Cross-Disciplinary Coalitions: Applying Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to Physics Education Research

The field of physics, and academia in general, is entrenched within a culture of racism, patriarchy, cisheterosexuality, and ableism. Many scholars throughout women, gender, sexuality studies and related fields bring critical eyes and theorizations to these problems. Within physics education research, some scholars apply and interrogate these frameworks, but there is much room for further investigations. What, then, can physics education research gain from the interdisciplinary approaches of women, gender, and sexuality studies? How can PER efforts apply knowledges from queer, trans, and crip theories? In this talk, I discuss what a further application of intersectionality, crip theory, and other such analytics can do for the field, and, most importantly, for the faculty and students it affects.