Despite Senator's Objections, There Is Educational Value to Studying Grindr Racism

The Advocate reports that Republican Sen. Stephen Nass of Wisconsin has written a letter to UW-Madison, threatening to cut the university's funding over the teaching of a 2011 article about racism on the gay hook-up app Grindr. Nass reportedly sent his letter last week after he caught wind that sociology lecturer Jason Nolen assigned Alex Rowlson's story 'Not Just a Preference' to his How Race & Ethnicity Shape American Social Life class. Rowlson's piece originally appeared in the now-defunct Fab magazine. (The magazine's website no longer exists, though the essay has been cut and pasted into a comments section on the blog Douchebags of Grindr.)Read more...
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