Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science--Sig/Sara Giordano in conversation with Sean Saifa Wall

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Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science--Sig/Sara Giordano in conversation with Sean Saifa Wall

By Charis Books and More/Charis Circle

Charis welcomes Sig/Sara Giordano in conversation with Sean Saifa Wall for a discussion of Labs of Our Own: Feminist Tinkerings with Science. From climate change to COVID-19 to reproductive justice, there has been deep political polarization around science. Labs of Our Own provides a unique entry point into these twenty-first-century science wars by focusing on our affective relationships to science. This event is co-sponsored by the Kennesaw State University Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies Department.

The book delves into various sites where scientists, teachers, artists, and activists claim to create more democratic access to science—from DIY biology community labs to feminist classrooms to activist science practitioners. The reader will find that these claims for and attempts at democratic sciences not only impact what counts as science and who counts as a scientist but reconfigure who is included in the proper public. Instead of arguing for a knee-jerk defense of science against right-wing attacks, Labs of Our Own builds the case for a feminist, antiracist, decolonial, queer science tinkering practice that intentionally, politically, and ethically acts to produce new challenges to the definition and boundaries of the human.

The Kennesaw State University and Charis Communities are invited to a reception of light snacks and beverages on the front porch of Charis Books & More beginning at 6:30 pm. Seating for the program begins at 7 pm and masks are required at all times during the event. The program will begin promptly at 7:30 pm.

Sig/Sara Giordano is an activist-scholar working as an Associate Professor at Kennesaw State University specializing in feminist science studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. Their areas of interest are the politics and ethics of science with a focus on critical science literacy and the democratization of science.

Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and received his PhD as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Huddersfield in England. He is co-founder of the Intersex Justice Project, an initiative by intersex people of color to challenge medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children and young adults. Above everything, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children and advocates for affirming healthcare for all people with intersex variations. In addition to his work and activism, Saifa is a loving dad to his dog, Justice.

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