A course called Queer Fiction Writing is on tap this spring at Kent State University — one of roughly 150 courses that discuss gender, sexuality, or LGBTQ+ topics.
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. […]
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