I am... writing in the embrace of
                                 a collective practice, in which
                                 the many writers loop through
                                 each other, tracing together the
                                 barely discernible figure of an
                                 elsewhere.
                                 -Donna Haraway

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I'm Marion Boulicault, a PhD candidate at MIT's philosophy department. I have an MPhil in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge, and I studied philosophy and environmental science as an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill.

I work at the place where philosophy meets science & technology studies. My dissertation investigates fertility metrics; I explore how gender norms and ideologies are reflected in and constructed through the assignment of numbers to the phenomenon of fertility. A chapter of the dissertation was awarded the 2018 Benjamin Siegel Writing Prize from the MIT STS Program.

Since 2016, I've worked as a Neuroethics Fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology, where I draw on feminist theory and disability studies to analyze the use of metrics in emerging neural technologies. I'm also a member of the Harvard GenderSci Lab, an interdisciplinary research group engaged in generating feminist concepts, methods, and theories for scientific research on sex and gender.

For the past two years, I've co-directed PIKSI, a philosophy summer school for students from under-represented groups. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a Research Associate at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington D.C.

You can reach me at marionb at mit dot edu.