Broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of the rhetoric of science and cultural studies, and I draw from fields including science and technology studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and gender and sexuality studies. I’m currently working on research related to the transformation of scientific constructs as they are distributed via popular news media and popular culture more generally. My dissertation project takes as its object published research from psychology, neuroscience, and medicine that seeks to identify a cause or substrate of queerness. The current paper examines rhetoric about gender and sexual orientation in a study that employs medical imaging technologies (MRI and PET) to identify gender- and sexual orientation-based differences in brain structure. A key component of my analysis is interrogating the assumptions made by and about technologies of visibility and the rhetoric that surrounds such technologies. I’m also concerned with the related rhetorics of scientific objectivity and machinic neutrality within the technical and public spheres, and the cultural narratives about gender and sexual orientation that these studies incorporate and reproduce.