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<a href="https://music.virginia.edu/people/profile/acarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A.D. Carson</a> is an Associate Professor of Hip Hop and the Global South at the University of Virginia. Carson’s faculty profile says, “His work focuses on race, literature, history, rhetorics &amp; performance.” Carson also earned a Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. 
Carson’s <a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/lyrics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doctoral dissertation</a> entitled “Owning My Masters: The Rhetoric of Rhymes &amp; Revolutions,” is a rap album with racially-charged lyrical compositions, including:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/impeach-the-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Impeach The President</a>”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/grand-wizard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand Wizard</a>”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/second-amendment-shoot-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second Amendment [Shoot Back]</a>”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/talking-to-white-folks-i-said-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talking To White Folks [I said It]</a>”</li>
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The following is taken from the “Second Amendment [Shoot Back]” Content warning.
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The following is taken from “Talking To White Folks [I Said It].” Content warning.
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On March 5, 2024, Carson was <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ben-shapiro-rap-is-racist-and-sexist-hip-hop-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The College Fix</a> after calling a <a href="https://youtu.be/5kGpohEpuTE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rap song</a>, featuring political commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a>, a “white male grievance” and “racist.” The song essentially calls out “woke” culture (e.g. “transgenderism,” “systemic racism”) with a hook that says, “I don’t care if I offend you.”
Quoting Carson, The Fix said: 
“‘Given today’s bitter partisan divide and extremist culture wars, it comes as no surprise that Shapiro’s track quickly found a devoted following. But his racist, anti-rap rap lyrics ultimately repeat the same tired charges right-wing politicians have used against hip-hop since its birth over 50 years ago.’”
Carson was also quoted as saying, “‘I would love to believe that racist, sexist, white male grievance rap isn’t where the zeitgeist is in America. But Ben Shapiro and his conservative followers are betting that it is — at least for a brief moment.’”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Ben Shapiro’s hip-hop hypocrisy and white male grievance lands him on top of pop music charts for a brief moment <a href="https://t.co/7jr0FfP1X0">https://t.co/7jr0FfP1X0</a>
— The Conversation U.S. (@ConversationUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1764294889364242837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Carson also gave commentary on a song by Beyoncé to the campus publication <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/music-beat-beyonces-new-song-debuted-no-1-country-music-charts-what-does-it-mean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UVA Today</a>. In response to the artist topping BillBoard’s Hot Country for the first time, Carson said, “‘So, when something in 2024 like this happens, when there is a first [b]lack woman at No. 1 on a commercial chart … the question that I automatically go to is, ‘Why hasn’t it happened before and what was stopping it from happening?’”
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<a href="https://gened.as.virginia.edu/walsh">David Austin Walsh</a> is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. His academic work centers on alleging active links between the far-right and conservatism over the past two centuries. Walsh <a href="https://gened.as.virginia.edu/egmt-1530-hateinnany-fascism-antifascism-and-global-far-right">teaches a course titled</a> Hateinnany: Fascism, Antifascism, and the Global Far Right.

In an attempt to tie far-right extremism to mainstream conservatism, Walsh has penned various articles attempting to connect mainstream conservatism with mass shootings. Writing for Arc Digital, he describes the <a href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-victim-list-names-identified-walmart-tx-texas/1918691001/">El Paso shooter’s</a> violent and bigoted ideology as <a href="https://arcdigital.media/the-el-paso-shooter-and-donald-trump-share-the-same-politics-so-why-doesnt-the-media-say-so-aff5062c26b1">identical to widely-held conservative stances</a>.

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He then continued,

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<a href="http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/david-walsh-fragile-patriotism-american-conservative">Expressing further disgust for conservatives</a>, he praised the 1619 Project—<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/new-york-times-1619-project-distorts-history-of-slavery/">a demagogic and racially-laden</a> polemic published by the New York Times—in an article for the Boston Review. He described conservative opposition to the largely erroneous articles as being rooted in racial bigotry.

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David holds extreme contempt at even the idea of a conservative presidency. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=16097">He has tweeted </a>calls to overthrow the President of the United States and to purge conservative voters in a hypothetical “de-Nazification,” similar to Germany post-WW2.

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As a professor that has taken it upon himself to teach his students about politically right-of-center principles and individuals, it is concerning to see Walsh seamlessly intertwine conservatism with racial bigotry and extremism and then present it as mainstream amongst the right.

-UPDATE - This article previously displayed Walsh's name as "David Astin Walsh." It has since been corrected. 

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Parents and Students may contact the University of Virginia at (434) 243-9000
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://uvahealth.com/findadoctor/profile/christine-m-burt-solorzano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine M. Burt Solorzano</a> is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the <a href="https://www.virginia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Virginia</a> (UVA), who described performing gender transitions on children as young as 9 years old in.

The UVA-affiliated hospital that employs Solorzano lists <a href="https://childrens.uvahealth.com/services/transgender-youth-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a range of procedures available to “trans, nonbinary, intersex, and asexual” children as young as 11 years old</a>. The “Transgender Youth Health Services” advertised include:

- Education about sex and contraception.

- Referrals for therapy to help manage anxiety, depression, and ongoing emotional issues.

- Puberty blockers that delay sex-related physical changes.

- Help in finding resources in the community.

- Referrals for gender-affirming surgeries and voice therapy.

The clinic requires an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria by a medical professional and consent from a parent or guardian to treat minors. However, the hospital’s definition of dysphoria is subjective; a diagnosis may only require that “a child’s sense of their gender differs from the sex assigned to them at birth.” Parents are not even required to attend initial appointments with their children.

In a lecture uncovered by The Daily Caller, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/10/03/university-of-virginia-youth-gender-clinic-offers-puberty-blockers-chemical-castration-referrals-minors-undergo-breast-removal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Solorzano discusses performing “irreversible” surgeries</a> as a part of a gender transition. While claiming that many are only offered to those over 18, she states that children as young as 16 years old may receive double mastectomies. A masectomy–or “top surgery”—removes an otherwise healthy teenager's breasts as part of the female-to-male transition.

https://rumble.com/embed/v1jvzbw/?pub=4

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Further on, Dr. Solorzano discusses how she uses “cross-sex” hormones to block puberty in teens who transition. Acknowledging that while these drugs are not recommended for minors, she states that making a teen suffering from dysphoria undergo property is “cruel.” Dr. Solorzano believes that many teens are mature enough to make these “irreversible” decisions.

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Conceding that children must first begin puberty before treatment, Dr. Solorzano recalls consulting a 9-year-old girl on receiving hormones. She then claims that puberty blockers are temporary and puberty can be resumed at any time by stopping treatment.

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A common drug used to block puberty is called Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders and is not approved by the FDA</a>. Even if the dosage is <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halted mid-transition, children are still unable to undergo puberty.</a>

While available via Youtube for over eight years, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzkf6OqNE2Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university appears to have deleted Dr, Solorzano’s lecture following coverage by The Daily Caller as of publication.</a>

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://uvahealth.com/about/contact">UVA Health</a> at (434) 924-0000
Published - October 11, 2022
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Stephanie Brennhofer’s <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-brennhofer-mph-ms-rdn-3345a87a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> profile describes her as a “senior data analyst and infectious disease epidemiologist in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health” at the University of Virginia. Brennhofer’s personal Twitter account characterizes her as the “<a href="https://twitter.com/sbrennhofer?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-diet dietitian</a>.” 
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In exclusive audio obtained by Campus Reform, Stephanie Brennhofer <a href="https://twitter.com/sbrennhofer?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urges students to stop using the word “fat”</a> as it is “inherently fatphobic” and “reinforces that thin is good.” 

Her comments were delivered during a guest lecture—titled, “Diet Culture &amp; Weight Stigma”—in an “Exercise and Nutrition Medicine” course:
“The word ‘fat’ is inherently fatphobic because it signals to fat people, and really everybody uses that, right? So if you don’t want to use it, and use it, it’s bad, and it reinforces that thin is good and that’s not what we want to do.    
Brennhofer claims the term “fat” only indicates somebody’s body shape and “it’s not a negative descriptor:” 
“All fat does is describe somebody’s body shape and it’s not a negative descriptor. And so the body positivity community has really tried to like reclaim [fat] as their own. And its generally preferred over the medical terms of ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ because those carry medical connotations.” 
Continuing, she urges the class to stop labeling foods “good or bad” and “guilting people” who eat them. Brennhofer claims that a person’s weight is based on their genetics and there is nothing dietitians can do to get their patients to lose weight;   
“So, you know, [there’s] a lot of myths. You know, this whole idea that weight is mainly biological, right? Is, like, that’s going to change our weight. Our body is just kind of at this point based on genetic factors. I mean, other things do play a role, but it’s mainly genetics.” 
Brennhofer tells students that it's “unethical” to tell patients how to lose weight because they have very little control over their size. She even claims there are negative health effects for patients that do lose weight:
“And the data that we have show [sic] that when people gain and lose mass amounts of weight, that actually increases the risk of other very serious health outcomes like cancer and cardiovascular disease.” 
The full recording of the lecture may be listened to below: 

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Liz Cheney is a <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/liz-cheney-serve-professor-practice-uva-center-politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Practice</a> at the University of Virginia. She is also the daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney (2001-2008). 

Cheney’s most controversial moments have come as one of the members of the January 6th Select Committee. Formed to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/politics/republicans-january-6-select-committee-vote/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigate the Capitol protests of January 2021</a>, Cheney and the committee sought to portray the mostly peaceful protests <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/09/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee-full-statement-00038730" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a directed attack on the Capitol and even democracy itself</a>. 

As Vice-Chair, Cheney had exclusive access to over forty-thousand hours of footage and still photos from the riots and wielded immense subpoena power. 

When former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon defied the committee's subpoena, <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/1015/Bannon-defies-Jan.-6-subpoena-cites-Trump-executive-privilege" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing executive privilege</a>, Cheney voted to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211026010223/https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/politics/house-republicans-vote-yes-steve-bannon-contempt-of-congress/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hold him in contempt of Congress</a>. While appeals are still ongoing, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannons-prison-sentence-delayed-appeal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bannon could face four months in jail</a>. 

When Peter Navarro—Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy under President Trump—defied the committee's subpoenas, Cheney <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/04/06/house-votes-scavino-navarro-contempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted to hold him in Contempt of Congress</a> and referred Navarro to the Department of Justice for prosecution. Navarro was allegedly <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/03/report-peter-navarro-handcuffed-at-airport-and-frogmarched-to-the-courthouse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dragged off a plane by FBI agents</a> at the time of his arrest and “frog marched” into a jail cell where he <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/with-no-legal-representation-navarro-pleads-for-extension-in-contempt-of-congress-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent 24 hours without legal counsel or communications</a>. 

After 41,000 hours of <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3866648-mccarthy-gives-fox-news-tucker-carlson-access-to-jan-6-capitol-surveillance-footage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol footage was released to Tucker Carlson</a>, Cheney and the other committee members were scrutinized for selectively editing and withholding key evidence. Upon review, Tucker Carlson’s team determined that <a href="https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/03/08/too-bad-to-check-did-the-j6-committee-add-sound-effects-to-surveillance-videos-n535600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sound effects were added to the footage</a> to make the protest seem more chaotic and violent. 

In one brief clip released by Cheney and the January 6th Committee, Senator Josh Hawley appears to be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9kUmwRDjyI&amp;ab_channel=NBCNews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fleeing the protests that Committee members accused him of instigating</a>. The full footage <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/03/06/tucker_carlson_january_6th_committee_lied_about_josh_hawley_running_away.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withheld by the Committee</a> reveals dozens of congressmen were evacuated by the capitol police, and Hawley was jogging behind. 

While prominent officials claimed that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by protestors, released footage shows Sicknick—whose death was later determined to be caused by stroke—<a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/footage-shows-capitol-cop-brian-sicknick-uninjured-on-jan-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unharmed and directing protestors in the Capitol</a>. Electric bookmarks indicate Vice-Chair Cheney’s and the Committee reviewed the footage but <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-releases-exclusive-jan-6-footage-says-politicians-media-lied-about-sicknick-qanon-shaman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chose not to release it. </a>

 As Vice-President of the Committee, Cheney had access to the exculpatory footage of Jacob Chansley—nicknamed the “Q-Shaman”— but refused to release it. Chansley was <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/17/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-sentence-522807" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested and pled guilty to obstructing an official proceeding</a>. He is currently serving up to 41 months in prison. The footage shows Chansley being <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tucker-carlson-releases-exclusive-jan-6-footage-says-politicians-media-lied-about-sicknick-qanon-shaman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led around the capitol by police, who even opened doors for him</a>. Chansley’s lawyer claims the footage was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-lawyer-qanon-shaman-says-jan-6-footage-wasnt-shown-client-calls-prison-sentence-tragedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withheld from the defense</a>. He had not even seen the footage until it was released after the trial concluded. 

Despite Cheney’s relentless pursuit of defendants, critics have noted her reluctance to subpoena Ray Epps, who is infamous for telling <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S66NWcSccwE&amp;ab_channel=ForbesBreakingNews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protestors to “go into Capitol”</a>, and was present among the rioters who first breached the barricades.  

Despite his actions, Cheney has vocally defended Epps. When pressed by a student at the University of Chicago why the “insurrectionist” Epps hadn’t been arrested, the Vice-Chair <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/congress/liz-cheney-asked-about-prosecuting-ray-epps-jan-6-role-says-doj-makes-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced the inquiry as a “conspiracy theory.”</a> 

Epps has long been <a href="https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected of being a federal informant</a>, in part for remaining free despite being filmed agitating protestors to commit violence at the Capitol. <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-tucker-carlson-reveals-ray-epps-lied-in-sworn-testimony-to-jan-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Epps lied under oath about his whereabouts on January 6th</a>, but Cheney and the Committee made no attempts to refer Epps for prosecution. 

Cheney’s initial foray into politics came in 2013 when she primaried Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi. She spent most of her childhood and adult life outside of the state and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220519222115/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/us/politics/liz-cheney-to-challenge-senator-michael-enzi-of-wyoming.html">only moved to Jackson Hole in 2012</a>. Media outlets deemed Cheney a “<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/07/22/cheney-senate-wyoming-enzi-carpetbagger/2575197/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carpetbagger</a>” after her campaign announcement <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/05/12/liz-cheney-republican-house-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">geotagged her location in Virginia</a>, her primary residence at the time.    

Although eventually withdrawing, Cheney <a href="https://rollcall.com/2016/11/08/liz-cheney-wins-wyoming-house-seat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully ran for Wyoming’s Lone House Seat in 2016</a>, where she served from 2016-2022 before <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/16/wyoming-alaska-primary-results-2022-00052216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">losing the primary by nearly 40 points</a> to challenger Harriet Hageman. 

While in Congress, Cheney took no public salary. Despite this, her personal wealth<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/11/records-liz-cheneys-net-worth-ballooned-much-600-percent-during-her-time-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ballooned by over 600%</a>. Entering office with roughly $7 million dollars in assets, Cheney left six years later with an estimated net worth of $44 million. 

Much of Cheney’s <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/liz-cheney/net-worth?cid=N00035504" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wealth is tied to her stake in the law firm Latham &amp; Watkins</a>. Her husband, <a href="https://www.lw.com/people/PhilipJPerry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philip J. Perry</a>, has served as a partner since she first took office. The firm advised and lobbied on behalf of technology companies with direct connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

The State Department declared one company, Tencent, a “tool of the Chinese government” <a href="https://qz.com/1708662/chinese-tech-giants-tools-of-the-communist-party-us-official" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over surveillance and security concerns</a>.  Latham &amp; Watkins further <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/firms/summary?cycle=2004&amp;id=D000000536&amp;t0-search=exe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lobbied on behalf of Exelon</a>, a corporation that <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204358004577031241071779010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aids the Chinese government’s nuclear program. </a>

While her <a href="https://www.lw.com/en/news/2020/11/latham-advises-tencent-music-on-investment-in-wave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">husband’s firm advised CCP companies</a>, Cheney <a href="https://www.congress.gov/member/liz-cheney/C001109?q=%7B%22subject%22%3A%22Armed+Forces+and+National+Security%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handled classified information</a> regarding national security while serving on the Armed Services Committee. 

Upon Cheney’s acceptance of her position as Professor of Practice at the University, Virginia President Jim Ryan <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/liz-cheney-serve-professor-practice-uva-center-politics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated that he was “delighted</a> [that] students will have an incredible opportunity to learn from Liz Cheney, who has fiercely defended democracy as part of a distinguished career.” Director of the Center for Politics, Larry Sabato, called Cheney a “model of political courage and leadership.” Cheney’s position will run through the end of the Fall 2023 semester, with an option to renew upon the conclusion of the academic year.  

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Published - April 5, 2023

<a href="https://globalstudies.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/trf6k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tessa Farmer</a> is an Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program and Anthropology Department at the University of Virginia.

After the terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Farmer offered extra credit to students who attended a discussion about how to “stand in solidarity with Palestinians resisting occupation.”

According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/college-professor-offers-extra-credit-rally-resisting-israeli-occupation-sparking-state-ag-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>, Farmer sent a message to students on October 12 to promote an event hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine. The event was advertised as a “[teach-in] and demonstration about the current situation in Gaza, the events and history that led to this moment, and a discussion about how we can [stand] in solidarity with Palestinians resisting occupation.”

Farmer said students could receive extra credit by attending “an applicable event” that “relates to class conversations/themes” and writing a 250-word reflection about the event in relation to a course reading.

She sent a subsequent message to students which was shared with Fox News Digital by a University of Virginia spokesperson. Farmer said the goal “is for students to attend events around grounds that are applicable to the global studies course topics, recognizing that important issues will have a diversity of perspectives.”
“By posting the information provided by the organizers about the event that is happening today, I did not intend to imply that there is a link between endorsing the viewpoint of the organization and receiving extra credit for the course. In attending any event, I encourage you to critically engage with the content presented and to form your own opinion.” 
However, this is not the first time Farmer has <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Tessa_Farmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shown support</a> for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In 2016, Fordham University blocked the formation of a Fordham SJP chapter “based on the reported behavior of other [SJP] chapters on other campuses.” Fordham decided, “the establishment of a local branch could be ‘polarizing’ and pose a safety concern to students and faculty.”

Farmer signed a letter authored by <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Voice for Peace</a>—the “largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionest organization in the world”—that condemned the university’s decision to block the establishment of an SJP chapter. The <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/548748b1e4b083fc03ebf70e/t/58c1994ba5790ae223fbbf81/1489082707248/JVP+letter+to+Fordham+University.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signatories wrote</a>,
“We demand that you immediately rescind the rejection of SJP as a student group on campus, apologize to the students affected by this harmful decision, and reaffirm Fordham’s commitment to free speech and academic freedom.” 
In April 2017, four students sued Fordham University and a New York court annulled the university’s decision and required Fordham to recognize SJP as a club in August 2019.

Farmer has also shown support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. In 2014, she <a href="https://anthroboycott.wordpress.com/the-statement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a resolution</a> encouraging the American Anthropological Association (AAA) to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The resolution accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing, colonization, discrimination, and military occupation” and the signatories stated:
“We pledge not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.”
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Published - October 19, 2023

<a href="https://music.virginia.edu/people/profile/acarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A.D. Carson</a> is an Associate Professor of Hip Hop and the Global South at the University of Virginia. Carson’s faculty profile says, “His work focuses on race, literature, history, rhetorics &amp; performance.” Carson also earned a Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design. 

Carson’s <a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/lyrics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doctoral dissertation</a> entitled “Owning My Masters: The Rhetoric of Rhymes &amp; Revolutions,” is a rap album with racially-charged lyrical compositions, including:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/impeach-the-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Impeach The President</a>”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/grand-wizard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand Wizard</a>”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/second-amendment-shoot-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Second Amendment [Shoot Back]</a>”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://phd.aydeethegreat.com/talking-to-white-folks-i-said-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talking To White Folks [I said It]</a>”</li>
</ul>
The following is taken from the “Second Amendment [Shoot Back]” Content warning.

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The following is taken from “Talking To White Folks [I Said It].” Content warning.

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On March 5, 2024, Carson was <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ben-shapiro-rap-is-racist-and-sexist-hip-hop-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The College Fix</a> after calling a <a href="https://youtu.be/5kGpohEpuTE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rap song</a>, featuring political commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a>, a “white male grievance” and “racist.” The song essentially calls out “woke” culture (e.g. “transgenderism,” “systemic racism”) with a hook that says, “I don’t care if I offend you.”

Quoting Carson, The Fix said: 
“‘Given today’s bitter partisan divide and extremist culture wars, it comes as no surprise that Shapiro’s track quickly found a devoted following. But his racist, anti-rap rap lyrics ultimately repeat the same tired charges right-wing politicians have used against hip-hop since its birth over 50 years ago.’”
Carson was also quoted as saying, “‘I would love to believe that racist, sexist, white male grievance rap isn’t where the zeitgeist is in America. But Ben Shapiro and his conservative followers are betting that it is — at least for a brief moment.’”
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Ben Shapiro’s hip-hop hypocrisy and white male grievance lands him on top of pop music charts for a brief moment <a href="https://t.co/7jr0FfP1X0">https://t.co/7jr0FfP1X0</a>
— The Conversation U.S. (@ConversationUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1764294889364242837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Carson also gave commentary on a song by Beyoncé to the campus publication <a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/music-beat-beyonces-new-song-debuted-no-1-country-music-charts-what-does-it-mean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UVA Today</a>. In response to the artist topping BillBoard’s Hot Country for the first time, Carson said, “‘So, when something in 2024 like this happens, when there is a first [b]lack woman at No. 1 on a commercial chart … the question that I automatically go to is, ‘Why hasn’t it happened before and what was stopping it from happening?’”

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Please send tips and information on Professor A.D. Carson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.  
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Published - March 11, 2024

<a href="https://as.virginia.edu/faculty-profile/sethunya-mokoko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sethunya Mokoko</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia. According to his faculty profile, Mokoko “specializes in teaching students to appreciate and value social justice rhetorics across media; to become rhetorically listening writers, readers, and viewers; and to understand how global rhetorics shape and define agency and identification.”

Following the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, Mokoko was <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/uva-professor-claims-trump-shooting-staged-tactic-win-votes-idiots/25896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a Campus Reform article</a> titled “UVA professor claims Trump shooting was ‘staged’ and a tactic to win votes from ‘idiots.’”

Campus Reform said, “In a quote-tweet by [Mokoko], he said that Trump’s secret service purposefully ‘ignored’ eyewitnesses who allegedly informed police of an armed man on a roof before the shooting took place.”

Mokoko’s tweet was in response to a viral interview posted by “End Wokeness.” However, Mokoko’s post appears to have been deleted.
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BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle.

He was ignored. <a href="https://t.co/Cvfb7znZtZ">pic.twitter.com/Cvfb7znZtZ</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1812273630702952543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The screenshot is sourced from <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/one-prof-suspended-for-dont-miss-assassination-post-another-claims-shooting-staged/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>:

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Political analyst Jonathan Turley <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2024/07/16/staged-theatrics-to-win-idiots-vote-virginia-professor-declares-trump-shooting-was-faked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published his opinion </a>on Mokoko’s comment, stating that Mokoko “took a break from teaching students to get the word out this week that the entire assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a staged event for suckers.”

The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring Professor Sethunya Mokoko and update this profile accordingly. Please send tips, information, and updates to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - July 19, 2024

Racial Ideology

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

A.D. Carson

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<a href="https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty/peter-mclaren/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter McLaren</a> is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 
McLaren is considered one of the chief authorities in the field of critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy is <a href="https://online.wrexham.ac.uk/what-is-critical-pedagogy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> in the following manner by the North Wales Management School: 
“Critical Pedagogy is a philosophy of education that enables and encourages critical thinking in learners. With roots in <a href="https://www.simplypsychology.org/critical-theory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical theory</a>, it calls on teachers and students to explore their surroundings and the status quo to examine:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“power structures.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">patterns of inequality.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">oppressive acts and systems.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">social movements.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">political acts.”</li>
</ul>
In his book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_in_Schools/fmXvCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education</a>, McLaren wrote about what critical pedagogy means to him as a “struggle for a a socialist alternative to capitalism”: (See screenshot of book below) 
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Peter McLaren is a frequent contributor to the <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/page/about-us">LA Progressive</a> and has written several articles for the publication. Most of his writing is politically themed and written from a blatantly left-wing perspective. 
In a February <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/saving-the-department-of-education">article</a> titled “Saving the Department of Education,” McLaren wrote in defense of the U.S. Department of Education and criticized President Trump’s agenda toward it, likening the president to a monarch. 
“Like a monarch sharpening his blade to sever the ties of a past he deems unworthy, Donald Trump has fixed his gaze on the towering citadel of the U.S. Department of Education, drafting an executive order that could spell its right-wing undoing. The ink has not yet dried, but the decree moves like a specter through the corridors of power, whispered in hushed tones among those who see its arrival as both inevitable and cataclysmic.”
McLaren wrote symbolically of the department and the lasting effect its programs will have even if it is axed by the current presidential administration: 
“Yet, even if the department falls, the programs it once housed may not vanish entirely. Like ruins repurposed by conquerors, some will be scattered across other federal agencies, reduced to mere fragments of their former grandeur.” 
He continued:
“The funding streams that once nourished the education of low-income students and children with disabilities predate the department itself—an ancient infrastructure woven into the very sinews of the nation. This foundation, dug deep into the soil of American policy, remains a resilient relic that even Trump may find difficult to entirely dismantle. Though the department may be erased from the map, these programs, like enduring monuments, may continue to pulse quietly in the background, their influence felt even in the absence of the institution that once gave them shape…”
McLaren’s most recent <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/a-tale-of-two-fascists">LA Progressive</a> article discusses the relationship between the U.S. and Russia and their “two fascist” leaders. 
Published &#8211; February 21, 2025

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University of California-Los Angeles

<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jonathan-m-zasloff/">Jonathan Zasloff</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zasloff was caught on social media in January of 2015 stating that Republicans were catering to their KKK core of old, angry, white Southern men with reactionary views on race.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist Team, Susan Pertel Jain is no longer listed as the Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at UCLA.*

<a href="https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/person/1366">Susan Pertel Jain</a> is a former Director of the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University. <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/confuciusinstitute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Confucius Institute</a> is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, the Confucius Institute at UCLA has closed.*
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<a href="https://www.confucius.ucla.edu/about-us/team">Scott L. Waugh</a> is the former Chair of the Confucius Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. The Confucius Institute is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberle-w-crenshaw">Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> is a Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at the <a href="https://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)</a>. She also teaches law as a professor at the <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia School of Law</a>.

Dr. Crenshaw is best recognized as a founding scholar of critical race theory and intersectionality. She has continued to make significant contributions to each field throughout her career. Both concepts have been widely adopted by the radical left as the basis for their activism and movements.

Dr. Crenshaw <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3Ad80f43d375e3f40179924f768317a237&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first defined intersectionality in a landmark paper published for the Stanford Law Review, titled, “Mapping the Margins.</a>” In it, she praises identity politics as necessary to the lived experiences of American minorities.

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However, Dr. Crenshaw then comments that identity politics does not go nearly far enough, countering that intersectionality is needed to successfully combat what she alleges is the systemic oppression minorities face in America.

Intersectionality is used by activists and academics to depict racial and sexual oppression as interconnected amongst various minority groups. For example in “Mapping the Margins,” Dr. Crenshaw claims that a black woman would suffer from both systemic racism and sexism in America. She further characterizes the theory as the link between <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/">contemporary politics and postmodernism</a>. Academic James Lindsay describes <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality as the “birthplace of wokeness.”</a>

Much of intersectionality’s academic framework was used by Dr. Crenshaw to develop concepts of critical race theory. She drew additional inspiration from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/kimberle-crenshaw-the-woman-who-revolutionised-feminism-and-landed-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical legal studies, which, like critical race theory, posits that no American law can truly be neutral or impartial.</a>

Ben Shapiro defines critical race theory—also referred to as critical theory—in an article for Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of critical race theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Crenshaw herself further defined the concept in an appearance on MSNBC in July of 2021, She characterized her theory as a method to understand how racial inequality is produced—or acts as a “conduit”—from laws, institutions, and historical oppression, all of which are referenced interchangeably with white supremacy. The full video may be viewed below.

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One such institution that Dr. Crenshaw targets are police departments and policing as a whole. In a <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet from September 2020</a>, she demanded that all police departments be defunded, a move deemed necessary for the full dismantlement of “white nationalism.”
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The call to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DefundThePolice</a> should be a mandate to dismantle the hyper-militaristic, racist functions of the police as the coercive power of white nationalism.
Defunding the police needs to be a call for the de-weaponizing of white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn</a>

— Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) <a href="https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crenshaw’s work and activism have been instrumental to school districts adopting critical race theory into their curriculums. One district in Illinois allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-illinois-school-district-forced-students-on-privilege-walks-compared-whiteness-to-the-devil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregated students by race during a “privilege walk</a>” and compared “whiteness” to the devil during class lessons. Another school district in Buffalo, New York taught students that<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical-race-theory-curriculum" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> America is, “built on racism,” and all Americans, “have an implicit racial bias.</a>”

Dr. Crensaw’s work has spawned other prominent critical race theorists like Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project. She has described <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-does-intersectionality-mean-2021-kimberle-crenshaws-podcast-must-listen-way-learn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jones work as “phenomenal” to the rethinking of the American founding</a>.

Dr. Jones <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that 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. <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/07/21/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has-the-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

Readers can visit the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile of Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a> to learn more.

Despite evidence to the contrary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a number of pundits on the left claim that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools</a>. However, Dr. Crenshaw herself has written that the theory may serve as a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?s=27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“catch-all” for race-based scholarship</a>.
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Well well well, if it's isn't Kimberlé Crenshaw, founder of critical race theory, telling us that the term "critical race theory" can be "used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue"—exactly as I've been saying all along. 👍<a href="https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GP7mLZAm9x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/GP7mLZAm9x</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Updated - September 21, 2021

<a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Johnathan Perkins</a> is the Director of Race and Equity for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California - Los Angeles.

In a series of tweets—<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uclas-race-and-equity-officer-who-wished-death-upon-clarence-thomas-once-admitted-to-staging-a-race-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first highlighted by the Post Millennial</a>—Mr. Perkins attacks Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, writing that he hopes Mr. Thomas dies in the hospital and accuses Mrs. Thomas of treason.

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At the time, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-supreme-151322076.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized for the flu</a>. The accusation directed at Ginni Thomas refers to her involvement in <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/jan-6-committee-likely-to-request-ginni-thomas-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity protests surrounding the 2020 general election</a>.

In the tweet, Mr. Perkins refers to Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Thomas.” The phrase is a racial slur used to accuse black people of selling out their race to white people.

Mr. Perkins is no stranger to racially-incendiary remarks. On his <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal blog, he writes about white privilege, systemic racism, and antiracist work</a> on a frequent basis.

In one article, he berates the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/10/1/an-open-letter-to-my-white-extended-family-ahead-of-november-3rd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative, white members of his family in an open letter posted prior to the 2020 general election</a>. He demands to know who plans to vote for a president who “incites white supremacist violence against black people” and vows to never associate with that family member again:

“If you, or any of your immediate family (spouses, children, children-in-law) are planning to vote for Donald Trump on November 3, I ask that you please contact me to discuss before that date. I hope that I never again have the unfortunate experience of discovering that someone in my own family has voted for a president who continues to incite white supremacist violence against Black people, violence and hate against the LGBTQ+ community, hatred and misogyny against women, and violent racist xenophobia against brown immigrants.

If, once again, we affected family members are forced to cope with this trauma, I regret that I, personally, will no longer be able to associate with the family member/voter in question. I will not attend family events where that member is present and will call out said family loudly whenever we interact from now on. I will no longer ignore the fact that my family members voted for all these things, against my humanity.“

<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/2/27/white-privilege-a-euphemism-for-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another post defines white privilege</a> as “the idea that white people enjoy a particular set of benefits, simply by virtue of their whiteness (despite the harmful costs).” Mr. Perkins further writes that this privilege is a “manifestation of white supremacy” and many white people may be regarded as virulently racist as a Klansman.

“I need to make something abundantly clear: white supremacy, like most harmful social constructs, exists on a spectrum. The Beverly Hills middle school English teacher who, intentionally or otherwise, does not include literature by black authors in her curriculum, is operating within the same fundamental system of beliefs, the same structure, as the Mississippi Klansman: whiteness as supreme, which by definition does not acknowledge blackness, which necessarily degrades it.“

In one article—published during ongoing riots in the summer of 2020—Dr. Perkins <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220328223757/https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/5/31/dont-talk-to-me-about-looting-an-open-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriates white people who might hold concerns about the continuous rioting and looting</a> that was occurring in cities across the country. Describing white people as the “original looters of this country,” he writes that America had been founded on looting and violence, and no meaningful civil rights movements can, or would take place without riots:

“America is the original looter. White people are the original looters in this country. The original colonizers looted the indigenous people of this land damn-near completely to death. The original colonizers stole us from our homes, brought us to this place, and continued to loot and terrorize us for the last 400 years.

Violence has been the American way since its inception. Looting and pillaging is as American as apple pie. You think the so-called Boston Tea Party was a party? It was a riot.

No meaningful civil rights advancement has taken place in this country without riots. I personally choose to never carry out or even promote violence. But police violence, government violence, is the only thing Black people have ever known in America.” 

The BLM-inspired 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." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Mr. Perkins <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-a-best-of-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously staged a race hoax while attending the University of Virginia.</a> He alleged that two police officers racially profiled him frisked him, and mocked him during detention. Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/964739540685101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later admitting that he fabricated the incident</a>, he now maintains the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/2/24/7-points-to-consider-about-the-jussie-smollett-ordeal-from-someone-whos-been-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI pressured him to recant his story</a>.

In his role at UCLA, Mr. Perkins describes himself as a “<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/8/17/g2t7llr5oviffi0gq4do7cqr2bn1k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-time professional practitioner of anti-racism”</a> who is dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/edi-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to its website, the purpose of The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> itself is based on the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mr. Perkins for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> at (310) 825-3935. 
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Updated - April 6th, 2022

<a href="https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Appel</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California - Los Angeles.

According to her university profile, Appel is “an economic anthropologist interested in transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements.” 

Appel is the Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin <a href="https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute on Inequality and Democracy</a>. According to its website, the mission of the Institute is “concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working in alliance with social movements and communities on the frontlines of struggle, the Institute seeks to abolish structures of inequality.”

According to the <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/23/protesters-occupy-then-vacate-dodd-hall-following-2nd-encampment-dispersal-at-ucla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Bruin</a>, Appel participated in a sit-in while police swept a campus encampment of protesters. 

Appel, who’s also a member of UCLA’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine group, stated that she anticipates an eventual “escalation” and a “deepening of the movement” as union members withhold grades and cancel discussion sections. She also explained her rationale for protesting and her efforts as a professor to support student protesters:
“When the university sees that folks are withholding grades, they get scared. They’re scared because we’re flexing our collective power, and optimally, that fear drives them to the bargaining table, and then we win.” 
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-professor-claims-not-allowing-food-water-into-pro-gaza-encampment-is-torture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, UCLA officials stated there was “reasonable cause to find that demonstrators’ activities – including erecting barricades, establishing fortifications and blocking access to parts of the campus and buildings – [were] disrupting campus operations.”

The College Fix also reports that Appel “accused the university of employing ‘torture’ tactics against the student activists” and expressed concern about the actions being deemed an unlawful assembly. Appel defended the actions of people providing water and food to the protesters despite the “unlawful protest” declaration by the university: 
“But here’s the thing: Even if this is unlawful which, of course, I don’t think it is […] you cannot deny people to send in water in an effort to get them to do something against their will.”
Published - May 30, 2024

<a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/experts/elana-redfield/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elana Redfield</a> is the Federal Policy Director with the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School. The Williams Institute is focused on the following agenda:

“The Williams Institute is the leading research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. We ensure that facts — not stereotypes — inform laws, policies, and judicial decisions that affect the LGBTQ community.”

According to Redfield’s faculty profile, the professor “coordinates the Institute’s legal research and analysis related to federal and state policies that impact lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and intersex people.”

On January 30, Redfield was interviewed by <a href="https://theconversation.com/a-federal-policy-expert-weighs-in-on-trumps-efforts-to-stifle-gender-affirming-care-for-americans-under-19-248646" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> in a piece titled “A federal policy expert weighs in on Trump’s efforts to stifle gender-affirming care for Americans under 19.”

During the interview, the professor expresses opposition to the restriction of “gender-affirming care” ensuing after an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order</a> was signed by President Trump on January 28 effectively banning it for minors. This Order demanded “that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”

The professor is also a critic of the term “genital mutilation” and finds it to be an offensive and misleading phrase: 

“The executive order directs the Department of Justice to discourage doctors and hospitals from administering gender-affirming care to minors, characterizing it as <a href="https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/washington-state-becomes-41st-state-to-pass-law-against-fgm-c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genital mutilation</a>, which is a heinous-sounding offense. Even though this is an inaccurate comparison, it could have a chilling effect even in states where this form of care is legal.”

At the conclusion of the interview, Redfield cites a 2022 study claiming that gender-affirming care is beneficial for its recipients. According to the professor, the Executive Order rejects these alleged “benefits”: 

“So [the Executive Order] rejects the idea that gender-affirming care has health benefits, even though there’s robust, <a href="https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/integrity-project_cass-response.pdf">extensive evidence</a> <a href="https://whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-equality/what-does-the-scholarly-research-say-about-the-well-being-of-transgender-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporting access to gender-affirming care</a>. Self-reporting by transgender individuals is overwhelmingly positive: 98% of trans people who had hormone therapy said it made their lives better, <a href="https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/2024-02/2022%20USTS%20Early%20Insights%20Report_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey</a>.”

Redfield is optimistic for minors who seek gender-affirming care in light of the Executive Order because it is limited to federally funded institutions, which certain states can bypass:

“In other words, there are already barriers in place and checks and balances for minors if they want to access gender-affirming care.”
Published - February 4, 2025

<a href="https://seis.ucla.edu/faculty/peter-mclaren/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter McLaren</a> is Professor Emeritus at the School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 

McLaren is considered one of the chief authorities in the field of critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy is <a href="https://online.wrexham.ac.uk/what-is-critical-pedagogy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> in the following manner by the North Wales Management School: 

“Critical Pedagogy is a philosophy of education that enables and encourages critical thinking in learners. With roots in <a href="https://www.simplypsychology.org/critical-theory.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical theory</a>, it calls on teachers and students to explore their surroundings and the status quo to examine:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“power structures.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">patterns of inequality.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">oppressive acts and systems.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">social movements.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">political acts.”</li>
</ul>
In his book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_in_Schools/fmXvCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education</a>, McLaren wrote about what critical pedagogy means to him as a “struggle for a a socialist alternative to capitalism”: (See screenshot of book below) 

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Peter McLaren is a frequent contributor to the <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/page/about-us">LA Progressive</a> and has written several articles for the publication. Most of his writing is politically themed and written from a blatantly left-wing perspective. 

In a February <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/saving-the-department-of-education">article</a> titled “Saving the Department of Education,” McLaren wrote in defense of the U.S. Department of Education and criticized President Trump’s agenda toward it, likening the president to a monarch. 

“Like a monarch sharpening his blade to sever the ties of a past he deems unworthy, Donald Trump has fixed his gaze on the towering citadel of the U.S. Department of Education, drafting an executive order that could spell its right-wing undoing. The ink has not yet dried, but the decree moves like a specter through the corridors of power, whispered in hushed tones among those who see its arrival as both inevitable and cataclysmic.”

McLaren wrote symbolically of the department and the lasting effect its programs will have even if it is axed by the current presidential administration: 

“Yet, even if the department falls, the programs it once housed may not vanish entirely. Like ruins repurposed by conquerors, some will be scattered across other federal agencies, reduced to mere fragments of their former grandeur.” 

He continued:

“The funding streams that once nourished the education of low-income students and children with disabilities predate the department itself—an ancient infrastructure woven into the very sinews of the nation. This foundation, dug deep into the soil of American policy, remains a resilient relic that even Trump may find difficult to entirely dismantle. Though the department may be erased from the map, these programs, like enduring monuments, may continue to pulse quietly in the background, their influence felt even in the absence of the institution that once gave them shape…”

McLaren’s most recent <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/a-tale-of-two-fascists">LA Progressive</a> article discusses the relationship between the U.S. and Russia and their “two fascist” leaders. 
Published - February 21, 2025

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<a href="https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/providers/diane-ehrensaft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Ehrensaft</a> is a Psychologist, Mental Health Director, and Gender Specialist at the University of California &#8211; San Francisco.
In 2016, Ehrensaft wrote a book titled “<a href="https://www.shopatmatter.com/product/the-gender-creative-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gender Creative Child</a>” about transgenderism and some of the individuals – including minors – who she influenced to transition. In its first chapter, she writes about the concept of the “Gender Creative Child,” which she had coined in her previous book titled “Gender Born, Gender Made.” 
“While writing Gender Born, Gender Made, I conjured up the concept of the gender creative child–the child who weaves together nature, nurture, and culture in an infinite variety of ways to establish the gender that is ‘me’. That ‘me’ may be a boy, a girl, or a mélange of gender, and may not reflect the sex that was listed on the child’s birth certificate–or it could.”
She also responds to political commentator Laura Ingraham’s criticism of youth transgenderism from the years 2012 &#8211; 2014, and finishes her response with the following call to her audience:
“It is important for all of us to remember that in our efforts to create a gender creative life of all of us, the Laura Ingrahams of the world need to be either silenced or reeducated if we are to stop the flow of toxic messages to children that their gender expression is just foolish child’s play or attention getting behavior.”
Ehrensaft believes that children should be the main authority in their lives  when it comes to making gender decisions:
“Children are the experts of their own gender self, and, at most, we adults are their translators—striving to understand what they are telling us about their gender in words, actions, feelings, thoughts and relationships…we measure in stages not ages.”
In August, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/feminist-medical-school-professor-says-trans-kids-identifying-minotaurs-part-gender-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported that Ehrensaft recently promoted the idea of a “gender minotaur” in a lecture (see image below). This “gender minotaur” consists of one gender “on top” and another “on bottom” in a fashion similar to the Greek mythological figure. 
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<a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/jack.turban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jack Turban</a> is an Assistant Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of California, San Francisco. 

In addition to his teaching and commentary, Turban is the author of the textbook, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pediatric-Gender-Identity-Gender-affirming-Transgender/dp/3030389081" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pediatric Gender identity: Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender &amp; Gender Diverse Youth</a>.” According to the description, Turban outlines methods for gender-affirming care for pediatrics to follow. As stated on his <a href="https://www.jackturban.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal site</a>, Turban is a sought-after commentator and regularly appears in the New York Times and The Washington Post, amongst other publications.  

Dr. Turban’s biography describes his research as focused on the mental health of “transgender and gender diverse youth.” He’s advocated for gender transitions and puberty blockers for minors. He urges trans-men to compete in women’s sporting leagues, and accused his critics of being “anti-science.” 

In an article for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220422201159/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/hannah-is-a-girl-doctors-finally-treat-her-like-one.html?searchResultPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, Dr. Turban celebrates the transition of a 14-year-old boy named “Hannah.” Although acknowledging the teenager was born as a biological male, Dr. Turban claims that he is now living as his “true self.” 

Labeling puberty a “dangerous time for transgender youth,” Dr. Turban praises the use of cross-sex hormones. He claims that these drugs are easily reversible and Hannah may resume puberty whenever he wishes. 

“The puberty blocker is the first step. In the unlikely event that a child were to change her mind about being transgender, we could remove the implant, and she would then go through male puberty.

Even if the dosage is <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halted mid-transition, children are still unable to undergo puberty.</a> Despite this, Dr. Turban advocates beginning cross-sex hormones on children as young as 14 to spare them the “stigma” of puberty.

In a tweet on his personal account, Turban claims that it is far more dangerous to allow teenagers to undergo puberty than to allow them to take hormones to halt it. 
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Puberty blockers (temporary, reversible) are more benign than going through a puberty that can’t be undone.
If you can’t see that, then you really need to reflect on your biases and whether you consider <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#trans</a> people *at all* when you form your opinions.

— Jack Turban MD 🏳️‍⚧️🧠🏳️‍🌈 (@jack_turban) <a href="https://twitter.com/jack_turban/status/1514694985261617169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Turban believes that parents who object to their child’s transition are reacting out of fear of “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23281683/trans-kids-transition-medicine-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender nonconformity.</a>” He goes so far as to accuse other critics of denying science due to their transphobia.

In an op-ed for CNN, titled, “<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23281683/trans-kids-transition-medicine-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attacks on Trans People Are Also Attacks on Science Itself,” </a>Turban claims that trans people prove the science behind gender transition by “virtue of existing.” He writes that trans people are “natural manifestations of human diversity” whose expertise is invaluable to his field. 

Turban further claims there is little to no evidence that gender identity is determined by one’s genitalia or chromosomes. Rather, he writes that “our conscious brains” determine our gender and that is where our gender identity ultimately lies: 

As any trans person could tell you, we don’t need these [SIC] biological data to justify our humanity, but they do empirically defang anti-trans ideology. 

In an article for <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23281683/trans-kids-transition-medicine-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a>, Turban continues to dismiss scientific evidence and advocates for trans-men to have the freedom to compete on female teams. Turban accuses critics of driving transgender athletes to anxiety, depression, and homelessness by excluding them from women’s teams. 

“(Transgender athletes) suffer from higher rates of bullying, anxiety and depression—all of which make it more difficult for them to train and compete. They also have high rights of homelessness and poverty because of common experiences of family rejection.”

In 2022, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23281683/trans-kids-transition-medicine-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a> reported that Turban’s work is indirectly funded by pharmaceutical companies that manufacture puberty blockers. 

&nbsp;
Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/providers/diane-ehrensaft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Ehrensaft</a> is a Psychologist, Mental Health Director, and Gender Specialist at the University of California - San Francisco.

In 2016, Ehrensaft wrote a book titled “<a href="https://www.shopatmatter.com/product/the-gender-creative-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gender Creative Child</a>” about transgenderism and some of the individuals – including minors – who she influenced to transition. In its first chapter, she writes about the concept of the “Gender Creative Child,” which she had coined in her previous book titled “Gender Born, Gender Made.” 
“While writing Gender Born, Gender Made, I conjured up the concept of the gender creative child–the child who weaves together nature, nurture, and culture in an infinite variety of ways to establish the gender that is ‘me’. That ‘me’ may be a boy, a girl, or a mélange of gender, and may not reflect the sex that was listed on the child’s birth certificate–or it could.”
She also responds to political commentator Laura Ingraham’s criticism of youth transgenderism from the years 2012 - 2014, and finishes her response with the following call to her audience:
“It is important for all of us to remember that in our efforts to create a gender creative life of all of us, the Laura Ingrahams of the world need to be either silenced or reeducated if we are to stop the flow of toxic messages to children that their gender expression is just foolish child’s play or attention getting behavior.”
Ehrensaft believes that children should be the main authority in their lives  when it comes to making gender decisions:
“Children are the experts of their own gender self, and, at most, we adults are their translators—striving to understand what they are telling us about their gender in words, actions, feelings, thoughts and relationships…we measure in stages not ages.”
In August, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/feminist-medical-school-professor-says-trans-kids-identifying-minotaurs-part-gender-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reported that Ehrensaft recently promoted the idea of a “gender minotaur” in a lecture (see image below). This “gender minotaur” consists of one gender “on top” and another “on bottom” in a fashion similar to the Greek mythological figure. 

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Published - September 5, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.ucsf.edu/people/rupa-marya">Dr. Rupa Marya</a> is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California - San Francisco. Marya’s faculty profile states that her “work sits at the nexus of climate, health and racial justice.” Her research “explores the intersection of society and illness, including how social structures may predispose various groups to certain conditions.”

Since the recent developments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October 2023, Marya has openly expressed her support for Palestine on X. Marya, who is of Punjabi Indian descent, stated in a post that she sides with the Palestinians due to the prior “European invasion of [her ancestral] homeland” which (allegedly) “killed 100,000,000” of her “people.” Thus, she said she does not want to see history repeat itself in the same manner with the Palestinians. Because of this felt sympathy of experience between her ancestors and the Palestinians, Marya calls herself a Palestinian. (See post below). 
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I’m not Palestinian. I’m Punjabi. But my ancestors survived European invasion of my homeland. They killed 100,000,000 of my people through colonial policies. And so I advocate for Palestine because I can’t stand by as history is repeated. In that way, I’m also Palestinian. 🙏🏾
— Rupa Marya, MD (@DrRupaMarya) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya/status/1724328777260613863?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Marya believes in a one-state solution, with that state being Palestinian only: 
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It's time to talk about a ONE STATE solution. Where Palestinians and others live with equal rights. Where Palestinians can get their houses, farmland and olive groves back. Where Israelis can no longer torture, detain, oppress or murder with impunity.
— Rupa Marya, MD (@DrRupaMarya) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya/status/1723000625699422249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Marya, as one involved in the medical industry, has also been vocal about people taking conventional preventative measures against COVID-19. In 2021, Marya posted on X that “Allowing unvaccinated people on flights is reckless endangerment of the public.” Accompanying this statement was a screenshot of Marya’s message to United Airlines about her experience on a flight where she sat next to an unvaccinated United worker who coughed throughout the flight. After the flight, Marya said that she became feverish, and even got the chills. (See post below).
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My message to <a href="https://twitter.com/united?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@United</a> Airlines. Allowing unvaccinated people on flights is reckless endangerment of the public. <a href="https://t.co/mwGvPSwndy">pic.twitter.com/mwGvPSwndy</a>
— Rupa Marya, MD (@DrRupaMarya) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya/status/1463210450003263490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2021</a></blockquote>
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As late as June of 2023, Marya boasted of a leopard-patterned mask she had worn on an airplane due to her belief that the COVID-19 pandemic is not over. She recommends mask usage indoors to protect the vulnerable as well. (See post below).
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I got a sexy leopard print KN95 mask for the airplane because <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CovidIsntOver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CovidIsntOver</a>

Mask up indoors to support chronically ill people, elders and babies being able to safely participate. ❤️‍🩹 <a href="https://t.co/wZmVS5NudK">pic.twitter.com/wZmVS5NudK</a>
— Rupa Marya, MD (@DrRupaMarya) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrRupaMarya/status/1670053412707385345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - January 31, 2024

LGBTQ

Anti-1st Amendment

Sexualization

Diane Ehrensaft

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<a href="https://www.wm.edu/as/americanstudies/graduate/graddirectory/smoot_k.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelsey Smoot</a> is a PH.D. Candidate in American Studies at the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia.
In June 2020, Smoot penned an article for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/white-people-ally-black-people-sacrifice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> titled, “White people say they want to be an ally to Black people. But are they ready for sacrifice?” In the piece, she argues that white Americans are unwilling to change any of their behaviors or attitudes in a way that would benefit black people. 
The piece was written in the midst of nationwide riots following George Floyd&#8217;s death. While acknowledging that many of her white friends reached out to offer money and protect her “energy and emotional labor,” Smoot still accuses whites of silence, and therefore compliance, regarding white supremacy: 
“Unfortunately, good deeds will not dismantle systemic oppression. White kindness was unable to spare the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, nor any of the countless other victims of White supremacy in our nation’s history.”
If whites wanted to perform true anti-racist work, Smoot argues, they should be willing to sacrifice future pay raises and close friendships for people of color: 
“Real allyship enacted by White Americans, with a clear objective to make equitable the lived experiences of individuals across racial lines, means a willingness to lose things….Refusing a pay raise at one’s job and insisting that it be reallocated to co-workers of color who are undoubtedly being underpaid. The loss of potentially every close relationship with other White friends and family members who refuse to acknowledge or amend their behaviors that reinforce systemic oppression.”
Smoot concludes that white people will never be willing to sacrifice their privilege, so all she can do is “prepare for another day of navigating White America.”
In another article written from that summer, Smoot <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/04/juneteenth-not-the-fourth-of-july-was-the-real-independence-day">announces that she will no longer celebrate the Fourth of July</a>, as it represents an “exclusionary nationalist narrative.” Smoot writes that in adulthood, the idea of the holiday became “untenable” once she learned of America’s oppressive history:
“But as I moved into adulthood, learned the expansive and ongoing history of American imperialism, experienced blatant racism, homophobia, and transphobia, and internalized that my ancestors were held in bondage and considered chattel far beyond the date and year that I was supposed to consider the demarcation of American “freedom”, the idea of celebrating the holiday became untenable.”
Smoot further writes that she cannot celebrate America’s birth as she may be martyred in its current climate:
“In this current climate, as a Black American who is also queer and trans* identified, there is not a day that goes by when I don’t feel fear….I fear that my name might become a hashtag – my death made a viral internet sensation by onlookers recording my final breaths, as my life is taken by someone who swore to serve and protect me.” 
Smoot—<a href="https://queerinsomniac.me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who identifies as a “Black, queer, trans-masculine, and non-binary writer</a>”—has even shunned close family members and friends who incorrectly used her pronouns (they-them). In an article written for <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/misgendering-they-them-pronouns-nonbinary_n_6269a65de4b01131b11e407e">HuffPost</a>, Smoot states that she is becoming increasingly intolerant of anyone mistakenly misgendering him, claiming that refusing to do so nullifies her identity. Acknowledging that she will lose the people closest to him, Smoot concludes this is still the proper course of action as “trans and nonbinary people are worth the effort.”
According to her biography, Smoot&#8217;s research interests encompass “queer studies, race/racism, cultural studies, and social movements.” Smoot further blogs and writes poetry on her personal site, <a href="https://queerinsomniac.me/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Insomniac’s Musings</a>.
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Published &#8211; November 15, 2022

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<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/faculty/ciccariello-maher-george.php">Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher</a> is a Visiting Scholar of Decolonizing Humanities and Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary. He previously taught in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University.

From the College of William and Mary's website, his work at the Decolonizing Humanities Project is <a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/decoloniality/index.php">described</a> as exploring, “how colonization, modernity, capitalism, and, most recently, neoliberalism has displaced an array of modes of living, thinking and being.  Decoloniality reveals “the dark side of modernity” and how it is built “on the backs” of “others.”

Ciccarello first came to notoriety for his racially inflammatory statements on twitter. On Christmas of 2016, he <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/Drexel-officials-Professor-George-Ciccariello-Mahers-White-Genocide-tweet-was-utterly-reprehensible.html">tweeted</a> out,

“All I want for Christmas is White Genocide,”

and,

“To clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution, that was a  good thing indeed.”

He also tweeted out,

“Some guy gave up his first-class seat for a uniformed soldier. People are thanking him. I’m trying not to vomit or yell about Mosul.”

When Ciccariello was confronted by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndkvgmGIQHQ">Tucker Carlson</a> over his tweets, he only proceeded to double-down. In the following exchange, he defended the academic veracity of his tweets by claiming, “performance art is scholarship.”

Ciccariello doesn’t shy away from utilizing violence to accomplish his radical beliefs. In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/05/04/riots_work_wolf_blitzer_and_the_washington_post_completely_missed_the_real_lesson_from_baltimore/">Salon</a>, he praised the riots that had engulfed Baltimore in 2015 in an article titled “Riots Work.” He wrote, “without the threat of insurgency in the streets, no charges would ever have been brought in the murder of Freddie Gray.” Obviously not a proponent of police, Ciccariello openly <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/24/we_must_disband_the_police_body_cameras_arent_enough_only_radical_change_will_stop_cops_who_kill/">advocates</a> for the abolishment of police forces, describing them as, “originally slavecatchers.”

When not calling for the disbandment of our law enforcement, Ciccariello is an ardent defender of the socialist regime in Venezuela. He regularly <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/12/thatcher-is-dead-long-live-chavez/">praises</a> Hugo Chavez and has bizarrely <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYz1owM-uA&amp;feature=youtu.be">claimed</a> that Venezuela does not have corrupt elections.

Ciccariello doesn’t shy away from violent groups as well. In order to fight white-nationalism, Ciccarello called on Americans to embrace the radical group ANTIFA in an interview with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTv_hqjrmi8&amp;feature=youtu.be">Democracy Now</a> following the El Paso mass shooting. Although committed by a stated white nationalist, in the same interview Ciccariello placed the blame on Donald Trump for the deaths, claiming that his rhetoric on immigrants inspired the shooter’s rampage.  Ciccariello made similar accusations in a prior <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTv_hqjrmi8&amp;feature=youtu.be">interview</a> about the Texas Church Massacre, alluding that “whiteness” and Trump’s stoking of white victimhood was to blame for the murders.

Zuoyo Zhou is Vice-President of Beijing Normal University is the Vice-Chair of the Confucius Institue at the College of William and Mary

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Jennifer Stevenson</a> is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Confucius Institute in addition to serving as the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, the Director of the American Legal System Graduate Program, and a Professor of the Practice of Law at the College of William and Mary.

Steve Kuel is a Professor of Marine Science at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science as well as a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Confucious Institute for the College of William and Mary.

Jeremy Martin is an Associate Provost, Chief of Staff to the President and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee at the  Confucious Institute of the College of William and Mary.

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Teresa V. Longo</a> is an Advisor for the Confucious Institute College of William and Mary as well as the Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of the Charles Center, and a Professor of Hispanic Studies.

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Xingwei Miao</a> is an Advisor with the Confucious Institute of the Colleg of William and Mary from Beijing Normal University where he is the Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/confuciusinstitute/aboutwmci/index.php">Kai Xiao</a> is from Beijing Normal University and is the Director of the Office of Confucius Institute Affairs at the College of William and Mary

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/as/americanstudies/graduate/graddirectory/smoot_k.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelsey Smoot</a> is a PH.D. Candidate in American Studies at the College of William &amp; Mary in Virginia.

In June 2020, Smoot penned an article for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/white-people-ally-black-people-sacrifice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> titled, “White people say they want to be an ally to Black people. But are they ready for sacrifice?” In the piece, she argues that white Americans are unwilling to change any of their behaviors or attitudes in a way that would benefit black people. 

The piece was written in the midst of nationwide riots following George Floyd's death. While acknowledging that many of her white friends reached out to offer money and protect her “energy and emotional labor,” Smoot still accuses whites of silence, and therefore compliance, regarding white supremacy: 
“Unfortunately, good deeds will not dismantle systemic oppression. White kindness was unable to spare the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, nor any of the countless other victims of White supremacy in our nation’s history.”
If whites wanted to perform true anti-racist work, Smoot argues, they should be willing to sacrifice future pay raises and close friendships for people of color: 
“Real allyship enacted by White Americans, with a clear objective to make equitable the lived experiences of individuals across racial lines, means a willingness to lose things….Refusing a pay raise at one’s job and insisting that it be reallocated to co-workers of color who are undoubtedly being underpaid. The loss of potentially every close relationship with other White friends and family members who refuse to acknowledge or amend their behaviors that reinforce systemic oppression.”
Smoot concludes that white people will never be willing to sacrifice their privilege, so all she can do is “prepare for another day of navigating White America.”

In another article written from that summer, Smoot <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/04/juneteenth-not-the-fourth-of-july-was-the-real-independence-day">announces that she will no longer celebrate the Fourth of July</a>, as it represents an “exclusionary nationalist narrative.” Smoot writes that in adulthood, the idea of the holiday became “untenable” once she learned of America’s oppressive history:
“But as I moved into adulthood, learned the expansive and ongoing history of American imperialism, experienced blatant racism, homophobia, and transphobia, and internalized that my ancestors were held in bondage and considered chattel far beyond the date and year that I was supposed to consider the demarcation of American “freedom”, the idea of celebrating the holiday became untenable.”
Smoot further writes that she cannot celebrate America’s birth as she may be martyred in its current climate:
“In this current climate, as a Black American who is also queer and trans* identified, there is not a day that goes by when I don’t feel fear….I fear that my name might become a hashtag – my death made a viral internet sensation by onlookers recording my final breaths, as my life is taken by someone who swore to serve and protect me.” 
Smoot—<a href="https://queerinsomniac.me/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who identifies as a “Black, queer, trans-masculine, and non-binary writer</a>”—has even shunned close family members and friends who incorrectly used her pronouns (they-them). In an article written for <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/misgendering-they-them-pronouns-nonbinary_n_6269a65de4b01131b11e407e">HuffPost</a>, Smoot states that she is becoming increasingly intolerant of anyone mistakenly misgendering him, claiming that refusing to do so nullifies her identity. Acknowledging that she will lose the people closest to him, Smoot concludes this is still the proper course of action as “trans and nonbinary people are worth the effort.”

According to her biography, Smoot's research interests encompass “queer studies, race/racism, cultural studies, and social movements.” Smoot further blogs and writes poetry on her personal site, <a href="https://queerinsomniac.me/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Queer Insomniac’s Musings</a>.

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Published - November 15, 2022

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/faculty/sheehi-s.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Sheehi</a> is the Sultan Qaboos Eminent Professor of Middle East Studies at the College of William &amp; Mary. Dr. Sheehi also serves as the Faculty Director of the “Decolonizing Humanities Project.”

Although his position falls under the Humanities Department, the <a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official site for the project</a> states the field should not have to justify its “economic or practical values in higher education.” Rather, Sheehi argues that humanities are used for “tooling” students to participate in “irredeemable,” racist systems that perpetuate inequality: 

“The Decolonizing Humanities Project understands that the Humanities are structured by and complicit with the legacies of racism, sexism, patriarchy, settler-colonialism and colonialism.” 

Sheehi then accuses America of being built on land stolen from Native Americans.  The university, he claims, likewise continues to benefit from the labor of “kidnapped and enslaved Africans:”

“Decolonizing Humanities Project seeks to dismantle forms of settler-colonialism and racism, with special attention to anti-black and anti-indigenous racism, and how they continue to structure our lives in the university, Virginia, and the settler-colonial state now known as the United States.“

Sheehi states that higher education further perpetuates racial capitalism in the “settler colonial state known as the United States.” He vows to dismantle settler colonialism and capitalism through a process known as “decoloniality.” 

Under the tab, “<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/decoloniality/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is Decoloniality?</a>” Sheehi defines it as the study of the “matrix” of power and oppression created by colonialism. He then claims that colonialism’s effects can still be felt today as modern society was “built on the backs of others.” 

Decoloniality reveals "the dark side of modernity" and how it is built "on the backs" of "others," others that modernity racializes, erases, and/or objectifies. 

Continuing:

“(Decolonialism is) a way to explore colonization, settler-colonialism, racial capitalism (particularly as it grew out, in full racializing force,  with the enslavement of black Africans), modernity, and, most recently, neoliberalism and necrocapitalism and the ways in which they have displaced an array of modes of living, thinking and being in our natural world.”

Dr. Sheehi concludes by calling for the disruption of “settler-colonial logic” and decentering of “hetero-cisnormativity, gender hierarchies, and racial privilege.” 

The web page further lists a myriad of radical groups under the “<a href="https://www.wm.edu/sites/dhp/resources/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Resources</a>” column. One of them—titled, “DecolonizeThisPlace,”—is a violent, Antifa-aligned organization that is led by professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/aminhusain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amin Hussein</a>. A 2020 riot by the group resulted in 13 arrests and $100,000 in damages. 

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Published - December 5, 2021

<a href="https://www.wm.edu/as/english/facultystaff/tsai_a.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Addie Tsai</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English in the Arts &amp; Sciences department at the College of William and Mary. His “Areas of Specialization” include “Dance Studies,” “Masculinities Studies,” “Black Studies, “Gender Studies” and “Queer Studies.”

After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Tsai was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/while-universities-refuse-to-fire-anti-semites-the-private-sector-holds-them-accountable/24277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after adding his signature to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oU0LTAsKiGOMxfXnKcxpw-GJV6w5uiMP/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open statement</a> that said:
“We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of Israel and the violent settler colonial apartheid state. We strongly condemn the response of [W]estern media and political actors at all levels of government in their dissemination of misinformation and propaganda, intended to manufacture consent for the genocide of Palestinian people.”
The statement goes on to say:
“Islamophobic, genocidal, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian rhetoric are all rooted in the languages we use. It is our responsibility to lay bare how language has been used to obscure and preserve the ongoing settler colonial project outside Gaza…”
The signatories' list of political declarations includes:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” and </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the [W]est, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobia and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The statement remains accessible via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Please send any information regarding Addie Tsai to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 2, 2023

Feminism

Kelsey Smoot

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Jason Killheffer

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

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Yale University

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://wgss.yale.edu/people/kalindi-vora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kalindi Vora</a> is a Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Vora’s <a href="https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/kalindi-vora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">areas of research</a> include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Feminist Science and Technology Studies”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Postcolonial Studies”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies/American Studies”</li>
</ul>
The description for Vora’s course “<a href="https://www.kalindivora.com/teaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Futures</a>” states,
“To understand speculation as a political practice, this course brings together critical texts from materialist theory, feminist science studies, queer kinship and affect studies (including queer of color critique), women of color feminism and transnational ethnic studies…”
Vora’s “Marxist Thought” class “examines critical engagements between scholarship from postcolonial, feminist and other radical Marxist traditions” while focusing on “philosophical and political debates stemming from issues of race and gender…”

Vora <a href="https://www.kalindivora.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on The Harmony Show podcast alongside a co-host who identified as a “robosexual/idolator” to discuss Vora’s book “Surrogate Humanity: Race Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures.” She described the concept of the book:
“[T]he whole book is trying to explain how we think that this is a new kind of antiracist and feminist analytic that we can use to think through the way that racial and gender politics come up around labor in technology…
“And we start the book by thinking alongside the historian and black feminist, Saidiya Hartman, who wrote a book called ‘Scenes of Subjection.’ In that book, Hartman talks about the concept of the surrogate…in the context of US chattel slavery.”

In 2017, the University of California, Davis <a href="https://research.ucdavis.edu/fri_director/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Vora as the Director of its Feminist Research Institute (FRI). The institute exists as a “collaborative, trans-disciplinary hub for exploring how gender, sexuality, race, and other social structures inform the design, execution, and interpretation of research.”

During her time as the Director, Vora led a <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/news/kalindi-vora-and-sarah-mccullough-antiracist-approaches-sts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> on “antiracist approaches to STS [science, technology and society].” She also joined a <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/events/mellon-racial-capitalism-speaker-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> to analyze “racial capitalism” and <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/news/director-kalindi-voras-feministfutures-closing-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared in an article</a> explaining “abolitionist care.” 

Vora defines abolitionist care as “an antidote to violence that demands a [commitment] to maintaining, repairing and attending survivors of violence while [fighting] capitalism’s anti-rationality [and] the materiality enforced by racial capitalism.”

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<a href="https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/megan-ranney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Ranney</a> is the Dean of Yale University’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on “developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, as well as on COVID-related risk reduction.” Ranney previously served as the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University.

In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/opinions/public-trust-in-scientists-ranney-jetelina/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial for CNN</a>, Ranney addressed the decline in trust of physicians due to the over-administering of COVID-19 vaccines. Ranney writes:
“[Physicians are] worried about what lies ahead if we don’t turn the ship on trust in science. Imagine if there’s another pandemic, a climate disaster or a biosecurity hazard like anthrax—and we haven’t fixed the trust problem. Think about what might happen if we, as a country, stop funding the science innovation that has allowed our dramatic gains in human health. And what if more Americans refuse to get their kids vaccinated or if our public health institutions are shut down?”
On November 29, 2023, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gun-crime-expert-blasts-red-state-cherry-picking-by-yale-professor-in-senate-hearing-political-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News featured Ranney</a> in an article titled “Gun crime expert blasts red state ‘cherry-picking’ by Yale professor in Senate hearing: ‘Political bias.’” While testifying before Congress about gun violence, Ranney was suspected of naming certain states based on her political ideology.

When asked why she thought “Chicago has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range?”, Fox said, “Ranney responded by comparing Chicago to three [conservative-led] states and claiming Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri ‘actually have higher firearm death rates.’”

When further pressed about Chicago’s crime statistics, Ranney stated:
“I think there’s easy access to firearms combined with environmental conditions, lack of great education. There have actually been studies that when you green vacant lots and repair abandoned buildings in urban neighborhoods you see decreases in gunshots and violence as well as stress and depression in the neighborhoods around them.”
<a href="https://president.yale.edu/president/yale-talk/approaching-gun-violence-public-health-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During her talk</a> with Yale University President Peter Salovey, Ranney <a href="https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yaletalkepisode39-ranney-transcript.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded to the question</a> of funding for firearm death research:
“The biggest reason is that from 1996-2020, there was virtually no federal funding…partly because it wasn’t defined as a public health problem, but partly because in 1996 [a representative] from Arkansas…passed the Dickey Amendment, which told the CDC that it was prohibited from using funds to promote or advocate for gun control.”
Please send information on Megan Ranney to <a href="mailto:Wathlists@tpusa.com">Wathlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - January 9, 2024

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

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<a href="https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/chris_barcelos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Barcelos</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass). His academic expertise includes “critical public health, sexualities studies, queer of color critique, and transgender studies.”
Barcelos identifies as a member of the trans-community and prefers the pronouns they/them/theirs. He is listed as a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior and Distinguished Fellow of CATS</a> (The Center for Applied Transgender Studies). The organization&#8217;s About page says, “We are an independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.” 
<a href="https://chrisbarcelos.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On his personal website</a>, Barcelos defines himself as “a humanistic social scientist and feminist educator.” His profile further states,
“My work combines critical race theory and critical sexualities studies with community-based research to analyze U.S.-based public health efforts. I focus specifically on queer sexuality, transgender health, and reproductive justice.”
Barcelos’ site also includes a link to the <a href="https://transyouthjusticeproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Youth Justice Project</a> (TYJP) — a community-based education organization specializing in trans history and trans rights. Barcelos is the co-facilitator, curriculum author, and program evaluator. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bBYF27FvW2vmMGUUyZFAQdsSQTxoGPkj/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TYJP Remote Curriculum’s</a> Youth Recruitment and Incentives program offers enrollees a $20/hr stipend to complete a 6-week course centered on trans social justice, respectful pronoun usage, and sex education.
In response to the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Barcelos wrote <a href="https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/gendered-racial-projects-anti-trans-anti-crt-and-anti-abortion-legislation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article for The Gender Policy Report</a> that says,
“For those with some degree of racial, economic, or gender privilege, the leak signaled the first time in their adult lives that they could lack the right to control their bodies. For students of color, queer and trans youth, economically marginalized students…the leak was part of the ongoing state violence that has long affected their communities.”
In his book, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Distributing_Condoms_and_Hope/6wb9DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%E2%80%9CTransgender+Reproductive+Justice%E2%80%9D+In+Reproductive+Justice+Briefing+Book,+2nd+edition:+A+Primer+on+Reproductive+Justice+and+Social+Change.+Amherst,+MA:+Center+for+Civil+Liberties+and+Public+Policy.&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Radicalized Politics of Youth Sexual Health</a>,” Barcelos writes,
“This book makes visible the operation of power in youth sexual and reproductive health and reimagines what health promotion would look like through the lens of reproductive justice (RJ). Women of color feminist activists developed the concept of reproductive justice in the mid-1990s as a framework, vision, and social movement.”
He continued,
“[RJ] refocusses individual-level debates about reproductive ‘rights’ and ‘choice’ to emphasize a broader analysis of racial, economic, and structural constraints on power. The approach expands a singular focus on white, economically privileged women’s access to contraception and abortion to include the right to have children and to parent them with dignity and support.”
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Published &#8211; December 5, 2022

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<a href="https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/ester_shapiro">Ester Shapiro</a> is an associate professor of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts - Boston. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15874">Shapiro launched into a tirade against conservatives</a> during a guest lecture, accusing them of being Nazis and stating that America “baked white supremacy into the Constitution.” She stated that conservatives witnessed everything from a rebirth of fascism, to armed conservatives showing up at polls to intimidate voters.

Objecting to the professor’s remarks about children being held in cages at the border, a student tried to interject that human trafficking was a major issue that no one was talking about. Shapiro immediately cut her off and accused President Donald Trump of bragging about having sex with his daughter Ivanka.

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<a href="https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/english/faculty/sari_edelstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sari Edelstein</a> is a Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and the Director of the Undergraduate English Program at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass). Her area of expertise includes Women Writers, Age Studies, and Feminist and Queer Theory.

Edelstein is also a co-director of the Center for the Humanities, Culture, and Society (CHCS) at UMass. The <a href="https://www.umb.edu/chcs/mission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center’s Mission Statement</a> says,

“CHCS seeks to showcase the broad range of scholarly work under the banner of the humanities…The humanities enable us to address essential and enduring questions about culture and society as well as to contemplate more urgent issues confronting individuals and communities right now.”

In November 2022, the CHCS invited a feminist author to speak on campus. <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholars-abolish-the-family-speech-hosted-at-umass-boston/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix reported</a>, “An expert on ‘feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy,’ scholar Sophie Lewis…at an event named after her book, ‘<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Abolish_the_Family/b89UEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=abolish+the+family&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abolish the Family: A Manifestor for Care and Liberation</a>.’” Lewis also published an article in The Nation titled “<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-ethics-gestation-reproduction/">Abortion Involves Killing-and That’s OK!</a>” 

The Professor Watchlist contacted CHCS to get feedback on why Lewis headlined the event but Edelstein did not reply in time for publication.

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Published - December 5, 2022

<a href="https://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/faculty/chris_barcelos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Barcelos</a> is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts-Boston (UMass). His academic expertise includes “critical public health, sexualities studies, queer of color critique, and transgender studies.”

Barcelos identifies as a member of the trans-community and prefers the pronouns they/them/theirs. He is listed as a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior and Distinguished Fellow of CATS</a> (The Center for Applied Transgender Studies). The organization's About page says, “We are an independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.” 

<a href="https://chrisbarcelos.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On his personal website</a>, Barcelos defines himself as “a humanistic social scientist and feminist educator.” His profile further states,

“My work combines critical race theory and critical sexualities studies with community-based research to analyze U.S.-based public health efforts. I focus specifically on queer sexuality, transgender health, and reproductive justice.”

Barcelos’ site also includes a link to the <a href="https://transyouthjusticeproject.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Youth Justice Project</a> (TYJP) — a community-based education organization specializing in trans history and trans rights. Barcelos is the co-facilitator, curriculum author, and program evaluator. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bBYF27FvW2vmMGUUyZFAQdsSQTxoGPkj/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TYJP Remote Curriculum’s</a> Youth Recruitment and Incentives program offers enrollees a $20/hr stipend to complete a 6-week course centered on trans social justice, respectful pronoun usage, and sex education.

In response to the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Barcelos wrote <a href="https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/gendered-racial-projects-anti-trans-anti-crt-and-anti-abortion-legislation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article for The Gender Policy Report</a> that says,

“For those with some degree of racial, economic, or gender privilege, the leak signaled the first time in their adult lives that they could lack the right to control their bodies. For students of color, queer and trans youth, economically marginalized students…the leak was part of the ongoing state violence that has long affected their communities.”

In his book, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Distributing_Condoms_and_Hope/6wb9DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%E2%80%9CTransgender+Reproductive+Justice%E2%80%9D+In+Reproductive+Justice+Briefing+Book,+2nd+edition:+A+Primer+on+Reproductive+Justice+and+Social+Change.+Amherst,+MA:+Center+for+Civil+Liberties+and+Public+Policy.&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Radicalized Politics of Youth Sexual Health</a>,” Barcelos writes,

“This book makes visible the operation of power in youth sexual and reproductive health and reimagines what health promotion would look like through the lens of reproductive justice (RJ). Women of color feminist activists developed the concept of reproductive justice in the mid-1990s as a framework, vision, and social movement.”

He continued,

“[RJ] refocusses individual-level debates about reproductive ‘rights’ and ‘choice’ to emphasize a broader analysis of racial, economic, and structural constraints on power. The approach expands a singular focus on white, economically privileged women’s access to contraception and abortion to include the right to have children and to parent them with dignity and support.”

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Published - December 5, 2022

<a href="https://www.umb.edu/directory/chrisbobel/" rel="noopener">Chris Bobel</a> is a Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Her areas of expertise include “Critical Menstruation Studies,” “Body Studies” and “Critical Trauma Studies.”

Bobel’s profile says she spent nearly 20 years in the field of critical menstruation studies. In 2020, she edited and co-authored “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Palgrave-Handbook-Critical-Menstruation-Studies-ebook/dp/B08DMKGDK7/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+palgrave+handbook+of+critical+menstruation+studies&amp;qid=1687980465&amp;sprefix=the+palgrave%2Caps%2C219&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener">The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies</a>.” In her chapter titled, “Introduction: Menstruation as Lens—Menstruation as Opportunity,” Bobel wrote:

“Similar to critical race studies or critical gender studies, critical menstruation studies is premised upon menstruation as a category of analysis: asking how systems of power and knowledge are built upon its understanding, and furthermore, who benefits from these social constructions.”

In February 2023, Bobel was featured in the <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21348" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article “‘Menstrual Equity Summit’ held at Northeastern University.” According to the Reform, Bobel said she was “neither advocating nor discouraging free bleeding. The change I promote is [a] movement toward self-determination…I use ‘menstruating in public’ symbolically, actually. The message here is one of challenging menstrual stigma.”

The <a href="https://youtu.be/-SXC7LTn5tg" rel="noopener">recording</a> of the Summit can be viewed online.

During the Summit, Bobel asked the audience, “In our movement work, are we too concerned with respectability politics?”

She also said she wondered if the “menstrual activism movement” was “pursuing a Band-Aid approach” and (sarcastically) asked the audience to imagine Black Lives Matter holding workshops to train people of color to politely interact with the police.
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Published July 5, 2023

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<a href="https://billayers.org/biographyhistory/">Dr. William Ayers</a> is a <a href="https://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/people/william-ayers">member</a> of the Visiting Faculty and Lecturers at the University of Chicago and is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers was the leader of the “Weather Underground” group responsible for setting off bombs that destroyed government property and infrastructure. Of his group, he said, &#8220;We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men &#8230; deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism.&#8221;

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*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, O'Brien retired from her position."
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Dr. Patricia O’Brien, a <a href="https://today.uic.edu/excellence-in-teaching-patricia-obrien">former</a> Professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago, believes that women should not be put in prison and that women’s prisons should be shut down. She believes that the only reason women are in prison is that they are marginalized and disrespected in society not because they are criminals.

<a href="https://billayers.org/biographyhistory/">Dr. William Ayers</a> is a <a href="https://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/people/william-ayers">member</a> of the Visiting Faculty and Lecturers at the University of Chicago and is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers was the leader of the “Weather Underground” group responsible for setting off bombs that destroyed government property and infrastructure. Of his group, he said, "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men ... deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism."

Alexandra Filindra is an <a href="https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/filindra-alexandra/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology</a> at the University of Illinois Chicago. She focuses on American gun politics, immigration policy, race and ethnic politics, public opinion, and political psychology.

Professor Filindra has been outspoken about her beliefs that gun ownership and racism are related.

She co-authored a study titled <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-015-9326-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Racial Resentment and Whites’ Gun Policy Preferences in Contemporary America.”</a> The study states that “the language of individual freedom used by the gun rights movement utilizes the same racially meaningful tropes as the rhetoric of the white resistance to black civil rights that developed after WWII and into the 1970s.” Filindra claims the study’s results show “racial resentment is a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of white opposition to gun control.”

She co-authored another study titled <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soin.12388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Racial Resentment or Sexism? White Americans’ Outgroup Attitudes as Predictors of Gun Ownership and NRA Membership.”</a> This study sought to link racial and gender ideologies to gun ownership among white Americans. She states: “We find strong evidence that racial resentment is associated with gun ownership, rationales for owning firearms, and NRA membership, but the results for sexiam are generally not consistent with expectations.”

Professor Filindra led a research group that conducted an online survey to compare views on American identity, guns, and political violence between white and black participants. Filindra commented on the group’s findings in a <a href="https://today.uic.edu/survey-measures-whites-blacks-views-on-american-identity-guns-political-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UIC press release</a>:
“We cannot ignore that a non-negligible minority of Americans believes that gun rights extend to the context of political protests, that people should have the authority to shoot at protesters based on their personal judgments of danger, and that a substantial number of gun owners would bring their firearms to a political event.”
She continued:
“The free exchange of political ideas, a citizen’s right to assemble and to petition government is inconsistent with the public carry of firearms. Weapons do not foster political exchange; they are designed to hamper it.” 
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You can contact the Department of Political Science by email: pols@uic.edu or phone: 312-996-3105
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Published - October 14, 2022

<a href="https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/mccloskey-deirdre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deirdre McCloskey</a> is a Distinguished Professor of History, Economics, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago. McCloskey is the author of 15 books and is a trans woman who says he has been “socially performing” as a woman for 27 years.

Professor McCloskey was scheduled to <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/180576/news/status-of-transgenderism-and-womanhood-debate-at-pitt-uncertain-after-participant-drops-out/#photo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate the topic of “Transgenderism and Womanhood”</a> with Michael Knowles at an event hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s College Republicans and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Leading up to the event, a petition was circulated around campus calling for the event to be canceled. On March 11, in response to this, McCloskey tweeted:
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A thousand people have signed a petition against Michael Knowles 'debating" me on transgender matters on April 18 at Pittsburgh. They should be ashamed. True, Knowles is an anti-Jesus Catholic, a fascist advocating state power over ideas. But we live in a free country.
— Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeirdreMcClosk/status/1634660304465321990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/180187/news/deirdre-mccloskey-discusses-upcoming-debate-with-michael-knowles-criticizes-petition-to-cancel-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Pitt News</a>, McCloskey said:
“That people recommend it’s a good idea to stop open conversation in a university because someone says something they don’t agree with is counter to the purposes, the noble purposes, of the University of Pittsburgh. It’s a complete undermining of the ideals of Western civilization.” 
McCloskey also claimed:
“Opposing him speaking is exactly what he wants because then the cruel conservatives, which he’s a good example [of], can say, ‘Ah, you see, those leftists, they don’t believe in free speech.’ That’s the kind of people they are. So you can see how stupid it is to oppose this.” 
However, just a few weeks later, McCloskey <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/trans-professor-backs-out-of-debate-with-conservative-commentator-the-ideology-is-indefensible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled out of the debate</a>. Michael Knowles announced the news on Twitter, saying:
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I've just learned that Prof. McCloskey has dropped out of our debate scheduled for next week. For weeks, he's baselessly smeared me as a "fascist" but nonetheless insisted upon the importance of debating ideas rather than running from them. Apparently he's changed his mind. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/pKJaLECR26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/pKJaLECR26</a>
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1645832971507716096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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McCloskey told <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> the appearance was canceled because Knowles is “utterly uninterested in finding the truth,” adding:
“He is interested in stirring up hatred and violence towards people who do not fit his extremely conservative Catholic beliefs, beliefs quite contrary to those of, for example, Pope Francis. I decided not to participate in giving [Knowles] a platform.”
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Published - April 19, 2023

<a href="https://education.uic.edu/profiles/muhammad-gholnecsar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad</a> is an Associate Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois Chicago. According to her university profile, she “studies black historical excellence within educational communities with goals of reframing curriculum and instruction today.” She is the author of the book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cultivating-Genius-Culturally-Historically-Responsive/dp/1338594893" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultivating Genius</a>: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy.”

Muhammad <a href="https://www.ace-ed.org/teaching-toward-genius-an-equity-model-for-pedagogy-in-action/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created the “HILL” model of teaching</a> which “responds to students’ histories, identities, literacies and liberation.” Muhammad describes her education model as:
“The HILL model is an equity framework for teaching and learning across all disciplines. Honoring traditions and theories of culturally responsive learning, this model is historically responsive and grounded in Black education and Black excellence. Members of 19th century African American literary societies had four collective goals toward advancing their education.” 
Muhammad defines these four goals as: Identity, Skills, Intellectualism, and Criticality. For Identity, she writes:
“Because we are complex beings, we have racial, cultural, gender, environmental, and community identities, to name a few. Not only is it important to teach youths who they are, but educators should also teach students about the identities and cultures of others different from them.” 
The description for Criticality reads:
“Criticality is the capacity and ability to read, write, think, and speak in ways to understand power and equity in order to understand and promote anti-oppression. In Cultivating Genius, I define oppression simply as any wrongdoing, hurt, or harm, including racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, or any other oppression. Unlike lower case “c” critical, which is just deep and analytical thinking, Critical with a capital “c” is related to power, equity, and anti-oppression. As learning takes place, one asks, ‘How am I developing an understanding of power, equity, anti-racism and anti-oppression?’” 
In 2018, Muhammad founded <a href="https://hillpedagogies.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HILL Pedagogies LLC</a>. According to its website, the company is a “consultation and presentation agency with a focus on the historical foundations of literacy development and the writing practices among Black communities. The agency offers professional learning that shapes the national conversation for educating youth who have been underserved and works with teachers and young people across the United States and abroad in best practices in culturally responsive instruction.”

<a href="https://defendinged.org/report/gholnecsar-muhammad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents Defending Education</a> reports Muhammad received a grant of $749,896 in 2018 from the U.S. Department of Education. The <a href="https://news.gsu.edu/2018/11/26/muhammad-receives-749895-grant-to-support-secondary-school-teachers-stem-literacy-instruction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant</a> was intended “to study a professional development model designed to improve secondary school teachers’ literacy instruction in STEM content areas.”

Muhammad received $4,000 from Olentangy Schools for a one-hour presentation and $2,875 from Naperville Community Unit School District 203 for a two-hour virtual workshop. She also participated in a “Black Futures &amp; Black Joy” panel with Castro Valley Unified School District and was named Los Angeles Unified School District’s “Equity Champion in Residence.”

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Published - August 24, 2023

<a href="https://education.uic.edu/profiles/morton-terrell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terrell Morton</a> is an Assistant Professor of Identity and Justice in STEM Education at the University of Illinois Chicago. According to his university profile, Morton “works to transform STEM learning environments, creating spaces that are recognized and understood as extensions of students' identity rather than sites of oppression that perpetuate hostility and exclusion.”

Morton published an article in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01271-5.epdf?sharing_token=RoV77bDjzlvUTQdh8RUTYNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTC_5KGRwngX4s8AJcmQPKX1Y_ambGQDJcXzrJrKIgVWt2ZpHkTDBnR7ZPe2xAlHOG3jQM9YwzHHi7XTQotfYdTCrcMeOqrrP_5_yBrTJRmhpcB10GDPO9hkg4UnazmIk%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nature Chemistry</a> titled, “Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry.” He begins by stating, “Critical race theory—an academic framework that serves to understand systemic racism in the USA and beyond—can help inform endeavors to advance justice and equity in the chemistry community.”

Morton argues that the field of science underrepresents black people and “favors white, cisgender, middle-to-high socioeconomic status, heterosexual, non-disabled men.”

Professor Morton discusses critical race theory’s (CRT) core tenets and how they apply to the field of chemistry. Morton defines one core tenet, racial realism, as the belief that “racism is endemic, permanent, systemic and integral to all social institutions.” He believes this tenet explains the “continuing numerical underrepresentation of Black people” as “an outcome of structural racism or gendered racism.”

He also argues <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-professor-dismisses-meritocracy-myth-advocates-crt-false-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meritocracy</a> is a myth, saying, “The belief in individualism and the bootstrap mentality communicated through US laws and social norms is a false reality given racism and its de facto outcomes.”

Morton believes that “structural change” is needed, writing:
“Inequities in the field of chemistry can also be mitigated as the field collectively validates the systemic presence and continuous influence of racism and gendered racism on scientific inquiry and education. Each person should evaluate their position and actions towards social justice - with respect to their identity, privilege, exposure, awareness and commitment.” 
When discussing his article with <a href="https://today.uic.edu/education-professor-probes-causes-of-systemic-racism-in-chemistry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UIC Today</a>, Morton said:
“One of the things that scientists have struggled with understanding is that racism is structural and systemic, not just interpersonal. There are power structures at play that impact our everyday experiences, including the research that is done, how we do the research, who gets access to that research and who we recognize as a chemist.” 
In April 2021, Morton gave a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/identity-and-justice-scholar-explores-structural-racism-in-chemistry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a> at Utah State University titled, “<a href="https://www.usu.edu/safe-at-usu/speakers/TMorton_UtahStatePresentation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deprogramming Whiteness</a> to Advance Liberation: A Critical Examination of the ‘Self’ in Social Justice Endeavors.”

In this 21-slide presentation, Morton says, “The practicing of justice (recognition and action) are driven by individual and societal philosophical ideologies of reality, knowledge, and ethics (morality)...where the underlying conceptions of normality are rooted in a culture of whiteness.” He also advised participants “check your ‘self,’” which he defines as “biases, privileges, position, power, commitments, and actions.”

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Published - September 11, 2023

<a href="https://glas.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadine Naber</a> is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her <a href="https://gws.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/">profile</a> says:
“Dr. Naber’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; and Middle East Studies; and Arab American Studies. Drawing upon these fields, Dr. Naber’s research theorizes the racialization of Arab and Muslim Americans within the contexts of empire and diaspora.”
In December 2023, Naber wrote a <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/when-abolitionists-say-free-them-all-we-mean-palestine-too/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TruthOut opinion editoria</a>l called “When Abolitionists Say ‘Free Them All,’ We Mean Palestine Too.” She compared Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack to the police response during the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ferguson#ref1204126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ferguson riots in 2014</a>. 

In 2021, Naber <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in an interview</a> to discuss her article “The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution.” When asked why she wrote <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.47.1.0062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the publication</a>, Naber replied:

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While conducting research and interviews for the paper, Naber said her observations revealed the “exclusion” of mothers from social movements who lack childcare or want to participate in adult-only meetings. Naber’s <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.47.1.0062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> requires JSTOR credentials, but the following excerpt was included in her interview transcript:
“Asserting the radical potential of mothering allows us to recognize how heteropatriarchal concepts and traditional gender norms can be disrupted and how we might imagine an ever-expansive revolution that is not limited to the boundaries of a public square or to a singular notion of the revolutionary actor.”
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Alongside <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professo</a><a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">r</a><a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Maya </a><a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mikdashi</a>, Naber participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/P62E9was7G4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers University panel discussion</a> called “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle.” During her presentation, Naber gave a trigger warner before stating:
“Indeed the practices of rape and sexual assaults that have been well documented during the founding of Israel, that continue today, are not an exception or a secondary impact of colonial violence. But [they] are part of the settler, colonial, white supremacist logics and practices of Israel, that conflate colonized women with the land and nature and assume that, therefore, to dominate the land necessitates dominating Palestinian women’s bodies and their reproductive capacities from 1948 until today.”
The full speech can be heard below.

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In the past, Naber participated in another <a href="https://youtu.be/4GX3m-8k8m4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> on the “feminism and liberation struggles” of Palestinian people who — according to the host, Professor Sabina Vaught — are victims of an “ongoing US-Israeli colonization, occupation, settlement, and genocide.” Naber also led a TEDx Talk titled “<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_naber_arab_feminism_is_not_an_oxymoron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arab Feminism is Not an Oxymoron</a>,” discussing the history of head coverings.

During the Talk, Naber remarked that Muslim women in the 1980s held different beliefs about covering their hair. She then declared, “[T]he ‘veil’ has taken on new meaning in the 21st century — at a time when people are increasingly turning to religion as a refuge across the globe, including in the United States.”

She continued, “Especially after September 11 [2001] — in response to increased anti-muslim racism and war — more and more Arab Muslim women are proudly claiming their faith, and their Muslim identity, by covering their hair.” 

According to the Middle East Research and Information Project:

“Many accounts have suggested that the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/intifada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intifada</a> has enabled Palestinian women to make great strides toward their social as well as political liberation … it is also true that the intifada has been the context for a vicious campaign in Gaza to impose the hijab (headscarf) on all women. The campaign included the threat and use of violence and developed into a comprehensive social offensive.”

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Nadine Naber to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - June 5, 2024

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<a href="https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/bruce-cumings">Dr. Bruce Cumings</a> is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cumings placed most of the blame of North Korea’s problems on the United States, while also whitewashing problems in Korea.  For example, Cumings denies the existence of a massive famine in North Korea in the 1990s. Cumings blames the United States for North Korea’s problems, not Communism.

Dr. Emily Landon is an<a href="https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/emily-landon" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago.</a> Landon specializes in infectious diseases and is a leader of the “academic health system’s infection control and prevention efforts.”

Dr. Landon was featured in a September 2022 BuzzFeed News article titled<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/is-the-pandemic-really-over" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “No, The Pandemic Isn’t Really Over. Here’s Why.”</a> The article was in response to President Biden’s September 18 interview with 60 Minutes where he said: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over.” Landon stated:
“The problem with Biden’s message is that it doubles down on this idea that we don’t really need to worry about COVID anymore … That messaging discourages people from keeping their vigilance up; it discourages people from putting on a mask in a high-risk situation; and it discourages people from getting those really essential boosters.”
 She continued:
“I really don’t think that people are quite as fatigued by the pandemic as they are of change. And while there’s still going to be some change to come, I think we have to do what we can to soothe and ameliorate the changes by avoiding saying things like the pandemic is over, which just creates whiplash.”
<a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/meet-dr-emily-landon-the-face-of-uchicagos-anti-science-covid-decrees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Thinker</a> reports that Landon “crassly and inappropriately mocks the unvaccinated, retweeting posts that depict them as being low-class and incapable of independent research.”
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Dr. Landon has been very outspoken about her belief that everyone should get vaccinated. In a<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fda-cdc-second-covid-19-booster-shots-moderna-pfizer-approved/?mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGDf_fgDphij0DOs6GGRDdZ4GoZ0TZKCkBJOcD5CVHS6_xf6k_s2oq-d1gpKCUW286EDJEEiS6Rwu8QPWA3Lm73Ury4bRl0rjwYrEXVL41JAKT5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CBS Chicago</a> article, she said:
“If you find yourself saying: ‘I can’t believe they’re asking me to get another stupid booster. When are they going to stop with this crap?’ you know, I think you need [to] take a little stock of where you are, and what luck you had, and what privilege you have to be in a place to say that about yourself.” 
Published - October 18, 2022

<a href="https://globalstudies.uchicago.edu/people/rebecca-journey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rebecca Journey</a> is a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Journey teaches a course in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program titled “The Problem of Whiteness.”

The <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/comparativeraceethnicstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> states “whiteness has long functioned as an “unmarked” racial category” and has “resurfaced as a conspicuous problem within liberal political discourse.” The seminar will examine “the problem of whiteness through an anthropological lens, drawing from classic and contemporary works of critical race theory.”

Daniel Schmidt, a sophomore student at the University of Chicago, <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/uchicago-professor-seeks-discipline-action-against-student-who-exposed-her-racist-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared details about the course</a> in a <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDSchmidt/status/1587557829476777984" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter thread</a> that went viral.

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After the post, Journey claims she received death threats and was the victim of online harassment. According to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2022/11/19/23467967/whiteness-course-triggers-online-harassment-death-threats-university-chicago-instructor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Sun-Times</a>, Journey defended the course saying, “The class is emphatically not about ‘the problem with white people.’ The class approaches whiteness as a problem in the philosophical sense of an open question …[with] whiteness as an object of critical inquiry.”

Professor Journey believes that Schmidt “deliberately misrepresented” her course “to stoke white grievance on social media:”
“I want to stress that these attacks are the direct consequence of this student’s targeted cyberbullying campaign. This was a malicious attack not just on me as a teacher but on anti-racist pedagogy writ large.” 
The University of Chicago issued a statement supporting Journey and the “freedom of instructors to teach any course that has been developed through our faculty-led curricular process.” However, Journey is calling for disciplinary action against Schmidt, saying the university should issue a public condemnation of the student’s actions.

The course is scheduled to begin in Spring 2023.

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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/olivia-bustion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olivia Bustion</a> is a doctoral theology candidate and Martin Marty Center Fellow at the University of Chicago. Bustion is teaching an autumn 2023 course through the Religious Studies Department titled, “<a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/religiousstudies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering God</a>.”

The course <a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/is-god-queer-uchicagos-religious-studies-department-wants-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promises to discuss questions</a> such as: 
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can God be an ally in queer worldmaking?”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Is God queer?” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“What does queerness have to do with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam?” </li>
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Further, the course description reads:
“This course introduces students to foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on queer Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theologies. We will analyze the ways that contemporary artists, activists, and scholars are using theology to reimagine gender and experiment with new relational forms. Our readings will include a variety of genres: memoir, letters, scriptural interpretation, and a novel.” 
<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/is-god-queer-university-of-chicago-course-asks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote about Bastion’s University of Michigan doctoral thesis that “focused on the homosexual tendencies of a British poet named W.H. Auden.” Her paper was titled “<a href="https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/96141/obustion_1.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering the City of God</a>” and her “thesis relied on the work of Leo Bersani, an essayist who published a collection titled ‘Is the Rectum a Grave?’”
“Auden, according to the thesis, wrote a ‘prayer [that] gives gay sex a place in Christian worship. In her thesis, she ‘examines key moments in Auden’s conceptualization of a calling the aligns the charism of same-sex eros with anti-imperialist prophetic critique—from the prayerful question of ‘In Sickness and in Health’ to the playful answer of ‘The Garrison.’” 
The College Fix argues:
“The problem with the course is not just its fundamentally flawed assertion that God could be ‘queer,’ but that it is given an air of respectability by the University of Chicago.”
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Published - August 10, 2023

<a href="https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/Eman-Abdelhadi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eman Abdelhadi</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include religion, gender, identity, and demography.

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Abdelhadi <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> titled, “Writers in Solidarity with Palestine.” The letter begins, “We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of ‘Israel’ and the violent settler colonial apartheid state.”

Some of the letter’s claims include: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The west is actively backing the ongoing settler colonial project that endorses either a slow or fast genocide, but is genocide either way.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Any form of Palestinian resistance is in no way equivalent to the daily violence of ‘Israeli’ settlers, the IOF (‘Israeli’ Occupying Forces), and the entire ‘Israeli’ state apparatus. Palestinian resistance exists because settler colonial occupation exists.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the west, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobic and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine, heighten surveillance and policing domestically, and suppress any manner of showing solidarity with Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The writers end with several “calls to action” for the signatories and their institutions, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To stand in firm, vocal, and unwavering solidarity with Palestinian resistance against their occupation until liberation, by amplifying Palestinian voices in a time of mass disinformation and silencing; and by openly discussing the occupation in your workplace, home, on social media, in your work.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To boycott all other literary institutions who profess Zionist affiliations.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To engage with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led movement to end international support for ‘Israel’s’ oppression of Palestinians and all institutions complicit in ‘Israeli’ apartheid and settler colonialism.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been removed but can still be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Abdelhadi has shared similar sentiments on her <a href="https://twitter.com/emanabdelhadi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X (formerly known as Twitter) account</a>. Some of her posts include:

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Please send any information regarding Eman Abdelhadi to <a href="mailto:watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

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Published - November 6, 2023

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<a href="http://catalog.whitworth.edu/faculty/">Dr. James McPherson</a> is a Professor Emeritus of Media at Whitworth University. 
McPherson applauded a woman who tried to run over a Republican congressman for voting to repeal Obamacare. 
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-college-professor-suggests-murdering-republican-congressman-self-defense/">College Fix</a>, McPherson responded to a tweet covering the attack on Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) with the following statement (See X post below).
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Sounds like a case of self defense. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandYourGround?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StandYourGround</a>
— James McPherson (@JimBMcPherson) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBMcPherson/status/863089678953598976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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McPherson’s <a href="https://x.com/JimBMcPherson">X profile</a> biography states that he is “proudly on [the] Professor Watchlist.” The professor emeritus posts and reposts several offensive and slanderous posts on X, mostly on political subjects, and typically against conservative political figures. One of McPherson’s posts accuses former President Donald Trump of having sex with minors. (See X post below). 
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JD Vance never had sex with a couch or a dolphin &#8211; that we know of. 
But we&#8217;re relatively certain that Donald Trump had sex with kids. <a href="https://t.co/mtIIov9SwY">https://t.co/mtIIov9SwY</a>
— James McPherson (@JimBMcPherson) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBMcPherson/status/1818104203337937266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Another one of McPherson’s posts accuses former President Trump of being a fascist. (See X post below). 
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I don&#8217;t think Trump knows enough history to &#8220;plagiarize&#8221; anything not written in The Complete Idiots Guide to Fascism. <a href="https://t.co/bt1Q0auC4k">https://t.co/bt1Q0auC4k</a>
— James McPherson (@JimBMcPherson) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBMcPherson/status/1818022005440135536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In May, McPherson reposted an image that made a comparison of Trump to Adolf Hitler. (See X post below).
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— Franklin Delano (@RedRider444) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedRider444/status/1790789522243932394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Updated &#8211; August 1, 2024

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<a href="http://catalog.whitworth.edu/faculty/">Dr. James McPherson</a> is a Professor Emeritus of Media at Whitworth University. 

McPherson applauded a woman who tried to run over a Republican congressman for voting to repeal Obamacare. 

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/christian-college-professor-suggests-murdering-republican-congressman-self-defense/">College Fix</a>, McPherson responded to a tweet covering the attack on Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) with the following statement (See X post below).
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Sounds like a case of self defense. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StandYourGround?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StandYourGround</a>
— James McPherson (@JimBMcPherson) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBMcPherson/status/863089678953598976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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McPherson’s <a href="https://x.com/JimBMcPherson">X profile</a> biography states that he is “proudly on [the] Professor Watchlist.” The professor emeritus posts and reposts several offensive and slanderous posts on X, mostly on political subjects, and typically against conservative political figures. One of McPherson’s posts accuses former President Donald Trump of having sex with minors. (See X post below). 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
JD Vance never had sex with a couch or a dolphin - that we know of.
But we're relatively certain that Donald Trump had sex with kids. <a href="https://t.co/mtIIov9SwY">https://t.co/mtIIov9SwY</a>
— James McPherson (@JimBMcPherson) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBMcPherson/status/1818104203337937266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Another one of McPherson’s posts accuses former President Trump of being a fascist. (See X post below). 
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I don't think Trump knows enough history to "plagiarize" anything not written in The Complete Idiots Guide to Fascism. <a href="https://t.co/bt1Q0auC4k">https://t.co/bt1Q0auC4k</a>
— James McPherson (@JimBMcPherson) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimBMcPherson/status/1818022005440135536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In May, McPherson reposted an image that made a comparison of Trump to Adolf Hitler. (See X post below).
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<a href="https://t.co/oO0jNuBssg">pic.twitter.com/oO0jNuBssg</a>
— Franklin Delano (@RedRider444) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedRider444/status/1790789522243932394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Updated - August 1, 2024

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Dr. Emily Landon is an<a href="https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/emily-landon" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago.</a> Landon specializes in infectious diseases and is a leader of the “academic health system’s infection control and prevention efforts.”
Dr. Landon was featured in a September 2022 BuzzFeed News article titled<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/is-the-pandemic-really-over" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “No, The Pandemic Isn’t Really Over. Here’s Why.”</a> The article was in response to President Biden’s September 18 interview with 60 Minutes where he said: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over.” Landon stated:
“The problem with Biden’s message is that it doubles down on this idea that we don’t really need to worry about COVID anymore … That messaging discourages people from keeping their vigilance up; it discourages people from putting on a mask in a high-risk situation; and it discourages people from getting those really essential boosters.”
 She continued:
“I really don’t think that people are quite as fatigued by the pandemic as they are of change. And while there’s still going to be some change to come, I think we have to do what we can to soothe and ameliorate the changes by avoiding saying things like the pandemic is over, which just creates whiplash.”
<a href="https://thechicagothinker.com/meet-dr-emily-landon-the-face-of-uchicagos-anti-science-covid-decrees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Thinker</a> reports that Landon “crassly and inappropriately mocks the unvaccinated, retweeting posts that depict them as being low-class and incapable of independent research.”
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Dr. Landon has been very outspoken about her belief that everyone should get vaccinated. In a<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/fda-cdc-second-covid-19-booster-shots-moderna-pfizer-approved/?mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGDf_fgDphij0DOs6GGRDdZ4GoZ0TZKCkBJOcD5CVHS6_xf6k_s2oq-d1gpKCUW286EDJEEiS6Rwu8QPWA3Lm73Ury4bRl0rjwYrEXVL41JAKT5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CBS Chicago</a> article, she said:
“If you find yourself saying: ‘I can’t believe they’re asking me to get another stupid booster. When are they going to stop with this crap?’ you know, I think you need [to] take a little stock of where you are, and what luck you had, and what privilege you have to be in a place to say that about yourself.” 
Published &#8211; October 18, 2022

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Dr. Emily Landon

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<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 &#8220;Animal Studies,&#8221; &#8220;Environmental Rhetoric and Sustainability,&#8221; and &#8220;Feminism and Gender Studies.&#8221;
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

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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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<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/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”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/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”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

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

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2192175" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April Miller</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. Miller teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction. Her areas of expertise include “20th Century American Literature,” “Film Studies,” and “Feminist and Queer Theory.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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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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<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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<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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<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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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/50294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Lynch</a> is a Principal Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Lynch teaches “Special Topics,” “Honors Directed Study,” and “Undergraduate Research.”  

Lynch is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/266886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Foy</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. He teaches “Honors Thesis,” “Special Topics,” and “Individualized Instruction.” 

Foy is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph O’Neil</a> is an Associate Teaching Professor and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University.  He teaches “Special Topics,” “Individualized Instruction,” and “The Human Event.”

O’Neil is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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Published February 10, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2746836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Ostling</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Ostling’s university biography says he’s a “religious studies scholar focusing on the history,  historiography, and representation of witches and witchcraft."

Ostling is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2009484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mina Suk</a> is Senior Lecturer and a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches “Freshman Seminary,” “The Human Event,” and “Individualized Instruction.”

Suk is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

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Published February 13, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/291312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashad Shabazz</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University (ASU). Shabazz’s university profile says his “academic expertise brings together human geography, black cultural studies, gender studies, and critical prison studies.” He also holds a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Shabazz teaches several race-based courses including “<a href="https://webapp4.asu.edu/bookstore/viewsyllabus/2227/88026">AFR301:</a> Race and Racism in the Black Diaspora.” The course description says, 

“Through slave rebellion in Haiti, black notions of freedom, black ideas of ‘being,’ and what on thinker calls ‘black reason,’ this class aims to show that race and racism is more than a tapestry of dominion, but…a reservoir of revolutionary ideas that…transform the world.”

In response to the killing of Tyre Nichols - a black man who was arrested and beaten and later died in the custody of black police officers - Shabazz <a href="https://theconversation.com/black-police-officers-arent-colorblind-theyre-infected-by-the-same-anti-black-bias-as-american-society-and-police-in-general-198721" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an article</a> in The Conversation entitled, “Black police officers aren’t colorblind–they’re infected by the same anti-black bias as American society and police in general.”

In the article, Shabazz argued, “Policing in the U.S. has, from its inception, treated Black people as domestic enemies. From slave patrols…to the murder of George Floyd, and now the death of Nichols, law enforcement officers often have viewed black people as what…W.E.B. Du Bois called a ‘problem.’”

He continued, “It’s hard to investigate the minds of the officers who beat Nichols so savagely and say for sure what motivated them. But there is ample research that suggests anti-blackness is a factor in American policing. And black officers, agents of an institutionally racist system, are affected by this.” 

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2426729" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stuart Rhoden</a> is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona State University. He primarily teaches "Mindset Connections" and "Academic Success."

Rhoden is also a City of Scottsdale Human Relations Commission board member. According to the <a href="https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/boards/human-relations-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commission’s website</a>, the organization “will advocate and promote all dimensions of diversity.” Board members also commit to making “recommendations on ways to encourage mutual respect and understanding among people to discourage prejudice and discrimination, and to work towards cultural awareness and unity.”

In April 2022, <a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2022/04/14/scottsdales-dei-gurus-accuse-black-dj-of-wearing-blackface/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Daily Independent</a> featured Rhoden in an article titled, “Scottsdale’s DEI Gurus Accuse Black DJ of Wearing Blackface.” The Daily said, “[Rhoden]...attacked the Scottsdale Unified School District’s Hopi Elementary PTA for hiring Koko Kim Hunter to host a charity auction.” Rhoden said he believed Hunter was wearing blackface during the event. After it was confirmed that Koko is in fact a black man, Rhoden clarified his position with the following social media post:

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1658062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce McCall</a> is an Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. McCall’s biography says her research “centers on how race, class and culture impact educational equity in music learning and teaching.”

<a href="https://news.asu.edu/20210721-critical-race-theory-scholar-joins-asu-school-music-dance-and-theatre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ASU News</a> announced McCall’s position in 2021, stating that she was “one of the few scholars whose music education research focuses on race and racism through critical race theory [CRT] and double consciousness theory…”

The article goes on to say that McCall was the only African-American student to earn a doctorate in music education from ASU. McCall also reportedly said that she feels she can offer “an informed perspective based on experience and expertise” that can optimize K-12 learning experiences.

In July 2022, McCall was featured in a <a href="https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/critical-race-theory-music-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Classic FM article</a> titled, “Music professor breaks down [CRT] and why it’s crucial for 21st-century music education.” McCall told the publication:

“‘[CRT] is a tool that was conceptualized and born out of critical legal studies as a means to analyze, critique and to help dismantle racism…Even though…we like to think of ourselves as being more progressive and more innovative…When you look at a university curriculum in America, it gives you a really nice snapshot of Western Europe.’”

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In a book called “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marginalized-Voices-Music-Education-Talbot/dp/0415788331/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1JZJC8AXCLXQL&amp;keywords=marginalized+voices+in+music+education&amp;qid=1687280532&amp;sprefix=marginalized+voice%2Caps%2C161&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marginalized Voices in Music Education</a>,” McCall authored an introduction with the title, “Speak No Evil: Talking Race as an African American in Music Education.” McCall told “her story” about growing up in a predominantly white school and participating in band class. 

She informs readers of her experiences as an “African American in music education…whose structures and social actors attempted to silence [her] voice.” Although McCall experienced notable success and received much encouragement throughout her pursuits, she wrote: 

“Despite my professors and peers at ASU ensuring me that I was in a safe place, I didn’t believe it because I knew that outside of ASU, society viewed my voice differently and that the profession did not want to hear what I had to say. These were my perceptions…” 
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3016173" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Sampson</a> is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). According to Sampson’s faculty profile, “Her research focuses on educational leadership, policy, and equity from three interrelated perspectives—democracy, community advocacy, and politics.” Sampson’s areas of expertise include “Critical Race Theory,” “Feminist Theory,” “Race and Racism in Education,” and “Social Justice in Education.”

Sampson has published several gender- and race-based articles. In 2016, Sampson <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13613324.2020.1842346?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored</a> “Engaging (or not) in coalition politics: a case study of Black and Latinx community advocacy toward educational equity.” In the abstract notes, Sampson et al. state: 
“We use ‘Latinx’ as a gender-neutral reference to the people of Latin-American heritage. To not negate gendered experiences, we use Latino/Latina, or Chicano/a when acknowledging individuals or past research identifying with these gendered identities … Although both ‘Black’ and ‘Latinx’ are politicized categories, we recognize the reality of the identities are diverse, intersecting, and fluid.”
In an article titled “Over 1,200 ‘Educators for Palestine’ Sign Open Letter Demanding Ceasefire,” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-a-thousand-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20academics%20from%20universities,has%20killed%20more%20than%2011%2C000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Truthout</a> gave a biased account of a statement signed by several university professors, including Sampson. The statement was crafted after the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel. 

Truthout said, “Hundreds of academics from universities and institutions of higher learning from … across North America have signed on to a joint letter, calling on their governments to demand Israeli ceasefire in Gaza … The signers, calling themselves ‘Educators for Palestine,’ are Palestinian academics and their allies who denounce Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BA7ddNwiUF9ns3zJK3t-nrTpn8R4s3ZB_wbZstAo2iY/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter Sampson signed</a> states, in part:
“We have paid careful attention to consistent invocations of children in public officials’ responses to and media portrayals of the attack in Israel on October 7, which took 1400 lives. We mourn this loss of life, and we are also struck by the ways that this concern for children does not extend to the unspeakable number of Palestinian children’s lives taken by Israeli state violence, harmed by apartheid rule, and traumatized by intergenerational experiences of settler colonial dispossession for over [75] years.”
Please send information on Carrie Sampson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/1256527" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lela Rankin</a> is a professor in the Arizona State University School of Social Work, Tucson. According to her faculty profile, “Rankin’s scholarship focuses on preventive interventions for children and families, particularly in vulnerable populations.”

According to a January report from the <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/maternal-instinct-is-socially-constructed-myth-arizona-state-u-professor-says/">College Fix</a>, in a lecture Rankin claimed that the maternal instinct is a fabricated myth with no biological reality. 

“[T]his idea of this maternal instinct, it struck me as potentially problematic because it really places the primacy on biological mothers, and then it relegates other people…to essentially secondary babysitters or assistants, right?”

The claims in this lecture are based on  research that can be found in a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953624006257#:~:text=We%20did%20not%20find%20empirical,knowledge%20strengthened%20attachment%20over%20time." target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> Rankin co-authored with Haley G. Krouskop b, Maryanne L. Fisher.

In the study, titled “Mother-infant attachment from the perspective of young mothers: Does the data support a maternal instinct?,” the authors claim the following:
<ul>
 	<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>
</ul>
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: 
<ol>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“[F]eminist theory, including the intellectual history of gender and racial ideology in the U.S. and other countries and the impact of gender representation in visual and narrative culture on the lived realities of diverse women's lives; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">feminist epistemology, the epistemology of the humanities, and theories of interdisciplinary knowledge production; </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">environmental humanities, including the importance of the humanities to sustainability science and the relationship of sustainability to gender and racial ideologies.”  </li>
</ol>
In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 repeal of Roe v. Wade through the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs Decision</a>, Kitch wrote an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369989167_Reproductive_Rights_and_Ecofeminism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Reproductive Rights and Ecofeminism.” 

Ecofeminism is <a href="https://hcwc.college.harvard.edu/education/workshops/ecofeminism#:~:text=Ecofeminism%2C%20also%20called%20ecological%20feminism,merits%20of%20intuition%20and%20collaboration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">defined</a> as a practice using “the basic feminist tenets of gender equality, a revaluing of non-patriarchal or nonlinear structures, and a view of the world that respects organic processes, holistic connections, and the merits of intuition and collaboration.”

In the article, Kitch aligns herself with ecofeminism, and argues that the “Dobbs decision invites an ecofeminist interpretation of its relationship to the destruction of our planet and to the biopolitics of environmental sustainability.”

The professor claimed that there is a connection between the bodies of women, enslaved, disabled, and racialized people, along with animals and nature as “terrains” of conquest: 

“Ecofeminism in the 2020s links those forces by articulating ‘a clear connection between the treatment of the bodies of women, the enslaved, the disabled, and the racialized, and the treatment of lands, animals, and plants: they are all naturalized terrains of experimentation or conquest.”

The term “ecofascist” is used in the article a few times. Kitch’s cited <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/4-november-december/feature/eco-fascism-uncovered-el-paso-texas">source</a> defines the term as “violence in the name of environmental conservation.” Kitch further writes on “ecofascists”:

“Many ecofascists in the U.S. oppose action to reduce global warming by eliminating carbon emissions as an affront to white patriarchal/capitalist/colonial power, which allegedly emanates from industrial might and its key driver, fossil fuels (Hernandez-Simmons 2022; Westervelt 2022).”

Kitch is still listed on the ASU faculty site as an active professor, yet the <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/970381" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last course</a> she taught was a practicum in 2022.
Published - March 6, 2025

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<a href="https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/deneen-brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeNeen Brown</a> is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland who has vowed to leave America over systemic racism and oppression.
In a Washington Post op-ed—titled, “<a href="https://archive.ph/Kxlhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism</a>”—Dr. Brown reveals that she grew up in the black power movement as she “never really felt at home in America.&#8221; She then recounts an alleged racial incident in elementary school in which she describes her white classmates as “oppressors” and vows never to internalize their racism.
This would later inspire her work as a journalist to document racism and Black people whom she claims still suffer under “economic, political, and cultural oppression.” This is reflected in another article in which Dr. Brown alleges that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-motivated lynchings are a regular occurrence, but provides no evidence to verify her claims</a>.
Dr. Brown explains she began looking for a new place to live abroad after state legislators across the county banned teaching critical race theory in schools. Further citing her concern over the eruption of “racist terror” embodied by January 6th “insurrectionists,” Dr. Brown expresses a desire to live in a country without “entrenched racism” where she has the freedom “to move among people who look like me.”
Dr. Brown further expresses a desire to live in a place where she will not have to discuss her nation’s racism. In a previous Washington Post op-ed, she lamented how<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/black-people-are-tired-trying-explain-racism/?itid=ap_deneenl.brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> black people at large are “exhausted” over explaining racism to white people</a>. In separate tweets, she further explains the burden of racism must be placed at the feet of white society and urges others to study radicals like Che Guevara to learn how to do so.
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Racism should not be the BURDEN of Black people to always explain. That burden should be placed on society, institutions and individuals who promote racism. Our history is full of Black leaders who’ve been trying to explain it since our ancestors landed on these shores in 1619. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275126538707652610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Study Jamaica’s hero Nanny of the Maroons, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, and Revolutionary Che Guevara. Study Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. They were masters at explaining Racism. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275133150818193410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Marxist revolutionary is known for installing the <a href="https://www.humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-year dictatorship in Cuba</a> and for his bigoted statements, such as: “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/el-che-the-crass-marketing-sadistic-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.</a>&#8221;
Comparing her fight against racism to “punching a brick wall,” she concludes that it’s far easier to leave the country entirely, as she can no longer stand being a black person walking through “white institutions.”
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Students and Parents may contact the Philip College of Journalism at (301) 405-2399 or at <a href="mailto:journalism@umd.edu">journalism@umd.edu</a>
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Published &#8211; October 11, 2022

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<a href="https://wgss.columbian.gwu.edu/ashwini-tambe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashwini Tambe</a> is a Professor of History at George Washington University. Her faculty profile says, “Dr. Tambe is a scholar of transnational South Asian history who focuses on the relationship between law, gender, and sexuality. She is also the Editorial Director of <a href="https://www.feministstudies.org/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Studies</a>, the oldest journal of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship in the United States.”

<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Girlhood-India-Transnational-Maturity-ebook/dp/B081JQQLKX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1XWJWVVP9KFFJ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.kgw37bJcX_xfYQjs5Tv8kg.CC4PMau89w_XcZ-qvCr4dEVPlZgjVc02HRvroaj47Z4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=defining+girlhood+in+india&amp;qid=1722029284&amp;sprefix=defining+girlhood+in+india%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B081JQQLKX&amp;revisionId=59439648&amp;format=3&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> titled “Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws,” Tambe answers the question, “At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices.” She claimed the book “focuses on legal standards for sexual maturity for girls in India and explores how and why these standards changed over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.” (The age of consensual sex in India is 18.)

In the introduction, she said:
“Strong views dictate the ages at which one can consent to sexual activity, or marry, or transact in sexual services … Sexual age laws are complex matters largely because they are meant to signal social standards for sexual maturity. Age is usually a blunt metric for measuring such maturity … Like legal standards on other sexual practices, such as same-gender marriage and widow remarriage, the age of marriage has come to serve as an index of moral hierarchies among nations.” 
In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNIVtu_hv0&amp;t=147s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with CGTN America</a>, Tambe discussed “rape culture” and levels of sexual violence among men. At one point, she appeared to suggest that women may play a role in these assaults, stating:
“I think the problem is also not one that is exclusive to men. Actually, I think people in general — women, mothers, mothers-in-law — do enforce certain ideas about what it means to be honorable, what it means to be respectable, notions of how to conduct oneself in public that are actually a part of the problem. So, I would also argue that we shouldn’t just be pointing fingers at men.”
Listen below for full context.

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When asked how sex education could help inform the public about violence against women, Tambe stated:

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Tambe <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Transnational_Feminist_Itineraries/2MQ1EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=ashwini+tambe+lgbt&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored the introduction</a> to a book entitled “Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice.” The manuscript was published in 2021 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Tambe et al. said:
“We put the finishing touches on this book during a moment of remarkable civil protests against anti-[b]lack violence. The unprecedented scale of multiracial public demonstrations across large cities and rural areas in the United States revealed a swell in support for dismantling systemic racism … These protests also took place amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, an experience that has underscored a sense of connectedness across hierarchies of geopolitics.”
Send tips, updates, and information on Ashwini Tambe to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - July 29, 2024

<a href="http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Younus-Faheem/">Dr. Faheem Younus</a> is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Dr. Younus became infamous for his comments on social media regarding the Charleston shooting. He blamed the shooting on former sniper Chris Kyle as well as Fox News, for creating a 'culture' that encourages mass shooting.

<a href="https://merrill.umd.edu/directory/deneen-brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeNeen Brown</a> is an Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland who has vowed to leave America over systemic racism and oppression.

In a Washington Post op-ed—titled, “<a href="https://archive.ph/Kxlhi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism</a>”—Dr. Brown reveals that she grew up in the black power movement as she “never really felt at home in America." She then recounts an alleged racial incident in elementary school in which she describes her white classmates as “oppressors” and vows never to internalize their racism.

This would later inspire her work as a journalist to document racism and Black people whom she claims still suffer under “economic, political, and cultural oppression.” This is reflected in another article in which Dr. Brown alleges that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-motivated lynchings are a regular occurrence, but provides no evidence to verify her claims</a>.

Dr. Brown explains she began looking for a new place to live abroad after state legislators across the county banned teaching critical race theory in schools. Further citing her concern over the eruption of “racist terror” embodied by January 6th “insurrectionists,” Dr. Brown expresses a desire to live in a country without “entrenched racism” where she has the freedom “to move among people who look like me.”

Dr. Brown further expresses a desire to live in a place where she will not have to discuss her nation’s racism. In a previous Washington Post op-ed, she lamented how<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/17/black-people-are-tired-trying-explain-racism/?itid=ap_deneenl.brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> black people at large are “exhausted” over explaining racism to white people</a>. In separate tweets, she further explains the burden of racism must be placed at the feet of white society and urges others to study radicals like Che Guevara to learn how to do so.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Racism should not be the BURDEN of Black people to always explain. That burden should be placed on society, institutions and individuals who promote racism. Our history is full of Black leaders who’ve been trying to explain it since our ancestors landed on these shores in 1619. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275126538707652610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Study Jamaica’s hero Nanny of the Maroons, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture, the Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, and Revolutionary Che Guevara. Study Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. They were masters at explaining Racism. <a href="https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/CdTdTioRU0</a>
— DeNeen Brown (@DeNeenLBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeNeenLBrown/status/1275133150818193410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Marxist revolutionary is known for installing the <a href="https://www.humanprogress.org/the-truth-about-che-guevara-racist-homophobe-and-mass-murderer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-year dictatorship in Cuba</a> and for his bigoted statements, such as: “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/el-che-the-crass-marketing-sadistic-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.</a>"

Comparing her fight against racism to “punching a brick wall,” she concludes that it’s far easier to leave the country entirely, as she can no longer stand being a black person walking through “white institutions.”

&nbsp;
Students and Parents may contact the Philip College of Journalism at (301) 405-2399 or at <a href="mailto:journalism@umd.edu">journalism@umd.edu</a>
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Published - October 11, 2022

<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/tatiana-chi-miranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a> is a Ph.D. Student and Spanish teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. 

During an interview with <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Chi-Miranda explained how she incorporates anti-racism into her curriculum. Although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, she admitted the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias:  

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

Chi-Miranda provided one module to The Diamondback in which her students pretend to dislike diversity. She said this was an example of xenophobia  and recited the following line:  

“I don’t want you to make friends with other cultures nor do I want you to enjoy the diversity of the world.” 

A sophomore who was interviewed by Diamondback  praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

Chi-Miranda’s comments were delivered in an article featuring six Spanish professors who also integrated anti-racist themes into their courses. One professor, Jose Magro, stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

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Published - December 8, 2022

<a href="https://www.arlis.umd.edu/caroline-orr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caroline Orr</a> is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland. According to her university profile, Orr studies misinformation, and disinformation, and how each contributes to “online extremism.”

Orr attributes most domestic violence and radicalization to the political right. On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, she claims the memes posted by these groups to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.  
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I’m not a huge fan of 9/11 comparisons, but this actually does a pretty decent job of explaining how memes enable extremists to “hide in plain sight, disappearing into the clutter of innocent messages” — akin to “turning off the transponders on 9/11.”<a href="https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/IjpDYCIzbr</a> <a href="https://t.co/b1XahopBn8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/b1XahopBn8</a>
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602692678151454723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet accuses Elon Musk of encouraging 120 million people to join the “domestic terrorist movement” that is Q-Anon.  
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Elon Musk is now explicitly encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon.
Put differently, Elon Musk is encouraging his 120 million followers to join a domestic terrorism movement. <a href="https://t.co/W7O9nLuivh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/W7O9nLuivh</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1602490533586378755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a substack article titled, “<a href="https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/violent-extremism-in-america-is-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Violent extremism in America is a far-right phenomenon</a>,” she writes that attacks by right-wing groups are “surging” and outpace left-wing and Islamist violence. Orr further claims that any who suggest otherwise are attempting to distract from the burgeoning connections between extremists and mainstream conservative groups:  

“Violent extremism is overwhelmingly a problem of far-right extremism, not far-left extremism, and it doesn’t help anyone to misrepresent the threat by turning it into a “both sides” issue when the sides are not even close to equal.”

Elsewhere, not only does Orr dismiss the existence of left-wing violence, she attempts to excuse it. In a separate article, titled “<a href="https://medium.com/arc-digital/in-defense-of-antifa-62c699d86dc5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Defense of Antifa</a>,” she condemns conservatives for attempting to “vilify” the group:

“It’s easy to see why far-right extremists have worked so hard to vilify antifascists, who represent the most consistent opponents of far-right extremism and the most steadfast allies of those targeted by far-right violence.”

At first, Orr denies the existence of Antifa in her article, describing the group only as a “collection of tactics and philosophies.” She then pivots and praises Antifa for their “quieter activities” such as “research, monitoring, and surveillance of far-right extremist groups, community organizing, and advocating for historically marginalized populations.” Orr claims this is needed to stop “white supremacist” groups from organizing. 

Writing that activists must be intolerant of violent or bigoted speech, Orr claims that direct action is necessary to prevent the far-right from organizing. Comparing Antifa to Jews who resisted Nazi occupation, Orr argues that when violence from Antifa occurs, it's committed in the name of “self-defense:” 

“...consider the possibility that some violence is a regrettable but unavoidable part of preventing much greater violence by fascists.”

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Orr for comment prior to publication. Instead of responding, Orr posted the inquiry on her personal Twitter account and accused the author of committing libel. 
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/Ben_Larrabee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Ben_Larrabee</a>,
Got your email, and in the interest of full transparency, I’m responding publicly. Your questions are based on miswording/misrepresenting my statements, and attributing false quotes to me would be libel.

Thanks for your inquiry.

Best,
Dr. Caroline Orr Bueno <a href="https://t.co/NVmhdx5ovc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/NVmhdx5ovc</a>

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1607809614481084416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published - December 27, 2022

<a href="https://sllc.umd.edu/directory/jose-magro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose L. Magro</a> is a Lecturer at the School of Languages, Literatures, &amp; Cultures at the University of Maryland. His research interests are listed as applied linguistics and critical race theory.  

In an interview with, <a href="https://dbknews.com/2022/11/21/umd-spanish-professors-add-anti-racism-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Diamondback</a>, Margo explained that he incorporates anti-racism into his curriculum. He stated this is part of an attempt to put an end to the “colonized learning” that takes place at the university. 

His comments were delivered following a presentation titled, “<a href="https://arhu.umd.edu/events/antiracist-pedagogy-spanish-language-teaching-theory-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antiracist Pedagogy for Spanish Language Teaching: From Theory to Practice</a>,” which featured six Spanish and Portuguese teachers and the anti-racist materials from their classrooms. 

A fellow professor, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/tatianachimiranda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tatiana Chi-Miranda</a>, admitted that although her Spanish language classes focus on grammar and composition, the modules are used to discuss racism and phobias: 

“[This] is a great introduction for the anti-racism module because it allows one to establish a personal connection to the text, but also it allows them to get a critical approach to it. And it opens doors for them to have a critical attitude and cultural approach to it,” 

A sophomore interviewed by the paper praised the initiative, stating that American schools have a “whitewashed curriculum:” 

“I think that’s really important because America has a tendency to leave out certain parts of history in their textbooks and teach a very whitewashed curriculum, so it is really important that Maryland and these professors are acknowledging that we have kind of neglected several important parts of history.”

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Published - December 28, 2022