Critical feminist STS has constructively challenged the cisheteronormativity and white supremacy embedded in an array of sciences, from animal behavior to toxicology to urban ecology (Visperas, Brown, and Sexton 2016; Cipolla, Gupta, and Rubin 2017; Hoover 2017). This panel builds from these critiques to highlight emerging shifts—despite ongoing obstacles—within contemporary scientific methods and practices, focusing on field sites and laboratory spaces. We recognize that even those practitioners committed to queering and decolonizing scientific knowledge production face entrenched systems of hierarchy and linearity. And yet, we also sense fantastic(al) potential. For instance, what pathways to environmental justice do queer, Black feminist, and Indigenous studies perspectives enable us to see, feel, and traverse? Or, focusing on the embodied experience of doing work in the field/lab in a specific body, what dangers and risks does this work entail? What would making space for BIPOC, queer, and trans scientists to do this work make possible, in terms of scientific outcomes, community engagement, and environmental justice action? We are especially interested in how queer and trans perspectives on cisheteronormativity might intersect with Indigenous studies, Black feminist, and political ecology analyses of private property and public lands. For example, how can field science work within tribal protocols to disrupt settler science’s longstanding practice of contributing to dispossession (through creation of conservation areas and parks, advancement of forestry and agriculture, river damming, etc.)? What critical modes of attention does Black feminist biopolitics bring to the study of toxins and/or ecological “purity,” across both urban and rural landscapes?