Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/20/2023
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location
Pioneer Works
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In conversations about sex and gender, biology is often oversimplified and misused to justify inequalities. Yet the past century has seen enormous shifts in biological understandings of sex away from a binary model that posits sex as fixed and instead suggests a model that is more varied and dynamic.
Our guest biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, pioneering scholar in the analysis of sex and gender, was one of the first scientists to question how gender ideology distorts the biological picture of sex and one of the first to see great value in placing the science of sex in its social and historical context. Fausto-Sterling is joined by Sarah Richardson, the founder of Harvard’s GenderSci Lab, who generates alternative scientific methods of sex and gender research and works to enhance public understanding and discourse. They are joined on stage by our host, Rebecca Jordan-Young, to offer new tools for thinking critically about science, sex, and gender.
After the event please join us in the garden for stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association and tasty eats provided by Wah Gwaan.
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