This topic stems from iNaturalist Pride Month 2021 blog post , and is a place for LGBTQIA+ members of the iNaturalist community and their allies to share and discuss their experiences on iNat or in the broader naturalist/STEM community. It can be difficult to share these stories, positive or negativ…

I didn’t even know there was a star trek show currently running lol, but good to know. Sometimes Star Trek gets stuff 100% right, and sometimes…ugh lol…(I’m never going to recover from everyone telling me for years that TOS is THE most progressive feminist thing ever to exist ever and then watching …

The thing about classic trek is there is definitely a lot wrong with it by modern standards, and Gene Roddenberry was famously a massive horndog. And Rick Berman taking over in the 90s wasnt great because he was just aggressively terrible to women. But. For the time, there is a lot they got right,…

I forgot to post the links to the projects so here they are: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trans-naturalists https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/xenogender-naturalists https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/nonbinary-naturalists

In an effort to keep this main thread open, we’ve relocated and closed a side conversation on biological sex since the discussion has run its course, and an increasing number of replies that were found to violate our guidelines were flagged or hidden.

The National Wildlife Federation blog just ran a series of posts on queer ecology. Queer Ecology: Relationships to Nature Queer Ecology: A Spectrum of Perspective Queer Ecology: Identity and Field Research

This thread is getting kind of hard to follow with all the conversations that get split off and locked and sometimes redirected back here. Would it be possible for this thread to have its own rules to prevent this? And maybe a list of resources/guides to explain things like the difference between bi…

Very cool, I’ll bookmark them to read them later!

The problem is trolls aren’t going to care about rules etc, and they’re very good at couching their language in ways that don’t seem harmful unless you’re looking at it. Honestly, the best thing is probably just to not engage and report anything suspect to the mods.

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