Oregon State U. Gender Studies Program Celebrates 50th ‘Anniversary With Drag Show’
“We need women, gender and sexuality studies and these conversations because we need to be working toward social transformation”
Note the admission that this is all about transforming society.
The College Fix reports:
Gender studies program celebrates anniversary with drag show
The Oregon State University gender studies program will celebrate its 50th anniversary of fighting the patriarchy with a “drag show,” where men will dress up as cartoonish versions of women.
“Oregon State University’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program turns 50 this year, and a week of activities is planned for Jan. 23-29 to celebrate the anniversary and to learn about the program’s history and future from alumni, faculty, guest scholars and current students,” the department announced.
The festivities include “panels with faculty, alumni and current graduate students; an arts and activism exhibit and a drag show at Corvallis’ Whiteside Theatre.”
One professor in the program explained why gender studies is still needed today.
Professor Susan Shaw stated in a news release:
While we have made progress around gender, it’s been uneven and we have faced backlash, especially in recent years with the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the attacks on trans people, particularly trans youth; the resistance to the Black Lives Matter movement; what we’re seeing with immigration — all these are issues feminists care about.
“We need women, gender and sexuality studies and these conversations because we need to be working toward social transformation,” she added.
The announcement notes that students can take academic courses in topics such as “Disney: Gender, Race and Empire” and “Gender, Race and Pop Culture.”
Other courses, according to the program’s website, include:
Men and Masculinities in Global Context; Politics of Motherhood in Global Context; Indigenous Two-Spirit and Queer Studies; Women of Color Feminisms; Transgender Lives; Muslim Women; and Arts and Social Justice. [Graduate level courses include] Critical Race Feminisms; Queer of Color Critiques; Race, Gender, and Health Justice; Transnational Sexualities; Decolonizing Methodologies; Feminist Textual Methodologies; and Social Justice Theory and Practice.
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Comments
Fifty years of turning out graduates who end up in HR if they are lucky, some sort of “civil” “service” job, or some job two steps above menial.
Agree with Mr. Grizzly above. It just seems to me almost unbelievable to envision any scenario in which any of these grads find employment. Anywhere.
Seriously.
Btw, 50 years ago Communist China was still completely sealed off from contact with the rest of the world.
Over the past fifty years, millions and millions and millions of Chinese are now competing for jobs.
If you’re a young adult choosing a major at Oregon State or anywhere else, you may wish to keep this in mind.
Those millions of Chinese competing for jobs ……… they are not majoring in this stuff.
If you’re a member of the Oregon State community, please consider shutting this program down. At best, you’ve made your point. You’ve written books, you’ve impacted Hollywood. You’ve successfully raised awareness of gender issues. Why not accept your victory and encourage impressionable youth to devote themselves to more traditional fields of study that might(?) have real-world value.
Unfortunately, one almost gets the feeling that these faculty members are more worried about their own futures than they are the futures of their students.
And as for the rest of us : It seems to me that if we keep sending our kids to irresponsible self-interested places like Oregon State, these places will never take a look at themselves , and maybe try to improve. .
“We need women, gender and sexuality studies and these conversations because we need to be working toward social transformation”
Ummm WHY exactly do we need to be working toward social transformation? I don’t see it..
Out of this entire article, the one claim that strikes me as the most outrageous is that “Oregon State University’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program turns 50 this year.” I’m pretty sure they were still bashing gender nonconformists back then, didn’t they?