Texas Christian University offers 'Queer Art of Drag' course requiring students to create a 'drag persona'

[Zephyr]

I looked up this "Christian" University. They openly state they are progressive. As to curriculum, they have a Church Music program and a "Religion" program. Under "Religion", is the following course curriculum description:

Religion is a universal phenomenon—a powerful force all over the globe, inextricably linked to the world’s political, economic and social systems. A deeper understanding of religious traditions creates an empathic foundation for understanding and analyzing contemporary issues affecting our fellow human beings.

Studying religion can also forge a fulfilling path to personal enrichment and understanding.

Religion Overview | Academic Majors & Programs | Texas Christian University

Major in meaning. And ask the biggest questions of all.

www.tcu.edu

Texas Christian University offers 'Queer Art of Drag' course requiring students to create a 'drag persona'

Texas Christian University offered a course titled 'The Queer Art of Drag' that required students to read articles purporting the 'gender binary is a tool of white supremacy'

www.foxnews.com

Texas Christian University (TCU) offered a course in the spring semester of 2023 titled, "The Queer Art of Drag," which requires students to develop a drag persona and "engage queer theories in relation to performance practice."

The class, which is offered through its Women and Gender Studies Department and is taught by Nino Testa, whose drag persona goes by the name Maria von Clapp, will explore "drag performance as an outlet for social critique, pedagogy, and queer worldmaking," according to the class syllabus. In addition, students will explore the history of the "queer art of drag," meeting with drag performers and experts and create their own drag personas to debut at TCU's Annual Night of Drag.

"Gender revolutionary Leslie Feinberg begins the book Transgender Warriors by invoking the violent question asked of so many queer, trans, and non-binary people: "Are you a guy or a girl?" The gender binary is enforced through compulsory norms, harassment, and violence in service of a white-cis-heteropatriarchy," the syllabus states.

 

[mattfivefour]

Yeah, nothing actually Christian about this, other than the name. It is syncretistic beliefs packaged as Christian. Typical New Age spiritualism.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

If I were there and had to take the class, I guess I could "identify as a man" for the purposes of the assignment, then just be myself and dress as woman, since that's what I am

Or dress up as Martin Luther and deliver one of his less politically correct sermons or Table Talk lessons Of course having Katy (Von Bora) clothes on under the Martin robes to expose at the end of said tirade.

Wonder how fast TPTB would expel me. Or maybe burn at the stake

 

[....]

A collection of perverts and abominations under the banner of "Christian".

 

[Eric Nicholas]

This really hearkens back to a post I recently read that you posted about Christian masculinity. We'll be feeling the repercussions from the lack of it, assuming we are still here, God forbid, for a long time.