Earlier today, The Skidmore News reported that Wesley Yang, an outspoken transphobe, was scheduled to speak at “Are We All Fundamentalists?” a conference being held to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Salmagundi magazine. Following a number of appeals to involved parties, including the Salmagundi editorial board and President Conner, we have received confirmation as of 5:00 pm that Mr. Yang has withdrawn from the conference.
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The entrance to the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. Image courtesy of Peter Olsen, Saratoga Living.
“Are We All Fundamentalists?” is a conference being held at the Tang from September 27 to 29 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Salmagundi magazine. Those in attendance includes Wesley Yang. Mr. Yang is a writer, columnist, and editor currently working for Tablet Magazine and Esquire. He is also an extreme, vicious, obsessive, and myopic anti-transgender extremist.
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In preparing a feature for the upcoming weekend “Belief & Unbelief,” a Salmagundi Magazine 50th Anniversary CONFERENCE, I asked for a statement from organizer and Skidmore Professor of 50 years, Robert Boyers. Instead of the one or two sentences I asked for, he returned something that left me little more to write. My question… “why should students attend the conference this weekend?”
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