Woke U: University at Buffalo Funds Research on ‘Queer Theory,’ ‘Racial Capitalism’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Seth Segal

In the latest example of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and wokeness at educational institutions, Campus Reform reports that the University of Buffalo is funding research on ‘queer theory’ and ‘racial capitalism.’

“The University at Buffalo’s Gender Institute will fund grant projects with up to $7,000 to advance scholarship related to women, gender, and sexuality.”

In January 2025, President Trump signed the Executive Order ‘Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.’

It targets DEI and DEIA programs across the federal government, private sector, and institutions of higher education.

The University of Buffalo’s grants seem to fly in the face of the order.

“Funding, which ranges from $1,000 to $7,000, can support “data collection, archival research, fieldwork, research assistance, supplies, books, software, travel integral to the development of the project, and other forms of research support and curriculum development expenses.”

“A grant from fall 2025 supported a monograph about Shakespeare’s Macbeth and abortion. The project was titled “Queering Birth, Queering Death: The Problem of Life in Early Modern Literature.”

This should all be unacceptable at an institute of higher learning, but sadly, many just view these types of projects as normal.

“Another project from last fall, “Gendered Labor and Racialized Capital in Contemporary Rap Music,” argued that “capitalism consumes Blackness in gendered ways.”

In other words, racialization and balkanization are being funded at Buffalo.

“I position these patterns as technologies of racial capitalism that operate despite claims of colorblindness and highlight the ways that these artists use technical communication to provide strategies for survival as a Black person in the United States,” the description states.

“This project trace[s] how feminine, masculine, queer, and nonconforming embodiments of Blackness are differently commodified and therefore consumed under late‑stage capitalism in contemporary America,” it continues.”

Buffalo is hardly alone in teaching these courses on DEI. We have covered numerous colleges that continue to engage in wokeness and DEI.

Places of higher learning are now in many cases incubators of wokness and PC garbage instead of education.