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Manil Suri Why Is Science So Straight Summary

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In America, students are taught about the struggles that racial minorities and women have, and still, face in the country. Countless textbook chapters across the country are dedicated to the moments surrounding these minorities, but less is said about the LGBTQIA+ rights movement that is still in it’s prime and heavily underway. For this reason, Manil Suri’s Op-Ed piece titled, “Why Is Science So Straight?”, about LGBTQIA+ discrimination within the math and science departments, is an interesting representation of issues that have become increasingly present in America today. Suri start’s by telling a story, “I came out as gay to a colleague in the engineering department. ‘I didn’t realize you were so unconventional.’” (Suri) This short anecdote
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