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Harvard Appoints Drag Queen Professor, Ignites Free Speech Debate
10/5/2025
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- Kareem Khubchandani, a drag queen known as LaWhore Vagistan, was named Harvard's 2025-26 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Associate Professor.
- He will teach courses on queer ethnography and RuPaulitics.
- Khubchandani authored Decolonize Drag and will publish Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties in October.
- The announcement has sparked discussions on academic freedom and political expression in universities.
