John Sailer

2 weeks ago | city-journal.org | John Sailer

Nearly 100 Yale professors have signed a letter calling for the university to “freeze new administrative hires” and conduct a “faculty-led audit” of its sprawling bureaucracy. The missive, sent to Yale’s president and provost last month, proposes an audit aimed at “cutting or restructuring administrative roles” and aligning the university’s “resources . . .

2 weeks ago | city-journal.org | John Sailer

Late last year, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) slammed the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in an unusual social media exchange. “FIRE receives major funding from groups with clear and well-known political, ideological, and economic interests,” the 110-year-old professional organization’s X account said in a back-and-forth with FIRE vice president Alex Morey. “FIRE is complicit w/ the attacks on higher education being led by the Right.

3 weeks ago | outinjersey.net | John Sailer

Although The Wedding Banquet starts with the premise of “let’s perform a pretend hetero nuptials to hide the real gay marriage from our parents / grandparents / _____ fill in the blank,” the film does conclude with an unexpected twist. While marriage equality may, for some, question traditional family structure, the family unit that results at the end of The Wedding Banquet adds a whole new dynamic to what might constitute a chosen queer household.

3 weeks ago | outinjersey.net | John Sailer

“We’re proud it all started right here in New Jersey,” said the filmmakers of the short queer comedy Family Affair. The film was primarily filmed at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft and premiered last month at the Academy Award-qualifying Provincetown International Film Festival. Family Affair has since won Best Comedy and Best Director at the Jersey Shore Film Festival. It went on to win many awards at other festivals across the country.

1 month ago | city-journal.org | John Sailer

At Columbia University, the Racial Justice and Abolition Democracy Project created a curriculum to help college students imagine a “society without jails and prisons.” At Morgan State University, the Black Queer Everything initiative developed “transformative pedagogies” about “racism, inequality, and injustice.” And at UCLA, the Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses program promoted using “tribal critical race theory” to interpret precolonial history.