#lgbtstem

[palaeoiris]

It's finally here! The Volgaynoes leftover sale will launch on February 13th at 8 pm GMT!!! 🌈🗻

This leftover sale is perfect for all of you who missed the Kickstarer crowdfunding or if you're one of our backers who loved your Volgaynoes so much you want more! This will be their one last run and they won't be available for purchase after this one last sale, so make sure to plan ahead if you were thinking of getting them.

Mark your calendars and set the alarms because we have an extremely low stock of some items, so make sure you don't miss them.

“Volgaynoes” is a science-art collaboration between us, Palaeoiris, and volcanologist and artist @alias_in_ink (Instagram) that shows off the beauty and diversity of volcanism on our planet, while simultaneously celebrating the diversity of humans too.

Our myriad magmatic creations illustrate the beauty and majesty of volcanic processes across the world in a series of colours that champion members of the queer population.

Our mash-up of science meets art shows the message: we want members of our Earth Science community to be visible and proud. They are also meant for allies to display, show their alliance, and help create welcoming environments for queer people. It's not easy being so often-prosecuted minority and so it's our hope to help you communicate your love for LGBTQ+ people and volcanology in one.

[notmejusttheblueberries]

November 18 is the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM

[sciencenewsforstudents]

When Miles Ott was in high school, he had a love-hate relationship with math. Sometimes, he enjoyed his classes. At other times, he felt confused. “I did not understand what the point was,” he says. “I just thought I wasn’t good at it.”

But that changed in college when he took a calculus class. The teacher explained the concepts very clearly. “‘Oh, this makes sense now,’” Ott recalls thinking at the time. “It was a great feeling to finally understand this thing that was so profoundly confusing to me. And I just never wanted to stop.”

He didn’t. Later, he went to graduate school and studied biostatistics. That field combines math and statistics to understand how to improve the health of large groups of people. Ott now works at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. He has done research on topics such as HIV in South Africa and alcohol use among college students.

He also has explored mental health issues in transgender people. This area has special meaning to Ott because he is a transgender man.

What does being transgender mean? Imagine that when a baby is born, the doctor looks at their body parts and proclaims, “It’s a girl!” But at some point, that person comes to realize that they don’t feel like a girl at all. In fact, they knowthey’re supposed to be a boy. Put another way, their “gender identity” is male, making that person a transgender boy or man.

This can go the other way around, too. Doctors could say that a child is a boy at birth. But that person grows up knowing they are female. This is a transgender girl or woman.

Many transgender people then go through a process called a “transition.” Often, they start wearing clothes that match their gender identity. They may change their name. A transgender man named Andrea at birth, for instance, might start going by Alexander. And they can change their pronouns. Pronouns are words such as “he,” “she”, “him” and “her.” A transgender woman would ask people to refer to her as “she” and “her.”

Some people take medications or have surgery to change their bodies. A transgender man could undergo these treatments to develop male features. A transgender woman could go through other treatments to develop female features.

For Ott, being a transgender scientist has come with challenges. He was going through his transition when he applied to graduate school. He wasn’t sure which name to use on his applications. He decided to list his old name, even though it didn’t feel right.

In grad school, some people asked him overly personal questions. He slowly learned how to deal with these situations. “It took me a while to figure out that I don’t have to answer anybody’s questions,” he says. “I get to decide what I’m comfortable with.”

Becoming a scientist takes years of hard work and dedication. Transgender scientists and engineers, though, face extra hurdles. Sometimes they feel alone because they don’t know other transgender researchers. When they transition, colleagues may treat them rudely and disrespectfully. And transgender researchers can be in greater physical danger when they travel to other countries for fieldwork.

But these scientists and engineers are gaining support. Universities and organizations are working to make them feel included in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. More researchers are talking openly about being transgender (often abbreviated as “trans”). And they are finding other trans people through meetings and social media.

“It is slowly — maybe slowly, but surely — changing for the better,” says Daniel Cruz-Ramírez de Arellano. “I genuinely feel like that is the case.” He is a chemist at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Cruz-Ramírez de Arellano also has studied transgender scientists’ experiences.

[birdsbugsandbones]

Arthropod Pride

I’ve been working on these over the month- pride coloured arthropods! All are actual colours. In order of row, left-to-right:

LGBT: Cuckoo wasp (Chrysis equestris)

Bisexual: Flower beetle (Smaragdesthes africana), Lesbian: Crab spider (Thomisus onustus), Pansexual: Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea)

Nonbinary: Great carpenter bee (Xylocopa lieftincki), Trans: Tiger moth (Cosmosoma regia), Asexual: Western blue beauty (Protogoniomorpha cytora)

I had so much fun drawing all these wonderful inverts. It was great to be drawing again, and for pride to boot!

[erikalelis]

#lgbts #lgbtsupporter #lgbtsafeplace #lgbtsingles #lgbtsp #lgbtsafespace #lgbtsex #lgbtstuds #lgbtstemday #lgbtstories #lgbtshoutout #lgbtstem #lgbtseries #lgbtsports #lgbtsafe #lgbtsupport #lgbtshortfilm #lgbtshoutouts #lgbtsaopaulo #lgbtsoapopera #lgbtsims #lgbtsaga #lgbtspain #lgbtshop #lgbtslovakia #lgbtshows #lgbtserbia #lgbtsafezone #lgbtstyle #lgbtsingle (em São Paulo, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/BySbYIIp3qC/?igshid=1373luom69o68

[driftersbone]

Science is gay culture, change my mind

I've noticed a lot of posts going around as of late that perpetuate the idea that LGBTQ people can't do math, or LGBTQ people dont like science. While this is a joke and clearly not meant to be taken seriously, I think everyone should know that plenty of queer people have been successful in scientific fields. It's especially important for younger queer people to see that you dont need to suppress your love of STEM fields just to fit in with your community.

Some Queer STEM folks:

Sir Issac Newton

Sir Francis Bacon

Leonardo da Vinci

Florence Nightingale

Sara Josephine Baker

Louise Pearce

Alan Turing

Sally Ride

Angela Clayton

Ben Barres

Allan Cox

Niel Divine

Alexander Von Humboldt

Sonja Kovalevsky

Margaret Mead

Jim Pollack

Bruce Voeller

Clyde Wahrhaftig

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Uzi Even

Gavin Arthur

Ron Buckmire

Mary Ann Horton

Kate Hutton

That's just a few. Here's a website listing a bunch of living queer scientists.

Here's another

*I didn't not hardcore fact check anything here. A basic Google search will give you the same results I got. Feel free to research more and prove me wrong.

In conclusion, science and math is for all gays, any gays, any LGBTQ person. Dont let memes get you down. Go be an astrophysicist or a chemist or a microbiologist or a mathematician. Enjoy yourself, and embrace your interests and culture to the fullest.

[acemummerz]

On the 27th Feb 2019 oSTEM at University Birmingham hosted its first conference: STEM, LGBTQ & You! I am so proud to have been a part of this amazing chapter for so long, it has shaped my university experience for the better, and I'm gonna miss being @nuqueerengineer 's right hand man! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 . . . @ostembirmingham #ostem #ostemuob #ostembham #ostemtattoo #lgbtq #stemlgbtqu #stemlgbtqu19 #conference #lgbtstem #gayscience #stem #passingonthetorch #agender #panromantic #asexual #queer #nonbinary (at University of Birmingham) https://www.instagram.com/p/Buv1o2nlFnJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2e8ymzs1oyxi

[nonbinary-entomologist]

I really loved the #lgbtstem on Twitter. I wondered if Tumblr had a hastag like that and there isn’t one! I think that it’d be great for the sciblr/gradblr/science side of tumblr to start one to for lgbt science peeps! It’d be cool for visibility and also for networking posts. What do you all think?

Also the hashtag on twitter gave me confidence to come out professionally so it’d be cool to like have that on tumblr. 

[atleastninebees]

[falcemartello]

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Se avete fatto il presepe siete SENZA DUBBIO dei poveri fascisti e retrogradi, ai quali amdrebbero tolti i punti sulla #PatenteDiVoto 🤗.

Voglio ALMENO sperare che abbiate mantenuto la parità di genere tra i pastorell* 🌈

#restiamoUmani #facciamorete #lgbtSTEM #genderequity

@JungerMatilda

[fumblebeefae]

Happy (Late) International LGBTSTEM Day!

I’ve been too busy lately with my thesis and pre-surgery preparations to make any proper posts to mark LGBTSTEM day so instead I’d like to provide a few links for any LGBT academics / students in STEM or to any LGBT considering a career in STEM. 

What is LGBT STEM day?

All the information you could want on what LGBT STEM day is, why it’s needed and what local events could be happening around you.

 LGBT STEM Discord

Here is a link to an LGBT STEM discord server I created as a place to chat, connect and get advice from other LGBT people in STEM 

500 Queer Scientists

A visibility campaign that features stories from LGBT academics within STEM.

oSTEM Mentorship Program

Mentorship program which will connect you to another LGBT academic mentor (or mentee if you’d like to mentor someone)

You can also check out my LGBT science tags for more LGBT STEM content or more information into queer zoology.

LGBT in STEM

Queer in Nature

[palaeoiris]

The wait is almost over - Volgaynoes takeover is shortly upon us.

More info soon~

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Sticker design by @alias_in_ink (Instagram)

[materialsworld]

Scientist addresses challenges of sexuality in STEM

Credit: Ben Britton

By Shardell Joseph

A Materials scientist and engineer held a talk today titled ‘No sexuality please, we’re scientists’, addressing LGBTQ+ in STEM at South Kensington Campus, London.

Dr Ben Britton – trustee of the charity Pride in STEM – focused on the challenges shared by LGBTQ+ colleagues, and people from diverse backgrounds. Britton spoke about the benefits of having diverse teams within STEM – and how it can draw from a range of perspectives to provide better decision-making and open up exciting new avenues of inquiry.

Based on his research around the issues of LGBTQ+ in STEM, Britton spoke of ‘the initiatives to queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces to promote and embrace a more equal, diverse and inclusive STEM culture’.

Britton is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and winner of the IOM3 silver medal for outstanding contribution to material science, engineering and technology by individual under 30. Britton was nominated for the Gay Times Honours in 2017 through Pride in STEM, and spoke at the Institution of Physics ‘Pride of Physics’ celebration in August 2018.

Pride in STEM

Run by an independent group of LGBTQ+ scientists and engineers from around the world, the charity focuses on raising the profile of LGBTQ+ people in STEM as well as highlighting the struggles they often face.

Founded in 2016 – Pride in STEM raises awareness through events, hosting talks in locations such as queer bars, theatres, museums, universities and research institutions. They have since run events with the Science Musuem, the Francis Crick Institute, Stonewall, The British Science Association, the European Space Agency and more. They also spearheaded the first international day for LGBTQ+ people in STEM – LGBTSTEM Day – which took place in July 2018.

[gaypowercouple]

Remembering queer scientists who made history to celebrate LGBTSTEM Day · PinkNews

Remembering queer scientists who made history to celebrate LGBTSTEM Day · PinkNews

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July 5, 2018 marks the first international celebration of LGBTSTEM Day, an initiative organised by a group of associations working to support LGBT+ rights in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

The days aims to bring visibility to LGBT+ scientists, more than 40 percent of whom remain closeted at work. According to the 2015 American Physical Society survey,…

[fellenleaf]

Happy LGBTSTEM day!

[erikalelis]

#lgbts #lgbtsupporter #lgbtsafeplace #lgbtsafespace #lgbtsingles #lgbtsp #lgbtsex #lgbtstuds #lgbtstemday #lgbtstories #lgbtshoutout #lgbtstem #lgbtseries #lgbtsports #lgbtsafe #lgbtsupport #lgbtshortfilm #lgbtshoutouts #lgbtsaopaulo #lgbtsoapopera #lgbtsaga #lgbtspain #lgbtsims #lgbtshop #lgbtslovakia #lgbtshows #lgbtstyle #lgbtsafezone #lgbtserbia #lgbtsingle (em Osasco, Sao Paulo) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByNY1q8J2gS/?igshid=wp7hb5cm8tqz