Recent reports show that parents, regardless of political affiliation, still aspire to send their children to college. Yet they would be wise to carefully consider where they are sending them, what kind of education they will receive, and who will be teaching them. The concern is not just about academic quality but about the ideological tenor of those in charge of shaping young minds. As the three professors discussed below demonstrate, parents should seriously question whether their chosen institution is hiring faculty devoted to the pursuit of truth or merely to advancing activism.
Professor Eman Abdelhadi: Academic Aggressor
On October 3rd, 2025, University of Chicago (UChicago) assistant professor Eman Abdelhadi was arrested on two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of resisting and obstructing peace while protesting outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois.
“Professor Eman Abdelhadi’s history of inflammatory and anti-American rhetoric is deeply concerning. Students deserve a safe and open campus environment where they can express their views without fear of intimidation or retaliation from faculty,” said UChicago Turning Point USA Chapter President Tyler Shasteen.
“I call on the University of Chicago to review her position and ensure accountability for any actions that violate university policy or the law.”
Abdelhadi’s radical repertoire does not end there.
The assistant professor has openly criticized her employer, UChicago, as an “evil” “colonial landlord.” At the Socialism 2025 conference, she even admitted to exploiting her position and place of employment, using it as a platform to mobilize on behalf of the pro-Palestine cause.
“What we don’t have is power,” she explained. “I work at a place […] where I have access to thousands of people that I could potentially organize,” she revealed, adding, “This is where I need to build power. This is my best possible structural leverage.”
According to her biography, Abdelhadi is also a member of the radical Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) organization at UChicago.
FSJP’s mission is to encourage “academic and cultural boycotts of Israel and Israeli academic institutions, both of which have been responsible for maintaining apartheid and colonial occupation.”
It also “promotes efforts to draw attention to the history of Palestine and Palestinian resistance, both on campuses and in the public sphere,” and “defends and supports the right to teach and talk about these topics as they relate to interlocking systems of oppression underpinned by global white supremacy and racial capitalism.”
“FSJP is firmly committed to combating any form of racism, including anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy,” it concludes. It is also firmly committed to combating all forms of oppression, including caste hierarchies and those targeting sexuality, trans and non-binary gender identification, and disabilities of any kind.”
When the UChicago administration dared to meet with a Jewish community leader, Abdelhadi posted the following response on X:
I am, to my knowledge, the only Palestinian professor on UChicago’s main campus. I woke up to this photo; after three months of being told this university is politically neutral. Never once has this admin asked after my safety or the safety of my students…
I am, to my knowledge, the only Palestinian professor on UChicago’s main campus. I woke up to this photo, after three months of being told this university is politically neutral. Never once has this admin asked after my safety or the safety of my students… https://t.co/TgGCNW9Z0a
— Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi) January 26, 2024
According to reports, Abdelhadi’s case is ongoing, and she faces felony charges connected to the ICE protest.
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Jules Purnell: “Transmasculine” Title IX Specialist
Jules Purnell, M.Ed., is a Title IX Training Specialist in the Equal Opportunity & Access Office at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (UMass-Amherst). Purnell’s university bio lists pronouns as “they/them,” and claims expertise in the areas of “consent, sexual violence, healthy relationships, human sexuality, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and intersectionality.” (Jules was born female, according to one interview.)
On September 26, 2025, UMass-Amherst hosted a “Sex on the Lawn” event focused on “sexual health, reproductive justice, consent, wellness, and pleasure,” during which Purnell hosted a seminar titled “Loving Across Differences: Disability, Dating, and Sex.”
On Purnell’s personal website, she presents herself as adopting a range of identities and includes a land acknowledgment. The bio reads:
JULES PURNELL (they/them) is queer, non-binary, transmasculine, chronically ill/disabled, and currently resides in Western Massachusetts, land originally inhabited by Wabanaki and Pocumtuc people. They identify as multiracial, the descendant of immigrants from Southeast Asia and Western Europe, whose family eventually settled in the Midwestern United States. Jules is a member of kink community, ethically non-monogamous, and co-parent to two neurospicy, gender creative children.
The biography continues with a description of Purnell’s personal philosophy, saying: “Jules’s approach is informed by an expressly intersectional, postmodern, existentialist, anti-racist, feminist, and queer theory-informed perspective. With respect to education, they adopt the pedagogical philosophies of progressivism, social reconstructionism, and humanism.”
In addition to her position as a Title IX Training Specialist at UMass-Amherst, Purnell offers private services, including consulting, curriculum development, and workshops and training, according to the website, claiming to be “adept” at teaching on “LGBTQIA+ cultural awareness, polyamory/ethical non-monogamy, and BDSM/kink” topics.
Purnell’s approach is an “intersectional” one, which takes “socioeconomic status” into account. This seemingly explains Purnell’s “rate structure,” which, citing “equity,” offers a sliding scale of price points where those with higher income or “majority identities” such as caucasians pay up to $750/hr for Purnell’s services. In contrast, “underserved populations” and “minority identities” may pay as little as zero dollars an hour.
Further, Purnell warns of the values of the Western world, claiming that they include “[p]atriarchy, racism, rape culture, ableism, capitalism” and where “systems of hierarchy and oppression where harm is normalized and endemic.”
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Kareem Khubchandani: Alias “LaWhore Vagistan”
On October 3rd, 2025, a LibsofTikTok post went viral. Its headline? Harvard University hired a drag queen as a visiting associate professor to teach Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Harvard just hired a drag queen to teach “gender studies.” I can’t believe this is real pic.twitter.com/hwBSXegBEX
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 3, 2025
One X account, the Conservative Alternative (@OldeWorldOrder) commented, “Noah… […] get the boat,” presumably referencing the Biblical account of the Great Flood.
Kareem Khubchandani, who goes by the drag name “LaWhore Vagistan,” currently leads a “Queer Ethnography” course, and will reportedly lead a spring 2026 course called “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire.”
Back in 2015, Johns Hopkins University Press and Project Muse published an article titled “Lessons in Drag: An Interview with LaWhore Vagistan” between Khubchandani and his drag persona. In one section of the article, Khubchandani’s alter ego introduced “herself,” saying:
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.
This is not Khubchandani’s first stint at a higher education institution. He currently holds a position at Tufts University as an associate professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.
In May of 2023, Khubchandani performed at a Stanford University event centering on drag and various progressive ideologies.
“Dr. Vagistan, your favorite South Asian drag auntie, brings the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa) to explain how critical social theory matters in queer nightlife,” the description read. “Touching on themes that include globalization, feminist theory, and islamophobia, she stages the nightclub as a site of politics and pleasure.”
Earlier this year, Khubchandani was hosted by the University of Virginia’s Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC) “Race and Performance Lab – Queer Performance: A Festival.”
At the event, Khubchandani led a “Critical Drag” workshop and starred in a performance titled “Lessons in Drag.” According to the description, LaWhore Vagistan “br[ought] the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa) to explain how critical social theory matters in queer nightlife. Touching on themes that include globalization, transnational feminisms, and islamophobia, she stages the nightclub as a site of politics and pleasure.”
Kareem Khubchandani is co-editor of Queer Nightlife and author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife and Decolonize Drag.
According to Angela Morabito, current Director of Media Outreach for the Defense of Freedom Institute, Harvard is “Bud Light-ing” itself by hiring such an individual.
The Bud Light boycott of 2023, in which the popular beer company attempted to market transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney to its largely traditional, conservative customer base and failed miserably, is a perfect example of the potential outcome Harvard University risks.
“[Harvard is] taking this great, American heritage brand and they’re robbing it of all meaning by going all-in on gender ideology,” Morabito said. “When they hire someone who chooses a drag name that’s so gross […] and offensive to women, they’re taking away any incentive for taxpayers like me to invest [in the school].”
Harvard is ‘Bud Light-ing’ itself, @AngelaLMorabito tells @Newsmax, by “taking this great American heritage brand” and “robbing it of all meaning by going all-in on gender ideology.” pic.twitter.com/bqhb5LXNg4
— Defense of Freedom Institute (@DFIPolicy) October 14, 2025
Let This Be a Warning to Parents
Studies are unanimous that professors have a significant influence on college students’ attitudes, interests, and values.
The activism modeled by many professors and administrators does not stop in the classroom; it filters down, shaping how students come to see the world and their place in it. The ideological posturing learned in the classroom often becomes the moral framework students carry into adulthood.
Parents should be keenly aware of who holds sway over their children during these formative college years—whether it’s violent protesters, intersectionality enthusiasts, or campus drag performers—because the question they must ultimately ask is this: are they sending their children to a university that cultivates reason, virtue, and citizenship, or to an institution that trains them to become political activists instead of educated adults?
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