University Hires Non-Binary “Fatness” Graphic Designer

The educational system in today’s America has truly lost its way. Indoctrination isn’t confined to just gender disorientation; no, there are totally useless classes being offered that will not benefit any students who take them in the real world. Of course, those who teach these useless classes are unhinged leftists who believe they’re enlightening those foolish enough to attend them.

Penn State University recently moved to the dark side by hiring a “non-binary” professor who refers to herself as an “activist and educator.” A news release from the College of Arts and Architecture states that it has hired a “non-binary” “activist and educator” who will “emphasize fatness” in the classroom. Her name is Brooke Hull, and according to the university, by emphasizing fatness, Hull “focuses their research on fatness and marginalized identity with the goal of expanding design education — and education, in general — for every human body.”

Darrin Thornton, interim head of the Dept. of Graphic Design, claims:

“Brooke’s established research interests and scholarship bring breadth of expertise to the department as a whole. Their enthusiasm for teaching and mentoring students will have a positive impact and complement existing faculty in the graphic design department.”

Hull’s notable recent activism and advocacy projects include:

• “Designing for Intersectional Fat Liberation: Leveraging Co-design & Ethnographic Methods to Document Fat Lived Experiences” — an internationally recognized research and co-designed project that visually represents the intersectional lived experiences of eight fat people to advance fat representation and liberation.
• “Researching through Critical Making: Using Illustrated Letterforms to Represent Fat, Intersectional Bodies within Design” — a public-facing design and illustration project that has evolved alongside their formal research praxis for them to visually communicate the need for fat representation in design through reimagined typography.

• “(The Struggle for) Queer Existence within Design History” — a public-facing research and design project that shares queer designers throughout design history and examines and questions their existence in design archives.

Hull’s previous projects also include creating a font for “people of size,” which she calls “Disrupting type canons.” (shown below)

Dean Chingwen Cheng stated in the news release:

“Hull’s design advocacy work and their dedication in creating a learning environment for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging aligns with the school’s core values and are critical to the Stuckeman School community.”

Hull is “also an invited guest teacher of activism with the University of Copenhagen, DIS study abroad program, focusing on fat and queer activism.” She also worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Florida, where she

“earned a master of fine arts in design and visual communication along with a graduate certificate in women and gender studies” from UF.

Youth America’s Foundation, which first discovered the story, pointed out that the Stuckeman School had previously awarded one of its students for proposing a train station renovation.

Hull’s hiring comes less than two months after the College of Arts & Architecture presented a “prestigious” award to one of its architectural students for “investigating the gender binary” of the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. After determining that the train station’s design was not sufficiently “queer,” the award-winning student proposed a remodel.

Later this summer, the university announced Hull would be presenting a talk on “the challenges and successes of researching with and about fat folks in the project, ‘Designing for Intersectional Fat Liberation.’”

Huh?

Hull seems to be very busy spreading fat liberation from Mount Nittany to Copenhagen. The question is why. Is any of this necessary, or is it just placating another group that felt the need to be coddled and understood?

Seriously, before hiring Hull, the university handed out an award to a student that thought a Philadelphia train station wasn’t “queer” enough and designed an alternate remodel. Is it me, or does the university seem to be preoccupied with the unnecessary?

I’m confident that Penn State could have found more beneficial courses to add besides the one Hull is proposing if they were looking to hire a professor and expand their course offerings. I’m also sure that there was a more deserving architectural student than the one who received an award for designing a “queerer” train station.

Liberals mask their intentions of perversion behind the lie of inclusion. The Kowtowing to fat people and alternative lifestyles won’t benefit the majority of the students, now or at any time in the future.

Universities are supposed to teach beneficial courses that help students to lead productive lives. Somewhere along the line, that message got lost in the translation.