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With the house having been cleaned out at Simon Cowell's X Factor there's now a need for some on-screen talent. Things seem tentative and early, but new mother Beyonce's name is being bandied about as a possible replacement for Paula Abdul.

Also in the Beyoncesphere, the Houston native was the subject last year of a class taught at Rutger's University in the department of women’s and gender studies. Thus far “Feminist Perspectives: Politicizing Beyoncé” appears to be a one-off.

Heady stuff too. Quoth professor Kevin Allred: “I’m interested in the line that Beyoncé walks between coercion and consent in her public image and the ways that she often imagines
categories of race, sexuality and gender that complicate the ways
we typically understand those categories."

No word yet on curriculum involving Solange.

And here's husband Jay-Z's song about their baby.