Numerous organizations, including the American Association of University Professors and PEN America, have condemned Texas A&M University (one of the state’s two flagship campuses) for instructing Prof. Martin Peterson to remove Plato’s Symposium from an introductory philosophy class because its open discussion of ancient Greek sexual ethics violates the university’s vague policy prohibiting undergraduate classes […]
A recently released study of 2000 UK university students reveals that 4% of female and 3% of male students admit engaging in some form of sex work. However, the real figure might be even higher, as about a quarter of students said they knew a fellow student who did so, suggesting that the practice is […]
In a lawsuit against the University of Maryland, federal district judge Paula Xinis ruled that the university was negligent in failing to protect a falsely accused male student from a defamatory campaign by a female student and a campus support group called Preventing Sexual Assault. This campaign resulted in the male student being kicked off […]
While discussing the administration’s justification to cut funding to universities on a Fox news segment, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tossed up some disturbing but not at all surprising word salad. She said that President Trump would prefer funds go towards the trades than “LGBTQ graduate majors” at Harvard. What exactly did she mean […]
HARD COPY: Endangered knowledges: sexuality studies on the chopping block Check out what faculty and students from women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (and over a dozen other programs including indigenous studies) are facing at Canada’s third-largest university in this interview from Toronto Life with Frances Latchford, the chair of the school of Gender, Sexuality, and […]
