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Christian College Turns Students Into Drag Queens, Tells Them It's 'Violence' to Ask if Someone Is a Guy

By Alex Parker
June 22, 2023

Texas isn’t historically known for its drag queens, and neither are Christian colleges. But the two are combining to flaunt fabulousness.

Texas Christian University’s (TCU) Women and Gender Studies webpage advertises an alluring educational initiative: a Queer Art of Drag course.

Per the school, eccentric female impersonators ooze awesomeness to obliterate oppression:

Drag is an art form with a rich history of challenging dominant norms and systems of oppression; building queer community; and cultivating experiences of queer joy in a hostile world…

But it’s likewise been employed for evil, in conjunction with a word that may or may not exist: “logics.”

[D]rag has also been deployed in service of violent ideologies and can sometimes participate in harmful normative logics. Critical drag explores drag performance as an outlet for social critique, pedagogy, and queer world-making.

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The three-credit deep-dive’s syllabus notes that “harassment” promotes the idea that there are only two sexes. Furthermore, asking someone their sex is literally violence. It’s also racist:

Gender revolutionary Leslie Feinberg begins the book Transgender Warriors by invoking the violent question asked of so many queer, trans, and non-binary people: “Are you a guy or a girl?” The gender binary is enforced through compulsory norms, harassment, and violence in service of a white-cis-hetero- patriarchy.

To battle that egregious assault, students will accomplish the following:

Apply threshold concepts in the field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (i.e. social construction of gender, sex, and sexuality; intersectionality; privilege and oppression; feminist praxis) to analyze diverse texts, contexts, and/or sites
Analyze performance as critical intervention
Engage queer theories in relation to performance practice

And, perhaps most magnificently:

Develop a drag persona and create a virtual drag performance that demonstrates their understanding of drag as critical performance practice

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Source:  https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/06/22/christian-college-turns-students-into-drag-queens-tells-them-its-violence-to-ask-if-someone-is-a-guy-n764724

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