Queer in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Following the Intersections of Queerness, Transness and Science Identities
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT This multiple case study explores the intersections of queerness/transness and science education through a combined framework of queer theory, intersectionality, the construct of figured worlds and science identity. The study uses a life‐history approach to characterize the trajectories of three purposefully selected queer individuals who are currently working in a European or US‐based higher education institution. We collected data through multiple in‐depth, semistructured and unstructured interviews, and artefacts, for the purpose of exploring shifts on the participants' science identities throughout their lives, as they moved towards or away from science. The findings illustrate how exclusionary cultural models in STEM—shaped by cisheteronormativity, whiteness, patriarchy, ableism, and neoliberal values—promote science as hypercompetitive, individualistic, and emotionally detached. These models marginalize queer identities, stigmatize mental health, and depoliticize science by erasing sociopolitical concerns and limiting who is recognized as a legitimate science person. As such, they contribute to ongoing efforts to queer science education by illuminating how systemic norms shape identity trajectories. We conclude by sharing implications for research, theory, and practice in pursuit of more inclusive and liberatory visions of science education.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it