Adopting an intersectional lens, this timely volume explores the lived experiences of members of the queer and trans community in post-secondary STEM culture in the US to provide critical insights into progressing socially just STEM education pathways.

1: What Do We Know and Why Should We Support Queer and Trans People in STEM?

Bryce E. Hughes, Stephanie Farrell, and Kelly J. Cross

Part I: Queer Students: Where do I fit in STEM?

2: I am Gay, Not Invisible!

Miguel Moore

3: Transcending the Margins and Boundaries as Latin-American Engineer

Héctor E. Rodríguez-Simmonds

4: A Call to Make Queer Erasure, Violence, and Battle Fatigue in STEM Visible

D.C. Beardmore

Part II: Queer Staff: How Can I Create Safe Spaces for Queer People in STEM?

5: Navigating and Celebrating Your Otherness to Succeed as a Queer Person in STEM

Robyn Sandekian

6: Local Minima and Maxima in Trans-STEM Affirmations

Kyle Trenshaw

Part III: Queer Faculty: How Can I Build Community for Queer People in STEM

7: Invisible and Exhausted on the Margins of Academia

Zoe Reidinger

8: Queer STEM Parenting Made me a Better Teacher/Instructor

Stephen Podowitz-Thomas and Erjia Yan

9: Being Queer Taught Me How to Teach

Anthony Butterfield

10: Empathy, Sympathy, and Accountability

Aric Bryant

11: Building a Village to Manage my Triple Threat Multiple Identities

Kelly J. Cross

Part IV: Queer Allies, Allyship, and Advocates: How Can I Support Queer People in STEM?

12: Can You See Me Now: Being a Black Queer Man in STEM

Chris Carr and Darryl Dickerson

13: My Evolution Over 40 Years in Higher Education: From Silence in the Closet to Out and Evolving

Karen P. DePauw and Kelly J. Cross

14: The Act of Embrace as Queer Resistance in Engineering

Donna Riley

15: My Ongoing Journey through Allyship

Adrienne R. Minerick

16: What Does It Mean and Where Do We Go from Here?

Stephanie Farrell, Kelly J. Cross, and Bryce Hughes

Kelly J. Cross is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at University of Nevada Reno, USA.

Stephanie Farrell is a Professor and Founding Department Head of Experiential Engineering Education at Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University, USA.

Bryce E. Hughes is an Assistant Professor of Adult & Higher Education at Montana State University, USA.