June 2019 – Social Justice Engineering

Feminist Killjoy with Andrea Haverkamp

Welcome to our debut episode of Branching Out! This week, I talked to Andrea Haverkamp about gender dynamics in engineering. Listen to the audio from this episode HERE!

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You can find Andrea at:SJ Engineers. The sources we reference in this episode are:

The Complexity of Nonbinary Gender Inclusion in Engineering Cultureby Andrea Haverkamp
Abusing Foucault: How Conservatives and Liberals Misunderstand “Social Construct” Sexuality by Jesi Egan
Re-Inscribing Gender Binaries: Deconstructing the Dominant Discourse around Women’s Equality in Science, Engineering, and TechnologybyAlison Phipps
Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)by Sarah Ahmed

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Advancing Nonbinary & Transgender Engineering Students at SWE Hawaiian Islands

I am so happy to share the full video and my slides from the May 25th 2019 SWE Hawaiian Islands event titled “More Work To Do in STEM for Diversity and Inclusion – A Conversation on Underrepresented Genders.” The event was so wonderful and opened up space to discuss Māhū gender in Native Hawaiian culture, (de)colonization and gender activism, trans & nonbinary experiences and identities, and where organizations such as the Society of Women Engineers can go to advance inclusion and support.

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