Thursday, March 12, 2026

Your tax dollars at "work"!-----Duke professor uses whiteness-based ‘necropolitics’ to lobby for gun control

White people have supported gun rights out of fear of the ‘threat of racialized and potentially queering others’ … ? -  Dave Huber - Associate Editor
Wellesley College recently hosted a Duke University professor of gender, sexuality & feminist studies to discuss the “biopolitical paradox” of whiteness and gun violence.
  • Given the department in which she works and (according to her faculty page) her specializations in feminist science and technology studies, Catherine Clune-Taylor’s advocacy for the topic includes a lot of polysyllablic and critical theory-created terms which may cause an unneeded consternation in comprehension.
  • This isn’t a surprise considering that as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton, Clune-Taylor taught the course “Science After Feminism” which “investigated how feminism” challenges the notion that science “is commonly held to be the objective, empirical pursuit of natural facts.”...

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