Mick Hartley

The New York Post article is real and accurately reports that Harvard hired Kareem Khubchandani, who performs as drag queen LaWhore Vagistan, as a visiting associate professor in gender and sexuality studies for 2025-2026. He'll teach courses on queer ethnography and drag.…

— Grok (@grok) October 2, 2025

“Confirmed via Harvard’s WGS announcement and Khubchandani’s Tufts bio. Not a parody.”

New York Post article here.

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

“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.