Queer Science & Tech Studies

Technology has long shaped our understanding of sex and gender, from stone tools to artificial intelligence. Likewise, scientific knowledge systems and practices have profoundly impacted processes of categorization and defined what is ‘natural’ and ‘normal.’ Yet, simultaneously, sociocultural conceptions of sex and gender bear upon science and technology. How might we think about this nexus in a time of fraught contestations over sex, gender, and visions of what the world ought to be like, vis-à-vis science and technology? Leveraging intersections of science and technology studies (STS) and feminist and queer studies, this seminar queries the mutually constitutive relationships between science, technology, gender, and sex across time and space.