Best of Story Collider: Pride

Best of Story Collider: Pride

Published: June 27, 2025

Duration: 28:55

To close out Pride Month this week, we're sharing a special best of episode featuring stories about coming out in science! 

Part 1: Science educator Charlie Cook experiments with coming out to students.

Charlie Cook is a non-binary white settler on ancestral, unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory. They are a museum science interpreter with a BFA in Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts.

Part 2: Marine biologist Shayle Matsuda adapts to his new identity as a transgender man while on assignment in the Philippines.

Dr. Shayle Matsuda is a Research B...