This is the second in the Babbling Beaver’s series of faculty profiles shining the searing spotlight of sardonic satire on MIT professors who most clearly exemplify the devastation wrought by the Woke Mind Virus.

Say, hi to Lou Tam, the inaugural Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow in the MIT Women’s and Gender Studies Program. “They” received their Ph.D. with distinction in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Rutgers.

Dr. Tam is a critical theorist who focuses on the racial and settler colonial politics of mental health in state-funded and institutional settings. Their interdisciplinary research bridges feminist, queer, critical race, and disability theory and interpretive methods.

Tam weaves together strands of Marxist feminist, Black radical, and decolonial thought to culturally critique the role of emotion in ideology and its significance in shaping leftist helping subjectivities and their relationships to the state.

Once again, the Beaver did not make up a single word of the word salad above, it’s all on they’s website profile.

You might ask, what in the world is this “scholar” doing teaching classes at the world’s leading STEM university? Great question! While you’re at it, ask what a Women & Gender Studies program is doing at MIT.

Please email your questions to sally.kornbluth@mit.edu. The Beaver is sure she’s not busy at the moment since the strategic action plan for Belonging, Achievement, and Composition plopped in her lap by Reif’s holdovers has done such a great job creating a harmonious campus community.