Lab Hopping editor Sayantan Datta shares their journey as a queer-trans person in STEM highlighting the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science.
December 27th 2024
A genderqueer biologist’s motivations, experiences, and insights into the challenges and triumphs of being a queer and trans scientist in India.
November 1st 2024
The term ‘women in science’ has been mentioned so often in recent years that it has become a buzzword—something people feel obligated to brush past while discussing science and technology, but one that often feels rather empty.
October 15th 2024
In this excerpt from ‘Lab Hopping: Women Scientists in India’, meet voices from the caste and gender margins who are working to make the Indian science ecosystem a more welcoming space for Dalit and transgender persons.
February 20th 2024
In this excerpt from ‘Lab Hopping: Women Scientists in India’: The story of the (at least) two-decade-old movement for equity in Indian science. Here’s how women and trans persons in science started (and continue to) shake things from within.
February 11th 2024
The recent resignation of Vipin Veetil from IIT Madras brings to light sophisticated ways of subverting affirmative action in the IITs.
February 21st 2022
কীভাবে জাতিবাদ আধুনিক ভারতীয় শিক্ষাপ্রতিষ্ঠানগুলিতে প্রকাশিত এবং সমৃদ্ধ হয় তা আমাদের সামনে এলো দলিত, বহুজন ও আদিবাসী সাংবাদিক, শিক্ষাবিদ এবং কর্মীদের মধ্যে একটি অনলাইন আলোচনার মাধ্যমে।
July 29th 2021
പത്രപ്രവര്ത്തനം, വിദ്യാഭ്യാസം, തുടങ്ങിയ മേഖലകളില് നിന്നുള്ള ദളിത്, ബഹുജന്, ആദിവാസി പ്രവര്ത്തകര് തമ്മിലുള്ള ഒരു ഓണ്ലൈന് സംഭാഷണത്തില് ഇന്ത്യന് ഉന്നതവിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങളില് ജാതീയത തഴച്ചുവളരുന്നത് തുറന്നുകാട്ടപ്പെട്ടു
July 24th 2021
दलित, बहुजन और आदिवासी पत्रकार, एकेडेमिक्स और कार्यकर्ताओं की एक ऑनलाइन चर्चा में एक बात साफ़ उभर कर आई—आधुनिक भारत के एकेडेमिया में जातिवाद न सिर्फ़ पनप रहा है, बल्कि यही उसकी मुख्य पहचान है
July 8th 2021
Journalists can either continue to blame historical injustices and persist with their old habits, or they can actively start diversifying their reports. A new crowdsourced list aims to accelerate change.
June 29th 2021