Remnants of Resistance: Scientific Data is Not Going to Make the Case for Equality

March 28, 2025

As part of the One Institute's Circa Queer Histories Festival, CSUN's University Library and Queer Studies Program have partnered to produce a second season of the Remnants of Resistance podcast. Episodes feature interviews with CSUN faculty, and will delve into unique and hidden queer stories uncovered by their research.

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About the Episode

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Jeremy Yoder about his 2019 Slate column “A New Age of Gay Genomics Is Here. Are We Ready for the Consequences?” and his follow-up blog post from 2024, “What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it?”

About the Guest

Jeremy B. Yoder is an Associate Professor of Biology at CSUN. He studies how interactions between species, especially mutually beneficial interactions, have shaped the diversity of life on Earth. He is a founding collaborator of the Joshua Tree Genome Project and the interdisciplinary Queer in STEM project; he also edits the Molecular Ecologist blog for the journal Molecular Ecology, and his writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the Awl, and Slate.

More Reading

• Andrea Ganna, et al. “Large-Scale GWAS Reveals Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior,” Science 365, Iss. 6456 (30 August 2019). DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7693. Freely available to the public at the project’s website: https://geneticsexbehavior.info/.
• Joanna Wuest. Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres, 2023. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy
• Lulu Miller. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2021. Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy

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