Harvard to hire LaWhore Vagistan to teach in gender studies program

Harvard’s gone and done it again, doubling down on the woke circus by hiring a drag queen, "LaWhore Vagistan," as a visiting professor in their Gender Studies program. No kidding, you heard that right. This isn't some late-night comedy skit; it's real life at America’s oldest university. 

The performer, whose actual name is Kareem Khubchandani, will be strutting into classrooms to teach courses like Queer Ethnography this fall and RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire in the spring. Yes, RuPaulitics. Apparently, that's a thing now.

According to the press release from Harvard's Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Khubchandani snagged the 2025-2026 F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Associate Professor gig. 

This guy is already an associate professor at Tufts, splitting his time between Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. He has also churned out books like Decolonize Drag and Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife. His latest literary gem, Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties, is billed as a "thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan." It's described as a deep dive into how his drag act shapes his academic work and how his scholarship inspires his performances, from fashion to "aunties." 

Sure, it sounds like standard Ivy League fare. Harvard's undergrad tuition is only $56,550 per year, so why not teach deviant behavior to students?

But let's get to the name, because, wow, what a name. 

In a 2015 piece for Johns Hopkins University Press, Khubchandani interviewed his alter ego, LaWhore Vagistan, who explained the moniker with this gem: "My name is LaWhore Vagistan, my preferred pronouns are 'she' or 'aunty.' I chose 'LaWhore' because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and, well, I’m a bit of a whore. And Vagistan because I see the subcontinent as one, big, beautiful Vag ... istan. Close your eyes and visualize it: India is the uterus-vagina, Pakistan and Bangladesh are the ovaries, Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma, and Bhutan are the fallopian tubes, and Sri Lanka is a little floating labia." Subtle, right? I bet that's framed on a dorm wall somewhere in Cambridge.

Meanwhile, as Harvard's diving headfirst into this, President Trump is out there dangling a $2.4 billion carrot to pull the university out of its financial mess. On Tuesday, he said his administration is "close to finalizing" a deal to unfreeze federal grants for the Ivy League giant. The catch, however, is that Harvard must start running trade schools. "This would be a giant trade school, or series of trade schools. It would be run by Harvard," Trump said. "They would put up $500 million. Interest and everything else will go to that account, meaning, go to the trade school. And you know, it's a big investment in trade schools done by very smart people, and then their sins are forgiven." 

So, while Harvard is teaching RuPaulitics, Trump is pushing them to train plumbers and electricians. Talk about a culture clash.

You've got to hand it to Harvard, they're sticking to their guns, turning their campus into a shrine for every progressive pet project while the rest of the country wonders if they've lost their minds. LaWhore Vagistan lecturing on "Queer Ethnography" while trade schools might be coming to town? That's peak 2025 absurdity.

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