theroguefeminist:

theroguefeminist:

so i was under the impression that academia was a haven for queer studies but did you know practically no colleges (in the US anyway) offer straight up degrees in LGBT or queer studies? like you can minor in it at a few schools or have a concentration in it through other programs like gender or sexuality studies or in interdisciplinary programs, but in my research i have so far found ONE school that even offers a bachelor’s in lgbt studies–and it’s a small liberal arts college pretty much no one has heard of – it just goes to show how marginalized our histories and cultures still are

and this is particularly striking considering the heavy-weight academics who have done important scholarship relating to queer theory or lgbt history and are  still big name faculty who draw applicants and prestige to these schools or, if they’re no longer alive, whose massive impact on academia remains to this day like Judith Butler, Foucault, Audre Lorde, Eve Sedgwick, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Sara Ahmed, Jack Halberstam, like the list goes on and on 

academia is willing to benefit financially and academically from queer scholars but won’t invest funding or manpower into cultivating lgbt studies itself