CLAGS Forms New Advocacy Committee

Authors

Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 1999

Abstract

During the 1990s, attacks on the arts and higher education have demonized Women's Studies and Gay/Lesbian Studies, as well as those courses designed to make higher education available to academically underprivileged students. The CLAGS Board of Directors has come to feel that CLAGS should be taking a leading role in debates that use homophobia, racism, and sexism to justify cuts in funding for the arts and education, restrictions on freedom of academic and artistic expression, and policies that restrict access to higher learning. For this reason, we have formed a Board committee for advocacy in the arts and education.

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This article was originally published in CLAGSNews, vol. 9, no. 1.