[SeekAndFind]

THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 214
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How do you read gender? How do you read sexuality? How and in what ways have gender and sexuality been written and rewritten? This course serves as an introduction to queer and transfeminist theories and practices in gender and sexuality studies. Conceptualized through its intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class, and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights, and LGBTQ social movements, not only sheds sharp light on how gender and sexuality are regulated and troubled, but also animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise. At once world-building and world-shattering, representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity in the same gesture as they bow to reproducing it. Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies that have shaped the politics and aesthetics as well as the ethics and affects of gender and sexuality. Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity that determine desiring subjects and their objects. As a class collective, our aim will be to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced. The geographic and generic focus of this course may vary; for more information, students should contact the instructor. This counts toward the methods requirement for the major and an elective for the women’s and gender studies major. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.

Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.

Sadly, this nonsensical, unintelligible gibberish was copied, word-for-word, from an actual English course description currently appearing on the website of Kenyon College, one of the nation’s preeminent liberal arts colleges. That Kenyon approved a course description (and course) so replete with esoteric academic jargon and hackneyed, woke buzzwords reveals the intellectual vacuousness that currently permeates the college.

[SeekAndFind]

Plucked from the course description is this sentence:

Conceptualized through its intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class, and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus.

Note that this is a statement of fact, rather than a reference to a topic that is to be discussed in class. In fact, it is the basis of the class, and it reveals its true agenda: indoctrinating students in cultural Marxism. Kenyon parents shell out upwards of $80 thousand per year to have their children exposed to this dangerous pedagogy and agenda. Are they aware of what those dollars are going for? And why in the world is this garbage part of an undergraduate English curriculum?

[Dr. Sivana]

The first thing that popped into my head after all that was “Well, is the teacher hot?”

I don’t even think like that normally, but a primal reaction is reflexive after reading such bilge.

[Karliner]

Good grief. Glad my edumacation is over. ___ that.

[faithhopecharity]

No wonder many graduates don’t want to (and can’t) repay their student loans. I wouldn’t want to pay for such useless “educational” rubbish, either. And it doesn’t even qualify graduates to drive Uber cabs or flip cheap hamburgers

[glorgau]

Some idiots are borrowing money to have this nonsense inflicted upon themselves.

They should be made to pay every day for the rest of their lives.

[BlueLancer]

Oh ... a bullshit artist!

[Bearshouse]

My only thought is that there is a ton of money to be made in this “deprogramming”. Wish I had the skills, I’d set up shop today.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Good thing they don’t read Elizabethan poetry and other such pernicious nonsense anymore. Have you ever read one of Shakespeare’s plays? They’re full of cliches. /sarcasm

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I can see why the prerequisite is ENGL 103 or 104. You need a degree in English just to read through that.

[VMI70]

See her CV:

https://www.kenyon.edu/directory/brianna-thompson/

Brianna Thompson

Education
2021 — Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University

2014 — Master of Arts from University of Virginia

2009 — Bachelor of Arts from U Nevada Reno

[daniel1212]

esoteric academic jargon and hackneyed, woke buzzwords

Such as,

"transfeminist... anticolonial...taxonomizing apparatus...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations,...leverage critiques against normativity... Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies...Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index....performativity...and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate..."
Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.

Actual source is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/directory/brianna-thompson/
Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism. (740) 427-5621 Email Address thompson12@kenyon.edu

A college=a far-left ideological brothel baptizing women in waters of wokism. Another anti-Christ effect of contraception, etc.

[Dr. Franklin]

This is why many conservatives don’t want to attend a university. This is just leftist indoctrination, not education.

[Montana_Sam]

Demonic Mythology 101