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When academic diversity becomes intellectual pigeonholing

I'm the only out person in my graduate program and professors keep assigning me to work on LGBTQ+ topics even though that's not my research focus.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Identity-based assumptions about intellectual interests constrain rather than expand academic freedom.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined queer identity?”

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