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Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor

October 1, 2025
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Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor
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Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor — who is expected to teach a class on TV show “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in the spring semester, the Ivy League school announced over the summer.

The institution welcomed Kareem Khubchandani in a July message to the college community and revealed the visiting professor from Tufts University will teach in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program thanks to the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus. 

Kareem Khubchandani as LaWhore Vagistan in drag, posing in front of a shiny, crumpled silver backdrop.
Newly announced visiting professor at the vaunted Harvard University Kareem Khubchandani performs drag under the stage name “LaWhore Vagistan.”

Khubchandani is perhaps better known by his stage name, “LaWhore Vagistani,” — a persona that the academic has made an integral part of their pedagogy.

The professor will often lecture in the guise of “LaWhore,” which has been a personal project for over a decade, even spawning a music video entitled “Sari.”

In an interview with his own drag persona published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2015, Khubchandani spilled the tea on the origin of the off-putting stage name.

Kareem Khubchandani aka LaWhore Vagistan, professor of gender studies, wearing a patterned shirt.
Kareem Khubchandani is a professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University.

“My name is LaWhore Vagistan, my preferred pronouns are “she” or “aunty.” I chose ‘LaWhore’ because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and well, I’m a bit of a w*ore,” the drag queen said.

“And Vagistan because I see the subcontinent as one, big, beautiful Vag…istan,” he wrote in the tacky, naval-gazing self-interview.

Khubchandani will teach just two classes over the course of two semesters — “Queer Ethnography” in the fall and “RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire” in the spring semester, according to Harvard’s announcement. 

Kareem Khubchandani aka LaWhore Vagistan in drag, wearing a blue saree.
The academic incorporates his drag persona in classes, revealing in an interviewhe will often lecture as “LaWhore Vagistan.” Facebook / LaWhore Vagistan

The latter class will apparently focus on the cable television show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

The Tufts University associate professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies has authored books “Decolonizer Drag: and “Ishstyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife” and is debuting his newest tome this fall — “Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties.”

News of Khubchandani’s new gig emerged just days after President Trump unfroze $2.4 billion in federal grants to Harvard after an agreement the institution would now operate a new bevy of trade schools.

“This would be a giant trade school, or a series of trade schools. It would be run by Harvard,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

A Harvard sign is seen at the Harvard University campus in Boston, Massachusetts.
Harvard appears to have reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would see billions in assets unfrozen in exchange for opening, running, and funding a new suite of trade schools. AFP via Getty Images

Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

The post Harvard hires drag queen named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as visiting professor appeared first on New York Post.

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