Kent State U. Has 150 Classes Covering ‘Gender, Sexuality, or LGBTQ+ Topics’

Kent State U. Has 150 Classes Covering ‘Gender, Sexuality, or LGBTQ+ Topics’

Why do they need a class on queer fiction writing? We’ll be paying off their loans in no time.

From The College Fix:

A search for “LGBTQ” in the KSU 2024-25 course catalog brings up 14 courses, and a search for “gender” brings up 98 courses. A search for “sexuality” brings up 47 courses. A few of the courses overlapped among the three topics.

Among the offerings on tap at the public, Ohio-based institution: “Queer Theory,” “Introduction to Transgender Studies,” “Race, Gender, and Social Justice,” “Development of Gender Role and Identity,” and “Feminist and Queer Art and Cultural Theory.”

Students in the Queer Fiction Writing course “will write queer stories — and write stories queerly,” a flier promoting it states. “Students will read examples of LGBTQ+ fiction, and will interrogate the traditional fiction writing workshop. Can the workshop be ‘queered’?”

The course will be taught by Associate Professor Lauren Vachon, who uses they/she pronouns, according to the flier, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.

The scholar is described as a “queer activist” on her LinkedIn page interested in researching “LGBTQ history, queer pedagogy, creative writing as pedagogy, using oral histories in the classroom, and collecting queer oral histories.” Vachon has not responded to The Fix’s requests for an interview.

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