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GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson Profiled in Harvard Magazine Cover Story

Meet GenderSci Lab Director Sarah Richardson and learn more about the Lab’s origin story in science writer Bennett McIntosh’s in-depth profile in this month’s Harvard Magazine.

“The GenderSci Lab now meets in Richardson’s basement office in Boylston Hall,” writes McIntosh. “Though the only beakers are held by a Marie Curie bobblehead on her desk, the focused and collaborative inquiry on display in lab meetings would be familiar to any scientist.”

 “For Richardson and the GenderSci Lab, speaking out means challenging harmful uses and misuses of science, whether by white nationalists or by well-intentioned biologists who might benefit from a fresh look at seemingly fundamental ideas, such as the nature of sex itself.”