BOSTON — Harvard is retreating from its woke bubble under pressure from Washington.

The university has quietly axed its identity-specific tutors — the dorm advisers once branded as BGLTQ or First-Gen/Low-Income specialists — and folded them into a vague new “Culture and Community” role, as first reported by the Harvard Crimson.

Woke Tutors No More

For years, Harvard students could turn to a designated “woke tutor” for niche guidance and themed hangouts. Some Houses even hosted a regular Queer Café — rainbow lattes and all. Now, after decades of building a sprawling diversity infrastructure, the titles are being erased from official listings and quietly swept aside.

Trump Turns Off the Tap

The shift comes just months after the Trump administration froze billions in federal research funding and demanded Harvard eliminate DEI programming outright. Since then, Harvard has scrubbed websites, collapsed its diversity offices into a new bureaucracy, and renamed departments with corporate-sounding labels like “Community and Campus Life.”

Students Left Crying Foul

Inside the dorms, the change has left students guessing what support actually remains. At a staff training this week, tutors pressed administrators on why the roles were being eliminated, only to be told that the new “Culture and Community” slot would make programs feel more “open to everyone.”

Some students are already whining that the loss of BGLTQ and FGLI tutors amounts to “erasure,” insisting that Queer Café nights and identity movie screenings were never exclusionary. But for all the noise, Harvard’s new line is clear: everyone gets the same cookie-cutter “culture” programming, and the days of rainbow-branded dorm roles are over.

End of the Queer Café

Cabot House still boasts about its once “successful” BGLTQ events — from movie nights to poetry readings at the Queer Café — but whether those traditions survive is unclear. The College is now pushing generic language about “bonding” and “student-driven programming” instead of acknowledging the identities once at the heart of its DEI pitch.

An Empire in Retreat

Harvard spent decades branding itself as a champion of inclusion, layering acronyms on acronyms and elevating diversity offices into a cottage industry of their own. Now, under pressure, the empire is being scrubbed, rebranded, and cut down to size — with Queer Café nights and “woke tutor” titles the latest casualties.