Teaching

Stanford University, Spring 2023

This course is a project-based advanced undergraduate seminar designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Feminist Science and Technology Studies and the study of science, technology, and society from explicitly feminist and social justice perspectives. In this course, I invite students to think through the normal, everyday “objects” of science and technology (e.g. the algorithm, the computer, the Internet, the laboratory, prescription medicine, the chemical, plastics, “nature,” etc.) in conversation with key texts across the fields of Feminist STS, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Postcolonial and Indigenous Studies of Science and Technology, as well as artist and activist work, to learn to identify, describe, analyze, and communicate the ways in which these “objects” shape, and have been shaped by, the material histories and speculative futures of systems of power like colonial racial capitalism. Then, I invite students to identify and commit to a political action they can take to address the complexity of this entanglement, while encouraging them to critically evaluate their political action and the extent to which it redistributes specific relations of power, and, perhaps inadvertently, reinscribes certain other relations of power. My goal in this course is to have students come to grapple with the specific non-innocent entanglements, complicities, and responsibilities that shape our relationships with science and technology using a feminist politics of care.

Stanford University, Winter 2023

Introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, queer, trans, and feminist studies. Topics include social justice and feminist organizing, art and activism, feminist histories, the emergence of gender and sexuality studies in the academy, intersectionality and interdependence, the embodiment and performance of difference, and relevant socio-economic and political formations such as work and the family. Students learn to think critically about race, gender, disability, and sexuality.

Stanford University, Fall 2022

This course is focused on the feminist concept of intersectionality. As a mode of Black feminist thought, lived activist practice, and interdisciplinary research methodology, intersectionality allows us to think about overlapping forms of identity and the interlocking power structures that produce systematic oppression and discrimination. We will examine the origins and development of intersectional feminism and consider its far-reaching impact in social justice work and contemporary activist movements. As we learn the language, methods, and critiques of intersectionality, we will cover issues related to rights, ethics, privilege, and globalization while discussing social difference on micro- and macro-levels.

University of California, Davis, Winter 2022

This course introduces students to the co-production of globalization and the histories of US scientific and technological development through the lenses of women of color feminisms, queer of color critique, and critical race and ethnic studies. With a focus on applying intersectionality as an analytic of power, students will examine the ways in which contemporary US scientific and technological development is shaped by the technoscientific infrastructures and cultural imaginaries of globalization as inheritances of earlier histories and processes of US imperialism and the development of global racial capitalism.

University of California, Davis, Fall 2021

What is feminist science? How does feminist science relate to social justice? How have social justice movements and feminist science studies shaped each other? This course seeks to address these questions, among many others, by providing an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of feminist science studies. While STS has long been a discipline that can give us the tools to understand the complex relationships between science and technology and society, in this course we will learn how feminist science studies can provide the tools to understand these complex relationships with specific attention to how they are mediated by structures of social and political economic power, often in the context of long histories of social struggle and oppression and movements for social justice.