ABSTRACT
Through reflection on the research processes, milestones, and community norms of the GenderSci Lab, this chapter illustrates one kind of feminist scholar-activism: “speaking truth to power.” The GenderSci Lab is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research community based at Harvard University that aims to excavate and criticize “binary biological sex-essentialist” assumptions underlying studies of health. This chapter reflects on the lab’s knowledge-making practices, arguing that this form of feminist health activism works through troubling empirically shallow frameworks and offering intersectional, biosocial approaches to the biomedical sciences. In addition, it grapples with uneasy frictions that arise between the lab’s ideals and inequitable practices of academic knowledge production in and against which the lab is situated.
