New Publication: Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities
I am terrifically honored to have my article, “Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities,” in the …
Dancing with Hortense Spillers & Other Reflections on the Futures of American Studies Institute 2016
Futures of American Studies Institute 2016 #fasi16 took place June 20th-26th at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Below are tweets Pt. I or II. See the full schedule here http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures/schedule/. Tweets from Part II can be found at http://bit.ly/fasi16storifypart2of2.
New Research Project: Trans Tumblr
For about two years, I’ve been collecting data on the use of the #ftm hashtag and, for a shorter time, #mtf hashtag …
Reflections on The Digital Image of the City: Hartford 2015
As the new semester is upon us–how did that happen so quickly?–I wanted to reflect back on my courses from last semester. …
Slides from “Queering the Map” Talk
My slides from my Futures Initiative talk, “Queering the Map: Theoretical Reflections on Spatial Methods,” at the CUNY Graduate Center this Friday …
Steps toward Recognition through Openness and the Virtual (Fifty Years Later Essay)
My essay, “Steps toward Recognition through Openness and the Virtual,” below was written for the Bowdoin Museum College of Art virtual exhibit …
Visualizing ‘Queer Exchange’ Friendships
I am increasingly interested in the social networks of queers, broadly and self-defined. One of the largest queer groups on Facebook that …
Collecting Data, Que(e)rying the SpaceTime of the Lesbian Herstory Archives
On founding the Lesbian Herstory Archives: Deb Edel: We began talking about how easily our history had gotten lost. Joan Nestle: That …
Scaled Generationally: Lesbian-Queer Organizations, Power, & Time
This post is a continuation of a series of posts on my graphic analyses and data visualizations of lesbian-queer space and time …
Generationally Speaking Across Qualitative and Quantitative Data
Historian Marc Stein contends that a sequential narrative of lgbtq history can reflect “the critical study of change over time, with special …
Sharing the #CLAGSqNY Twitter Hashtag Archive & Its Relationships
For those of you interested not only in the conversations we shared in the “Queer(ing) New York” Seminar in the City I …
Reading My Visualized and Labelled Life History per Facebook
The visualized and labelled history of my life as captured by Fb “friend”-ing and wall posts is exactly what you see below …
When Categorizing Data Feels Like Borges’ “Certain Chinese Encyclopaedia”
The more I create categorical variables, the more the world reads like the preface to Foucault’s The Order of Things. “This book …
Opaque is Being Polite: On Algorithms, Violence, & Awesomeness in Data Visualization
Data visualizations are fantastic stuff. Social network analysis, graphic analysis, video, spatial analysis, images, and all other types of #dataviz increasingly capture …
On Having Arrived at Bowdoin
I have arrived at Bowdoin College as the New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, Postdoctoral Fellow in the new Digital and Computational …
Scalar Implications of Lesbian-Queer Organizing
I was sitting in what was a back bedroom of a brownstone in Brooklyn in the winter of 2008-9 and I was …
Lesbian-Queer Organizations: Feminist, Women-Oriented, &/or Placed
This is the third in a series of posts on data visualizations I have created based on the complete records of all available lesbian-queer …
Lesbian-Queer Organizations: A History in Openings & Closings
This is the second in a series of posts on data visualizations I have created based on the complete records of all …
(Data)Visualizing Lesbian-Queer Space & Time
Over the span of a year, I surveyed the complete collection of 2,300+ organizational records at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA). This …