‘I wrote this dissertation in the middle of an active genocide’
A doctoral student at Brandeis University recently dedicated her thesis to a “Free Palestine” and said she wrote the paper “mostly out of spite.”
“I wrote this dissertation in the middle of an active genocide, supported and funded by this institution, and committed in my name as a Jew,” Nechama Moring writes to begin her 390-page paper, “The Right to Family: Reproductive and Disability Justice, Reproductive Health, Care and Coercion Among Structurally Marginalized Populations.”
The health policy PhD wrote the paper with “[s]pite for this institution,” which she calls “a genocidal hedge fund in an education-adjacent trench coat, and all the violence it enables, fiscally sponsors and represents.”
“Spite for my experience within this institution, the ableism, racism, transphobia, colonialism, patriarchy, sexual violence, elitism and zionist nonsense, and in solidarity with the students who held it down at Ford Hall,” she said.
In case it’s not clear what Moring wants to happen to Israel, she has a quote from cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal right under a “free Palestine” quote. “Today’s empire is tomorrow’s ashes,” the cop murderer said. She also quotes cop killer Assata Shakur in her paper.
Of course without a sense of irony, Moring, who celebrates cop killers, goes on to say “white supremacy” is dangerous.
People harmed in the Middle East were killed due to “white supremacy,” according to Moring, who claims to have had “queer ancestors.”
The student strives to be a community college teacher.
She explains why:
I wanted to teach, and have the flexibility to organize, in the queerest, most subversive sense of the word. Institutions like this are full of power, and I wanted to fill up a bag every single time I walked out the door, until my conditional whiteness ran out. I wanted to plunder stolen resources, and return them however I could. I wanted to do right, as right as I could on stolen land.
The paper also delves into the alleged benefits of “gender-affirming care,” which refers to taking drugs to suppress natural puberty or paying a surgeon to remove healthy organs in order to present as the opposite sex.
This paper shouldn’t be confused with other long dissertations on niche topics.
For example, a University of North Carolina thesis explored how Dolly Parton’s free book program promoted bad ideas, to the author, like working hard and succeeding in a capitalist society.
The books promote “ableism” and “sexism” according to the speech-language pathology grad student at the taxpayer-funded university.
That author would be friends with Moring, the Brandeis scholar.
The Brandeis PhD is currently a freelance writer whose goals include writing a “radical, queer guide to fertility,” complete with information on “DIY abortion and contraception,” according to her personal website.
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