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Tom Waidzunas

@tomwaidzunas.bsky.social

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sociology, science & technology studies. queer/feminist sts, sexuality & gender studies, @temple univ, cat steward, music 🎶 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎢 tomwaidzunas.net Out Doing Science by Tom Waidzunas, Ethan Czuy Levine and Brandon Fairchild www.umasspress.com

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Our book for sale at Making Worlds Bookstore in West Philly

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Pride is over but now it's time for LGBTQ Wrath, so the cause contines ! I just got my copy of this puzzle book by my great high school classmate, Kerry Shatzer. There are a wide variety of fun puzzle types in here! Please consider getting this for yourself or a friend! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Out Doing Science is now available from University of Massachusetts Press use code UMASS20 for 20% off

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times, by Tom Waidzunas, Ethan Czuy Levine, and Brandon Fairchild is now available from University of Massachusetts Press. Use code UMASS20 to save 20% www.umasspress.com/978162534880...

Out Doing Science: LGBTQ STEM Professionals and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times
by Tom Waidzunas, Ethan Czuy Levine, and Brandon Fairchild
University of Massachusetts Press

Over the past 50 years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer professionals have organized to achieve greater inclusion into the STEM fields. In the 1970s, they sought to radically transform STEM fields by confronting the homophobia and sexism embedded within them. Instead, these fields became more corporatized and privatized, dominated by a focus on individualism, self-improvement/advancement, and meritocracy, which are the hallmarks of neoliberalism. For many LGBTQ STEM professionals, inclusion now required becoming more apolitical, pro-capital, and focused on professional development.

Out Doing Science explores this transformation of LGBTQ STEM professionals from oppositional outsiders to assimilationist insiders. The authors interrogate the meaning of "inclusion" and why some LGBTQ STEM professionals have benefited from it more than others. Thy also advocate for a "queer STEM" that challenges and transforms the racism, classism, sexism, cisheterosexism, and imperialism of these fields. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Out Doing Science will appeal to readers interested in LGBTQ studies, and STEM studies, as well as anyone who wants to create a more diverse and inclusive work environment.

Tom Waidzunas is associate professor of sociology at Temple University. His latest book is The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality.
Ethan Czuy Levine is affiliated faculty in sociology at Stockton University. His latest book is Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence
Brandon Fairchild is a PhD candidate in sociology at Temple University

Use code UMASS20 to save 20% when you order at umasspress.com
252 pp. $29.95 paper

The book cover is a rainbow spectrum with the title and author names.

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #QueerinSTEM prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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Tom Waidzunas @tomwaidzunas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Sigrid Schmalzer's op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from 2017, "Don't Just Defend Science, Mobilize It for the People," remains immensely relevant for our times!

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The importance of using science to solve social problems (essay)

While science is under attack, it could be an opportunity to advance a much stronger vision of how it can serve the common good, writes Sigrid Schmalzer.

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