Pride: Stories about coming out in science
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
To close out Pride Month this week, we're sharing a special bonus episode featuring stories about coming out in science!
Part 1: Science educator Charlie Cook experiments with coming out to students.
Charlie Cook is a non-binary stand up comedian by night and a non-binary science educator by day. Their favourite topics include queer theory, entomology, and outer space. For more information on their work and to find out where they're performing next, visit them on Instagram @onmygnome
Part 2: Marine biologist Shayle Matsuda adapts to his new identity as a transgender man while on assignment in the Philippines.
Shayle Matsuda's story originally aired on our podcast in November 2014. See details here.
Note: This June, The Story Collider is celebrating Pride Month by highlighting stories about the intersection of science and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues. Each of our five episodes this month will include one of these stories, and you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram this month as we also share highlights from our back catalog as well.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is that all your scientist? |
| 0:33.0 | I felt. |
| 0:33.9 | I felt. |
| 0:35.0 | And I just thought, well, it was it out. It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.3 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:48.3 | Welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:52.3 | I am your host, Aaron Barker. |
| 0:55.6 | And to cap off our Pride Month celebration this June, |
| 0:58.2 | we're including this special bonus pride episode. |
| 1:01.8 | So today I'm bringing you two extra stories, |
| 1:04.4 | one that's brand new and one from our back catalog, |
| 1:07.3 | about coming out in science. |
| 1:10.4 | Our first story is from Charlie Cook. |
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