ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an account of intersectionality as live theory and practice in feminist STS and science research, grounded in the GenderSci Lab's recent experience analyzing COVID-19 mortality and theories of global sperm count decline. Practicing intersectionality as live theory requires forging into the territory of anti-disciplinarity, including deeply questioning extant power structures both in academia and society at large. Sustaining the multi/inter/anti-disciplinary space necessary for our practice of intersectionality requires substantial labor. The lack of inclusion of Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized identities is a major challenge to the legitimacy and trustworthiness of the sciences. As has long been demonstrated and theorized in feminist science studies and philosophy of science, who is practicing science influences the realm of hypotheses and research programs considered and has a major impact on the arc of scientific research.
