Harvard to Endow Chair in Gay Studies
The position, Harvard University believes, will be the first endowed, named chair in the subject at an American college.-------------
Above is how a piece on Harvard's endowment of a visiting professorship in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies appeared on my Bloglines via the NYT's RSS feed. It's not unusual for the NYT to attach strange online descriptors to its news stories, but the slippage from the "gay" of the headline to the "transsexuals" of the byline is super aggravating. Transsexual is apparently being deployed here as lazy shorthand for a generalized deviancy - we're all just an amorphous mass for whom trans folks can be invoked as a reductive cipher. Not cool.
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