Defying ‘Racist-Cisgenderism’: Meet The DEI Staff University Of Michigan Tried To Hide

The country’s largest and most expensive diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program only hired staff “committed to DEI,” then tried to scrub them from the public’s memory when the program came under fire.

Staff and fellows at the University of Michigan boast specialties in critical race theory, ethnic studies and gender ideology, teaching courses on “queer histories” and “black feminism,” according to screenshots of the now-deleted directory shared on X. The school’s DEI efforts may soon be coming to an end after criticisms surfaced of the multi-million dollar program fueling racial tensions on campus.

One assistant professor and fellow in the university’s Collegiate Fellows Program studies how “trans Latinas use their bodies to resistant forms of labor” in what she describes as “queer potentiality,” according to her now-deleted biography page. Her research and writing on “sex working trans Latinas” is meant to “defy racist-cisgenderism.”

Another assistant professor in the English department examines “antiracist and queer revisions of Aristotle’s ancient theory of rhetorical ethos,” his biography page reads. A dissertation by an assistant professor