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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/

https://www.autostraddle.com/first-ever-lesbians-who-tech-summit-proves-that-nerdy-ladies-get-shit-done-226578/

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