My previous connection to AG Queer STS
Anita Thaler & Daniela Jauk-Ajamie (2022). Editorial for Queer STS Forum #7 2022: Towards Academic Kindness – A queer-feminist string figure on kinder working cultures in academia. Queer STS Forum, 7, 4-10.
Daniela Jauk, Birgit Hofstätter, Anita Thaler & Magdalena Wicher (2020). Queer STS Forum #5: Queer-feminist issues in pandemic times. Queer STS Forum, 5, 4-7.
Daniela Jauk (2016). Gaga-feminist Teaching. Queer STS Forum, 1, 16-22.
Invigorated. Inspired. Kinshipped.
How I became involved with AG Queer STS/Queer-Feminist STS Forum…
It is impossible to say “no” to Anita Thaler’s warm, no-pressure invitations to participate in a book club, in a meeting, in an intellectually stimulating and joyful event of sorts, one of the thousands she co-creates. I said yes and was humbled to be accepted as a member into the queer STS workgroup sometime around 2015/16, about the same time when I submitted my first contribution to the Queer STS Forum.
What happened since my contribution…
I had the opportunity to play and grow in the Forum space in various roles, such as co-editor and reviewer, and to examine our work here as researchers when we started reflecting on academic kindness and reviewing our team’s work during the pandemic.
Wicher, Magdalena, Anita Thaler, and Daniela Jauk. “Publishing Queer-Feminist Voices in Pandemic Times.” Queering STS Conference. September 1, 2021. University College London, UK. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-research/events/2021/sep/virtual-queering-sts-conference. Virtual meeting.
Jauk, Daniela, Magdalena Wicher, and Anita Thaler. Publishing Queer-Feminist Voices in Pandemic Times. NOSTS – Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference. May 20, 2021. Virtual meeting.
Thinking about the future from a queer-feminist perspective, I…
… am simultaneously horrified and elated. While facing the harshest attack on progress, gender justice, and dignity for all beings politically, I have experienced in my lifetime, we have never before in history been able to build on so many role models, fore-thinkers, and networks to amplify resistance and joyfully co-create social justice. The Queer STS Forum is one of the dance floors for our liberation boogie.
My personal wishes to the AG Queer STS / for the Queer-Feminist STS Forum…
Flourish – Grow – Unfold!