Illinois Wesleyan U. to Honor MLK Day With Gender Identity Teach-in
“the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist”
This is “intersectionality” in practice. The belief that all left wing causes are related. What do you think MLK would have thought of this?
Campus Reform reports:
Univ honors MLK Day with gender identity ‘teach-in’
Illinois Wesleyan University is planning to mark Martin Luther King, Jr. day with a gender identity “teach-in.”
The Jan. 21 event at the United Methodist Church-affiliated university will feature two speakers. Charlene Carruthers, whose website describes her as a “black, queer feminist community organizer,” will deliver the keynote for the famed civil rights activist and former Baptist minister. LGBT activist Dave Bentlin, president of Prairie Pride Coalition, is also slated to speak.
The afternoon-long event will conclude with a “session on gender identity and human rights” which will be led by the IWU Pride Alliance. The theme of the event, according to a university news release, is gender and social justice.
Carruthers, who received IWU’s Outstanding Young Alumna Award in 2017, authored the book Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, which was released in August.
“Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the U.S. civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist,” a description of the book on Carruthers’ website reads.
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…..because that’s EXACTLY what immediately comes to mind whenever someone mentions the name of, or looks at the statue commemorating Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yessiree, bob, furr shurr.