“Queering” things is all the rage on campuses across the
ever fruitier plain. Eugene Lang College of the New School for Liberal Arts in
New York City, for example, is offering a course titled “Queering and
Decolonizing Theology,” in which students can learn about “transgender
Christs.” Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the University of San Francisco,
and Harvard’s Divinity School are all offering similar classes. At California’s
Pomona
College, students can take a course called “Queering Childhood,” and
another called “Queer Theory and the Bible,” which will instruct students how
to read the Bible “through queer theory.” The latter’s course description states
that students will examine “discourses of heteronormativity” and that, “We will
also look at the ways in which these discourses and the identities they shore
up can be ‘queered,’ as well as at biblical texts that can be read as queer
friendly. This process of queering will allow and require us to approach the
biblical text in new ways.” The class is considered a “Religious Studies”
course and is worth a credit.
A
couple of Pomona students told Campus
Reform that there is high demand for these types of courses, largely due to
the pervasive left-wing campus culture. One noted that students don’t seem to
want to learn from any conservative professors (as rare as they may be) while
exclaiming: “I’m glad that Pomona provides its professors with the academic
freedom to teach courses on challenging and potentially controversial
subjects.” Right. There’s a reason conservative professors on these campuses
are rarer than virgins at the Burning Man festival. I’m sure Pomona would
encourage potentially controversial courses touting the virtues of gun
ownership, the pro-life movement, or capitalism. And where can students sign up
for the course titled: “Queering the Koran?”
Revisionist
scholars and LGBTQIA activists will soon be coming out with an entire series of
“Queering” books, the first of which is titled “Queering ‘Atlas Shrugged’” and
which will be available in bookstores April 16th, 2019, the Tuesday
before Easter. Other titles in the highly anticipated series will include,
“Queering ‘War and Peace,’” “Queering ‘Gone with the Wind,’” “Queer Theory and
the Declaration of Independence,” “Queering ‘The Old Man and the Sea’,”
“Queering ‘Wuthering Heights,’” “Queering ‘Romeo and Juliet,’” “Queer Theory
and the Gettysburg Address,” “Queering ‘Huckleberry Finn,’” “Queering Walt
Whitman’s Leaves of Grass,” “Queering the Bible…for Dummies!,” “Queering ‘The
Gulag Archipelago,’” “Queer Theory and the Constitution,” “Queering ‘Moby Dick,’”
“Queering ‘Old Yeller,’” “Queering the Kama Sutra,” “Queering the Bass Pro
Catalog,” “Queering ‘How to Fix Almost Anything’” (by George S. Hoffman),
“Queering ‘The Hobbit,’” and “Queer Theory and ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio.’”
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