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Queer-Feminist Science and Technology Studies Forum #8: Queer-Feminist Inclusion and Visibility – Overcoming Stories of Exclusion and Invisibility in Science, Education and Technology

December 2023

Publisher: AG Queer STS
ISBN: ISSN 2517-9225

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By looking closer at different levels of application of academic kindness (Jauk-Ajamie & Thaler 2022), in pedagogical settings and research practices, we stumbled upon the notion of inclusion, and wondered why even in equity driven settings some (non-)human actors are excluded. Noticing practices of exclusion and making (non-)humans invisible, we find that especially now in time of multiple crises, we need to overcome traditional dichotomies and the delegitimization of certain forms of knowledges. Beside theory and discourse based contributions, we explicitly invited practical and empirical implementations of queer-feminist inclusion and visibility. With this eighth Queer-Feminist Science & Technology Studies Forum we wanted to open our multi-media open access publication for our community in terms of content as well as format as much as possible. And we received six wonderful contributions – one of them comprising several students’ works, which resulted from a seminar by Queer STS working group members Susanne Kink-Hampersberger and Lisa Scheer. Eleanor Armstrong and Anna Danielsson composed a mind-opening ‘Science Butch Blues’, which discusses the epistemology of science by a greater plurality of possible genders in science. Susanne Sackl-Sharif, Sonja Radkohl and Lea Dvoršak contribute an article about empirical implementation of inclusion which acts on the philosophy of participatory research to not study (young) people, but to do research with them together. Sybille Reidl, Sarah Beranek, Julia Greithanner, Anke Schneider and David Sellitsch contributed a field report about the topic of virtual communication. Susanne Kink-Hampersberger tells the story about a feminist intervention of turning a semi-public space – for one afternoon – into a women*’s space. Finally, our Queer STS working group member Daniela Jauk-Ajamie interviewed Nicole Pruckermayr, an artist, curator, scholar, and art facilitator about how people could participate in the art production.

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