We, AG Queer STS, an independent volunteer working collective, are publishing the open-access, online journal Queer-Feminist STS Forum since 2016. As a collective, we are constantly learning with and from our contributors, reviewers, and readers and wider communities and remain committed to improving the Forum as a space for queer-feminist perspectives from academia, arts, activism […]
Birgit Hofstätter
Call for Contributions: Queer STS Forum #11: Queer_feminist politics
Editors: Susanne Kink-Hampersberger, Lisa Scheer & Aleksandra Wierzbicka As the Queer STS Working Group, we outline our understanding of queer Science, Technology, and Society Studies in our manifesto. Central to us is not only a reflective stance as researchers but also a critical examination of social reality, in which not all people have the same […]
Call for Contributions: Queer STS Forum #10 – The past, the present and the future of Queer STS
Editors: Anita Thaler & Anna Szlavi In 2008, feminist STS researchers in Graz, Austria, began to discuss queer-feminist literature in a ‘reading circle’. This initial reading group gradually developed into a working group – growing in persons and spreading geographically – whose critique of heteronormative and binary gender concepts (i.e. a queer perspective in the […]
Call for Contributions: Queer STS Forum #9: Queer-Feminist Solidarities in Times of Social and Political Turbulences
Editors: Birgit Hofstätter & Anita Thaler In recent years queer-feminist communities have been established as places of comfort and empowerment. At the same time we have had to witness social and political setbacks when it comes to the rights of women* and LGBTIQA*. We experience and/or observe hostile environments – particularly in the online, more […]