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Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? (defector.com)
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Epilogue: After that film was finished, the team went on to drill the deepest ice core ever drilled in the Americas

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/05/deepest-ice-core-in-the-americas-drilled-in-canadian-arctic.html

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

A queer person did some excellent climate science, that’s how the two subjects relate. If you ignore either aspect of the story, well, it isn’t the full story.

Did you know that queer people have a right to exist and that questioning the relevance of their queerness to their work is essentially denying their humanity?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    I mean, you'll never really get the full story of anything if it requiers every adjacent detail, there's just too much detail in any event to document it all. So, I think it's more that being queer is an important part of this story because queer people have been marginalised. Which means it's important that they have good representation and their achievements are celebrated.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yes.

    Would one question the relevance of a biography that mentioned that an accomplished straight male scientist was a ‘family man’ or that a scientist was also a married woman with children?

    Questioning the validity of mentioning that a scientist is queer is identical to the attitude that queer people are fine as long as they are invisible.

    It was a biography, biographies mention biographical details. Yet when that detail is ‘queer’, people feel empowered to complain it was even mentioned.

    I’m not on the defensive here. I intend to come across as offensive. You tell US exactly why mentioning that a person is queer is not relevant in a biographical sketch.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ok, you are a sealion, cool, good to know.

    Did you know you can mention multiple facts about a person in a biography and they are all valid and mentionable?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Especially when that particular part of their identity is under attack.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I know that my engagement in this exercise will not change their opinion. I am engaged because this shit is exhausting and it is exactly the thing to challenge at this moment.

    I think it’s time to start wearing these, before they become mandatory again.

    pink triangles

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