Mal Kline gives us an entertaining glimpse of “what happens when a progressive educator meets a truly captive audience.” The professor in question hails from Boston University, which offers classes for inmates at MCI-Norfolk, a medium-security men’s penitentiary near the city. The class described here is titled “Gender, Identity, and Violence.”

The students in this class are described as at a loss for words when asked “if there’s gender in prison.” Who knows what they thought when queried about “drag kings and queen”?