Description
A large and growing body of literature has reported that persistent inequalities within STEM secure the privilege of white males, while women, people of color, and persons with disabilities are consistently underrepresented and discriminated in STEM. Another underserved population that has recently gained some attention in research related to equity in STEM are the individuals with minoritized gender and sexual identities (let’s call them queer). A synthesis of the existing knowledge base shows that queer individuals in STEM were subjected to exclusion, discrimination, harassment, and negative career consequences vis-à-vis their sexual and gender identities, and were more likely to consider leaving or actually leave a STEM trajectory than their non-queer peers.
Our discussion will be around the following topics:
• the experiences of queer individuals in STEM learning and working environments
• queer beyond an identity marker… what can be seen as queer and what can be seen as queering?
• queering science (education), academia, research
