Inviting all for a talk by Chayanika Shah on the topic "Who of Science: Does it Matter?".

Dr. Shah is an optimist activist at heart, a Physicist by training and a teacher by choice. She has campaigned, researched, taught and written on politics of population control, communalism, feminist studies of science, and sexuality.

She has a doctorate in physics and taught Physics to graduate students at K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Mumbai for two decades. She is presently visiting faculty at Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai where she co-teaches a course on “Science Education”. She has also designed and taught a course in Feminist Science Studies at TISS with Gita Chadha. She has been an active member of two autonomous voluntary collectives in Mumbai -- Forum Against Oppression of Women and LABIA – A Queer Feminist LBT Collective. Recently she has been part of two research processes -- "Breaking the Binary: Understanding concerns and realities of queer persons assigned gender female at birth across a spectrum of lived gender realities" and "Making Sense: Familial journeys towards acceptance of gay and lesbian family members."

Her co-authored book “No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy” has been published last month by Zubaan. Some of her other co-authored books are “Bharat ki Chaap” a companion book for the documentary of the same name and “We and Our Fertility: The politics of technological intervention”.

All are welcome.