Progressive women face a persistent equity gap: they remain dramatically underrepresented among America’s political assassins. MIT’s new Summer Feminist Learning Institute offered by the Gender Culture Women & Sexuality Consortium (GCWS) aims to fix that.

For $420 per course, aspiring revolutionaries can learn about “Comrade Sisters: Lessons from Radical African American and Latina Feminist Struggles, 1960s-1970s.” The course will be taught via Zoom by celebrated Simmons University Professor Tatiana M.F. Cruz. Her curriculum focuses on women in the Black Panther Party, Young Lords, and Brown Berets who “challenged sexism” within militant organizations while advancing “bold feminist critiques from within.”

The timing couldn’t be better. Following the celebrations over the assassination of Charlie Kirk, multiple attempts on President Trump, and the enthusiastic reception Luigi Mangione received from female admirers—including two dozen women who lined up outside his courtroom—it’s clear that revolutionary praxis has captured the public imagination. Yet women remain marginalized: all three attackers were male.

Even MIT’s MLK Day speaker Angela Davis—invited to lecture on systemic racism—was merely an accessory to murder, not the trigger-woman herself. This glass ceiling must be shattered!

Professor Cruz, a DEI-hire scholar whose research explores how welfare mothers “continued to fight for basic rights,” understands the challenge. As she might say: “women assassins are in a lose-lose situation, but they must continue to fight for their basic right to participate in revolutionary violence.” When asked whether the course might inspire direct action, Cruz declined comment, noting only that MIT’s curriculum prioritizes “translating historical insights into actionable strategies.”

The Institute promises to help students “move from theory to praxis,” part of MIT’s commitment to Building a Better World™, one Zoom seminar at a time.

Registration closes May 15. Recommended prerequisite: a working knowledge of firearms and no social media history.