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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 12h

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.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 8h

🔗 vcu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Kevin Guyan - VCU Critical Quantitative Methodologies Series. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 8h

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

A poster for Kevin's talk Box Breakers: Queer Data, Categories, and Who Counts? at Virginia Commonwealth University

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 14h

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...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 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? 🧵

Blue background with white text that reads: Who are box breakers?

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

When designing data projects, start with the box breakers.

Putting them first reveals the effects of classifications – determining what is possible and impossible, determining who is possible and impossible.

📖 Find out more in Rainbow Trap, available now:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rainbow-t...

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

2. They disrupt

When forced into a box not of their choosing, box breakers expose how categories of gender, sex and sexuality are all invented.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

Box breakers do two things:

1. They resist

When they say ‘no’ to the choices presented, box breakers are not being difficult but challenging the narrow options understood as possible.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

Box breakers live outside the narrow demands of gender, sex and sexuality categories.

They are the residue of design practices – the people left behind after everyone else has been organised into neat, tidy boxes.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 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? 🧵

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

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-...

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 4d

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...

An event poster for Kevin Guyan's Rainbow Trap talk at King's College London on 23 October 2025.

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 4d

Hello Rainbow Trap! 🌈 👋

Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 11d

This week's new books! Find them all on the new books display in the First Floor Lobby #NewBooks

A stack of new books added to Nuffield College Library.
They are:

The coming storm by Gabriel Gatehouse
Modeling nonlinearity and interaction in regression analysis using spline variables by Roger A. Wojtkiewicz
The collapse of global liberalism by Philip Pilkington
Timebomb by Giles Merritt
Exit from international organizations by Inken von Borzyskowski and Felicity Vabulas
Private renting in the advanced economies by Peter A. Kemp
Rainbow trap by Kevin Guyan
From decision theory to game theory by Andrés Perea
Eight words that changed the world by Chris Bruni-Lowe
Dictating the agenda by Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 6d

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)

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 6d

🌈 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 ⬇️

Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion | King's College London

Join Queer@King's for an evening with researcher and writer Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh) to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of…

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Gail Neill @gailneill.bsky.social · 7d

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

Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 21d

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...

The event poster for a Rainbow Trap launch event in Belfast on 21 October.

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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 14d

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.

A blue and purple square graphic with text in black that reads "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. Changes made yesterday by the Scottish Government to their guidance on supporting transgender pupils in schools will make this much harder for trans children and young people than it was before. " The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are in white below the text.

A blue and purple square graphic with text in black that reads "If the law means that trans pupils really must be treated in a way that we hope that everyone can see is not in their best interests, then the way forward is clear – we must change the law. It is not good enough to say that this is just the way it has to be." The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are in white below the text.

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GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social · 15d

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

Blog | GENDER.ED

GENDER.ED is a cross-University hub for gender and sexualities studies from an interdisciplinary perspective

www.gender.ed.ac.uk

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 18d

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 👇

Keyne @keyne-unable.bsky.social · 18d

Digital ID is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons: technical, political, economic. Especially with the involvement of far right tech oligarchs and it being explicitly sold as a way of surveilling people so as to imprison or deport immigrants.

But there's a layer which many aren't seeing...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18d

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...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 18d

PS. If any critical friends want early sight to provide comment/feedback - please shout!

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 18d

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 📝

A draft version of a writing piece with the title How Data Became a Battleground for Trans Rights in the UK or Trans-exclusionary Data Activism in the UK.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 19d

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...

Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards

Measure could be announced as soon as Friday as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration to the UK

www.theguardian.com

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