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<a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eric Ruiz Bybee</a> is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in the <a href="https://education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah.
In a message to the conservative, student-run publication, <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Dr. Bybee threatened to report writers of the site and others for academic misconduct. The incident stemmed from a report by the paper in which a document from Dr. Jane Lopez’s course was published.
Her assignment—titled, “Revealing Whiteness Activity,”—asked students to identify and photograph three aspects of “whiteness” represented at BYU. The document further cited the author of “White Fragility”, Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color.”
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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/janelopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lopez, please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.
Several days after the story was posted, the site was inundated with comments accusing the author of posting private intellectual property.
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Shortly after, Dr. Eric Bybee privately messaged the Chronicle and demanded the post be taken down. He likewise accused the authors of stealing Dr. Lopez’s intellectual property and engaging in “targeted harassment” before assuring that he is committed to pursuing “appropriate consequences” against those responsible.
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He threatened to report several conservative students and activists on campus—including several who do not even write for the paper—to the university’s Honor Code office administration for disciplinary action (The names of the students have been blurred at their request).
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<a href="https://honorcode.byu.edu/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Honor Code Office</a> is tasked with enforcing the university’s code of conduct. Those found in violation may face academic discipline or—in extreme cases—expulsion from BYU.
Upon review of the Honor Code by the Professor Watchlist Team, t<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/policy/academic-honesty">here appears to be no rule against the posting of an assignment</a>.
While the office ultimately chose to not investigate, the author of the story eventually edited the sections of the report that included Dr. Lopez’s course due to the nature of the threat. The <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/news-and-opinion/f/opinion-byu-teaching-antiracism---racism-repackaged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated piece can still be found on the Chronicle’s website</a> and a corresponding post on the site’s Instagram page—<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byuconservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BYU Conservatives</a>—may be viewed below.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bybee’s personal Twitter account</a> further showcases his antagonism towards conservatives and white men in addition to his far-left stances.
A series of tweets support critical race theory,
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A reminder:
Davis District *cancelled* an anti-bias training in response to Utah’s anti-CRT resolution.
This means that there is a *direct link* between cynical attempts to manufacture outrage over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CRT</a> and the racist abuse that Black students experience in schools. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#utpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/AZtzrqpQCr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AZtzrqpQCr</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1453066745502044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Friends I am speaking on a CRT panel tomorrow sponsored by <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_UofUtah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAACP_UofUtah</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterUtahInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetterUtahInst</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/acluutah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acluutah</a>.
Join us!<a href="https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m</a> <a href="https://t.co/sOIcpRo97J" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/sOIcpRo97J</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1405270931187015681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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One tweet compares Joe Rogan to the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-men-convicted-murdering-ahmaud-arbery-sentenced-life-prison-rcna10901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in a hate crime</a>,
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I am pretty tired of hearing about Joe Rogan at this point, but it feels worth pointing out that the federal hate crime case against Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers hinges in part on their use of the same slurs that Rogan used on his show.
Let that sink in for a moment. <a href="https://t.co/OweQXalcAl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/OweQXalcAl</a> <a href="https://t.co/JyZVOIZwr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/JyZVOIZwr0</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1490938173677260800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a thread, Dr. Bybee accuses white men of representing “the face of modern domestic terrorism.”
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Say it with me again.
The face of modern domestic terrorism is not brown or black. It is white. /1<a href="https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZMM6XPADqp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ZMM6XPADqp</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1314654321611403264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yet another tweet insinuates that Kyle Rittenhouse received preferable treatment from the justice system because he is white,
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I can’t think of two cases that better illustrates the white supremacy of our criminal justice system.
It’s a sickness and and rot at the heart of our society. <a href="https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4</a>
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1330672839175770113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bybee’s work has led him to <a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric">author papers</a> on Latinx Education, Racial Identity, Social Justice Education, and even one paper titled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271217910_White_Supremacy_NeoColonial_Education_and_the_Struggle_for_Precious_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge.”</a>
The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Bybee for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Update 
After publication, Dr. Bybee proceeded to publish 61-tweets defending teaching “whiteness” to his students and describing the Professor Watchlist as “something that sounds like it could have come out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” The full thread may be viewed below. 
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So, last Thursday a right-wing website published a story about me and another <a href="https://twitter.com/BYU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BYU</a> colleague.
Since then I have received many harassing emails/voicemails.
I have decided to make public those emails/voicemails in this thread. 🧵 /1
— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1505954460400455682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3426 or at eac.frontdesk@byu.edu
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<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/rebecca-deschweinitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rebecca de Schweinitz</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> (BYU) in Provo, Utah. According to her university biography, Dr. de Schweinitz teaches subjects such as American History, US Women’s History, and African American History.

Much of Dr. de Schweinitz’s work focuses on racism within the LDS Church and BYU. In one of her published papers—tilted <a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/there-is-no-equality-william-e-berrett-byu-and-healing-the-wounds-of-racism-in-the-latter-day-saint-past-and-present/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“There is No Equity”</a>—Dr. de Schweinitz details the history of racism within the university.

Dr. de Schweinitz is frequently cited by BYU for her expertise on racism, or more specifically, “anti-racism.” In one discussion—hosted by the BYU Kennedy Center—she extolls anti-racist scholar, Ibram X Kendi’s Book, “<a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to be an Antiracist</a>.”

Dr. Kendi’s book became a bestseller in 2020 during the height of the BLM riots. The premise targets systemic racism and claims that not it is not enough or to be “non-racist,” an individual must be anti racist, or take proactive actions or support policies that alleviate racism.

Readers may learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Kendi by visiting his profile in the Professor Watchlist.</a>

During her comments on the panel, Dr. de Schweinitz <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RO0V1tQzMU&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vehemently endorses Dr. Kendi’s work</a>. She even goes as far as to compare herself to Dr. Kendi, lauding the historical credentials of the latter. Furthermore, she openly admits that Dr. Kendi’s conception is taught in her classroom and centers her scholarships.

At one point, she calls racism a “metastatic cancer” that affects every single aspect of life in the United States. She admits that Dr. Kendi is right, and that white people are “nurtured” to be racist.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. de Schweintz frequently references her LDS background as a pretext to cite the need to be “antiracist.” At one point, she compares God’s position on sin to her own—and by default, Dr. Keni’s as well—on racism; as one can either be for the world or for God, likewise you can either be racist or anti-racist.

This theme is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPCoxKtNvsg&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued in part two of the lecture.</a> Dr. de Schweinitz wastes no time in not only praising critical race theory, but listing it as integral to fighting racism.

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/">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. de Schweinitz states that anyone opposed to CRT is just viewing American history narrow-mindedly. She further states that an anti-racist America is “beautiful.” She articulates that critical theory is “one of many tools” that can be used by the church to alleviate racism.

<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/jane-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jane Lopez</a> is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah. According to her university biography, her research focuses on immigration, citizenship, law, race, and ethnicity.

In addition to teaching a class on immigration, Dr. Lopez is a sought-after speaker on the topic by the university. She was a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FNKG4m6FOg&amp;t=4041s&amp;ab_channel=BYUKennedyCenter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured guest in a Kennedy Center</a> event that condemned current immigration laws as oppressive and racist.

During her remarks, Dr. Lopez echoed her co-panelists praise of illegal immigration and encouragement to violate existing immigration laws. She further referred to the expectation of immigrants to learn English as a “privilege” of native-born Americans who will never face immigration laws.

Toward the end of her speech, Dr. Lopez stated that our ancestors were illegal immigrants. Americans have no right to deny immigrants, as this country “isn’t ours to begin with” and our ancestors caused "much greater destruction" than immigrants do today.

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Dr. Lopez’s classes further focus on race and “white privilege.” In leaked documents from her course, SOC-112, Dr. Lopez tasked students to identify and expose “whiteness” at BYU.

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The assignment, titled “Revealing Whiteness Activity,” asks teams of 3-4 students to explore the different aspects of “whiteness” built into the “physical and social environment” of BYU,

“As a Predominantly White Institution (PWI), BYU not only has a disproportionate number of White students in its student body (compared to the US population as a whole), but it also has different aspects of “Whiteness” built into its physical and social environment.” 

The document cites University of Washington professor and author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Fragility</a>,” Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as the “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate White people over people of color.” She includes three additional definitions to further define the term as:
- A location of structural advantage, or “race privilege.”
- A “standpoint,” or a place from which White people look at themselves, at others, and at society.
- A set of cultural practices that are usually unmarked and unnamed.
To learn more about Robin DeAngelo,<a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/robindiangelo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Students are tasked with identifying and photographing three separate manifestations of alleged whiteness on BYU’s campus before uploading the assignment for a final grade.

The document was originally published by the student-led publication, “<a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle,</a>” and <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/at-byu-all-you-have-to-do-to-get-an-a-is-be-a-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted by TPUSA’s Morgan Zegers</a>,

Upon the initial publication, a professor now identified as Dr. Eric Bybee, threatened to report all students affiliated with the story to BYU’s Honor Code Office. Dr. Bybee further called for the administration to investigate the students for possible conduct violations. (The names of the students cited by Dr. Bybee have been redacted at their request.) The author eventually altered the article out of concern for his academic standing.

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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Bybee, please visit his profile on the Professor Watchlist.</a>

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Lopez for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://sociology.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sociology Department</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3392 or at sociology@byu.edu 
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<a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Eric Ruiz Bybee</a> is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in the <a href="https://education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> at <a href="https://www.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brigham Young University</a> in Provo, Utah.

In a message to the conservative, student-run publication, <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cougar Chronicle</a>, Dr. Bybee threatened to report writers of the site and others for academic misconduct. The incident stemmed from a report by the paper in which a document from Dr. Jane Lopez’s course was published.

Her assignment—titled, “Revealing Whiteness Activity,”—asked students to identify and photograph three aspects of “whiteness” represented at BYU. The document further cited the author of “White Fragility”, Robin DeAngelo, to define “whiteness” as “specific dimensions of racism that serve to elevate white people over people of color.”

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To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/janelopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lopez, please visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Several days after the story was posted, the site was inundated with comments accusing the author of posting private intellectual property.

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Shortly after, Dr. Eric Bybee privately messaged the Chronicle and demanded the post be taken down. He likewise accused the authors of stealing Dr. Lopez’s intellectual property and engaging in “targeted harassment” before assuring that he is committed to pursuing “appropriate consequences” against those responsible.

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He threatened to report several conservative students and activists on campus—including several who do not even write for the paper—to the university’s Honor Code office administration for disciplinary action (The names of the students have been blurred at their request).

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<a href="https://honorcode.byu.edu/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Honor Code Office</a> is tasked with enforcing the university’s code of conduct. Those found in violation may face academic discipline or—in extreme cases—expulsion from BYU.

Upon review of the Honor Code by the Professor Watchlist Team, t<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/policy/academic-honesty">here appears to be no rule against the posting of an assignment</a>.

While the office ultimately chose to not investigate, the author of the story eventually edited the sections of the report that included Dr. Lopez’s course due to the nature of the threat. The <a href="https://thecougarchronicle.godaddysites.com/news-and-opinion/f/opinion-byu-teaching-antiracism---racism-repackaged" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated piece can still be found on the Chronicle’s website</a> and a corresponding post on the site’s Instagram page—<a href="https://www.instagram.com/byuconservatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BYU Conservatives</a>—may be viewed below.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Bybee’s personal Twitter account</a> further showcases his antagonism towards conservatives and white men in addition to his far-left stances.

A series of tweets support critical race theory,
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A reminder:
Davis District *cancelled* an anti-bias training in response to Utah’s anti-CRT resolution.

This means that there is a *direct link* between cynical attempts to manufacture outrage over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CRT</a> and the racist abuse that Black students experience in schools. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/utpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#utpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/AZtzrqpQCr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/AZtzrqpQCr</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1453066745502044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Friends I am speaking on a CRT panel tomorrow sponsored by <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP_UofUtah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAACP_UofUtah</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BetterUtahInst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetterUtahInst</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/acluutah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acluutah</a>.
Join us!<a href="https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/spCtRtIL6m</a> <a href="https://t.co/sOIcpRo97J" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/sOIcpRo97J</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1405270931187015681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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One tweet compares Joe Rogan to the <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-men-convicted-murdering-ahmaud-arbery-sentenced-life-prison-rcna10901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery in a hate crime</a>,
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I am pretty tired of hearing about Joe Rogan at this point, but it feels worth pointing out that the federal hate crime case against Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers hinges in part on their use of the same slurs that Rogan used on his show.
Let that sink in for a moment. <a href="https://t.co/OweQXalcAl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/OweQXalcAl</a> <a href="https://t.co/JyZVOIZwr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/JyZVOIZwr0</a>

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In a thread, Dr. Bybee accuses white men of representing “the face of modern domestic terrorism.”
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Say it with me again.
The face of modern domestic terrorism is not brown or black. It is white. /1<a href="https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YWWITBQyxf</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZMM6XPADqp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/ZMM6XPADqp</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1314654321611403264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yet another tweet insinuates that Kyle Rittenhouse received preferable treatment from the justice system because he is white,
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I can’t think of two cases that better illustrates the white supremacy of our criminal justice system.
It’s a sickness and and rot at the heart of our society. <a href="https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/RGeWGsIYy4</a>

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1330672839175770113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bybee’s work has led him to <a href="https://education.byu.edu/directory/view/bybee-eric">author papers</a> on Latinx Education, Racial Identity, Social Justice Education, and even one paper titled <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271217910_White_Supremacy_NeoColonial_Education_and_the_Struggle_for_Precious_Knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Supremacy, Neo/Colonial Education and the Struggle for Precious Knowledge.”</a>

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Bybee for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Update 
After publication, Dr. Bybee proceeded to publish 61-tweets defending teaching “whiteness” to his students and describing the Professor Watchlist as “something that sounds like it could have come out of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.” The full thread may be viewed below. 
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So, last Thursday a right-wing website published a story about me and another <a href="https://twitter.com/BYU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BYU</a> colleague.
Since then I have received many harassing emails/voicemails.

I have decided to make public those emails/voicemails in this thread. 🧵 /1

— Eric Ruiz Bybee (@ericbybee) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericbybee/status/1505954460400455682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.education.byu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David O. McKay School of Education</a> of BYU at (801) 422-3426 or at eac.frontdesk@byu.edu
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<a href="https://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/directory/jacob-rugh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jacob S. Rugh</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Family, Home, &amp; Social Sciences department at Brigham Young University (BYU).

In August of 2020, Rugh <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2020/08/09/jacob-s-rugh-an-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote a letter</a> to BYU’s Committee on Race, Equity, and Belonging. One of his aims for writing the letter was “to amplify the voices of Black BYU students, specifically <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/07/18/byus-black-student-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their recent declaration</a> of grievances and letter on remembering and monuments to church, university and NAACP leaders.” 

Rugh said he has focused his BYU “citizenship efforts” to “the ongoing redesign of general education at BYU to include a new, focused diversity and inclusion requirement.” He also aims to establish “a new campus center for racial equality that would (among other tasks) spur the diversification of faculty now and enrich the pipeline of future faculty.” 

According to the letter, another priority of Rugh’s is for BYU to establish “a long-term process of institutional repentance,” on campus. 

In October of 2022, Rugh “quoted an anti-white article favorably in a tweet,” <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Campus Reform</a>. The article, written by Perry Bacon Jr. for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/13/america-has-white-voter-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, was titled “America’s problem is White people keep backing the Republican Party.” Bacon Jr. claims that there is an alliance between white Americans and the Republican party, which he considers to be the “most important and problematic dynamic in American politics today.” (see tweet below). 
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"It’s no accident that Republicans are winning the majority of White voters...result of a successful strategy. It’s not that Trumpism brought White voters as a bloc to the Republican Party—but rather that it hasn’t scared many of them off." <a href="https://twitter.com/perrybaconjr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@perrybaconjr</a>🎯 <a href="https://t.co/YFkwjQPVVp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/YFkwjQPVVp</a>
— Jacob S. Rugh (@JakeRugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeRugh/status/1581821693437235200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://ph.byu.edu/directory/stephanie-lutz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephanie Lutz</a> is an Internship Coordinator and Professor in the Department of Public Health at Brigham Young University (BYU). 

According to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, in a “<a href="https://catalog.byu.edu/life-sciences/public-health/womens-health-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HLTH 450: Women’s Health</a> course,” course, Lutz promoted “the concept of ‘interspace’ in pregnancy, the idea that perhaps someone isn't truly pregnant if they don't ‘know’ whether they're pregnant yet.”

Lutz also went further with her claim that pregancy is ambiguous, and suggested use of a pill taken by a woman who is unsure if she is pregnant or not:
“If she had unprotected intercourse before she takes a positive pregnancy test. There's a pill she can take to just ensure. Like in this interspace, like I don’t want to take a pregnancy test and I kind of don't want to know if I actually conceived. This pill will just take care of it if I did, and if I didn't.”
Campus Reform spoke with Ashleigh Watts, a former student of Lutz, who shared her experiences in the professor’s class:

“I just found it ironic that she pretty much worshipped Margaret Sanger who founded planned parenthood and essentially led the mass genocide of black children by means of abortion…while also teaching us CRT, about microaggressions, white guilt, and how to be an ‘anti-racist,’” Watts said. 

In October of 2022, Lutz told <a href="https://universe.byu.edu/2022/10/11/female-empowerment-how-byu-is-uplifting-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Universe</a> (a BYU publication) her approach to covering the subject of woman in her class:
 “In my class, while we cover the lifespan of the woman, we also discuss body image, self-esteem, nutrition, social media’s portrayal of women, women being marketed to sell products, eating disorders and more.” 
In her course, Lutz also tries “to infuse more of the social context of what’s going on in that, looking at marginalized groups such as LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled women, etc.”
Published - January 11, 2023

Racial Ideology

Eric Bybee

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<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 &#8211; Gender Transition in Later Life &#8211; 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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<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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<a href="https://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/bletiecq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bethany Letiecq</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Letiecq’s profile says she “[specializes] in the utilization of community-based participatory action research approaches, anti-racist research methods … and mixed method designs … in partnership with minoritized and marginalized families.”
On February 4, 2024, Letiecq <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article </a>entitled “Theorizing [w]hite heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality.” In the abstract, Letiecq states:
“Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.”
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In the past, Letiecq received an Article of the Year award for her work on “structural racism and heteropatriarchy.”
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It is beyond humbling to be awarded the Article of the Year from <a href="https://twitter.com/ASA_Family?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASA_Family</a>. Co-authoring this article &#8220;interlinking structural racism &amp; heteropatriarchy&#8221; with the brilliant <a href="https://twitter.com/christinajcross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@christinajcross</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/p_fomby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@p_fomby</a> was so very rewarding. Grateful to the reviewers for this honor. 🙏🤯😂 <a href="https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8">https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8</a>
— Bethany Letiecq (@BethanyLetiecq) <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyLetiecq/status/1661133190226927616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, The College Fix featured Letiecq in an <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-seek-to-undo-the-unearned-benefits-of-family-privilege/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> after she spoke during a seminar called “Toward Dismantling Family Privilege and White Supremacy in Family Science.” The source linked to the <a href="https://www.ncfr.org/events/ncfr-webinars/toward-dismantling-family-privilege-and-white-supremacy-family-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminar description</a>, which says, “Family privilege is a structural mechanism ‘hidden’ within our [w]hite supremacist society that creates systemic barriers to equal opportunity and justice for all families.”
The seminar summary also said, “[A]ttendees will examine, recognize, and learn how to dismantle the manifestations of family privilege in our social systems by using an intersectional framework developed by critical feminist and race scholars.”
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Please send tips and information on Bethany Letiecq to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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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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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://cehd.gmu.edu/people/faculty/bletiecq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bethany Letiecq</a> is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Letiecq’s profile says she “[specializes] in the utilization of community-based participatory action research approaches, anti-racist research methods … and mixed method designs … in partnership with minoritized and marginalized families.”

On February 4, 2024, Letiecq <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article </a>entitled “Theorizing [w]hite heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality.” In the abstract, Letiecq states:
“Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.”
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In the past, Letiecq received an Article of the Year award for her work on “structural racism and heteropatriarchy.”
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It is beyond humbling to be awarded the Article of the Year from <a href="https://twitter.com/ASA_Family?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASA_Family</a>. Co-authoring this article "interlinking structural racism &amp; heteropatriarchy" with the brilliant <a href="https://twitter.com/christinajcross?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@christinajcross</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/p_fomby?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@p_fomby</a> was so very rewarding. Grateful to the reviewers for this honor. 🙏🤯😂 <a href="https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8">https://t.co/Mp4xQUgPe8</a>
— Bethany Letiecq (@BethanyLetiecq) <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyLetiecq/status/1661133190226927616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, The College Fix featured Letiecq in an <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-seek-to-undo-the-unearned-benefits-of-family-privilege/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> after she spoke during a seminar called “Toward Dismantling Family Privilege and White Supremacy in Family Science.” The source linked to the <a href="https://www.ncfr.org/events/ncfr-webinars/toward-dismantling-family-privilege-and-white-supremacy-family-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminar description</a>, which says, “Family privilege is a structural mechanism ‘hidden’ within our [w]hite supremacist society that creates systemic barriers to equal opportunity and justice for all families.”

The seminar summary also said, “[A]ttendees will examine, recognize, and learn how to dismantle the manifestations of family privilege in our social systems by using an intersectional framework developed by critical feminist and race scholars.”

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Please send tips and information on Bethany Letiecq to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

Feminism

Bethany Letiecq

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<a href="https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/386" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grace Lavery</a> is an Associate Professor for the English program at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic specialties are 19th-century British literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is a transgender professor who “transitioned” in 2018. He claims his “work in trans feminist studies is… focused on the belief that transition works; that it is truly possible to change sex.”
In February of 2022 <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/professor-suspended-twitter-hopes-queen-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lavery was suspended from Twitter</a> for tweeting “I hope the queen dies,” a few days after Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for Covid-19. He even tagged the British government in the tweet. Lavery <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542993/Berkeley-professor-suspended-Twitter-tweeting-hopes-COVID-stricken-Queen-DIES.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Daily Mail</a>: ​​“I do not think they [Twitter] should ban people for hoping that public figures die, whether the person in question is Elizabeth Windsor, Donald Trump, or Jeremy Corbyn.” Since his suspension, Lavery has no longer been active on Twitter. 
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported that Lavery tweeted the following statement on January 29, 2022: “i [sic] think that everyone is secretly as much of a pervert as we are, and we’ll win because of it.” Since Lavery’s Twitter account has been suspended, none of his tweets can be accessed. 
On the following day Lavery tweeted “i [sic] think we should seize all private property, so there’ll be nowhere for you adults to try your naughty little spanks except in the gutter with the rest of us… 3. Senile elderly woman masturbating surreptitiously during mass,” among several other explicit tweets. 
Lavery wrote the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Please-Miss-Heartbreaking-Staggering-Penis/dp/1541620658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis”</a>, which was released in February of 2022. The Amazon description for the book states:
“Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives…”

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/hatem-bazian/">Hatem Bazian</a> is a professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the <a href="https://zaytuna.edu/academics/faculty/hatem-bazian">co-founder and assistant professor </a>at Zaytuna College, which is the only accredited American college in which the curriculum is based on Islamic fundamentals. Bazian’s resume is littered with antisemitic and pro-terror incidents, both on and off-campus.

When attending San Francisco State University, Bazian accused the student newspaper of being <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/19590/profiles-in-hate-hatem-bazian">infiltrated by “Jewish spies</a>,” and allegedly denied Jewish students jobs while serving as Student Body President, claiming their support of Israel exhibited their racism.

Bazian’s activism grew more militant with time. At an Islamic conference in 1999, he was quoted by the Detroit Free Press reciting an Islamic Hadith <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8865/hatem-bazian-personal-story">calling for the slaughter of Jews</a>.
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After 79 members of Students for Justice in Palestine were arrested for disrupting a Holocaust memorial, Bazian asserted that the university's actions were racially motivated. During the subsequently organized protests, Bazain <a href="https://www.jweekly.com/2018/10/22/berkeley-city-councils-shameful-tolerance-of-anti-semitism/">insinuated that powerful Jews controlled the University and orchestrated the arrests</a>.

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Bazian’s thinly veiled antisemitism is seamlessly <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Hatem_Bazian">interlaced with his anti-Israel demagoguery</a>. A proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,  Bazian has called for the dismantlement of the state of Israel and has praised the terrorist group Hamas. Bazian <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfv5yaKxNgo&amp;ab_channel=HamasOnCampus">openly called for a domestic insurrection</a> within America. Calling the crowd to arms at a 2003 anti-war rally, Bazian called for an “Intifada” to start in America.

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The Intifada was then in the midst of its third year of blood-soaked carnage in Israel. Before it abated in 2006, <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel">over one thousand men, women, and children would perish</a> from sniper fire and suicide attacks on buses, markets, and restaurants. The most gruesome attacks included the <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/26/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/">public lynching and disembowelment of two Israeli soldiers</a>, and the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/18-years-after-sbarro-suicide-attack-pa-has-paid-910823-to-the-culprits-598106">bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria</a>, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman.

Extending to the classroom and beyond, Bazian has co-founded two anti-Israel groups: <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/SJP">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP), and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

Bazian co-founded SJP with fellow professor <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/snehalshingavi">Snehal Shingavi</a> in 2001 in solidarity with Palestinian groups, as the Intifada raged in Israel. The group is known for its belligerent tactics and hostility towards Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus. SJP openly calls for the destruction of Israel and has never been shy about their support for Hamas. <a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Azka_Fayyaz">A student senator and member of SJP</a> at UC Davis <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-depicts-jewish-students-growing-insecurity-on-campus/">welcomed “Hamas and sharia law"</a> to campus.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SF2qAJl65k&amp;ab_channel=CanaryMission">American Muslims for Palestine</a>, of which Bazian serves as Chairman, is rooted in the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Facing scrutiny by the federal government over its ties to overseas jihadist groups, IAP ceased operations in 2003 to avoid prosecution. Many of the staff then <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-SchanzerJ-20160419.pdf">reconstituted under the new banner of AMP with Bazian as Chairman</a>. Screenshots from IAP’s former website show that the group openly encouraged Islamic terrorism and what can only be described as ethnic cleansing of Jews.

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Bazian is a tenured professor at one of the world’s most prestigious colleges. Tens of thousands of students have passed through his classroom while accruing many thousands more in debt, over his many decades in academia. His radicalism isn’t hidden—Bazian has openly embraced and preached the most radical, violent, and bigoted positions imaginable and sought to inspire future leaders with those same values.

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UPDATE - May 27, 2022
A previous edition that attributed a quote to Hatem Bazian has been corrected and attributed to an article hosted on the IAP website in December, 2000

<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/john-powell/">John A. Powell</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. During a<a href="http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/"> White Privilege Conference</a>, Powell was caught on film saying that the Bush Administration deliberately took money away from strengthening the levees during Hurricane Katrina because the levees were protecting black people.

<a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nancy-scheper-hughes">Nancy Scheper-Hughes</a> is the Chancellor’s Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkely. Her university biography <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nancy-scheper-hughes">states</a> that Scheper-Hughes approaches her work through a “politically engaged perspective” to examine “structural and political violence.”

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Anti-Second Amendment 
Immediately following the Pulse nightclub shooting, in which a Muslim man who pledged allegiance to ISIS <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-injuries-shooting-orlando-nightclub-police/story?id=39789552">entered Pulse, a gay nightclub, and opened fire, killing 50 individuals</a>, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">published</a> an article on the Berkeley Blog, a university website, to reflect on the events of the previous evening, titled, Radical evil: A reflection on the Orlando massacre.

In her article, Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">describes</a> the Pulse nightclub as a “sacred space” that was attacked by a man she describes as “radically evil.” However, she then blames the killings on hate speech of the “trumpers'' and the <a href="https://home.nra.org/">National Rifle Association</a>.

Referring to the Second Amendment in the post, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">states</a> that we have “failed as a democracy” to let “one amendment trump” all other amendments, leading to killings like the one in Orlando. She alleges that massacres throughout American history are typically committed by “orthodox conservatives” that suffer from a "perversity of heart."

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In mid-2017, the Berkely College Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/BerkeleyCRs/status/884816647546064896">announced</a> on the group's Twitter account that they would host popular commentator Ben Shapiro. In an article for the website, CounterPunch, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/the-great-wall-of-uc-berkeley-vs-baby-face-shapiro/">decries</a> the decision to host Shapiro at the university, describing him as a “smart aleck, wisecracking, racist, sexist, misogynist, Islamophobic jerk.” She goes on to describe Shapiro as a “very dangerous, extremely controversial, physical threat” to Berkeley’s student body.

Scheper-Hughes further <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/the-great-wall-of-uc-berkeley-vs-baby-face-shapiro/">describes</a> Ben Shapiro in her article as a member of the “alt-light” that engages in hate speech. Hughes states that the First Amendment is a “work in progress” and that the amendment is “ignorant” and inadequately able to combat “hate speech.”

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While acknowledging that the university is “stuck” with the protections that the First Amendment affords Ben Shapiro, Scheper-Hughes implies that free speech can be regulated to ban hate speech.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Scheper-Hughes for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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<a href="https://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ron-hendel/">Dr. Ronald Hendel</a> is a Professor of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. At the beginning of Hendel’s class, titled “Jewish Civilization I: The Biblical Period,” he told students not to take his class if they think the Bible is infallible. After one student started questioning and challenging him, Hendel told the student “If you disagree with the approach we use, that’s an F.”

<a href="https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/andrew-little">Dr. Andrew Little</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California in Berkeley. According to his university <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/andrew-little">biography</a>, Dr. Little’s research focuses on authoritarian politics, communication and information manipulation, and conflict.

While working as a professor at Cornell University, Dr. Little vocally opposed the hiring of conservative professors by the university. In an interview with The Cornell Daily Sun in October 2015, he stated that <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">the quality of research and academic integrity would suffer if universities hired conservative professors</a>.

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In the same article, titled “Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show,” reporters for the Cornell Daily Sun <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">note</a> that over 96% of the political donations of Cornell staff went to Democrats and only 4% were donated to Republican candidates.
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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ramon-grosfoguel-1/">Ramon Grosfoguel</a> is an associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to his university biography, Grosfoguel also specializes in decoloniality and the study of Islamophobia.

Grosfoguel is notable for his vocal opposition to the state of Israel and support for BDS. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1PCTNGgB8&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv">interview</a> with the Islamic Human Rights Commission during Al-Quds Day (an <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-quds-day-irans-leader-says-zionism-a-virus-that-must-be-eliminated/">Iranian holiday</a> dedicated to the destruction of Israel) not only did he claim that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, but that Israel is a threat to peace across the world. Grosfoguel claimed that Israel is infiltrating nations and aligning itself with openly fascist organizations in order to strangle freedom of speech.

Grosfoguel also claims that Jews <a href="https://www.okcir.com/Articles%20VII%202/Grosfoguel-FM.pdf">cynically use the Holocaust</a> to elicit sympathy from the world in order to commit atrocities against Arabs;

“The simplistic identity politics of the Holocaust hegemonic narrative that essentialized Jewish identity as homogenous eternal victims and always intentionally innocent ended with Gaza.”   

“These simplistic and reductionist narratives about the Holocaust and Jewish identity were exploited by the Zionists for the last 60 years to legitimate their fundamentalist Jewish state built upon the practices and methods of settler colonialism against the Palestinians.”                  

“Hitlerism as a continuation of colonial racist ideology came back to hunt Palestinians this time at the hands of European Jews who ironically were escaping from the Nazi Holocaust.” 

“...the Holocaust was always manipulated, abused, and institutionalized by the Israeli settler colonialist state from its foundation in 1948 until today to justify its colonial domination, expansion, and terror.”
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Grosfoguel specializes in anti-colonial rhetoric. Rather than a past vestige, Grosfoguel maintains that colonialism is an ongoing attempt by Western nations—particularly Israel and the United States, to maintain dominance throughout the world. Grosfoguel lectures that the capitalistic, Christian-centered West is able to bleed poorer nations dry to maintain their wealth. He claims that Christianity itself has given rise to genocides around the world, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8ISZolAMw&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=2m4s">“pre-modern” societies were far more peaceful</a> than modern, Western nations.

To Grosfoguel, the concept of human rights is a Western farce that is used to justify foreign invasions. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=9m46s">He has claimed</a> that America is a “rogue state” that has murdered upwards of 70 million people.

“Here comes the quintessential rogue state in the world, USA, calling other nations rogue states….This is really amazing, because this country, the last 60 years, has killed more than 70 million people.”  

In the same lecture, he held nothing back when grotesquely claiming that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=7m0s">should have been put to death</a> alongside Sadam Hussein for his crimes as an imperialist:

“So Donald Rumsfield should have been sitting alongside Sadam Hussein and been judged, ok? And been hanged together with him.”  

Grosfoguel travels frequently to speak about his views on decolonization and is renowned among the Left for his views on the subject. In 2018, he was invited to deliver <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwX2ZQl0C0&amp;t=3173s&amp;ab_channel=LuiginoBracciRoa-Situaci%C3%B3nenVenezuela">opening remarks</a> addressing this topic at a Caracas-based conference hosted by Nicholas Maduro. Grosfoguel was well received at the conference and can be seen warmly greeting the dictator below.

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/keith-feldman-1/">Keith Feldman</a> is a head graduate advisor and an associate professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.

Speaking before the Berkeley-based conference Critical Discourses on Islamophobia, Feldman reserved most of his speech to criticize Barack Obama for killing jihadists. Labeling the administration’s <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">use of drones to eliminate terrorists as Islamaphobic</a>—or what he termed as “racialization from above—he asked, “What happens when Islamophobia takes to the skies?”

Feldman compared the death of Osama bin Laden to a Jim Crow-era lynching. As he was describing his killing as the “residue of late nineteenth-century colonial settler violence,” Feldman <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">displayed a black lynching victim in the background to serve as an analogy to his death.</a>

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In 2015 while discussing his book, <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-shadow-over-palestine">A Shadow Over Palestine</a>, he claimed that <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22864/berkeley-prof-race-in-america-is-like-occupation">American ghettos are akin to the Warsaw ghetto</a> during the Holocaust, which itself is akin to modern-day Palestinian refugee camps.

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Feldman’s book praises the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/7244/a-radical-romance-with-the-palestinians">United World Conference Against Racism</a> held in Durban, South Africa. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/durban-and-911-ten-years-later">The gathering is notorious for its antisemitism</a>, with vendors <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/durban-i-un-conference-against-racism-2001">selling the conspiratorial</a> ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and displaying banners that read ‘What if Hitler Had Won?’ Feldman praises this conference for uniting “hundreds” of NGOs to declare that “Zionism is racism.”
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Zeus Leonardo</a> is a Professor in the<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Graduate School of Education</a> at the University of <a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California-Berkeley</a>. According to his university profile, Dr. Leonardo’s courses include: “Race, Whiteness Studies, and Education” and “Proseminar: Social Critique of Education.” Much of Dr. Leonardo’s work utilizes critical race theory to analyze areas such as race, class, culture, and gender in education.

Dr. Leonardo is also listed as an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at UC Berkeley. As part of the Graduate School of Education, the program explores the “<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/academics/ma-and-phd-programs/critical-studies-race-class-and-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">root causes and effects of white supremacy and settler colonialism in education</a>,” according to the official website.

Upon completion, those enrolled will earn a certification of “Designated Emphasis and Specialization in Critical Theory.” The university flaunts critical theory’s association with the Frankfurt School of Economics on its website. The Frankfurt School of Economics was <a href="https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/BG3567.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">composed of openly Marxist economists whose writings eventually formed the basis for critical race theory</a>.

<a href="http://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The page prominently hosts a picture of Angela Davis</a> alongside the post-modernist, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/herbert-marcuse-the-philosopher-behind-the-ideology-of-the-anti-fascists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herbert Marcuse</a>. Davis was a member of the Leninist-Black Panther Party as well as the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/viewhttps://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives</a> list for her role in the shooting deaths of four during the Marin County Civic Center Attacks.

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To learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

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. Leonardo has additionally published a number of other articles on critical race theory, race, and education. These include titles such as, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23793406.2016.1167111?journalCode=rree20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tropics of Whiteness</a>,” “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2013.822624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Story of Schooling: Critical Theory and the Educational Racial Contract</a>,” and, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613320120117180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Souls of White Folk</a>.” Another is titled, “<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203880371/race-whiteness-education-zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race, Whiteness, and Education</a>,” in which he affirms the “central role” racism plays in society.

Dr. Leonardo declares racism to be systematic rather than based on individuals and must be addressed as such. He outlines the paper’s intent to interrupt this “dangerous” assertion in order to confront “whiteness” and racism in education. Further, in the same paper, Dr. Leonardo advocates the blending of Marxism and whiteness studies to understand racism. He then addresses the “myth” that whites do not think of themselves exclusively along with racial terms and that capitalism has spread “whiteness” across the globe.

In a separate lecture, Dr. Leonardo lauds critical race theory in even more explicit terms. In a lecture titled, “Who is afraid of CRT?” hosted at George Washington University, the event was <a href="https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-critical-race-theory-and-what-exactly-it-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marketed as an examination of “critical race theory, marxism, and whiteness studies</a>”.

In the lecture, Dr. Leonardo states the intent of his work in whiteness studies is to solve the problem of “whiteness” itself.

“In whiteness studies, whiteness is  the problem to be posed, if not solved.”

In another clip–captured by the Twitter user, <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MYKE</a>—Dr. Leonardo states, “whites are not born white,” rather, they are “abused’ by their white parents and raised that way.
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Recommended reading from the professor of education at Berkeley includes concepts such as “white people are not born white”.
White people are “born human” and then “white parents physically and psychologically ABUSE them” into becoming “white people”. <a href="https://t.co/GOtjrFCC7m">pic.twitter.com/GOtjrFCC7m</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1450083463726518276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Video later emerged of Dr. Leonardo stating in a lecture that "to abolish whiteness is to abolish white people."
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UC Berkeley education professor Zeus Leonardo: "To abolish whiteness is to abolish white people. That's very uncomfortable perhaps, but it asks about our definitions of what race is and what racial justice might mean."
This is what teachers are learning.<a href="https://t.co/cLWEGSZ8tM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/cLWEGSZ8tM</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1498335108830486533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/">Graduate School of Education</a> of the University of California-Berkeley at (510) 643-6644 or at gsedean@berkeley.edu  
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<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/khiara-bridges/#tab_profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Khiara Bridges</a> is a <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California-Berkeley Law Professor</a>, critical race theorist, and an advocate for abortion. She has further claimed that men can give birth and has refused to say whether unborn babies are worthy of dignity.

Dr. Bridges condemned the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.—<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-1392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</a>—as an <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/24/khiara-m-bridges-court-abortion-ruling-is-an-assault-on-women-and-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“assault” against both women and democracy.</a> Dr. Bridges further alleged that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/californians-express-outrage-over-roe-163817289.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning abortion is a form of racism</a>:

“When you have a law that makes abortion unavailable, you have a law that makes unavailable a service upon which Black people disproportionately rely, so there’s a specific racial impact.”

Since the 1973 ruling, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/since-roe-abortion-has-killed-more-black-babies-than-the-entire-black-population-of-the-u-s-in-1960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 20 million black children have been murdered via abortion</a>.

Speaking before a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?521318-1/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-abortion-access-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate hearing</a> regarding abortion policy, Dr. Bridges refused to address John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) question regarding disproportionate rates of black abortion. She again refused to answer when asked if an unborn baby has any value.
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Cornyn: "Do you think a baby delivered alive has value?"
Demo abortion witness: "Yes."

Cornyn: "Do you think that a baby that is not yet born has value?"

Dem abortion witness: "I believe that a person with the capacity for pregnancy has value." <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/eYaOYumYSJ</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546889853031383042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During her testimony, Dr. Bridges referenced “persons with the capacity for pregnancy” when speaking about individuals who sought abortions. When questioned by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) if she was referring to pregnant women, Dr. Bridges replied that she was referring to all “cis-women, trans-men, and non-binary people.”

When further pressed if abortion is a women’s rights issue, Dr. Bridges accused Hawley of asking questions that exposed “trans people to violence.”

Dr. Bridges then asked Hawley if he believes that men can become pregnant. Astonished, Hawley replied, “No, I don’t think men can get pregnant,” she further accused him of denying that trans people exist.
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Hawley: Why are you using the term "person with a capacity for pregnancy" instead of "woman?"
Bridges: "Your line of questioning is transphobic and opens trans people to violence."

Hawley: "You're saying I'm opening up people to violence by saying women can have pregnancies?" <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Yi46NlQCr0</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546891926997188608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bridges is a scholar of critical race theory and author of “<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Critical_Race_Theory.html?id=VMhDvAEACAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory, A Primer.</a>” At Berkeley, her biography lists her as an expert in “Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,” “Critical Legal Theory,” and “Racial and Social Justice.”

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Students And Parents may contact the Dean of Berkely Law at (510) 642-6483
Published - July 18, 2022

<a href="https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/386" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grace Lavery</a> is an Associate Professor for the English program at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic specialties are 19th-century British literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is a transgender professor who “transitioned” in 2018. He claims his “work in trans feminist studies is… focused on the belief that transition works; that it is truly possible to change sex.”

In February of 2022 <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/professor-suspended-twitter-hopes-queen-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lavery was suspended from Twitter</a> for tweeting “I hope the queen dies,” a few days after Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for Covid-19. He even tagged the British government in the tweet. Lavery <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542993/Berkeley-professor-suspended-Twitter-tweeting-hopes-COVID-stricken-Queen-DIES.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Daily Mail</a>: ​​“I do not think they [Twitter] should ban people for hoping that public figures die, whether the person in question is Elizabeth Windsor, Donald Trump, or Jeremy Corbyn.” Since his suspension, Lavery has no longer been active on Twitter. 

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported that Lavery tweeted the following statement on January 29, 2022: “i [sic] think that everyone is secretly as much of a pervert as we are, and we’ll win because of it.” Since Lavery’s Twitter account has been suspended, none of his tweets can be accessed. 

On the following day Lavery tweeted “i [sic] think we should seize all private property, so there’ll be nowhere for you adults to try your naughty little spanks except in the gutter with the rest of us… 3. Senile elderly woman masturbating surreptitiously during mass,” among several other explicit tweets. 

Lavery wrote the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Please-Miss-Heartbreaking-Staggering-Penis/dp/1541620658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis”</a>, which was released in February of 2022. The Amazon description for the book states:
“Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives…”

<a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/spring-2022-lecturer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Peace and Love El Henson</a> is a Lecturer and Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. According to her university biography, El Henson “primarily focuses on black queer femmes, state violence, pornography, and ethnography.” 

El Henson’s research is twofold:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The first uses black femmes’ theatrical performances from online interracial pornography to read real-life state policing encounters and vice versa.” El Henson’s goal  is to “denude the unconscious racialized pornographic BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Domination and Submission/Sadism and Masochism/Sadomasochism) structured into interracial relations across sites of chattel slavery, professional pornography, public schools, universities, neighborhoods, and beyond.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Her second area of research “offers ethnographic case studies on black femmes who use erotic performance as a mode of survival, artistry, and pleasure amid genocide of low-income black neighborhoods in Oakland, CA.”</li>
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Dr. El Henson wrote a report in 2017 when she was in Graduate School at the University of Texas, Austin which she titled, <a href="https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/63533/ELHENSON-MASTERSREPORT-2017.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Scenes of Subjection’ &amp; Subjectivity: Punishment, Torture, Captivity, Annihilation and Genocide of (Queer) Black Girls and Women in the ‘Afterlife of Slavery.’”</a> In the abstract, El Henson wrote that she explores: “the punishment, torture, captivity, annihilation and ultimate genocide black girls and women are subjected to by white supremacist, antiblack, hetero-patriarchal, hetero-sexist, and heteronormative school staff, police and state forces in public schools and beyond.”

In the report, El Henson claims that there has been an “antiblack genocide in the United States” throughout the country’s history. 

El Henson uses the term “queer” to describe black girls, black women, and black people “as a modifier to signify black communities who embody a range of gender identities, performances and sexualities in and out of U.S. black and white socially accepted norms—as classification of norm fluctuates by social group. This means that these terms can embody a range of black people who are bisexual, asexual, lesbian, transgender, heterosexual and more.”

In the report’s introduction, El Henson relates an experience she had when volunteering at her “old middle school in a hood of Oakland, CA.” A female student named Myra was dismissed from a class with a referral because her shirt was “too distracting and inappropriate.” Myra responded to the teacher, who was a man, by saying “F*** you,” whereupon she left the classroom. El Henson claims the teacher gave her a referral because he “could not resist over-sexualizing young black girls bodies,” and also due to his “perversions” and “[h]is uncontrollable sexual desire and arousal for a black girl” which “was ‘inappropriate’ and the true distraction to the classroom space.” However, she provides no evidence indicating that the teacher felt the way that she describes him to have felt. 

<a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/uc-berkeley-to-offer-a-nicki-minaj-course-for-spring-semester/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to KTLA,</a> for the Spring semester of 2023, Dr. El Henson will teach a course entitled “AAS 140.2: Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee &amp; Hip Hop Feminisms.” El Henson says that the course will address the influence Minaj has had on the hip-hop industry and how it relates to the “broader historical-social structures and hip-hop feminisms.” However, KTLA reports the course is still being evaluated by the university’s administration. On a Twitter thread about the course, Nicki Minaj <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_peaceandlove/status/1578191853433761794" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “I’d love to stop by [the class].”

<a href="https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/users/1688049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Hoover</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). According to her university profile, her “research focuses on Native American environmental health and food sovereignty movements.” Hoover has also “published articles about food sovereignty, environmental reproductive justice in Native American communities, the cultural impact of fish advisories on Native communities, tribal citizen science, and health social movements.”

Since childhood, Hoover has identified as a descendant of the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq Indian tribes. However, according to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, she revealed that “she has no tribal connections after decades of claiming otherwise.” This discovery was based on “genealogical research.”

On her website, Hoover posted a <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Statement about Identity”</a> providing her reaction to her genealogical discovery. In this short essay, she addresses her life experience under the assumption that she was a native. In the opening paragraphs, she provided background on her upbringing:  
“Our Native identity has structured not only our family activities but how we relate to other people and they to us. I have been a fancy shawl dancer and bead worker for over three decades, something my sisters and I learned at powwows when we were young, and this has brought us great joy. I have been grateful to the people of Akwesasne who took me in called me their chosen daughter, auntie, and friend, and who put me to work. When people told me ‘welcome home’ when I would come to visit, that meant something to me. In short, this identity has shaped my entire life and guided my work.”
Hoover concludes: 
“Now, without any official documentation verifying the identity I was raised with, I do not think it is right for me to continue to claim to be a scholar of Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent, even though my mother is insistent that she inherited this history for a reason.”
According to <a href="https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Californian</a>, Hoover, who used to teach at Brown University, “has received criticism in light of her statement, with many coming forward to allege the harm she caused Native communities there, especially regarding a statement she wrote denouncing the Pokanoket Tribe’s calls for Land Back from Brown.”

“UC Berkeley considers the issue of Hoover’s ethnic identity to be a ‘deeply personal matter,’ according to a campus statement provided by campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.” The college does not “consider race or tribal identity in making employment decisions, in light of allegations that Hoover was a part of a “cluster hire.”
Published -- November 17, 2022

Chesa Boudin previously held the position of the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco. He is now the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.</a>

Chesa Boudin has been outspoken about how he believes that the prison system is set up to be disadvantageous towards minorities. According to <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Law’s website</a>, “Chesa understands that mass incarceration and privatized prisons disproportionately harm people of color and reflect the institutional inequities of America’s legal system.” These ideas of legal institutions like prisons being systemically unfair towards people of color, and that a major focus needs to be put on fixing that, is what Boudin plans on bringing to the students that he will be teaching at Berkeley Law School.

The website also quotes Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx who states that Chesa Boudin “knows that criminalizing poverty and homelessness entrenches racist policies and power structures, and that this approach fails to uphold the values of equal rights and due process we supposedly hold dear.” One of Boudin’s goals that is outlined in Berkeley’s announcement is that he plans to bring people once incarcerated into the Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. 

Before he was elected as District Attorney, Chesa Boudin told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-the-answer-to-quality-of-life-crimes-in-14563426.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Rising local crime rates due to Boudin’s efforts to not prosecute these crimes are what led to outcry from residents asking for his recall.

The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports that in 2020—Chesa Boudin’s first year in office—property crimes skyrocketed, “with more than 4,400 incidents of property crime per 100,000 residents.” In this same report, 23% of residents stated that safety and crime was the biggest problem in the city while 39% stated homelessness as the city’s biggest issue. 

Additionally, the <a href="https://sfchamber.com/press-release-citybeat21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chamber of Commerce</a> released a 2021 poll where “eight out of ten San Franciscans consider crime to have worsened in recent years” and around 70% of San Francisco residents believe that their quality of life has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has placed Chesa Boudin in charge of Berkeley Law School’s Criminal Law and Justice Center where he will be teaching students about the criminal legal system. 

<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/san-franciscos-da-chesa-boudin-faces-possible-recall-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that Chesa Boudin was recalled due to his ‘soft on crime’ policies that led to prosecutors being unable to “seek cash bail, try juveniles as adults or seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders with gang affiliations.” When confronted with the possibility of recall, Boudin told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-government-and-politics-san-francisco-seniors-c865bc8fa7006fb806b6e5b639f64857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> that San Francisco residents were frustrated and angry “at the Trump administration and misinformation that administration fueled on everything from public safety to vaccines.” 

Boudin did not hold himself accountable for the complaints of the residents and instead blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that was occurring in the city. He was successfully recalled on June 7, 2022 and was unable to serve the remainder of his term as the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco.
Published - June 13, 2023

<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/4055928/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Victoria Huynh</a> is a Ph.D. student and instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to her university profile, her <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fields of study</a> include “critical refugee studies, abolition feminism, trauma &amp; memory, and Vietnamese &amp; Southeast Asian Studies.”

On October 24, 2023, Huynh sent an email out to students in her “Asian American Communities and Race Relations” class offering them a “field trip and/or extra credit opportunity” to attend a Pro-Palestine rally. According to a flyer, the event is a “national call to walk out in solidarity with Palestinians facing bombardment, genocide, and settler-colonialism.”

Hyunh’s <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/college-students-offered-extra-credit-attend-pro-palestine-rally-1837897" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email said</a>:
“(1) Students can attend the national student walkout tomorrow against the settler-colonial occupation of Gaza (info attached below) OR (2) Students can watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative using this linktree.” 
The <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1717134083250086050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1717134083250086050%7Ctwgr%5E258baed471a10c082496afe213537c4bf35675da%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D24266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full email</a> can be seen below:

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A spokesperson for the University of California, Berkeley <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/world/students-can-get-extra-credit-for-attending-palestinian-march-says-uc-berkeley-1r8O8kDk3HV6mlgd3K8amL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement</a> the extra credit assignment was changed after it was brought to the attention of school officials.
“Students can now attend any local event they wish—such as a book talk or a panel discussion—related to the course’s subject, including the protest…or they can watch any documentary they wish about the Middle East.” 
“As soon as the administration was made aware of the assignment it moved quickly to ensure that it would be changed. The situation has been remedied, the assignment has been changed and there are now a number of options for extra credit, not just one.”
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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/about/">Ian Kivelin Davis</a> is a Faculty Advisor for the Media Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

In a 2016 article for <a href="https://medium.com/media-in-the-middle/news-flash-the-new-york-times-thinks-trump-is-beneath-america-daae02b7eca7">Medium</a> about President Donald Trump and racism in America, Davis wrote:
“Trump did not invent racism. He is just packaging it in a way white, middle-class people can see . . . not unlike cell phones now capture, for white America, the systemic oppression black Americans experience at the hands of our lauded and praised police force. The difference is that white America now has to look at it on their television screens and Facebook posts of distant relatives. Oh, lament white America! Your poor eyes and refined sensibilities must be strained.”
The main theme of the article is that, while Trump is allegedly an “enabler” of racism in the U.S., racism has always existed in spite of Trump’s Presidency:
“Trump marvelers seem to wring hands over the Donald as an enabler or facilitator of American racism. True, but this journalism trope misses a key point. These sentiments preexisted Trump.” 
In 2021, Davis wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/45522395/Capitol_Riots_and_the_Mythic_Meaning_of_1776">article</a> for Academia Letters titled "Capitol Riots and the Mythical Meaning of 1776." 

In the article, Davis likens the January 6th protesters to the American revolutionaries of 1776 in a manner that is meant to trivialize the former and mythologize the latter. Believing them to have attempted a revolution, Davis calls the Capitol protesters “Tourist Revolutionaries.”
“Tourist Revolutionaries on display during the Trump riot were engaging in a symbolic act that reenacts a mythical history of the country… January 6th was a genteel, candy-coated revolution, closer to carnival than coup...”
Davis considers the tyranny that led the American revolutionaries to revolt against the British monarch to have been unjustly compared with the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election by the protesters. 
“Tourist Revolutionaries, energized by the symbolism of ‘1776,’ confuse the tyranny of the monarch King George with the compromises of democracy and shared self-governance with fellow Americans.”
For Davis,  the protesters were misled and were seeking to subvert “electoral democracy” on behalf of President Trump:
“This was a symbolic act for a substantial number of Trump supporters who were misled by President Trump to believe they were ﬁghting for the preservation of America rather than the subversion of electoral democracy to prop up the president’s personal ambitions.”
Published - November 21, 2023

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<a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/aaron-dial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aaron Joseph Dial</a> is a <a href="https://www.disconetwork.org/fellowships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DISCO Network</a> Postdoctoral Research Fellow at <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/purdue-university-1827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a>. His profile on <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/a-joseph-dial-1430294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> states that his “expertise is in materialist and digital media studies, digital humanities, and cultural studies of technology and race. These areas of expertise inform my research and teaching interests, which, broadly sketched, are Black studies, affective labor, popular culture, urban spaces and temporal flows, and the nexus between sports and science and technology.”
In an April piece for The Conversation titled “<a href="https://theconversation.com/in-air-michael-jordans-silence-speaks-volumes-about-the-marketing-of-black-athletes-203824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In ‘Air,’ Michael Jordan’s silence speaks volumes about the marketing of Black athletes</a>,” Dial argued that the movie “Air” depicts what he deems is the exploitation of the black body by Nike in the creation of the Air Jordan basketball sneaker. 
‘“Air”’ becomes the story of how a struggling company created one of the most successful brands in the world on the back of a Black body, a tale as old as the nation itself,” Dial claims.
In the article, he reveals that he is “writing a book that explores the intimate connections between sneakers and Blackness. In it, I argue that the Black body’s long history of objectification and commodification undergirds the branding, mass consumption and culture of sneakers.”
Dial claims that the Air Jordan sneaker is an “extension” of the black body, which the film conveys (in his opinion):
“What ‘Air’ does better than anything else is to unbox a provocative, sobering truth about Jordans’ meteoric rise: They are cast as literal extensions of Black bodies. They represent the literal molding of a Black man’s feet, with their vulcanized rubber, leather and laces encapsulating Black athletic greatness and cool.”
According to Dial, this has been a part of Nike’s business agenda: “[S]ix years after the development of the air midsole, David Falk cracked the code of Nike’s transparent, little black box: Don’t market the technology. Market the body that wears it.”
Dial responded to Peter Moore&#8217;s position in the movie, claiming that sneakers have &#8220;always existed.&#8221; Dial stated, “What Moore cannot know is how right he really is. Deloris Jordan and those five buried generations have always been here.” 
He then compared that statement with his idea of the black body and its abuse by the United States historically and currently:
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In June, Dial published a piece titled “<a href="https://theconversation.com/ja-morant-shows-how-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-can-never-be-black-206161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ja Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black</a>.” This article is about the recent firearm debacle with NBA player Ja Morant, who has received much censure from within and without the NBA for being caught wielding a gun on camera on two separate occasions. 
Dial states, “I’m not looking to defend Morant’s behavior. It was careless, and he could have harmed himself and others. <a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/aaron-dial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">But as a scholar of Black popular culture</a>, I can’t help but wonder what the reaction would have been if Morant were white.”
He claims the gun culture prevalent in the United States has treated Morant with a double standard that a white person would not have been treated with:
“To many politicians and activists in the gun-obsessed U.S., the freedom to own and flaunt firearms is a sacred right. And yet throughout the nation’s history, gun ownership among Black Americans has elicited fear and recrimination. Even when folks who look like Morant innocuously and legally possess a gun, they find themselves too easily typecast as villains.”
Dial laments the “metaphor of guns” that is used to make nicknames, describe athletic actions in sports, or respond to an exciting play:
“The metaphor of guns also saturates the league in ways that <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reflect the country’s obsession with firearms</a>…The alias of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kirilenko">Andrei Kirilenko</a>…was ‘AK- 47.’ Fans anointed Lakers guard <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-guard-austin-reaves-wants-to-get-rid-of-ar-15-nickname/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin Reaves</a> with the nickname “AR-15”&#8230; NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/easymoneysniper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram handle</a> is ‘easymoneysniper.’ Watch Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Breen announce a game, and you’ll inevitably hear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtIx03UmiiE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his famous catch phrase</a>, ‘BANG.’”
Published &#8211; June 29, 2023

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<a href="https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/aleejr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Alvin Lee</a> is an Employee Relations Specialist from <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a>. In 2016, Mr. Lee hosted a presentation in a business relationship class that labeled phrases such as, “American is a melting pot,” as “microaggressions.”

Harvard Professor Chester M. Pierce—who first coined the phrase—<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/2/16/8031073/what-are-microaggressions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines microaggressions as literal, “racial assaults” on minorities by white people</a>.

“These [racial] assaults to black dignity and black hope are incessant and cumulative. Any single one may be gross. In fact, the major vehicle for racism in this country is offenses done to blacks by whites in this sort of gratuitous neverending way. These offenses are microaggressions.“ - Chester M Pierce

Universities and public officials will often censor words or phrases they consider fit this definition. In 2018, the University of California <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/03/17/calling-america-land-opportunity-microaggression-says-university-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled the phrase, “America is the land of opportunity,” as a microaggression.</a> In 2021, administrators at Brandeis University <a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/parc/accountability/oppressivelanguagelist_identitybased.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed phrases like, “policeman” and, “you guys,” under a University-sponsored “Oppressive Language List</a>.”

Due to a California law passed in 2017, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-law-allows-prison-using-wrong-gender-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failure to refer to a person’s preferred gender pronouns is now a jailable offense</a>. Those convicted may be sentenced for up to a year in jail.

Mr. Lee likewise <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/saying-america-melting-pot-microaggression-purdue-class-teaches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges students to curtail speech he considers to be microaggressions. </a>Several examples included the following:

- Asking a student, “Where are you from?”

- “You are so articulate.”

- “America is a melting pot”

- “There is only one race, the human race”

- “When I look at you, I don’t see color”

- “I’m not racist, I have several black friends”

- “I believe that the most qualified person should get the job.”

- “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough.”

- Using the pronoun, “he” to refer to all people.

During the same lecture, Mr. Lee claimed “hundreds” of active hate groups are operating in the United States today. He was referencing data compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-ordained civil rights <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">group</a> whose objective is purportedly the dismantlement of white supremacy.

Despite its mission statement, the organization effectively operates as a left-wing think tank. As City Journal notes, the SPLC operated “Hatewatch” exists to publish<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/demagogic-bully-15370.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> partisan attacks on groups with right-of-center positions</a>. Conservative groups are labeled as extremists, while destructive, Left-wing organizations like Antifa are virtually ignored.

Thanks to its prolific fundraising operations, the organization has successfully monetized its left-wing smear campaigns. The <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-surpasses-half-billion-in-assets-121-million-now-offshore/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPLC’s assets exceed half a billion dollars</a> with $121 million residing in offshore bank accounts alone.

Mr. Lee’s goals, as written in his presentation, include, “teaching students to understand and accept people’s similarities and differences and learn to treat everyone with dignity and respect.” Following the presentation, The College Fix also reports that Mr. Lee assigned students an exercise titled “Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Class Bingo,” which aimed to highlight their differences.

Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://www.purdue.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a> at (765) 494-4600.

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Updated - August 19, 2021
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<a href="https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/bill-mullen.html">Bill Mullen</a> is a professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University. As stated in his university profile, he specializes in “American Literature and Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, Working Class Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Marxist Theory.” Mullen also serves as a member of the organizing collective for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and is the co-founder of a national, campus-based ANTIFA organization. 

As part of the <a href="http://campusantifascistnetwork.com/">Campus Antifascist Network </a>(CAN), an ANTIFA-aligned group for university academics, Mullen <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/17/campus-group-proposing-broad-countermovement-against-white-nationalism-and-racism">described</a> his role as "to drive racists off campuses and to protect the most vulnerable from fascist attack.”

This sentiment is reflected in the <a href="http://campusantifascistnetwork.com/resources/">resources</a> listed on the CAN website. Not only does CAN declare that free-speech does not extend to “far-right” groups, it actively encourages students and faculty to confront groups on campus that they have labeled far-right, and lobbies universities to ban them. 

Mullen certainly believes that Turning Point USA should be banned from campus - he has previously <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2017/07/where-zionism-right/">described</a> TPUSA as an “alt-right” group. 

As Faculty Advisor for Purdue's Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and part of the organizing collective for the Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Bill spends much of his time demonizing Israel as an Apartheid State and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/educators-cant-stay-silent-about-israeli-apartheid/10928">advocates</a> for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS). 

Mullen and SJP at Purdue both have a <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Bill_Mullen">history</a> of defending terrorists, with the latter <a href="https://purduesjp.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/myths_formated.pdf">writing</a> in 2009 that it is a "myth" that Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Mullen has also lauded terrorists, as Ghassan Kanafi is featured prominently on his <a href="https://www.billvmullen.com/welcome">personal blog</a>. <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/presbyterian-peacemakers-omit-relevant-facts-about-ghassan-kanafani/">Kanafi</a> is a Marxist-Lennist Terrorist known for his role in the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1550/justice-for-the-victims-of-the-lod-airport-attack">Lod Airport Massacre</a> in Israel that tragically killed 26 innocent civilians and injured an additional 80. His blog itself is titled, "From the River to the Sea," a popular phrase used by those who want to wipe Israel off the map from the Jordan River to the Medditeranian Sea.

Mullen has also used his Facebook to call for the release of Khader Adnan, who is a convicted terrorist with Palestian Islamic Jihad.

<a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/cheryl-cooky.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cheryl Cooky</a> is a Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue University. According to her university profile, Cooky’s research focuses on “gendered media representations of sport; gender politics of sport and public policies; and how gender shapes sports experiences, cultural meanings, and organizational structures in sports.”

In March 2022, Cooky penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/we-should-be-celebrating-lia-thomas-we-did-jackie-robinson-ncna1292521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> arguing that Lia Thomas—the biological male who swam on the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swim team—”should be embraced in the history of progress that sports represent and recognized as the trailblazer that she is.” She says, “For anyone who cares about the advancement of sports, and women’s sports in particular, her win should be celebrated.”

Cooky believes the argument that transgender women have an unfair competitive advantage against biological women is not well founded. She claims, “There is a lack of scientific evidence that conclusively demonstrates a direct link between testosterone and athletic performance.” Rather, she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/lia-thomas-nbc-news-jackie-robinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attributes differences</a> in men’s and women’s athletic performances to factors such as “coaching and training, psychological makeup of an athlete, [and] access to resources and equipment.”

Cooky argues Lia Thomas’s “first” of winning the NCAA Division I championship as a transgender athlete is equivalent to Jackie Robinson’s “first” of playing in the MLB.
“There remains though a cultural investment in celebrating sports’ ‘firsts,’ whether that be Robinson as the first Black MLB player, the first openly gay active player in the NBA, the first nonbinary U.S. athlete to participate in the Winter Olympics or the first woman to score in a Power Five college football game.” 
She concludes:
“Part of what makes the ‘first’ stories so compelling is the resilience, determination and love for the sport exhibited by these athletes and their motivation to break down barriers, despite the naysayers. Thomas, as the first transgender athlete to win a Division I NCAA championship, deserves to be placed among the other firsts.”
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Published - December 4, 2023

<a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/aaron-dial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aaron Joseph Dial</a> is a <a href="https://www.disconetwork.org/fellowships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DISCO Network</a> Postdoctoral Research Fellow at <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/purdue-university-1827" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Purdue University</a>. His profile on <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/a-joseph-dial-1430294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> states that his “expertise is in materialist and digital media studies, digital humanities, and cultural studies of technology and race. These areas of expertise inform my research and teaching interests, which, broadly sketched, are Black studies, affective labor, popular culture, urban spaces and temporal flows, and the nexus between sports and science and technology.”

In an April piece for The Conversation titled “<a href="https://theconversation.com/in-air-michael-jordans-silence-speaks-volumes-about-the-marketing-of-black-athletes-203824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In ‘Air,’ Michael Jordan’s silence speaks volumes about the marketing of Black athletes</a>,” Dial argued that the movie “Air” depicts what he deems is the exploitation of the black body by Nike in the creation of the Air Jordan basketball sneaker. 

‘“Air”’ becomes the story of how a struggling company created one of the most successful brands in the world on the back of a Black body, a tale as old as the nation itself,” Dial claims.

In the article, he reveals that he is “writing a book that explores the intimate connections between sneakers and Blackness. In it, I argue that the Black body’s long history of objectification and commodification undergirds the branding, mass consumption and culture of sneakers.”

Dial claims that the Air Jordan sneaker is an “extension” of the black body, which the film conveys (in his opinion):
“What ‘Air’ does better than anything else is to unbox a provocative, sobering truth about Jordans’ meteoric rise: They are cast as literal extensions of Black bodies. They represent the literal molding of a Black man’s feet, with their vulcanized rubber, leather and laces encapsulating Black athletic greatness and cool.”
According to Dial, this has been a part of Nike’s business agenda: “[S]ix years after the development of the air midsole, David Falk cracked the code of Nike’s transparent, little black box: Don’t market the technology. Market the body that wears it.”

Dial responded to Peter Moore's position in the movie, claiming that sneakers have "always existed." Dial stated, “What Moore cannot know is how right he really is. Deloris Jordan and those five buried generations have always been here.” 

He then compared that statement with his idea of the black body and its abuse by the United States historically and currently:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3024 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Copy-of-Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-e1688060718910-1024x657.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="411" />

In June, Dial published a piece titled “<a href="https://theconversation.com/ja-morant-shows-how-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-can-never-be-black-206161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ja Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black</a>.” This article is about the recent firearm debacle with NBA player Ja Morant, who has received much censure from within and without the NBA for being caught wielding a gun on camera on two separate occasions. 

Dial states, “I’m not looking to defend Morant’s behavior. It was careless, and he could have harmed himself and others. <a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/aaron-dial.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">But as a scholar of Black popular culture</a>, I can’t help but wonder what the reaction would have been if Morant were white.”

He claims the gun culture prevalent in the United States has treated Morant with a double standard that a white person would not have been treated with:
“To many politicians and activists in the gun-obsessed U.S., the freedom to own and flaunt firearms is a sacred right. And yet throughout the nation’s history, gun ownership among Black Americans has elicited fear and recrimination. Even when folks who look like Morant innocuously and legally possess a gun, they find themselves too easily typecast as villains.”
Dial laments the “metaphor of guns” that is used to make nicknames, describe athletic actions in sports, or respond to an exciting play:
“The metaphor of guns also saturates the league in ways that <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-warspeak-permeating-everyday-language-puts-us-all-in-the-trenches-121356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reflect the country’s obsession with firearms</a>…The alias of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Kirilenko">Andrei Kirilenko</a>…was ‘AK- 47.’ Fans anointed Lakers guard <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-guard-austin-reaves-wants-to-get-rid-of-ar-15-nickname/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Austin Reaves</a> with the nickname “AR-15”... NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/easymoneysniper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram handle</a> is ‘easymoneysniper.’ Watch Hall of Fame broadcaster Mike Breen announce a game, and you’ll inevitably hear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtIx03UmiiE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his famous catch phrase</a>, ‘BANG.’”
Published - June 29, 2023

Aaron Joseph Dial

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<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/about/faculty/r-keresztesi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rita Keresztesi</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests consist of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black African literary and cultural studies; such as the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts/Black Power, Afro-Caribbean literature, and postcolonial African cinema.
She has also authored many publications, such as: 
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Literary-Black-Power-in-the-Caribbean-Fiction-Music-and-Film/Keresztesi/p/book/9780367482015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Literary Black Power in the Caribbean</a>. This book “focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean…” </li>
<li><a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803227675/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars.</a> The book description states “She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America.”</li>
</ul>
Keresztesi’s <a href="https://fulbrightscholars.org/sites/default/files/documents/A6-Keresztesi-Rita-CV.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum vitae</a> shows that ENGL 4333 Black Arts/Black Power is one of the many courses she has taught in the English Department. According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-oklahoma-english-course-to-focus-on-black-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, The University of Oklahoma offered an English course (Spring, 2022) led by Keresztesi that focused on “Black Power.” An <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/academics/courses/catalogue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online description</a> says that the course focused on the “cultural and political agendas of the “Black Arts” and “Black Power” movement from the 1960s to today with an emphasis on progressive agendas such as “the rise of the Prison-Industrial Complex and the #BlackLivesMatter movement…”
As stated in The College Fix, “Tamera Nealy, a student at the University of Oklahoma, said she believes the course sounds like it may be taught in a divisive manner and add to racial unrest on campus.”
If you would like to <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact</a> the English Department, you can email <a href="mailto:mountford@ou.edu">mountford@ou.edu</a>.
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Kelli Alvarez is an <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/fyc/people/faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Teaching Professor</a> at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity in literature and film as well as indigenous and other ethnic literature. Alvarez teaches freshman-level courses, including English Composition, where she requires all students to read a publication by Professor Watchlist identified <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a> titled, “When Free Speech Becomes Unfree Speech.”

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When Alvarez isn’t teaching first-year composition courses, she is <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/classroom-censorship-comes-to-the-university-of-oklahoma/">leading workshops</a> for fellow teachers and professors on “anti-racist rhetoric &amp; pedagogies.” Over the summer of 2021, Alvarez led a classroom censorship workshop discussing how to “set an anti-racist tone” in the classroom and ultimately silence certain students. During the workshop, she discussed how particular students are emboldened to be overly racist in the classroom, both in-person and through their writing. She said that while some teachers may be afraid to tell students they can’t say something in class, teachers absolutely have the right to tell students to be quiet and stop talking.

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Alvarez goes on to claim that the Supreme Court ruled that hate speech is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. She states, “the Supreme Court has actually upheld that hate speech, derogatory speech, any of the -isms do not apply in the classroom because they do not foster a productive learning environment.”

According to <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/what-rights-to-freedom-of-expression-do-students-have/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Freedom Forum Institute</a>, The Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Later in the lecture, Alvarez discusses a concept called “white institutional defensiveness,” which she describes as conditions that force non-white students to conform and assimilate to whiteness or else risk consequences. Alvarez asserts that not allowing non-white students to write in ABE style (Adult Basic Education) is racist and perpetuating white supremacy.

According to the Division of Adult and Career Education, ABE style is meant for native English-speakers with limited literacy, below a 9th grade level. The video of the entire workshop can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxl61VDYp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

<a href="https://www.law.ou.edu/directory/steven-j-cleveland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Steven J Cleveland</a> is the Alfred P. Murrah Professor of Law and Thomas P. Hester Presidential Professor at the<a href="https://law.ou.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> College of Law at the University of Oklahoma (OU</a>).

During the 2022 Spring Semester, the University of Oklahoma implemented strict mandates on students and faculty to limit the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Cleveland is currently enforcing these policies in his classroom to such an extreme extent that students are threatened with being removed from class and reported to the Dean of the school for not wearing a mask.

Upon returning for the Spring 2022 semester, students were informed by <a href="https://www.normantranscript.com/news/ou-requiring-masks-for-first-two-weeks-of-classes/article_704a7026-723a-11ec-aa7b-139ccc6f40da.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university’s administration they will be forced to wear face masks</a> in classroom settings until February 1 when masks will then become<a href="https://www.ou.edu/together/campus-protocols/spring-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strongly recommended.</a>

This mandate is in direct contradiction with Oklahoma state law. In May of 2021, Governor Kevin Stitt <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/29/oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-bars-agencies-mask-vaccination-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned any state agency or building–including public universities–from requiring either a mask or vaccination status for entry</a>.

Nevertheless, professors at OU are still enforcing mask mandates and threatening to penalize students who do not comply with the restrictions. In communications reviewed by the Professor Watchlist team, professors are removing maskless students from class and threatening their grades due to the forced absences. Others refuse to even meet with students who are unvaccinated and will report unmasked students to their respective Dean.

One student, Alyssa Amundsen, vowed to defy the university mandates. She emailed each of her professors in the law school explaining that she would not wear a mask in class under any circumstance. While some professors were accommodating, many were not, and refused to allow her to attend in person.

Dr Cleveland was the most resistant to grant any exemptions. Amundsen was barred from attending class despite obtaining a medical exemption from wearing a mask last year from her doctor.

Amundsen emailed Dr. Cleveland to ask if she could attend class without a mask. Dr. Cleveland immediately refused her request and threatened to report her to the Dean of the Law School if she made a maskless appearance.

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Amundsen then offered to take the class remotely via ZOOM since the course is already recorded for students who are absent due to COVID. Despite this, Dr. Cleveland again refused, stating that “taking a stand for her beliefs has consequences.”

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n a follow-up conversation with two Deans of the law school—Dr. Steven Gensler and Dr. Kathleene Guzman—Amundsen was still adamant to reach a compromise. Both told her there is no recourse she and can only attend in-person classes while wearing a mask per university rules. She was eventually forced to drop the class or risk having her grade reduced due to her absences.

While an injunction has been placed on Governor Stitt’s executive order, the Judge <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/oklahoma-school-mask-mandate-ban-blocked-exemptions-79769836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled that schools must include an “opt-out.” So far, OU has provided no such opt-out</a> for students and staff.

The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Dr. Cleveland but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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UPDATE
Following publication, the Professor Watchlist team has received the following statement from Mackenzie Scheer, Director of Media Relations at the University of Oklahoma, in regards to our inquiry.

"Since the onset of the pandemic, OU has sought to implement protocols that will protect our community, while also allowing for our in-person experience to continue. Given the transmission rate of Omicron and supply chain issues around testing, OU instituted a temporary addendum to its existing masking policy, requiring masking in all classrooms through Jan. 31. Beginning Feb. 1, the university reverted to its Fall 2021 masking guidance that expects masking in the classroom and requires masking for a two-week quarantine period when a confirmed positive COVID-19 case in the class is identified. While the university does not grant exemptions, it does evaluate requests for accommodations in certain cases. Students in need of accommodations due to health or religious reasons were instructed by law school administrators to contact the <a href="mailto:OU%20Accessibility%20and%20Disability%20Resource%20Center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OU Accessibility and Disability Resource Center</a> at <a href="mailto:adrc@ou.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adrc@ou.edu</a> or (405) 325-3852. All accommodation decisions are made on a case-by-case basis after considering each individual’s circumstance and in accordance with all applicable laws. Once a request has been approved, instructors are responsible for providing a student’s reasonable accommodation."

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma at (405) 325-4699. 
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Updated - Febuary 2, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/about/faculty/r-keresztesi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rita Keresztesi</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests consist of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black African literary and cultural studies; such as the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts/Black Power, Afro-Caribbean literature, and postcolonial African cinema.

She has also authored many publications, such as: 
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 	<li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Literary-Black-Power-in-the-Caribbean-Fiction-Music-and-Film/Keresztesi/p/book/9780367482015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Literary Black Power in the Caribbean</a>. This book “focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean…” </li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803227675/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars.</a> The book description states “She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America.”</li>
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Keresztesi’s <a href="https://fulbrightscholars.org/sites/default/files/documents/A6-Keresztesi-Rita-CV.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum vitae</a> shows that ENGL 4333 Black Arts/Black Power is one of the many courses she has taught in the English Department. According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-oklahoma-english-course-to-focus-on-black-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, The University of Oklahoma offered an English course (Spring, 2022) led by Keresztesi that focused on “Black Power.” An <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/academics/courses/catalogue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online description</a> says that the course focused on the “cultural and political agendas of the “Black Arts” and “Black Power” movement from the 1960s to today with an emphasis on progressive agendas such as “the rise of the Prison-Industrial Complex and the #BlackLivesMatter movement…”

As stated in The College Fix, “Tamera Nealy, a student at the University of Oklahoma, said she believes the course sounds like it may be taught in a divisive manner and add to racial unrest on campus.”

If you would like to <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact</a> the English Department, you can email <a href="mailto:mountford@ou.edu">mountford@ou.edu</a>.

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Published — October 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/traci-brynne-voyles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles</a> is a Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Oklahoma. Her university profile states that she is a “historian of colonialism, race, and environment...” Voyles's research includes the study of North America from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Voyles’s new book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Settler_Sea/nCtEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism</a> covers a variety of topics on white settlers, oppression, environmental injustice, and more. The text states: “Rather than erasing white settlers’ relationships to (and oppression of) other non-Native people of color, those relationships of enslavement, racialized labor, and criminalization on an ‘inherited background field’ of Native dispossession…. (44) In its most fundamental formulation, environmental injustice occurs when people who are marginalized by racism, classism, settler colonialism, or heteropatriarchy are disproportionately targeted to bear the burdens of environmental harm. (45)” 

Another one of her publications, <a href="https://borderlandshistory.org/2016/06/14/cfp-not-just-green-not-just-white-race-justice-and-environmental-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History</a> (with Mary E. Mendoza) reads: “Race is a critical component to the study of environmental injustice, but environmental history, until very recently, has tended to leave out questions of race.”

A third publication is titled <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479894567/sustainability/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Man Destroys Nature? Gender, History, and the Feminist Praxis of Situating Sustainabilities.” In Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power</a> (edited by Julie Sze, 196–215. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 19 pages.) This text is a “critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines[.]”

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In a Q&amp;A conducted by <a href="https://edgeeffects.net/traci-brynne-voyles-anti-vaccination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edge Effects</a>, Voyles talks about environmentalism, white supremacy, racism, and more. She states:
“But my research showed that it is also deeply racist.  In fact, the notion of pure and unpolluted white bodies is a key part of how environmental racism proceeds. The protection of purity from any kind of contamination has been a mechanism by which toxins are diverted into nonwhite spaces and how this distributional injustice is rationalized as common sense…”
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Published — November 17, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/psc/faculty/shortle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allyson Shortle</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Oklahoma. According to Shortle’s <a href="http://www.allysonshortle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, her research “examines group identity dynamics in the context of American political behavior.” 

Her recent projects consist of “the nexus of race, nationalism, and political behavior.” On her website, she states, “I also often examine the race-gendered dynamics of criminal justice attitudes using experimental methods.” 

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Shortle has a variety of publications, such as:
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 	<li><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. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin). This text “examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.” </li>
 	<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> American Politics Research (January 2011. McDaniel, Eric L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). The article “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. Using social identity complexity theory, we argue that citizens who ascribe to this worldview should be least tolerant of those they perceive as symbolic threats to American national identity.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2022.2065320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ethnocultural or generalized? Nationalism and support for punitive immigration policy</a> (Ana Bracic, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, and Allyson Shortle). The description reads: “We argue that ethnocultural forms of nationalism—beliefs about religious, ethnic, and gendered criteria for “true Americanness”—help explain support for family separations.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-018-9446-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Sexism for White People? Gender Stereotypes, Race, and the 2016 Presidential Election</a> (Ana Bracic, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel &amp; Allyson F. Shortle). The description states: “This paper offers the first observational test of how sexism affects presidential vote choice in the general election, adding to the rich literature on gender and candidate success for lower-level offices. We argue that the 2016 election implicated gender through Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and Donald Trump’s sexist rhetoric, and activated gender attitudes such that sexism is associated with vote choice.”</li>
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<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/christian-nationalism-threatens-democracy-experts/story?id=91866475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> asks Shortle: What does Christian nationalism mean for American democracy?
"I think democracy is on the line here as a result of the threats from Christian nationalism ... yes, it's a minority ideology, but we don't see a lot of opposition to it," she states.
Additionally, in an interview with <a href="https://www.kgou.org/show/capitol-insider/2022-08-26/rise-of-christian-nationalism-influences-political-discourse-and-elections-in-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KGOU News</a>, Shortle states: 
“Well, in my own research, I've definitely found higher rates of white Christian Nationalism in Oklahoma than other parts of the country. So, using some Oklahoma nonprofit survey collectors through places like Sooner Poll, for instance, I found higher rates than when I run a national poll asking the same metrics of white Christian Nationalism. And not just how you define American identity, but also these particular myths of American religious exceptionalism that people adhere to - that America is God's chosen nation, for instance, America was picked by God to lead all other countries. These are American exceptionalist ideals, but they're also ideals that Christian Nationalists use to maybe speak to other Christian Nationalists without others knowing. Right?”
Professor Shortle offers a variety of courses, such as Public Opinion, Immigration Politics, Identity Politics, and more.

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Published — November 16, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/carrie-schroeder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Schroeder</a> is a Women’s and Gender Studies professor at The University of Oklahoma. Schroeder’s interests include sexuality, gender, religion, history, homoeroticism, and more.

In Spring 2023, Dr. Schroeder will be teaching a new course, “Sex, Gender, and Early Christianities” (WGS 3463). According to The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the course will introduce students “to the diverse understanding of sexuality and gender that developed in early Christianities.”
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Sex, Gender, and Early Christianities (WGS 3463) is a new course that is now available for Spring 2023 enrollment! The course introduces students to the diverse understanding of sexuality and gender that developed in early Christianities. Join Dr. Schroeder in Spring 2023! <a href="https://t.co/EwkQD2MuW7">pic.twitter.com/EwkQD2MuW7</a>
— OU WGS (@ouWGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS/status/1585661317767045121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Schroeder’s <a href="http://www.carrieschroeder.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> includes a variety of her publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wysoDQAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family</a> (Edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder. Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.) “And yet, the genderqueering of Melania also made possible a much more robust memory of her in a society in which the memory of male figures was always uppermost.” (10).</li>
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Additionally, she tweets about terminating a “nonviable bunch of cells…” See the tweet below:

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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/anthropology/faculty-staff/elyse-singer1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elyse Singer</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at The University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research interests include: “Reproduction, Abortion, End of life care, Bioethics, Reproductive governance, Mexico, Health, Citizenship, Gender, and the body.”

Singer’s <a href="https://ou.academia.edu/ElyseSinger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> features many of her publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5601/7407" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a Bind: Navigating Ethical Demands in Feminist Abortion Research</a>: Singer highlights her position “as a pro-choice feminist researcher.…” The text “illuminates the difficulties inherent in feminist abortion research in a context of recent legalization and sustained anti-abortion sentiment.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34146935/The_End_of_Feminist_Abortion_Counseling_Examining_Threats_to_Womens_Health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling? Examining Threats to Women's Health</a>: The description states that “Drawing from ethnographic research in abortion clinics and their own experience as abortion counselors, the authors examine current threats to comprehensive abortion counseling in independent clinics and the implications of these changes for quality abortion care.”</li>
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Singer was recently featured at an event covering “abortion as social labor” which was hosted by the <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women's and Gender Studies at The University of Oklahoma</a>:
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Join us TODAY at 4-5:30pm in Ellison Hall Room 132! <a href="https://t.co/fZ9HE5S5t9">pic.twitter.com/fZ9HE5S5t9</a>
— OU WGS (@ouWGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS/status/1588254895941255168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Megan Sibbett</a> is an Assistant Professor of The Women’s and Gender Studies Department at The University of Oklahoma. “Her scholarly fields include queer and trans feminist theory, LGBTQ studies, and queer activism and movements.” Currently, Sibbett is a teacher and researcher with a focus on queer imagination of childhood and childhood cultures. 

Sibbett has several publications, such as
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/feminist-and-queer-theory-9780190841799?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Breaking into Bad: The New Privileged Monsters, or Straight, Middle-Class, White Guys," Feminist and Queer Theories: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader</a>, Oxford University Press. This text “addresses both feminist and queer theory through intersectional and transnational lenses.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"ACT UP! LIV MOORE!: Blood, Brains, and Bodies and the Queer Activism of the Monstrous in iZombie."</a> [forthcoming].</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Violence with Queer Storytelling.”</a> [forthcoming 2023].</li>
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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/education/people/faculty/mirelsie-velazquez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mirelsie Velázquez</a> is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests include gender, sexuality, race, and more. Velázquez teaches a variety of courses, such as “History of American Education, Puerto Rican Studies, Critical Race Theory, Latina Feminism, Latina/o Education, Oral History, and Historiography of Education.” 

A few of her thoughts on the United States, Christian fascism, abortion, and more are below:

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Published — November 23, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/steve-ellis">Stephen Ellis</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Graduate Liaison at The University of Oklahoma. His research areas are “Decision Theory,” “Philosophy of Economics,” “Philosophy of Mind” and “Ethics.” A list of courses taught by Ellis include “Philosophy of Social Science,” “Contemporary Philosophy: Social Norms,” and “Contemporary Philosophy: The White Racial Frame.” 

The Professor Watchlist received an anonymous tip about a racially charged comment Ellis posted online. The concerned citizen said community members were discussing the legalities of Oklahoma’s homeless population when Ellis made the following statement:

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Ellis’ Facebook cover photo shows the following graphic:

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Rather than provide alternative solutions to the issue of homelessness, Ellis appears to have an affinity for poverty and has spoken out against police officers who attempt to maintain public safety and law and order.

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Please send tips and information on Stephen Ellis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Rita Keresztesi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2192175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Miller</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Miller teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction. Her areas of expertise include “20th Century American Literature,” “Film Studies,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Fong</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow and the Associate Director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University. <a href="https://sst.asu.edu/content/center-work-and-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Center</a> conducts research into election initiatives and organizes protests during times of political crisis.

Fong is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 9, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2012013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Barca</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Barca’s area of expertise includes "Animal Studies," "Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability," and "Feminism and Gender Studies."

Barca is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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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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<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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<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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<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">“Trauma-informed psychotherapy”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Gender- and sexuality-affirmative interventions”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Sex and kink positivity” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“LGBTQ+ workplace concerns”</li>
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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>
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In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade through the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs Decision</a>, Kitch wrote an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369989167_Reproductive_Rights_and_Ecofeminism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism.” 

Ecofeminism is <a href="https://hcwc.college.harvard.edu/education/workshops/ecofeminism#:~:text=Ecofeminism%2C%20also%20called%20ecological%20feminism,merits%20of%20intuition%20and%20collaboration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> as a practice using “the basic feminist tenets of gender equality, a revaluing of non-patriarchal or nonlinear structures, and a view of the world that respects organic processes, holistic connections, and the merits of intuition and collaboration.”

In the article, Kitch aligns herself with ecofeminism, and argues that the “Dobbs decision invites an ecofeminist interpretation of its relationship to the destruction of our planet and to the biopolitics of environmental sustainability.”

The professor claimed that there is a connection between the bodies of women, enslaved, disabled, and racialized people, along with animals and nature as “terrains” of conquest: 

“Ecofeminism in the 2020s links those forces by articulating ‘a clear connection between the treatment of the bodies of women, the enslaved, the disabled, and the racialized, and the treatment of lands, animals, and plants: they are all naturalized terrains of experimentation or conquest.”

The term “ecofascist” is used in the article a few times. Kitch’s cited <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-november-december/feature/eco-fascism-uncovered-el-paso-texas">source</a> defines the term as “violence in the name of environmental conservation.” Kitch further writes on “ecofascists”:

“Many ecofascists in the U.S. oppose action to reduce global warming by eliminating carbon emissions as an affront to white patriarchal/capitalist/colonial power, which allegedly emanates from industrial might and its key driver, fossil fuels (Hernandez-Simmons 2022; Westervelt 2022).”

Kitch is still listed on the ASU faculty site as an active professor, yet the <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last course</a> she taught was a practicum in 2022.
Published - March 6, 2025

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<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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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&#8221; 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&#8217;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&#8217;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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Parents and Students may contact Prescott College at (877) 350-2100
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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>
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1287837952836419584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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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Updated - January 18th, 2023

Anti-1st Amendment

Craig Willse

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Carla Pfeffer is an <a href="https://socialwork.msu.edu/directory/pfeffer-carla.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Social Work</a> and Director of the Consortium for Sexual and Gender Minority Health at Michigan State University.
Professor Pfeffer is outspoken about her pro-choice beliefs. She was quoted in an MSU Today article titled: <a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2022/Roe-V-Wade-decision-MSU-experts-discuss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Roe v. Wade overturned: Michigan State University experts discuss.”</a> Pfeffer stated:
“Consistent governmental inaction in regard to protecting all children from poverty, gun violence, and police violence reveals the hypocrisy of legally restricting abortion. Rather than protecting children, banning abortion is about governmental power and control over marginalized bodies and crass political maneuvering to appease a conservative base.” 
She continued:
“In discussions about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, people who are lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary tend to be left out of the conversation.”
She finished her statement by claiming that members of the LGBTQ community “often face disproportionately higher rates of unintended and unwanted pregnancy” and that abortion access is “critical for ensuring physical and mental health.”
In September 2022, Pfeffer wrote an article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/transgender-men-and-nonbinary-people-are-asked-to-stop-testosterone-therapy-during-pregnancy-but-the-evidence-for-this-guidance-is-still-murky-187672" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> where she argued that transgender men and nonbinary people should not have to stop testosterone therapy while they are pregnant. Although many doctors told Pfeffer that there is “not enough or inconclusive research on supplemental testosterone during pregnancy,” Pfeffer argues that “testosterone therapy is often essential to the mental and physical health” of transgender people.
Pfeffer believes that “careful attention to the physical and mental health and well-being of trans and nonbinary people before, during and after pregnancy is long overdue in medicine” and that:
“Instead of approaching testosterone therapy during pregnancy as a yes/no question or a one-size-fits-all standard, investigating how various dosages of testosterone may affect all stages of pregnancy and chestfeeding could lead to better outcomes for both trans patients and their children.” 
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You can contact the School of Social work by email: socialwork@ssc.msu.edu or by phone: 517-353-8616.
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Published &#8211; October 20, 2022

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Michigan State University

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<a href="https://www.ehshouston.org/academics/faculty-staff-2021/profile/~const-id/8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mrs. Sharon Willcutts-Havel</a> is a Studio Arts teacher at <a href="https://www.ehshouston.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Episcopal High School</a> (EPS) in Bellaire, Texas. In a Zoom lecture to students, Mrs. Willcutts-Havel told her class that all white people are guilty of racism and America is only great because of slavery.
In a video provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist from an anonymous source, Mrs. Willcutts-Havel can be heard recommending the book, “I am Still Here; Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” to her students.
“I just finished this book last night, and it’s by Austin Channing Brown. Anyone heard of her? She’s amazing! I thought I knew about Racism. This is all about whiteness and white fragility; how we make apologies for our racism. I am Still Here; Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.” 
The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Here-Dignity-Whiteness/dp/1524760854" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book’s summary states</a>, “I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness—if we let it—can save us all.”
Author Austin Channing Brown writes, “White people are exhausting” in the first line of the book, and has expressed how she <a href="https://religionnews.com/2018/05/09/white-people-are-exhausting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very purposefully chose those words</a> to address her audience. Brown has suggested in prior interviews that white people <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzuWlU9Llnc&amp;ab_channel=TrinityChurchWallStreet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can only call themselves Christians if they reject their whiteness</a>.
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The book heavily draws on the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates, an author for The Atlantic who <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-toxic-world-view-of-ta-nehisi-coates-120512/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes 9/11 First Responders as “menaces of nature.”</a>
Furthermore, Mrs. Willcuts-Havel accuses all white people of being guilty of racism.
“I too, found how guilty I am by reading through this. We all are as white people, we all are. That’s a fact.”
She then alleges that America is prosperous only because of slavery.
“Because this country was based on slavery. We are great, this country is great because of slavery. So, we couldn&#8217;t be&#8230;we’re the greatest country in the world, you guys! That&#8217;s what they say and it&#8217;s because it was built on the backs of other people.”
The full clip may be viewed below.
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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Mrs. Willcuts-Havel but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Parents may contact <a href="https://www.ehshouston.org/">Episcopal High School</a> at (713) 512-3400
Updated &#8211; September 14, 2021 
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<a href="https://www.ehshouston.org/academics/faculty-staff-2021/profile/~const-id/8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mrs. Sharon Willcutts-Havel</a> is a Studio Arts teacher at <a href="https://www.ehshouston.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Episcopal High School</a> (EPS) in Bellaire, Texas. In a Zoom lecture to students, Mrs. Willcutts-Havel told her class that all white people are guilty of racism and America is only great because of slavery.

In a video provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist from an anonymous source, Mrs. Willcutts-Havel can be heard recommending the book, “I am Still Here; Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” to her students.

“I just finished this book last night, and it’s by Austin Channing Brown. Anyone heard of her? She’s amazing! I thought I knew about Racism. This is all about whiteness and white fragility; how we make apologies for our racism. I am Still Here; Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.” 

The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Here-Dignity-Whiteness/dp/1524760854" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book’s summary states</a>, “I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness—if we let it—can save us all.”

Author Austin Channing Brown writes, “White people are exhausting” in the first line of the book, and has expressed how she <a href="https://religionnews.com/2018/05/09/white-people-are-exhausting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very purposefully chose those words</a> to address her audience. Brown has suggested in prior interviews that white people <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzuWlU9Llnc&amp;ab_channel=TrinityChurchWallStreet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can only call themselves Christians if they reject their whiteness</a>.

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The book heavily draws on the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates, an author for The Atlantic who <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-toxic-world-view-of-ta-nehisi-coates-120512/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes 9/11 First Responders as “menaces of nature.”</a>

Furthermore, Mrs. Willcuts-Havel accuses all white people of being guilty of racism.

“I too, found how guilty I am by reading through this. We all are as white people, we all are. That’s a fact.”

She then alleges that America is prosperous only because of slavery.

“Because this country was based on slavery. We are great, this country is great because of slavery. So, we couldn't be...we’re the greatest country in the world, you guys! That's what they say and it's because it was built on the backs of other people.”

The full clip may be viewed below.

[video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/This-Country-is-Great-Because-of-Slavery_-3_1.mp4-Edited.mp4"][/video]

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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Mrs. Willcuts-Havel but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Parents may contact <a href="https://www.ehshouston.org/">Episcopal High School</a> at (713) 512-3400
Updated - September 14, 2021 
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<a href="https://sites.nd.edu/michael-coppedge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Coppedge</a> is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
According to his university profile, he is a member of the highest decision-making body, the Principal Investigator Board, for the <a href="https://www.v-dem.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Varieties of Democracy</a> project. The project, also known as V-Dem, is a collaborative effort led by four principal investigators that has “produced new measures of hundreds of aspects of democracy and governance for nearly all countries since 1900.”
In June 2021, Professor Coppedge signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary &#8211; including suspending the filibuster &#8211; in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Professor Coppedge says that the V-Dem project demonstrates that there has been a “significant erosion of liberal democracy in the U.S. since 2016.”
V-Dem reports that no country in North America or Europe has advanced in democracy in the last decade and democracy in the U.S. has declined substantially. Coppedge states:
“A decline is already underway. If recent and pending state-level legislation erects more and more barriers to voting and makes the translation of votes into seats and electors even more distorted than it already is, I am sure this trend will worsen.” 
V-Dem’s 2021 report shows that the U.S. declined substantially on the Liberal Democracy Index from 2010 to 2020. Notre Dame News reports that the V-Dem researchers blame this decline on “former President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the media and opposition politicians, and the substantial weakening of the legislature’s de facto checks and balances on executive power.”
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Published &#8211; November 10, 2022

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Tamara Kay is a <a href="https://keough.nd.edu/profile/tamara-kay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology</a> at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. She is also an ex-officio member of the Keough School’s Racial Justice Task Force.

<a href="https://irishrover.net/2022/10/keough-school-professor-offers-abortion-access-to-student/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Rover</a> reports that Professor Kay is helping students get abortions after an Indiana law banning abortions statewide took effect on September 15, 2022. She posted a sign on her office door that read: “This is a SAFE SPACE to get help and information on ALL Healthcare issues and access - confidentially with care and compassion.” The sign also contained her personal email address and a capital “J.”

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In a social media post, Kay explained: “We are here (as private citizens, not representatives of ND) to help you access healthcare when you need it, and we are prepared in every way. Look for the “J”, Spread the word to students!” The Rover reports that professors with the “J” on their doors offer help in obtaining Plan B “morning after” pills and “Plan C” abortion pills.

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/12/notre-dame-professor-offers-students-abortion-access-indiana-abortion-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Breitbart</a> reports that her Twitter account boasts about “important” organizations like “Abortion Finder” that provides information on how to get abortion pills online and get reimbursed for traveling out-of-state to obtain an abortion.
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It's SO IMPORTANT to use a vetted, verified, reliable organization for abortion health care information. <a href="https://twitter.com/Abortion_Finder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Abortion_Finder</a> is one: <a href="https://t.co/LQTgQLYMWz">https://t.co/LQTgQLYMWz</a>
— Dr. Tamara Kay: Abortion Rights &amp; Policy Scholar (@BuildSolidarity) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuildSolidarity/status/1580007466926215168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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According to The Rover, Professor Kay claims that her abortion advocacy is allowed because she’s “doing that as a private citizen,” saying, “that’s been cleared by the university … I talked to the dean and have also spoken to ND Media about policies.”

However, during the week of September 26, Kay changed her Twitter name from “Dr. Tamara Kay - Notre Dame abortion rights expert” to “Dr. Tamara Kay - Abortion Rights &amp; Policy Scholar.” She has also since deleted all tweets referencing abortions for students and removed the signs from her office.

Professor Kay has written many articles about abortion rights. One article, co-authored with Susan Ostermann, an assistant professor at the Keough School, is titled <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/05/04/forced-pregnancy-and-childbirth-are-violence-against-women--and-also-terrible-health-policy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Forced pregnancy and childbirth are violence against women - and also terrible health policy.”</a> The article argues that “forced pregnancy and childbirth is sexual abuse,” stating:
“Both require the sexual reproductive capacity of human bodies. Being forced to provide that capacity, and to endure the physical intrusion and penetration of the body that both pregnancy and childbirth require, is nothing less than sexual abuse.” 
The article argues that “abortion access is freedom-enhancing,” saying:
“Consistent with integral human development that emphasizes social justice and human dignity, abortion access respects the inherent dignity of women, their freedom to make choices and to evaluate medical and other risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth.” 
It concludes:
“Perhaps most important, abortion access also prioritizes and values women’s freedom from experiencing violence, sexual abuse and trauma through forced pregnancy and childbirth. When the state supports forced pregnancy and childbirth, it is complicit in this violence.”
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You can contact the Keough School by email:keoughschool@nd.edu or by phone: 574-631-3426
Published - October 14, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/luis-ricardo-fraga/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Luis Ricardo Fraga</a> is the Rev. Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C, Professor of Transformative Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, Director of the Institute for Latino Studies, and Fellow at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. According to his university biography, he specializes in Latino politics, voting rights, immigration, and education.

In June 2021, Professor Fraga signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Fraga, listed as an expert on this topic, says that the United States is a “nation founded on the basis of slavery and its related racism.”

He explains:
“We have culture wars and our racist historical past and its lingering contemporary effects and immigration - particularly from Latin American - is identified as a threat to American identity and American ideals. Add to that people coming from Muslim countries, and this intensifies the culture wars.” 
He believes that the Republican Party wants to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/republicans-want-to-dehumanize-voters-who-threaten-white-identity-says-notre-dame-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“dehumanize” those who threaten “white identity,”</a> stating:
“All these things together have led to - and research backs this up - the importance of white identity. Working against this threatens the status of the Republican Party and spurs the gerrymandering/voting tricks. Their goal is to dehumanize the people who are the sources of that threat.” 
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://sites.nd.edu/michael-coppedge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Coppedge</a> is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

According to his university profile, he is a member of the highest decision-making body, the Principal Investigator Board, for the <a href="https://www.v-dem.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Varieties of Democracy</a> project. The project, also known as V-Dem, is a collaborative effort led by four principal investigators that has “produced new measures of hundreds of aspects of democracy and governance for nearly all countries since 1900.”

In June 2021, Professor Coppedge signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Professor Coppedge says that the V-Dem project demonstrates that there has been a “significant erosion of liberal democracy in the U.S. since 2016.”

V-Dem reports that no country in North America or Europe has advanced in democracy in the last decade and democracy in the U.S. has declined substantially. Coppedge states:
“A decline is already underway. If recent and pending state-level legislation erects more and more barriers to voting and makes the translation of votes into seats and electors even more distorted than it already is, I am sure this trend will worsen.” 
V-Dem’s 2021 report shows that the U.S. declined substantially on the Liberal Democracy Index from 2010 to 2020. Notre Dame News reports that the V-Dem researchers blame this decline on “former President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the media and opposition politicians, and the substantial weakening of the legislature’s de facto checks and balances on executive power.”
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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Mainwaring</a> is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He’s also a faculty fellow at the <a href="https://kellogg.nd.edu/people/scott-mainwaring" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellogg Institute of International Affairs</a>. According to his university profile, his research interests and teaching focus on “democratization and authoritarianism, political parties and party systems, and Latin American politics.”

In June 2021, Professor Mainwaring signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The news release says that Mainwaring “stresses that the overt attempts to suppress minority votes, the partisan manipulation of electoral administration and the refusal to accept Trump’s defeat are all harbingers of the demise of democracy.”

Notre Dame News quotes Mainwaring, writing:
“These practices represent a movement toward competitive authoritarian regimes, and they are a deep threat to democracy. As a student and scholar of democracy for more than 40 years, I am disheartened to see these practices.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/christina-wolbrecht/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Wolbrecht</a> is a Professor of Political Science and the C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty in the Gender Studies Program and a Faculty Fellow of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. According to her university profile, Wolbrecht’s expertise is in “American politics, gender/women and politics, political parties, and American political development.”

In June 2021, Professor Wolbrecht signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> Wolbrecht, listed as an expert on this topic, stated: “Marginalized and intersectional communities have been crucial leaders in the contemporary struggle to defend and secure voting rights. Black women in particular have turned their commitment to community into sophisticated voter mobilization organizations.”

She added:
“It’s important to emphasize, however, that resisting and overcoming discriminatory voting rules requires time, energy and attention that these communities do not have in abundance and that distract from other work that advances human flourishing.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://keough.nd.edu/profile/anibal-perez-linan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aníbal Pérez-Liñán</a> is a Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs and Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. According to his <a href="https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/anibal-perez-linan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile,</a> his areas of expertise include “democratization, political institutions, executive-legislative relations, and the rule of law.”

In June 2021, Professor Pérez-Liñán signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.” 
Notre Dame News wrote an article about the letter titled, <a href="https://news.nd.edu/news/political-science-professors-sign-statement-warning-of-threats-to-us-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Political science professors sign statement warning of threats to US democracy.”</a> The article discusses how Pérez-Liñán “sees parallels in some Latin American countries to attempts by U.S. state Republican legislatures to restrict voting rules, thus securing long-term partisan control of their states.” He states:
“This strategy only works if federal legislation fails to enforce voting rights nationally. Students of Latin American politics call this phenomenon ‘boundary control.’ In Latin America, authoritarian governors are known to preserve power in their enclaves by fending off the influence of national governments.” 
Pérez-Liñán believes the filibuster is an “important maneuver that protects legislative minorities;” but adds,
“Paradoxically, however, some Republican senators are using this institution to disempower minorities in their own states. By blocking the adoption of federal legislation to defend voting rights, they sadly exercise boundary control to protect the adoption of restrictive voting laws.”
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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://ftt.nd.edu/people/faculty/pamela-robertson-wojcik/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pamela Wojcik</a> is the Chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. According to her university profile, her research “focuses on American cinema with particular interest in examining the ways in which film negotiates and interrogates issues of modernity, gender, and cultural change.”

Wojcik is teaching a <a href="https://classsearch.nd.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fall 2023 course</a> titled, “What a Drag: Drag on Screen - Variations and Meanings.” The course description says it “provides an overview of the history of drag performance on screen.” Students will “be asked to read essays on drag, write weekly reflections, attend class discussions, and attend weekly screenings, as well as a symposium on drag and performance on November 3, 2023.”

Wojcik told <a href="https://irishrover.net/2023/09/drag-show-planned-at-notre-dame/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Rover</a> that the symposium will be on “efforts to ban drag” and confirmed it will include a drag performance. She said that drag “is a vital art form that has existed at least since Greek theater, through Shakespearean theater. There are currently claims about drag that seem ahistorical and confused about what it is. So I thought it would be helpful to have an informed, respectful conversation about it.”

Wojcik further told <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> the course would help educate students on drag:
“[B]ecause the national conversation about drag has this distorted view, it really is just trying to give students the opportunity to learn about something in a rational, intellectual environment, rather than through this sort of hysteria of Republicans trying to ban something that they don’t understand.” 
Professor Wojcik <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/notre-dame-professor-doesnt-see-any-conflict-with-drag-programs-and-university-mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not see any conflict</a> with the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic institution, hosting a drag show on campus. She stated, “There is no evidence of drag ever hurting anyone and I don’t think it’s counter to the teachings of the Church, I don’t think it’s counter to the teachings of Notre Dame.”

In March 2023, Pope Francis condemned gender ideology as “one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations. He described gender ideology as “dangerous” because it “blurs differences and the value of men and women.”

The upcoming symposium will be sponsored by the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Gender Studies, Department of Music, Department of American Studies, and the Initiative on Race and Resilience. It is unclear at this time if the event is open to the public.

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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://anthropology.nd.edu/people/faculty/cara-ocobock/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cara Ocobock</a> is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame. Her research program “integrates human biology and anthropology, with a focus on the interaction between anatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment.”

In October 2023, Professor Ocobock and Professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/charlesroseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a>, of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> in which they questioned the existence of only two genders. In the op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—they argue that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.”

The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Ocobock and Roseman state that the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”

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Published - November 3, 2023