I have written a Foreword for the latest issue of the European Data Protection Law Review on ‘Fixing the Wrong Problems: Queer Communities and the False Promise of Unbiased and Equal Data Systems’.
Author Archives: Kevin Guyan
Being counted is not enough
What happens at the intersection where queer lives meet the data practices of a national census? Who benefits and who loses? And how might collecting and presenting data about queer lives push the ideals of justice and liberation further into the distance?
Becoming a data doom-monger
2022 has been a very different year for me. My first book Queer Data was published in January and I found myself speaking about the dangers of LGBTQ data at governments, tech companies, data conferences, charities, universities and book festivals.
Queer Data on The Good Robot Podcast
In this episode of The Good Robot podcast, Dr Kevin Guyan talks about the census, and the best ways of asking people to identify themselves. The podcast discusses why surveys that you fill in by hand offer less restrictive options for self-identification than online forms, and how queer communities are not just identified but produced through the counting of a census.
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