An associate professor at Oregon State University has quietly stepped down from his position after facing allegations he falsely claimed Native American and African ancestry. Paul Edward “Qwo-Li” Driskill identifies as “Two-Spirit” uses S/he, Hir, and they/them pronouns. Driskill, who was a member of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department, is a poet who has identified himself as being of Cherokee and “African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ascent.” According to the Poetry Foundation, “Driskill’s poetry engages themes of inheritance and healing, and is rooted in personal (unenrolled) Cherokee Two-Spirit, queer, and mixed-race experience.”