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Evolution’s Rainbow: Joan RoughGarden Explores Queer Sex in Animals

Evolution’s Rainbow is both a catalogue of diversity across the natural world in sex, gender, and sexuality, and also an “indictment” of all academic fields for suppressing or ignoring the…

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Dec 6, 2013

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Queer History

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Queered Science: Historic Women Pioneers

‘Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine’, an exhibit at The Grolier Club, highlight women scientists who transcended gender-related societal constraints, including two queer women.

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Nov 22, 2013

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Queered Science: Dr. Juniper Digs Derby and Dragonflies

For this week’s profile we have one of your very own: Dr. Juniper Simonis, Autostraddler, roller derby player, and population ecologist at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

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Nov 15, 2013

Nerd Culture

Queered Science

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Queered Science: Sexism Is For Everybody!

“Discrimination in the sciences is an issue that direly needs more publicity and honest discussion, so I don’t want to discount Eileen Pollack’s well-researched and articulate piece. But in many…

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Nov 8, 2013

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Nerd Culture

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Queered Science: NOGLSTP’s Rochelle Diamond Forged A Path For All of Us

If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need…

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Nov 1, 2013

interview

Nerd Culture

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Queered Science: Jeremy Yoder, Allison Mattheis and Surveying Queers in STEM

Jeremy Yoder and Allison Matthies gathered data in a nationwide survey of sexual diversity in science, technology, engineering and math professions called Queer in Stem and answered some questions about…

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Oct 25, 2013

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Queered Science Interview: Dr. Donna Riley and Engineering Social Justice

“I came out in my academic writing explicitly in 2003 because I knew that situating myself relative to relations of power in engineering, in academia […] was essential to the…

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Oct 18, 2013

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Queered Science: Gender Bias OPEN THREAD

Let’s talk about how you can work for equality in your workplace, school, neighborhood or life.

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Oct 4, 2013

Miniseries

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Queered Science: Eradicating Misogyny in the Scientific Community

Dr. Ben Barres, an openly trans scientist, is on a mission to end gender discrimination in the sciences.

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Sep 27, 2013

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OPEN THREAD: Coming Out In The Sciences, Let’s Discuss!

Often, we feel we have to keep our science self and our queer self separate, but this is the perfect space to merge them. Let’s talk about coming out in…

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Sep 20, 2013

Miniseries

Nerd Culture

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Queered Science: Why Social Justice and STEM Fields Should Hang Out More Often

“There is no space for subjects that could be classified as social, like talking about inequalities. Of course, this is a false differentiation, because there is really no way to…

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Sep 13, 2013

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Nerd Culture

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Queered Science: LGBTQ Scientists and the Legend of the Unicorn

“Now tell me the name of a queer scientist. Nothing? Yeah, I thought so. But it’s not your fault – I couldn’t think of any either. And this got me…

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Sep 6, 2013