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Dr Kevin Guyan
@kevinguyan.bsky.social
Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
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Such an inspiring, powerful event! Huge thanks: @naz-andalibi.bsky.social @haimson.bsky.social for their brilliant talks & sharing insights with me in the panel chat, @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social @kevinguyan.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social for putting it all together, & to everyone who attended!
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just a few tickets left for tomorrow's GENDER AND THE MACHINE event! 🔥

Join us to explore entanglements of gender, marginalisation and emotion across tech and AI.

🗓️ 20 Nov 2025
📍 Edinburgh
👋 All welcome

With @haimson.bsky.social, @naz-andalibi.bsky.social

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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What a lovely talk by Dr Kevin Guyan (@kevinguyan.bsky.social) earlier today as part of the Political Technologies seminar series at UCC! More about Dr Guyan’s work here: kevinguyan.com

@oliverjdavis.bsky.social
@maybenansi.bsky.social
@frenchdeptucc.bsky.social
@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!

How are you celebrating it?

#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.

But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.

1/8🧵
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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okay but the second any trans person gets a survey like that we're not going to be answering like that and can't be forced to. so it sorta seems like it's a waste of time, regardless?
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📌 Next stop on the Rainbow Trap book tour: MANCHESTER!

Keen to connect with others in Manchester interested in LGBTQ data!

📅 Tues 25 Nov 2025 | 1.30pm – 3.00pm
📍 University of Manchester
👋 All welcome

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rainbow-tr...

#LGBTQ #data #queer #gender #sexuality #Manchester
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Feel welcome to attend the online seminar by our next Political Technologies cluster speaker, Dr Kevin Guyan, and that on Tuesday 18/11 from 4-5PM. For more details, see the poster below!
@oliverjdavis.bsky.social @maybenansi.bsky.social @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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God forbid you accidentally include a few trans women in your disaggregated data; let's make sure everyone who participates in climate activities must disclose intimate information! An absurd distraction that only hinders urgent progress for women and girls.
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It's not new but it recently hit me again, that one big thing transphobes are, is wreckers. They're wrecking progressive movements. I'm reading Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid Of Gender" right now and it's really good on this
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Thereby once again imposing narrow conceptions of sex that are not those espoused by many communities across the world.
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research!

Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing!

Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time and time again we see the idea of 'data accuracy' being used to justify changes to sex and gender data practices 🔢

These changes have the likely effect of erasing the lives and experiences of trans, non-binary and/or gender non-conforming people from existing in data.
Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell: "A man who rapes or attempts to rape a woman, girl or other victim is, should be, and will be recorded by Police Scotland as a male."
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Police Scotland is giving evidence today at the Scottish Parliament on the recording of sex and gender in data 📊

Although plans are not yet confirmed, it feels like a big pivot to a biology-first approach to data 👇

www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/citi...
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee | Scottish Parliament TV
www.scottishparliament.tv
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🚨 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
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📢 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
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Thisthisthisthisthis
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 🔢
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?

After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.

Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨

🧵
1/22
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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 🔢
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?

After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.

Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨

🧵
1/22
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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✨📣 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
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
shorturl.at
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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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...
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🌈 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
October 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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?
October 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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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
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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
LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM