LaWhore Vagistan was invited to the Ivy League school amid a funding clash with the White House<\/p>\n
Harvard University\u2019s plan to host a visiting drag queen professor for courses on queer ethnography and the cultural impact of a long-running drag reality show remains on track despite the Trump administration\u2019s policy of opposing \u2018woke ideology\u2019.
\nThe Ivy League institution is currently in a legal battle with the administration of US President Donald Trump over billions in federal funding that it is seeking to cut on various grounds.
\nHarvard\u2019s invitation to Kareem Khubchandani \u2013 an associate professor at Tufts University who also performs in drag as LaWhore Vagistan \u2013 was made in July and was highlighted this week by the New York Post and other outlets. Khubchandani, whose scholarship and activism focus on queer life, will teach queer ethnography this fall and a course on RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race in the spring 2026 semester.
\nAccording to the New York Post, Khubchandani has made his drag persona \u201can integral part of their pedagogy.\u201d In interviews, the professor has explained that \u2018LaWhore\u2019 is a risque play on the name of the Pakistani city of Lahore, while \u2018Vagistan\u2019 refers to the Indian subcontinent imagined as female genitalia.<\/p>\n
Professor Kareem Khubchandani\u2019s Critical Drag course walks students through the process of creating a drag persona. https:\/\/t.co\/NzVPsVCYhn @kareempuff @TuftsDrama pic.twitter.com\/iJOHd2OuWd\u2014 Tufts University (@TuftsUniversity) April 24, 2018 <\/p>\n
In a 2022 article titled \u2018The Sexual Experiment at the Ivy Leagues\u2019, National Interest magazine cited Khubchandani as an example of academics turning US universities into \u201cincubators of gender fundamentalists,\u201d arguing that students are being equipped with \u201cever-expanding terminology for sexual orientation\u201d and encouraged to pursue activism \u201cwithout cultivating a sense of intellectual humility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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