🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "Sex in the medical machine: How algorithms can entrench bioessentialism in precision medicine” by K. Ichikawa, M. Boulicault, A. Thinius, M. DiMarco, A. Murchland, B. Maldonado, A. Higgins, and S. Richardson. 🔓: lnkd.in/dwivCrXH #sex #gender #precisionmedicine

📢 GENDER AND THE MACHINE Join us in Edinburgh on 20 Nov to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov 2025 📍 Edinburgh 👋 All welcome Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and... #data #AI #tech #emotion #trans #LGBTQ #queer

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Excellent thread, highlighting some of my complaints with a 'numerical diversity' approach to DEI work. Counting the number of people from a minoritised background (e.g. in TV adverts, company boards, universities) is a flawed method that creates opportunities for the misuse of diversity data 🔢

✨📣 Excited to announce our upcoming event GENDER AND THE MACHINE! Join us on Nov 20th for an afternoon exploring gender, marginalisation and emotion in tech - talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus panel discussion and networking reception ⬇️ sign up shorturl.at/QlMfx

Important. @transactualuk.bsky.social have released a new report about the harm caused by the Supreme Court misjudgement & the EHRC's interpretation of it. It shows how the ruling & interpretation is also harming cis women. Those it was supposed to "protect". transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🌈 rainbowR meet-up today: Wed Oct 29th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve done 💻 Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups - NEW LINK AND TIME FOR WINTER SERIES

Am renewing my UK passport and - for the first time - noticed you can submit documentation to have an academic title added to the Observations page (e.g. Dr, Prof). What are the reasons someone might choose to add a title? I imagine it invites more questions/risks when crossing borders?

Queer Lives and the Politics of Categories: Join us for a critical exploration of the politics of data & categories, & the implications for LGBTQIA+ communities in research & practice worldwide with Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social. 5 November 2025 | 20:00 AEDT Register: bit.ly/499OXyH

Our CfP information for LavLang32 is now live: 📅 6 January 2026 - Abstract submission open ⏱️28 March 2026 - Abstract submission deadline 📣 8 May 2026 - Notification of decisions lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk

Thanks Emma - delighted you enjoyed the book! ✨

Really fantastic talk yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on his latest book Rainbow Trap. I am now spending the rest of the week untangling all my thoughts on Queer data. Truly fascinating!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who joined for the Belfast launch of Rainbow Trap! A packed room + lots of great conversations. @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social #RainbowTrap #boxbreakers #LGBTQ #data #queerdata #research #policy #tech #books #newbooks

New book review: Travis Campbell reviews "Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action", by Kevin Guyan. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This week in Belfast + London ⬇️ #RainbowTrap #LGBTQ #books kevinguyan.com/events/

BELFAST LAUNCH! 🚀 Join me on 21 Oct to explore ideas from my new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion. Ulster University | 6pm | All welcome ✨ @gailneill.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-tr...

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Doing a few online events with universities in the US and Canada this month, including this talk today at 3pm EDT👇

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, meet the Box Breakers from @kevinguyan.bsky.social If you have ever found the answer options of a form are all wrong for you, you too are a Box Breaker. Pro tip for why people lie of forms: “Wrong answers only” - very common.

🌈 It’s been fascinating to see which ideas from Rainbow Trap *stick* with readers – and the idea of box breakers has been one of those sticky ideas! So... who are box breakers? 🧵

Again and again, Zack Polanski is cutting through by challenging purposefully misleading and derogatory framing. Morgan's default when challenged has always been to splutter, mock and deny. He has no defence against those who won't be intimidated or deflected.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

London friends! I'm sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap at Queer@King's @kingsartshums.bsky.social on 23 OCTOBER and it would be great to see you there! ✨ 🗓️ Thurs 23 October 🕕 18:30-20:00 🌍 Strand campus, London 👋 All welcome www.kcl.ac.uk/events/rainb...

Hello Rainbow Trap! 🌈 👋

HI. It's me. WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23. Keynote Speakers • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business) • Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

🌈 Dr @kevinguyan.bsky.social from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social reveals how the promise of inclusion requires LGBTQ+ people to identify with an ever-growing list of classifications, categories & labels – putting them in a rainbow trap. 📆 23 Oct 💡 Hosted by Queer@King's 🔗 Register ⬇️

Delighted to welcome @kevinguyan.bsky.social back to @ulsteruni.bsky.social for the launch of #TheRainbowTrap later this month. See below for details 👇🏽

When any pupil goes to school, they should be able to do so safely, have appropriate toilets and changing rooms they can use, and be listened to and have their identity respected.

The three Yuan Changying 2025 prize-nominated essays for outstanding gender observations in our flagship course, Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World, are now out on the GENDER.ED blog! Do head to the blog and take a look: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog

Brilliant thread from @keyne-unable.bsky.social on why the introduction of digital ID (and the encoding of 'birth sex' in a single government record) has long been an objective of anti-trans campaigners in the UK 👇

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Finishing a writing piece that's been long in the works, charting the emergence + strategies of anti-trans data activism in the UK. It's looking for a home, so please share recommendations for places publishing punchy long reads on gender / queer / data 📝

BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed it opposes Labour's plans to introduce compulsory Digital ID

Ugh. Yet another issue that is going to become all about how sex is defined and categorised. I imagine anti-trans campaign groups are already drafting their policy briefs for MPs arguing for the BritCard (🤮) to include data on 'biological sex' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Amazing piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social: "if we want to tell stories about the past that not only make historiographical contributions but also help people get healthcare [etc] we must start by ensuring that we are in community ourselves and are responsive to community pressures and needs".

I'm in Belfast on 21 Oct for a Rainbow Trap launch event! 🌈 Ulster University | 6-8pm All welcome 👋 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-tr...

✊🏿 Paid opportunities for Black LGBTQIA+ writers and journalists! The @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social is joining @WeAreQueerAF.com as our Black History Month UK guest editor Details in 🧵 or apply now 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/black-histor...

NYC memories 📸

Reminder - Next month, we'll host @kevinguyan.bsky.social at VCU for a virtual session! This is free and open to anyone to attend, but registration is required: vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The design of categories are at the forefront in the fight for LGBTQ equalities ✊ I'll be exploring the politics of identity categories at this free event TODAY (13 Sept) at the Royal Society of Edinburgh! 💻 Online and in Edinburgh 🕒 6.30 - 7.30pm BST 🔗 More info: rse.org.uk/event/caught...

Fab time at Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social

Loved this conversation with @snackmag.bsky.social about the politics of categories, boxes and labels 👇 To find out more, join us at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Sat 13 Sept for the event Caught in a Rainbow Trap! 🌈 snackmag.co.uk/kevin-guyan-...

This Friday (5 Sept) at Cornell 👇

Very excited for this week's Rainbow Trap book launch and panel discussion at NYU. We'll be exploring all things LGBTQ data and what happens when queer lives meet categories of gender, sex and sexuality 📊 Weds 3 Sept | Kimball Hall, NYC All welcome 👋 kevinguyan.com/2025/07/15/r...

TOMORROW! Join author @kevinguyan.bsky.social for a panel discussion exploring queer lives, classifications and the dangers of inclusion ⤵️ 📆 Sept. 3rd 🕖 5:00pm-6:30pm 📍NYC 🎟️ kevinguyan.com/2025/07/15/r... Kevin's book 🛒 bit.ly/3HCTVrN

It's September and so the Queer Minds Scotland online seminar series returns! This month we're excited to have @kevinguyan.bsky.social presenting the 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion' Please join us 25th September 4-5 events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Reading “Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion” by @kevinguyan.bsky.social, and I keep thinking about Sanford Berman’s work #BookSky #Library

We obviously don't yet know the full details but a reminder that the biggest danger when using toilets is not trans people! This story is particularly noteworthy as the Scottish Parliament was quick to ban trans women from using female toilets following the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.

Today, we’re launching The Democracy Lab - a new programme with LGBTI orgs in Europe & Central Asia! We will support 8 orgs to strengthen democracy and promote the deeper integration of LGBTI orgs into broader pro-democracy movements and discourse. https://www.ilga-europe.org/news/the-democracy-lab/