Have a Laugh at Cambridge University PhDs

Diversity hustler Jason Arday is only the tip of the iceberg of moonbattery that is gouging a hole in the hull of formerly prestigious Cambridge University’s repute. Charlotte Gill has collected a few of the PhDs underway at its Centre for Gender Studies, including the following:

• Unsexed beings: constructing gender, humanness, and agency through the use of the word “unsex” in Late Modern British society and writing

• In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate

• Legal Mobilization by Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Womxn in Kenya and South Africa

• Exploring gendered embodiment in transgender and gender-diverse adolescents at the intersection of exercise and eating behaviours, social inclusion, and mental health: Towards a desire-centred approach in paediatric gender-affirming healthcare and research

• Codes of Life, Codes of Death: Tracing the (Im)possibility of Trans Lives in Algorithmic Assemblages

Click through for more on the budding young scholars, who will soon be entitled to the increasingly meaningless honorific “Dr.”

Here’s a sample abstract:

Using a legal-sociological framework, this transdisciplinary study seeks to engage in a three-pronged examination: a.) how, paying special mind to the unique challenges in each context, Black LBQ womxn in Kenya and South Africa have employed legal mobilization to advance their rights and improve their lives, b.) why they choose legal mobilization and c.) the impact -both possible and actual- that legal mobilization can have on law and society. The study focuses on the interplay between law and society, thereby moving beyond purely theoretical legal analysis and into the practical aspects of making human rights work and engineering shifts in social norms and values.

These days, “engineering shifts in social norms and values” is what snooty schools are all about.

By examining how we translate ideas of political and personal identity, human rights, social advocacy and legal mobilization into specific strategies, I hope to expatiate intersectionality as lens, epistemology, method, and action. In particular, how individuals at the nexus of intersecting vulnerabilities navigate systems of oppression and complex power relations, to successfully articulate their demands before both the law and society and transform both.

Note that the last sentence isn’t even a sentence.

Academia is like bureaucracy. Ninety percent of it needs to be purged so that the 10% that isn’t useless doesn’t suffocate.

On a tip from Steve T.

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