GSISC 2024

• Available presentation slides are linked in the schedule below

• Printed Program

• 8:30-9:00am - Registration, breakfast and networking Mc Donnell Hall - Brush Gallery 

• 9:00-9:30am - Welcome, logistics, review of code of conduct

• 9:30-10:45am - Keynote, Dr. Briona Simone Jones

• 10:45-11:00am - Coffee Break

• 11:00am-12:15pm - Session 1

  • Track A (full session), Lewis 138

    • A Call to Action: From Trans-Inclusive Theory to Trans-Inclusive Practice - Avi Bauer, Caleb Simone, and Jordan Dias Correia

  • Track B (paired session), Lewis 120

    • Gender-Neutralizing the Restrooms at Your Library - Valen Werner
    • Understanding & Countering Anti-Trans Misinformation - Heath Umbreit

  • Track C (paired session), Lewis 121

    • Unacceptable feelings, inaccessible information: the role of emotion in access to information on reproductive health, illness, and disability - Natalia Kapacinskas and Veronica Arellano Douglas
    • Closed archives and open source: Reimagining the information lifecycle through activist collaborations - Imani Spence, Sophie Reverdy, and Alicia Puglionesi

  • Track D (lightning talks), Lewis 122

    • Dismantling structural and individual cisgenderism in Illinois libraries: A descriptive research study on transprejudice and biases against trans and nonbinary populations - tal ness 
    • The Kinseys or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nomenclature - B. M. Watson
    • Small-minded categorizations and powerful labels: Queer and trans affinities for knowledge organization work - Julia Bullard
    • Uncontrollable Vocabularies: Queer Theory, Sexual Identity, and the Catalog - Lynne Stahl

• 12:30pm-1:30pm - Lunch

• 1:30pm-2:45pm - Session 2

  • Track A (full session), Lewis 138

    • Gender and Sexuality: A Conversation on Information and Reproductive Health - Robert Canada and Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (co-moderators); Panelists: Emerson Morris, Robin Shamp, Tanesa King, Tierney Gleason, Emily Vardell, Brenda Linares, and Jennifer Marino

  • Track B (paired session), Lewis 120

    • Support for change: a survey of gender diversity training for Canadian academic library workers - Aeron MacHattie, Katharine Hall, Kawmadie Karunanayake, and Susie Breier
    • What's Next, and When Can We Go There? Lessons From Leading Trans 101 for Libraries - Stephen G. Krueger

  • Track C (lightning talks), Lewis 121

    • Strategic Storytelling: Navigating the Intersection of Military Libraries and Drag Story Hour - Marcus Ortiz and Soren Ruppelius
    • The Queer in the Machine: Constructions of Queerness through a Computational Analysis of Book Bans - Elliot Galvis
    • Transfag Oral History Project: Mapping an Ethos of Trans Care Onto the Practice of Oral History Work - Clark Geiling

  • Track D (lightning talks), Lewis 122 

    • Mixtapes, Mementos & Collective: Sounds of Radical Archivism - Catherina Riesgo
    • Femme Space: Nurturing Safe Exploration in Gaming, Making, and Digital Media for Femme Identities - Lara Fountaine
    • The Library as a Queer Place - Teresa Slobuski
    • Thinking Past Self-Reporting: Reviving User Analytics at the Library - Mateo Caballero

• 2:45-3:00pm - Break

• 3:00-4:15pm - Session 3

  • Track A (full session), Lewis 138  

    • I Called to Her and She Answered Me: A Reading from the Oracle for Techno-Spiritual Feminism - Claudia Berger, Meina Naeymirad, Erica Weidner, and Gabriella Evergreen

  • Track B (paired session), Lewis 120

    • Shifting Focus: Decentralizing Peer Review in the Information Literacy Classroom - Matt Rohweder
    • Crafting a Queer Information Literacy (QIL) Framework: An Exploration of Embodiment, Digital Learning, and Information Literacy in Academic Spaces - Joseph Kevin Sebastian

  • Track C (lightning talks), Lewis 121

    • Linked Data and Sex Archives - Xavi Danto
    • Reframing Fear of the “AI Monster”: Critical Data and Technology Studies as a Site for Bodily and Technological Liberation - Sarah Appedu
    • Nonbinary Identities, Pronouns, and the “Gender Trinary”: A Look at the Public Universal Friend’s Name Authority Record - Tess Amram
    • Theorizing Reading Constraints Under Conditions of Oppression - Emil Lawrence

• 4:30pm-6:30pm - Closing Remarks and Reception - Brush Gallery

session abstracts and speaker bios