Queer Data – Kevin Guyan

LGBTQ Lives and the Fight to Become Scotland’s First Minister

I have written an article for Bella Caledonia on ‘Love is Love’: LGBTQ Lives and the Fight to Become Scotland’s First Minister.

Fixing the Wrong Problems

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’.

Being counted is not enough

A black background with white and yellow text that reads: 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

Kevin standing on a stage at a Google Cloud event. He is wearing an orange jacket and black jeans. On the screen behind it says: Queer perspectives on inclusive data.

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.