published — October 7, 2022

<a href="https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/noah_de_lissovoy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noah De Lissovoy</a> is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas - Austin.

Professor De Lissovoy's research focuses on critical and emancipatory approaches to pedagogy, curriculum, and cultural studies. His interests are based on problems posed to educators by globalization and the intersecting effects of race, class, and capital in schools and society. Additionally, developing the theoretical resources for social movements and extending and rethinking the traditions of critical pedagogy and philosophy. 

According to <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2016/10/12/q-noah-de-lissovoy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Texas Tribune</a>, De Lissovoy participated in a Q&amp;A regarding his book: <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137375315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education and Emancipation in the Neoliberal Era</a>. This book “describes how neoliberalism as societal philosophy works to limit human potential in our school systems. Analyzing contemporary school reform and control, punishment, and pathologization in schools, this book outlines a theory of emancipation and a process by which pedagogy can build solidarity in classrooms and society more broadly.” 

“How does neo-liberalism limit potentials in schools?” 

De Lissovoy states: “It frames learning as an individual process, rather than a social and democratic process. In neo-liberalism, students are trained to understand themselves as in competition, always, with those around them and that their job is to advance themselves and to develop their own human capital and stock of skills against everyone else... It also limits potential because it reduces our collective understanding of what it means to teach and learn to those kinds of activities and understandings that can’t be measured by multiple-choice tests and standardized tests…”

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Professor De Lissovoy has authored many books, such as: 

<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/capitalism-pedagogy-and-the-politics-of-being-9781350157453/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitalism, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Being</a>: This book “investigates the relationship between capitalism and coloniality in society and education and reconceptualizes emancipatory theory and pedagogy in response. De Lissovoy exposes a logic of violation at the heart of capitalist accumulation and argues that we need to attend to ontological and epistemological orders of domination within which subjectivity takes shape. Systematically bridging the theoretical traditions of Marxism, Latin American decolonial thought, and critical pedagogy, De Lissovoy shows how a new critical imaginary can reorder curriculum in schools…”</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230612976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation</a>: This book describes how “Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and conservative retrenchment. This book proposes a new framework for critical pedagogy that develops strategies for responding to the proceduralization of schooling and public life in general.” </li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Toward-a-New-Common-School-Movement/Lissovoy-Means-Saltman/p/book/9781612054414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toward a New Common School Movement</a> (Co-author): This book is a “bold and urgent call to action. The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.” </li>
</ul>
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Additionally, his work has been published in many journals and edited collections, including Harvard Educational Review, Curriculum Inquiry, Race Ethnicity and Education, Journal of Education Policy, and Educational Philosophy and Theory. 

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Published — October 5, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/elm377" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric McDaniel</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government, and Co-Director of the <a href="http://pre-lab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab</a> (PRE) at the University of Texas - Austin. A variety of courses are taught with PRE curriculum. For instance, McDaniel co-teaches “<a href="http://pre-lab.org/courses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Comparative Race and Ethnic Politics</a>,” which is based on four topics, such as: “Concept and Measurement,” “Political Behavior,” “Political Institutions,” and “Group Interactions and Intersectionality.”

Additionally, PRE offers several workshops for students. One is titled: “<a href="http://pre-lab.org/minority-representation-and-majority-grievances-radical-right-wing-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minority Representation and Majority Grievances: Explaining Radical Right-Wing Support</a>.”

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McDaniel has a variety of publications, such as:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/everyday-crusade/34A0EF92928EB4E3AC25B014B6DF0FFC#fndtn-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics</a> (2022 – w. Allyson Shortle and Irfan Nooruddin). This text “examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.” </li>
</ul>
&nbsp;
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.irfannooruddin.org/uploads/3/0/9/6/30962817/mcdanielnooruddinshortle.jrep2016.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics</a> (McDaniel, Eric, L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). “This paper provides the first scholarly analysis of changing dynamics in national attachment and their impact on conceptions of American identity. Our findings not only expand upon the research on White Anglo national identity attitudes, but also extend to the broader race and politics literature by illustrating the continued conflict when White Anglos repeatedly resist inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities within their historically segregated civic spaces (Bobo and Hutchings 1996; Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1984; Kinder and Sears 1981; Nelson 1972; Sidanius and Pratto 1999).”</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X10371300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divine Boundaries: How Religion Shapes Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants</a> (McDaniel, Eric L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). This text “argue[s] that religion affects immigration attitudes via a distinct religiously informed interpretation of America’s national identity, which we call Christian nationalism. Christian nationalists believe that America has a divinely inspired mission and link its success to God’s favor.”</li>
</ul>
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In an article titled “Talk of ‘Christian nationalism’ is getting a lot louder – but what does the term really mean?“ featured on <a href="https://theconversation.com/talk-of-christian-nationalism-is-getting-a-lot-louder-but-what-does-the-term-really-mean-192378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, McDaniel elaborates on white Christian nationalists. “Christian nationalism is a religious and political belief system that argues the United States was founded by God to be a Christian nation and to complete God’s vision of the world. In this view, America can be governed only by Christians, and the country’s mission is directed by a divine hand.”
Published — November 17, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/ahl568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Liu</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Co-Director of the <a href="http://pre-lab.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab</a> (PRE) at the University of Texas - Austin. A variety of courses are taught with the PRE curriculum. For instance, Liu co-teaches “<a href="http://pre-lab.org/courses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Comparative Race and Ethnic Politics</a>.” The course is based on four topics, such as: “Concept and Measurement” “Political Behavior” “Political Institutions” and “Group Interactions and Intersectionality.”

Additionally, PRE offers several workshops for students; one is titled: <a href="http://pre-lab.org/minority-representation-and-majority-grievances-radical-right-wing-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minority Representation and Majority Grievances: Explaining Radical Right-Wing Support</a>. “What motivates electoral support for radical right-wing parties (RRP)? Existing literature argues that people vote for RRPs when majority groups are aggrieved by minority groups.”

Liu’s interests include ethnic, language, and migration politics. Her <a href="http://www.amyhliu.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> and <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/ahl568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a> display a variety of courses she teaches, such as
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">GOV 324J • Govs/Polit Of Eastern Europe. Part of the course description states: “we will examine how these institutional differences affected subsequent democratic transitions and government policies toward minorities. We will conclude by looking at how the European Union has redrawn Eastern Europe by opening up borders and the implications of these opened borders, namely the rise of right wing nationalism.”</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Comparative Race &amp; Ethnic Politics (Fall 2021). Part of the course description states: “The objective of this course is fourfold. The first is to acquaint students with the theoretical literatures on race and ethnic politics. The second is to familiarize students with the process of dataset construction. The third is to train students to carry out various types of writing assignments that political scientists – or social scientists more broadly – are frequently required to perform. And the fourth is to enable students to move towards a working paper – if not a dissertation project.”</li>
</ul>
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The tweet below shows Liu’s thoughts on non-binary pronouns:
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The politics of language evolution is like the academic equivalent of opening🎄🎁 !!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/languagesarefun?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#languagesarefun</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wannabelinguist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wannabelinguist</a> Q: How does one pronounce iel? Looking at you - especially ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ClaireAdida?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ClaireAdida</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MikeMikeMed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MikeMikeMed</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/kWQAHVpGwP">https://t.co/kWQAHVpGwP</a>
— Amy H. Liu (@dramyhliu) <a href="https://twitter.com/dramyhliu/status/1461375990836379656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://experts.utexas.edu/kathrynn_pounders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kate Pounders</a> is an Associate Professor at the Stan Richards School of Advertising &amp; Public Relations at the University of Texas - Austin. 

In an email obtained by <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ut-austin-research-program-teaches-white-4-year-olds-about-anti-black-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Kate Pounders and two other professors announced a study to learn how young children hold racist beliefs and attitudes. The endeavor is officially titled <a href="https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eqZcrUWQ1Sc7rDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOKAR!</a>, which stands for, “Kids Against Racism.” 

The letter states the researchers are interested in studying children who are 4-5 years of age and have not started kindergarten. The qualifications for applicants stipulate the “child and caregiver must both self-identify as white.” 

The program will gauge how caregivers may reduce racial bias and increase awareness around racism after engaging in dialogue about “anti-black racism” with children at home. 

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Participants will undergo Four weeks of engagement and one-on-one sessions with team members. Those who participate will be awarded a $25 gift card. 

The submission form obtained by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/19/university-texas-taxpayer-funds-anti-blackness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Caller</a> states that systemic racism exists and structurally benefits white people whether they are aware of it or not: 

“Generally, white people conceive of racism as prejudice, while people of color typically see racism as systemic or institutionalized…The reality is both of these forms of racism — individual, implicit biases and structural racism through policies and institutions — exist simultaneously.”

In the study’s citations section, there are numerous works by anti-racist and critical theorists such as <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/robindiangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robin DeAngelo</a> and <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X Kendi</a>. Readers may learn more about these professors on their respective profiles on the Professor Watchlist. <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/19/university-texas-taxpayer-funds-anti-blackness/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">While the program was officially suspended in the fall of 2021</a> pending a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for  Civil Rights, the study soon began accepting applicants again.

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Published - December 5, 2022

Lyndon Gill is an Associate Professor of African and American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. According to his <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/faculty/lkg236" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a>, Gill’s interests include, “Queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity and community building.” 

His publication, “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/erotic-islands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean</a>,” analyzes “the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.” In this book, Gill focuses on “lesbian/gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political-sensual-spiritual lens through which to see self and society more clearly.”

Gill offers a variety of courses including, but not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li>“Sex &amp; Power in African Dysphoria</li>
 	<li>Black Queer Spirit Worlds</li>
 	<li>HIV/AIDS Activism/Heal Arts</li>
 	<li>Black Queer Art Worlds”</li>
</ul>
According to his <a href="https://minio.la.utexas.edu/colaweb-prod/person_files/0/4763/Gill,%20Lyndon%20-%20CV%202018.04.10.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum vitae</a>, Gill has contributed to many peer-reviewed articles. A few are listed below:
<ul>
 	<li>“I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism &amp; the Queer Afterlife of Faith</li>
 	<li>Chatting Back an Epidemic: Trinidadian Gay Men, HIV/AIDS and the Uses of Erotic Subjectivity</li>
 	<li>Situating Black, Situating Queer: Black Queer Diaspora Studies and the Art of Embodied Listening”</li>
</ul>
According to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Gill joined a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> regarding “Black Queer Religions, Afro-Indigenous, and New Religions.” The panel examined queer and quare terminologies. They discussed how “quare is a derivative of queer;” and one speaker noted that the term quare means “to be black, queer, and religious in various ways.”

In regards to "quare’s etymology," Gill stated that it is a “regional vernacular redeployment of 'queer' in a North Carolinian, African American tongue of a certain generation.” Additionally, he noted how the words are “shades of each other” such as the colors “lavender and purple.” Quare “reminds us to resist the tempting universalizing impulse of 'queer.'"

You can view the panel below: 

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Published – July 14, 2023

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lgbtq/faculty/aha2343">Aaron Aceves</a> is a Provost Fellow in the LGBTQ Studies/College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His faculty biography includes he/him pronouns and records his sexual preference as “bisexual.”

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Aceves was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/while-universities-refuse-to-fire-anti-semites-the-private-sector-holds-them-accountable/24277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after adding his signature to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oU0LTAsKiGOMxfXnKcxpw-GJV6w5uiMP/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open statement</a> that said:
“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. We strongly condemn the response of [W]estern media and political actors at all levels of government in their dissemination of misinformation and propaganda, intended to manufacture consent for the genocide of Palestinian people.”
The statement goes on to state:
“Islamophobic, genocidal, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian rhetoric are all rooted in the languages we use. It is our responsibility to lay bare how language has been used to obscure and preserve the ongoing settler colonial project outside Gaza…”
The signatories' list of political declarations includes:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” and </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the [W]est, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobia and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been taken down but remains accessible via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Please send any information regarding Aaron Aceves to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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<a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Vladeck</a> is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at UTA and is “a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national law, and military justice.”

On February 12, 2024, Vladeck <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230835881/texas-law-professor-says-influx-of-migrants-doesnt-meet-the-definition-of-invasi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in an interview</a> on KJZZ 91.5 titled “Texas law professor says influx of migrants doesn’t meet the definition of invasion.” According to the interview transcript, Vladeck described Texas authorities’ southern border security efforts as a “sort of slow escalation of first supplementing federal authority and increasingly trying to supplant it.”

When asked if border policies were the “federal government’s business,” Vladeck stated:
“[T]hat’s the basic argument, and it’s the one that has a lot of support in decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence. I mean, for better or for worse, immigration policy is the job of the federal government, not the states. [I]t really wouldn’t make a lot of sense if Texas and New Mexico and Arizona and California could all have different policies about how to police the U.S.-Mexico border. If it comes down to a policy dispute between the states and the federal government, it’s pretty clear who’s supposed to win those.”
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In January, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/22/texas-border-supreme-court-immigration/">The Texas Tribune</a> reported that the order from SCOTUS to allow federal border agents access to the Texas-Mexico border “did not explain [the] justices’ decision.” The source said, “For now, it effectively upholds longstanding court rulings that the Constitution gives the federal government sole responsibility for border security.”

However, the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt4-6-6-3/ALDE_00000239/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution</a>—which grants the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search and seizures” —does not permit immigrants to illegally enter the United States. The Amendment further states, “Under the ‘border search exception,’ federal officers may generally conduct routine warrantless searches of persons and items entering the United States without reasonable suspicion or probable cause of unlawful activity.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/topics/border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> states, “Protecting our borders from the illicit movement of weapons, drugs, contraband, and people, while promoting lawful entry and exit, and lawful trade, is essential to homeland security, economic prosperity, and national sovereignty.” DHS’s explanation under “<a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presumption of Lawful Admission</a>” does not clarify the current southern border crisis—namely, human smuggling and trafficking as well as the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/rodas-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exploitation and disappearance of reportedly 85,000 minor children</a>.



Vladek told the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1230835881/texas-law-professor-says-influx-of-migrants-doesnt-meet-the-definition-of-invasi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KJZZ 91.5</a> host:
“[T]here’s plenty of evidence from founding-era sources…that an invasion meant [an] armed attack by an organized party. But migrants crossing the border without authorization—that’s just never been understood to meet that definition. But even if it did, even the folks who don’t find that persuasive, the authority of the Constitution grants to states in circumstances in which they are…‘actually involved’...to defend themselves until the federal government is able to show up.”
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Please send information on Professor Stephen Vladeck to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mals/faculty/kc32638" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karma Chávez</a> is Chair and Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latino Studies at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA). Her interests include “social movements, queer of color critique, abolition, rhetoric, and coalitions.” In her faculty profile, Chávez states:
“My scholarship is primarily informed by queer of color theory and women of color feminism. Methodologically, I am a rhetorical critic who utilizes textual and field-based methods. I am interested in studying social movement building, activist rhetoric, and coalition politics.” 
In 2019, Chávez published “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Palestine_on_the_Air/yqG0DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=palestine+on+the+air&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine on the Air</a>,” a book comprised of interviews she conducted among residents of Gaza. Chávez’s <a href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p084850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publisher</a>, the University of Illinois Press, said:
“Few doubt the pro-Israel bias of the Western media. It takes the form of overtly supporting Israel’s government policies, or of maintaining neutrality or silence on issues of Israeli violence, occupation, and settlement expansion. Scholar and activist [Chávez] collects eleven interviews that allow dissenting voices a forum to provide rarely heard perspectives on the Palestinian struggle for justice, land, and self-determination.”
In the book introduction, Chávez writes:
“A U.S. audience remains important in conversations about Palestine, not just so that people will make conceptual connections like ‘their walls are our walls,’ although such basic links are valuable. Instead, a U.S. audience is important because the United States is so deeply implicated in the ongoing occupation and apartheid conditions of Palestine/Israel.”
In an undated publication, Masters in Communication <a href="https://www.mastersincommunications.com/scholarly-interviews/dr-karma-chavez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Chávez about statements she made in her book “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Borders_of_AIDS/Gwo1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Borders of Aids: Race, Quarantine and Resistance</a>.” The transcript shows Chávez was asked, “How do you view the alienating rhetoric surrounding HIV/AIDS that you trace [in your book] as relevant to understanding the current COVID-19 pandemic?” She responded:

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<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bedour Alagraa</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought at the University of Texas at Austin. According to Alagraa’s faculty profile, she is a self-described ‘wayward political theorist’ with primary interests in “Political theory, Caribbean political thought, Black Marxism(s), [and] African anti-colonial thought.”

Alagraa—a contributing author for ROAR Magazine—wrote two pieces covering the “black struggle” of the Sudanese and the liberation of black Americans. Alagraa penned an <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/now-is-the-time-black-struggle-from-sudan-to-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> titled “Now is the time: Black struggle from Sudan to the US” in which she called on readers to “reflect on the radical movements” like the George Floyd riots. 

While comparing the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g2EapP_sQ09FTDSVPdAA8YI_RieflH6n/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legitimate oppression</a> of Sudanese people and the 2018 political uprisings to alleged racism issues in 2020 America, Alagraa stated:

“The purpose here is not to conflate the struggles of the Sudanese people with other struggles…The point, rather, is to understand how [b]lack struggles globally are co-constitutive and kindred. This moment demands that we draw lessons and motivation from one another, and recognize that local ecologies of struggle hold the keys to a transnational and anti-national understanding of liberation.”

In her <a href="https://roarmag.org/magazine/pendulum-swing-black-liberation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> titled “The Pendulum Swing of Black Liberation,” Alagraa further claimed:

“This piece focused on the activation of struggles, and less so on the reality that each movement for liberation was met with a deepening repression and political conservatism…Black people’s struggles have never been limited to ‘inter’ or ‘between’ nations, but oftentimes rather against, with total disregard for, the nation or the nation-state.”

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The description of Alagraa’s undergraduate course “<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Political Thought</a>” says, in part:

“Black political reflection is constituted by a distinctive and ongoing preoccupation with freedom. Conceived and practiced in and/or against the political evils of slavery, segregation, racial terror, and mass incarceration, these reflections rank among political theory’s most acute treatments of freedom and domination.”

Additional <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/ba25332#:~:text=BIOGRAPHY-,COURSES,-AFR%20370%20%E2%80%A2%20Political" target="_blank" rel="noopener">race-based courses</a> taught by Alagraa include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Black Studies Theory” — Parts I of this course answer questions such as “What is race?” “What is blackness?” and “What is the relationship of slavery to capitalism, empire, war, and democracy?” Part II supposedly covers “[a]n in-depth exploration of…African diaspora social structures and cultural traditions.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Alienation and Freedom” — summarized a seminar “which focuses on the problem of alienation as a predicament for [b]lack radical anticolonal[sic] thought and politics.”</li>
</ul>
Please send tips and updates on Bedour Alagraa to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

<a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/complit/gradstudents/is8543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibek Sahinler</a> is a Professor of rhetoric and writing at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Sanhinler—who posted she/her pronouns on her faculty profile—has multiple areas of interest, including, “queer theory,” “queer Global South,” and “writing and gender studies.”

Sahinler was named in an article by <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/longhorn-scorecard/ut-austin-course-promotes-lgbt-agenda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas Scorecard</a> titled “UT-Austin Course Promotes ‘LGBT’ Agenda.” After pointing out the “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/native-land-whiners-should-match-words-deeds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land acknowledgment</a>” on the first page of the <a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabus</a>, Scorecard wrote:

“[UT-Austin] is offering an ‘Introduction to LGBT Studies’ course this fall [2024]. A required course textbook promotes the sexualization of minors…The instructor is UT-Austin PhD candidate, Ibek Sahinler. The course’s general guidelines contain even more left-wing framing.”

The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” course description states:

“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”

Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 

In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:

“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”

Sahinler's faculty bio says, “She likes thinking about the intersections between the Middle East and Latin America, borderland studies, identity politics, rhetoric of failure, and linguistic queerness.” However, this professor has not published any books or peer-reviewed writings showing a legitimate contribution to higher learning. 

Send tips, updates, and feedback on Ibek Sahinler to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published – December 13, 2024
The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) launched a new LGBTQ course in Fall 2024. “<a href="https://texasscorecard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ut-austin-syl_wgs303_fall2024_sahinler-redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to LGBT Studies</a>,” taught by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibeksahinler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Ipek Sahinler</a>, features assigned reading that promotes the sexualization of minors. The course description states:
“This course offers students an intersectional perspective on LGBTQ+ studies, encompassing key theoretical, historical, and methodological approaches. Students will gain foundational skills in theory, history, and research methods, investigating the social construction of sexual identity and its interplay with [race], class, religion, and nationality.”
Learning outcomes for the course include, but are not limited to:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate a strong understanding of LGBTQ+ studies and its historical context–both locally and globally,” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Demonstrate how gender intersects with race, class, ability, and other social constructs,” and </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Use and produce language to go beyond binaristic ways of thinking.”</li>
</ul>
Required reading includes a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o0CRAgAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=The+Routledge+Queer+Studies+Reader&amp;hl=en&amp;newbks=1&amp;newbks_redir=0&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj05vjAiJGKAxXsI0QIHdXgDMgQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20Routledge%20Queer%20Studies%20Reader&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collection of essays</a> called “The Routledge Queer Studies Reader” with multiple contributing authors. The introduction says the book pays “homage to the publication nearly twenty years previous, The Routledge Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.” 

In chapter one—entitled “Queer and Now”—the author leads a discussion on teen suicide among those who profess to be gay or lesbian by declaring:
“I look at my adult friends and colleagues doing lesbian and gay work, and I feel that the survival of each one is a miracle… How to tell kids who are supposed never to learn this, that, farther along, the road widens and the air brightens; that in the big world there are worlds where it’s plausible, our demand to get used to it.”
The “Introduction to LGBT Studies” is only one hyper-sexualized course among several undergraduate credit hours available to students in the <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/wgss/courses/lgbtq-studies.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBT Studies</a> and Women’s, <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/lgbtq/undergraduate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> programs.

Send feedback on The University of Texas at Austin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/tichavaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antar Akari Tichavakunda</a> is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati. According to his university biography, his research focuses on college readiness, black students’ experiences at predominantly white institutions, and the sociology of race and higher education.
Tichavakunda wrote a June 2022 op-ed for Inside Higher Ed titled, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/30/academic-integrity-issues-are-not-race-neutral-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Let’s Talk About Race and Academic Integrity.”</a> In this article, he argues that “Black and Latinx” students are <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harmed by exam surveillance, zero-tolerance policies, and fraternities and sororities.</a> He says that proctoring software doesn’t always work correctly for those who have darker skin and that the “algorithms and codes structuring such technologies can perpetuate racial biases and stereotypes.”
Tichavakunda also believes that zero-tolerance plagiarism and academic integrity policies harm “Black and Latinx” students because the people who decide what is considered punishable are not “race-neutral.” He states:
“Decision makers, from faculty members to student conduct officers, hold beliefs about identity that &#8211; if uninterrogated &#8211; could potentially be racist and discriminatory.” 
Lastly, he claims that test banks, the cheat sheets made for exams by sororities and fraternities, are unfair to minorities because “the members of the oldest organizations with the largest test banks are predominantly white.”
In another Inside Higher Ed op-ed, titled <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2022/08/22/affirmative-action-probably-dead-whats-next-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Affirmative Action Is Probably Dead: Now What,”</a> he argues that “universities committed to the ideals of racial justice” should require “their applicants to think and act on issues of racial justice.” He suggests that universities could require all applicants to have completed an ethnic studies course or to include a statement of their commitment to racial justice on their application.
“Though universities may soon be denied the ability to consider race in admissions, they can consider a commitment to racial justice as part of a holistic admissions process.” 
Tichavakunda believes that racial injustice is one of the “most pervasive and persistent challenges of our time” and that universities must consider race if they want to be “caretakers of democracy.”
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<a href="https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/tichavaa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antar Akari Tichavakunda</a> is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Cincinnati. According to his university biography, his research focuses on college readiness, black students’ experiences at predominantly white institutions, and the sociology of race and higher education.

Tichavakunda wrote a June 2022 op-ed for Inside Higher Ed titled, <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/06/30/academic-integrity-issues-are-not-race-neutral-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Let’s Talk About Race and Academic Integrity.”</a> In this article, he argues that “Black and Latinx” students are <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harmed by exam surveillance, zero-tolerance policies, and fraternities and sororities.</a> He says that proctoring software doesn’t always work correctly for those who have darker skin and that the “algorithms and codes structuring such technologies can perpetuate racial biases and stereotypes.”

Tichavakunda also believes that zero-tolerance plagiarism and academic integrity policies harm “Black and Latinx” students because the people who decide what is considered punishable are not “race-neutral.” He states:
“Decision makers, from faculty members to student conduct officers, hold beliefs about identity that - if uninterrogated - could potentially be racist and discriminatory.” 
Lastly, he claims that test banks, the cheat sheets made for exams by sororities and fraternities, are unfair to minorities because “the members of the oldest organizations with the largest test banks are predominantly white.”

In another Inside Higher Ed op-ed, titled <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/views/2022/08/22/affirmative-action-probably-dead-whats-next-opinion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Affirmative Action Is Probably Dead: Now What,”</a> he argues that “universities committed to the ideals of racial justice” should require “their applicants to think and act on issues of racial justice.” He suggests that universities could require all applicants to have completed an ethnic studies course or to include a statement of their commitment to racial justice on their application.
“Though universities may soon be denied the ability to consider race in admissions, they can consider a commitment to racial justice as part of a holistic admissions process.” 
Tichavakunda believes that racial injustice is one of the “most pervasive and persistent challenges of our time” and that universities must consider race if they want to be “caretakers of democracy.”

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Published - November 18, 2022