Queer in STEM on Autostraddle

We’re flattered to be the subjects of an entire profile over at Autostraddle, part of Vivian Underhill’s great series on “Queered Science.” There’s even an artist’s rendering of us hard at work in the field:

The article also gets into the genesis of the Queer in STEM project:

Allison had done some work on queer issues previously, on “discrimination in school settings, transnational queer migration, and identity development.” So Jeremy asked Allison what she thought about the idea of a survey of a nation-wide sample of queer scientists – as a social scientist, did she think results like that would be publishable? “I responded, ‘are you asking me to teach you about doing research with human subjects? Sure!'”

You should definitely go read the whole thing.

Published by Jeremy Yoder

Jeremy B. Yoder is a founding collaborator on the Queer in STEM Project. He is an Assistant Professor of Biology at California State University Northridge, studying the evolution and coevolution of interacting species, especially mutualists, and a collaborator with the Joshua Tree Genome Project. He edits the Molecular Ecologist, a blog about the uses of genetic data in ecology and evolutionary biology, and has written for the website of Scientific American, the LA Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Awl, and Slate.

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