Your tax dollars at "work".-----New ‘Queer Studies’ certificate at Illinois State U. aims to ‘reconfigure’ social norms - Madelynn McLaughlin

Illinois State University just began offering a “Queer Studies” certificate – but a government watchdog group thinks that directing funds toward “boutique areas of study” ought not to be a priority.

• Offered through the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, it “recognizes students’ advanced coursework in LGBTQ+ and sexuality studies,” and “builds off the existing queer studies concentration” that the university started in 2016...
• The program’s Interim Director Jason Whitesel celebrated the development, stating in the news release that the expanded program aims to “reconfigure discomfort” with social norms...