FYI: Georgia State legislators target queer theory and sexuality studies courses

[Luba Koba]

FYI, lubakoba

Hi,

some more depressing news from the US: this is a link to a CNN report about how Georgia State legislators target queer theory and sexuality studies courses

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/02/18/am.costello.teaching.sex.cnn

Best, Johanna




P.S. THere is lots of stuff on it online, just two more links here: Let me know if you come across any particularly interesting analysis.

A blog at the National Sexuality Resource Center, a defense of sexuality studies mostly in the name of academic freedom, where you can also watch more of the legislator's (Byrd's) speech.
http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/dialogues/users/Christopher.White/blog/sexuality-studies-under-attack

And this is from a mainstream gay publication of the US South - pay attention to the conservative (or conservative-addressed) defense of queer theory as mostly studying "notable authors" of "historical significance".
http://www.sovo.com/2009/2-20/news/localnews/9799.cfm