Welcome to the LGBTQ+@CL Virtual Queer Library. The library is a work in progress, and is intended to be a repository for academic and non-academic writing about LGBTQ+ people and computer science, drawing from existing lists, and from our own reading. Any additional suggestions very welcome. You may also be interested in the University of Cambridge's LGBTQ+ Resources and Collections.
Books
Fiction
Scott, M. (1992). Trouble and Her Friends
Non-fiction
Abbate, Janet. (2012). Recoding gender women’s changing participation in computing. MIT Press. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/1ii55o6/44CAM_ALMA21311364100003606
Balsamo, A. (1996). Technologies of the Gendered Body: reading Cyborg Women. Duke University Press. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21432723490003606
Boyd, D. (2014). It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/1ii55o6/44CAM_ALMA21483117910003606
Chan, Anita. (2013). Networking peripheries: technological futures and the myth of digital universalism. MIT Press. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21510206970003606
Hayles, N. Katherine. (2008). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA51560507470003606
Hodges, A. (1984). Alan Turing; The Enigma. Burnett Books/Hutchinson. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/1ii55o6/44CAM_ALMA21436919940003606
Kember, S. (2003). Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life. Routledge https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203299159 https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21365828630003606
Lewis, S.J. (Ed.). (2017). Queer Privacy. Mascherari Press.
Lingel, Jessa (2017). Digital countercultures and the struggle for community. MIT Press. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21372397880003606
Mowlabocus, Sharif (2010). Gaydar culture: Gay men, technology and embodiment in the digital age. Routledge. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21384466450003606
Noble, Safiya & Tynes, Brendesha M. (2016). The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-1717-6 https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21513871570003606
Novak, A. N, & El-Burki, I. J. (Eds.) (2016). Defining identity and the changing scope of culture in the digital age. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
O’Riordan, K, & Phillips, D. J. (2007). Queer online: media technology & sexuality. Lang. https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21369235200003606
Sender, K. (Ed.), Shaw, A. (Ed.). (2017). Queer Technologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315222738 https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_NPLD_MARC018362682
Blogs and web articles
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/feb/19/queer-computing-1/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/mar/19/queer-computing-2/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/9/queer-history-computing-part-three/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/may/6/queer-history-computing-part-four/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/jun/18/queer-history-computing-part-five/
https://www.autostraddle.com/programming-things-101-hello-queer-world-237668/
Barret-Ibaria, 2018, Remembering the Golden Age of the Queer Internet. https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/qvmz9x/remembering-the-golden-age-of-the-queer-internet
Articles
Alexander, J. (2002). Queer webs: Representations of LGBT people and communities on the world wide web. International Journal of Sexuality & Gender Studies, 7(2-3), 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015821431188
Ashford, Chris (2009). Queer theory, cyber-ethnographies and researching online sex environments. Information & Communications Technology Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830903424734
Bagheri, Nazgol (2014). "What qualitative GIS maps tell and don’t tell: Insights from mapping women in Tehran’s public spaces". Journal of Cultural Geography, volume 31, number 2, pp. 166–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2014.906848
Barnett, Fiona, Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas, Jacob Gaboury, Jessica Marie Johnson, and Margaret Rhee (2016). "QueerOS: A user’s manual". In: Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (editors). Debates in the digital humanities 2016. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press. http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/debates/text/56
Bivens, Rena, and Oliver L. Haimson (2016). "Baking gender into social media design: How platforms shape categories for users and advertisers". Social Media + Society, volume 2, number 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116672486
Blas, Zach, and Jacob Gaboury (2016). "Biometrics and opacity: A conversation". Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, volume 31, number 2, pp. 155–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-3592510
Bonner-Thompson, Carl (2017). "‘The meat market’: The production and regulation of life and hyper-sexualized masculinities on the Grindr grid in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK". Gender, Place & Culture, volume 24, number 11, pp. 1,611–1,625. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1356270
Boyer, Kate, and Kim England (2008). "Gender, work and technology in the information workplace: From typewriters to ATMs". Social & Cultural Geography, volume 9, number 3, pp. 241–256. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360801990462
Bray, Francesca (2007). Gender and Technology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 36(1), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.36.081406.094328
Brown, Michael, and Lawrence Knopp (2006). "Places or polygons? Governmentality, scale, and the census in the Gay and Lesbian Atlas". Population, Space and Place, volume 12, number 4, pp. 223–242. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.410
Chaplin, Tamara (2014). "Lesbians online: Queer identity and community formation on the French Minitel". Journal of the History of Sexuality, volume 23, number 3, pp. 451–472. https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS23305
Cockayne, Daniel G. & Richardson, Lizzie (2017). A queer theory of software studies: software theories, queer studies, Gender, Place & Culture, 24:11, 1587-1594. doi:10.1080/0966369X.2017.1383365 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1383365
Cockayne, Daniel, and Lizzie Richardson (2017a). "A queer theory of software studies: Software theories, queer studies". Gender, Place & Culture, volume 24, number 11, pp. 1,587–1,594. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1383365
Ferreira, Eduardo, and Regina Salvador (2015). "Lesbian collaborative Web mapping: Disrupting heteronormativity in Portugal". Gender, Place & Culture, volume 22, number 7, pp. 954–970. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2014.917276
Fischer, Mia, and K. Mohrman (2016). "Black deaths matter? Sousveillance and the invisibility of black life". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology, number 10. https://adanewmedia.org/2016/10/issue10-fischer-mohrman/
Gieseking, J. J., Lingel, J., & Cockayne, D. (2018). What’s queer about Internet studies now?. First Monday, 23(7). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i7.9254
Gieseking, Jen Jack (2017a). "Messing with the attractiveness algorithm: A response to queering code/space". Gender, Place & Culture, volume 24, number 11, pp. 1,659–1,665. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1379955
Gieseking, Jen Jack (2017b). "Size matters to lesbians, too: Queer feminist interventions into the scale of big data". Professional Geographer, volume 70, number 1, pp. 150–156. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2017.1326084
Gieseking, Jen Jack (2018). "Operating anew: Queering GIS with good enough software". Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien, volume 62, number 1, pp. 55–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12397
Gillespie, Tarleton (2014). "The relevance of algorithms". In: Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski and Kirsten A. Foot (editors). Media technologies: Essays on communication, materiality, and society. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 167–194. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262525374.003.0009
Haraway. D. (1989). The Cyborg Manifesto. Socialist Review.
Henderson, Lisa (2008). "Queer relay". GLQ, volume 14, number 4, pp. 569–597. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-005
Jackson, G. (2017). Transcoding Sexuality: Computational Performativity and Queer Code Practices. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 4(2), 1-25. doi:10.14321/qed.4.2.0001 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.4.2.0001
Jenzen, Olu (2017). "Trans youth and social media: Moving between counterpublics and the wider Web". Gender, Place & Culture, volume 24, number 11, pp. 1,626–1,641. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1396204
Keeling, Kara (2014). "Queer OS". Cinema Journal, volume 53, number 2, pp. 152–157. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2014.0004
Klein, Lauren F. (2013). "The image of absence: Archival silence, Data visualization, and James Hemings". American Literature, volume 85, number 4, pp. 661–688. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367310
Light, Jennifer (1999). When Computers Were Women. Technology and Culture, 40(3), 455–483. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25147356
Mackenzie, Lars (2017). "The afterlife of data: Identity, surveillance, and capitalism in trans credit reporting". TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, number 1, pp. 45–60. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3711529
McGlotten, Shaka (2012). "Ordinary intersections: Speculations on difference, justice, and utopia in black queer life". Transforming Anthropology, volume 20, number 1, pp. 45–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01146.x
McGlotten, Shaka (2016). "Black data", In: E. Patrick Johnson (editor). No tea, no shade: New writings in black queer studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, pp. 262–286.
McLeod, Dayna, Jasmine Rault, and T. L. Cowan (2014). "Speculative praxis towards a queer feminist digital archive: A collaborative research-creation project". Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, number 5. http://adanewmedia.org/2014/07/issue5-cowanetal/ http://dx.doi.org/10.7264/N3PZ573Z
McPherson, Tara (2012b). "US operating systems at mid-century: The intertwining of race and UNIX". In: Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White (editors). Race after the Internet. New York: Routledge, pp. 21–37.
Miles, Sam (2017). "Sex and the digital city: Location-based dating apps and urban gay life". Gender, Place & Culture, volume 24, number 11, pp. 1,595–1,610. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1340874
Moravec, Michelle (2017). "Network analysis and feminist artists". Artl@s Bulletin, volume 6, number 3, article 5. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol6/iss3/5
Mowlabocus, Sharif (2016). "Horny at the bus stop, paranoid in the cul-de-sac: Sex, technology and public space". In: Gavin Brown and Kath Browne (editors). Routledge research companion to geographies of sex and sexualities. London: Routledge, pp. 391–398. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613000.ch43
Murray, Sarah, and Megan Sapnar Ankerson (2016). "Lez takes time: Designing lesbian contact in geosocial networking apps". Critical Studies in Media Communication, volume 33, number 1, pp. 53–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1133921
Nakamura, Lisa (2014). "Indigenous circuits: Navajo women and the racialization of early electronic manufacture". American Quarterly, volume 44, number 4, pp. 919–941. https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2014.0070
Nash, Catherine, and Andrew Gorman-Murray (2016a). "Digital sexualities: Section introduction". In: Gavin Brown and Kath Browne (editors). Routledge research companion to geographies of sex and sexualities. London: Routledge, pp. 353–358. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613000.ch39
Paasonen, Susanna (2010). "Labors of love: Netporn, Web 2.0 and the meanings of amateurism". New Media & Society, volume 12, number 8, pp. 1,297–1,312. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444810362853
Rak, J. (2005). The Digital Queer: Weblogs and Internet Identity. Biography 28(1), 166-182. doi:10.1353/bio.2005.0037 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/183605
Richardson, D., Seidman, S. (2002). New Technologies and Cyber-Queer Research, in Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608269.n9
Shaw, Adrienne and Katherine Sender (2016b). "Queer technologies: Affordances, affect, ambivalence". Critical Studies in Media Communication, volume 33, number 1, pp. 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2015.1129429
Tanczer, L.M. (2015). Hacking the Label: Hacktivism, Race, and Gender. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.6. doi:10.7264/N37S7M22 https://adanewmedia.org/2015/01/issue6-tanczer/
Tanczer, Leonie (2016). Hacktivism and the Male-Only Stereotype. New Media & Society, 18(8), 1599-1615. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444814567983
Thakor, Mitali (2015). "Problematising the dominant discourse around children, youth and the Internet". Global Information Society Watch 2015: Sexual Rights and the Internet. https://www.giswatch.org/en/sexual-rights/problematising-dominant-discourse-around-children-youth-and-internet
Sources and further resource lists
Gieseking, Lingel, and Cockayne's list of queer Internet Studies scholarship: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9260/7464
"Women and GNC people writing about tech" reading list, started by Siva Vaidhyanathan and Gabriella Coleman: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qx8JDqfuXoHwk4_1PZYWrZu3mmCsV_05Fe09AtJ9ozw/edit
Oliver Haimson’s "Digital trans reading list": http://oliverhaimson.com/digitaltrans.htm
