Triggered Art Professor Shellyne Rodriguez Attacks Pro-Life Students at Hunter College, CUNY

On May 2, 2023, there was an incident with an adjunct art professor of Puerto Rican descent who works at Hunter College. Her name is Shellyne Rodriguez. Rodriguez confronts students with a table containing pro-life pamphlets and what looks to be some sort of a display. She engages the students accusing them of spreading propaganda and not educating. She then asks if anti-trans is next, presumably meaning if the next table content on another occasion will contain material on this. 

The young Caucasian male responds correcting her on why they are there, namely, to talk about abortion. She said they are triggering her students and that the material is violent and calls it bulls*%t. Rodriguez continues to berate the young man telling him that he cannot even have a baby and that he does not know what that is about. 

She then hurls more vulgar expressions before vandalizing their display by shoving it aside and pushing away the pamphlets. Rodriguez then storms away in anger. The two young students look offended and quickly begin to clean up the mess the professor made. The video went viral on May 19, 2023, on the Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok accounts of Students For Life:

 

PROFESSOR GONE WILD: Pro-abortion professor Shellyne Rodriquez curses at pro-life students and vandalizes table at Hunter College. pic.twitter.com/QNspuXB4KK

— Students for Life of America (@StudentsforLife) May 17, 2023

@studentsforlife PROFESSOR GONE WILD: Pro-abortion professor Professor Shellyne Rodriquez curses at pro-life students and vandalizes table at Hunter College. #prolife #abortion #huntercollege #cuny #libsoftiktok #intolerance #intolerant #thetolerantleft #conservative #christiantiktok ♬ original sound - Students for Life

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The video was even posted on the Twitter account "ClownWorld" which showcases antics by the left:

 

pic.twitter.com/F3YV20rBL0

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) May 18, 2023

This led to several comments being posted criticizing Shellyne's actions, attacking her behavior and appearance, and calling for her suspension or termination from Hunter College, CUNY.

 

➥ PROFESSOR GONE WILD:

Pro-abortion activist so called "professor" fully tattooed and violent #ShellyneRodriquez curses at pro-life students and vandalizes table at #HunterCollege

This is the garbage the far left and criminal pro-abortion killers are all about, intolerance,… pic.twitter.com/YjPmrKRssa

— ★FJB☆🦅🇺🇸 (@RamButtiglione) May 19, 2023

@Hunter_College VIOLATE their Pro-Life students rights with their Mentally ill professor @shellynerodrig1 pic.twitter.com/LJuP4d4i0O

— Laine Franz (@LaineFranz) May 18, 2023

@Hunter_College - Are your professors always so unprofessional and poorly dressed? pic.twitter.com/ZW4rQnXQKf

— Trish, Intergalactic Federation Queen Almighty (@Vixen95Trish) May 19, 2023

Woke teacher at Hunter College gets TRIGGERED by @studentsforlife display; vandalizes table pic.twitter.com/qqsTOAN6Eq

— YAF (@yaf) May 19, 2023

Hey @Hunter_College is this professor Shellyne Rodriguez harassing STUDENTS and trashing a STUDENT table? Does Hunter College support free speech? What about professors who throw tantrums? https://t.co/l3mq4Lfyar

— Medic Education (@EducationMedic) May 17, 2023

Some anti-life supporters and groups came out in defense of Shellyne and are attacking the Students For Life organization calling them a threat and other derogatory terms.

 

That was Shellyne Rodriquez at Hunter College. *assistant professor in the college art department. Afterward, the group CUNY For Abortion Rights praised Rodriguez for her “courageous actions” and threatened more hostility against pro-life students..

— Christi (@icyman102) May 18, 2023

A few others began to circulate a Google doc form giving an account of what happened and asking for petitions supporting Shellyne. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciHukZyNW59wDQAgtB25DS-cTv3rHUzSqkLWvN9okVGM0Szw/viewform

 

Please sign and share this statement of support for Shellyne Roderiguez, who is receiving hate mail after confronting an anti-abortion group on campus @ Hunter College last week. We stand with Shellyne in her actions against far-right forces on campus! https://t.co/iDE5qZXRG7

— Rank and File Action (@RanknFileAction) May 18, 2023

And on that note please sign onto this statement in solidarity with Shellyne Rodriguez, a CUNY adjunct professor who’s facing repression for standing up to the well organized and funded anti-abortion machinery that recently appeared at Hunter College https://t.co/msXLNuLrp8

— Nantina Vgontzas (@nantarsya) May 19, 2023

 

Shellyne Rodriguez works at Hunter College of the CUNY as an adjunct professor of Art. An adjunct professor is not full-time or tenured. He or she works on a contractual basis for a few semesters or more and then will be released. It is unknown if Rodriguez has a doctoral degree or is working on one at the CUNY Graduate Center which employs students as adjunct professors. A Wikipedia article states of her the following "Rodriguez graduated with a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in 2011 and an MFA in Fine Art from CUNY Hunter College in 2014." Her art has been displayed at the Bronx Museum, as well as the Museum of El Barrio. She has her own website which displays her work and CV. On another website, she is described as "LatinX." A tweet from someone who has met her at a tenant association meeting in the Bronx describes her in this manner:

 

She's that crazy lesbian that doesn't shave her pits. I remember she came to our building to help tenants with her "Take Back the Bronx" group, They didn't do sh*t... the building got worse, and most of the tenants moved out or were forced out. Her sister Sunshine is a gossip.

— Bronx Bomber (@Bronxbomber777) May 20, 2023

 

As stated, there are calls to cancel her. Many have stormed CUNY, Hunter College demanding that she be fired or suspended. Others are sending hate mail to her according to the petition supporting her actions. According to this tweet, she has a sister named Sunshine Jenkins who lives in the Bronx and runs a Daycare called Sunshine Little Achievers on Clinton Avenue in the Bronx.

 

Her sister has a daycare. Time to boycott it as well. Send a message that we cannot have this behavior. pic.twitter.com/TcRoCk1CNy

— Catholic (@Caththeology) May 20, 2023

 

It is clear that Rodriguez's actions have angered many and rightfully so. She is an adjunct professor and should know how to be professional. Professors need to have a special decorum on and off campus in order to be taken seriously as academicians, scholars, and experts in their respective fields. Colleges and universities are supposed to be safe spaces for differing views and overall free thinking. To call pro-life rhetoric "bulls***," "violent" and so on is just ridiculous. The audacity to think that only pro-death pro-abortion advocates have free speech on campus is even more ridiculous. 

Moreover, Rodriguez asks if the content on the table the next till will be anti-trans, but then goes on to say to the young male that he cannot have a baby. This contradicts the rhetoric that transwomen despite being biologically male can be "pregnant persons" or even menstruate. Her statement acknowledges the biological fact that men cannot have babies. Moreover, she calls pro-life content violence but proceeds to be violent with the students by knocking over their display and pushing their pamphlets on the table making a mess of them. 

Shellyne Rodriguez claims her students were triggered, but none of them came up in the video complaining as she did. It is clear that she was the one that had the problem and was triggered.  Her petulant display of anger is unbecoming of a college professor.  She came across as a young child with a temper tantrum or an adolescent displaying teen angst.  Can you imagine if you were a student in her art class and made an art display defending human life or on reproduction and motherhood? Would she see this as free speech and artistic expression or will she launch towards the art display and vandalize it in anger? She embarrassed herself, Latinos, and women with her display.  People who are this angry as an opposing view simply demonstrate intellectual insecurity.  

I commend the young students for remaining poised and professional. They did not argue nor did they raise their voices.  The irony is that these young students demonstrated to her how an adult is supposed to comport themselves, moreover, a college professor.  

UPDATE May 23. 2023 See: https://www.sacerdotus.com/2023/05/disgraced-adjunct-professor-shellyne.html

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