This overlap of queer mentorship and science mentorship is *catnip* for me, wow. WOW. I am so sorry about ~exclusionary communities, and empathize a lot with...the threats of a group that is ostensibly yours. I wanna think more about it but for the moment: yeah! Sucks! I'm sorry!
I'm super interested in your experience of overlapping scientific and queer mentorship—er, or the possiblity of it. Do you think forming a queer mentorship/friendship with your PI (er, boss, don't know your lab structure!)— I mean, is that even how you would characterize it? Is he a scientific mentor and queer friend, or scientific AND queer mentor? How did those interpersonal identities (queer and scientist) affect each other? I am asking, I think, because in my lab life people were either one or the other—people above me scientifically were either new queers or not at all (or reaaalllly not my type of gay, and bad scientific mentors to boot), and people scientifically on par or newer than me were...queer in similar ways, but not merging their queer/scientific identities.
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Date: 2019-01-22 01:58 am (UTC)I'm super interested in your experience of overlapping scientific and queer mentorship—er, or the possiblity of it. Do you think forming a queer mentorship/friendship with your PI (er, boss, don't know your lab structure!)— I mean, is that even how you would characterize it? Is he a scientific mentor and queer friend, or scientific AND queer mentor? How did those interpersonal identities (queer and scientist) affect each other?
I am asking, I think, because in my lab life people were either one or the other—people above me scientifically were either new queers or not at all (or reaaalllly not my type of gay, and bad scientific mentors to boot), and people scientifically on par or newer than me were...queer in similar ways, but not merging their queer/scientific identities.