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Amid nationwide research funding cuts, one Brown professor has managed to avoid defunding by adding “For Bombs” to her research abstract.
“I realized there was a common denominator between the projects that were safe from cuts. They were for serving our nation’s great military industrial complex,” said Professor Amani Norman, looking up from her work on exploring the intersectionalities between textuality and race in queer narratives. “And I figured if you can’t beat ’em, bomb ’em!”
“My work focuses on analyzing how our heterodivergent pathologies shape media,” said Norman, sitting next to a scale replica of an intercontinental ballistic missile. “I aim to further our collective understanding of cinematography and identity."
“Of course this work is for the sake of supporting the creation of precision missiles for our great warriors in the Middle East,” Norman added, thumbing through her copy of Marx’s Capital. “This work will further the great mission of the United States military and is sponsored by a pioneering and innovating firm that shares my values of diversity, equity, and bombs. Thank you for your support, Lockheed Martin.”
At press time, Norman was encouraging a colleague in the Africana Studies Department to add “for white people too” to the title of her upcoming talk.
