Publications on bri watson

Expanding the margins in the history of sexuality & galleries, libraries, archives, museums & special collections (GLAMS)

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Best practices for queer metadata

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Trans metadata collective

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Critical Cataloging across GLAMS and beyond the Core: The Trans and Queer Metadata Collectives and the Name Change Policy Working Group

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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The Homosaurus, Queer Vocabularies, and Impossible Metadata

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Ethics in Linked Data

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Our Metadata, Ourselves: The Trans Metadata Collective

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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(In) Terms of Who We Are: The Homosaurus Board in Conversation

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Critiquing the Machine: The Critical Cataloging Database

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Handicapped has been cancelled: The terminology and logics of disability in cultural heritage institutions

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Introduction to Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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LIS-gendering: A Dialogue on Gender Non-Conforming Labour in Libraries and Archives

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Our Metadata, Ourselves”: The Trans Metadata Collective

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Misrepresentation in the Surrogate: Author Critiques of “Indians of North America” Subject Headings

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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100 years of marginalization: Documenting backward, developing forward

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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The Case for Retroactive Author Name Changes

Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Featured Research Project: HistSex.org

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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I’m Really Happy When Sometimes I End Up on a Shelf That Seems Sort of Right: Historians’ Reactions to the Cataloging and Classification of Their Own Work

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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I’m Really Happy When Sometimes I End Up on a Shelf That Seems Sort of Right: Historians’ Reactions to the Cataloging and Classification of Their Own Work

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

LIS-gendering: A Dialogue on Gender Non-Conforming Labour in Libraries and Archives

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Advancing Equitable Cataloging

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Producing the Archival Body

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\"Storming then Performing\": Historical Non-Monogamy and Metamour Collaboration

Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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The Homosaurus

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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A finding aid to the pornographic imaginary: implications of amateur classifications on/by reddit’s NSFW411

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A vision for a more trans-inclusive publishing world: guest article

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Expanding Our Conceptions of Embodied and Affective Information Interactions with Queer Theory

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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HistSex.org

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HistSex.org

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Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation: by Hannah Turner. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020. 260 p. illus. ISBN 9780774863926 (hardcover). $89.95. ISBN 9780774863940 (PDF). $32.95. ISBN 9780774863957 (EPUB). $32.95.

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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HistSex: Making History in 2020: Contemporary Issues in Historical Practice.

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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“There was Sex but no Sexuality:” Critical Cataloging and the Classification of Asexuality in LCSH

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Diverse Sexuality & Gender Section / Women's Collections Section

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Workshopping Queeries: Linked data vocabularies and ethical cataloging

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Critical Cataloging: Part 1

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Hellfire and Cannibals: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Erotic Reading Groups and Their Manuscripts

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Stonewall: The 50-Year Commemoration Collection

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Archives by Andrew Lison, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger.

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Freedom, interrupted

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Grant application for 50 years on, many years past

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Review: Archives by Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Rogue Performances: A Review of Abigail De Kosnik’s Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Stage 3: Final site

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The Cost of Entry: Internships in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Education

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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The New Censorship: Anti-sexuality Groups and Library Freedom

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Subjects In Chains: Linked Data Vocabularies and Sexual Liberation

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Queer as Data Presentation: Linked Data and Minoritized Digital Archives

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Queer as Data: Linked Data and Minoritized Digital Archives

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A Library Privacy Primer

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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An Interview With Snowden Becker. “Keeping the Pieces:” Police Work and Documentation

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Happy Birthday to the Marquis De Sade!

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Homosaurus and Digital Transgender Archive

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Intellectual Freedom 101

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Still Chilling: Censorship Beyond Banned Books

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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The Past & Future of Free Collecting with Liana Zhou, Kinsey Institute

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen Censorship

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen Censorship

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Using Podcasts and Videos for Scholarly Communication

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Publishing Your Dissertation Open Access

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Actions Shutting Down Information and Freedom – Interior’s Attack on FOIA

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Bias and inclusivity in metadata

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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FOSTA/SESTA and Libraries

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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From fanzines to rule 34

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Review: Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities: Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Stage 1: Setup and hosting

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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cOAlition S: The Future of Research

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Open Access Week 2018!

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Crossdressing, Crossculture

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Interview with Brian M. Watson

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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The Victorian with a Secret

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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A History of the Condom

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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History Of The Dildo

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How did porn become porn?

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Where did the ideas of homosexuality and heterosexuality come from?

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Why and When Did Masturbation Become an Issue?

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Book Review: Annals of Pornographie

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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“A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West

Sun, 01 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Porn Historian Brian Watson Explains Balloon Porn, 17th-Century Dildos in Reddit AMA

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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The Raunchy World of Edmund Curll

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Society, Vice, and Suppression: The Historical Creation of Pornography in England, 1750-1850

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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Homosaurus and The Digital Transgender Archive | Brian M. Watson

Homosaurus and The Digital Transgender Archive

Brian M. Watson

December 2019 LIS, GLAM, LODLAM

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Journal article

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American Archivist Reviews

digital archives queer metadata homosaurus digital transgender archive

Brian M. Watson

Archivist, Historian, Knowledge Organizer

I’m an archivist, a public historian, an author, a researcher, and a knowledge organizer.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Archives by Andrew Lison, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger. | Brian M. Watson

Archives by Andrew Lison, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, and Rick Prelinger.

Brian M. Watson

August 2020

PDF DOI

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Journal article

Publication

American Archivist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

'There was Sex but no Sexuality:' Critical Cataloging and the Classification of Asexuality in LCSH | Brian M. Watson

'There was Sex but no Sexuality:' Critical Cataloging and the Classification of Asexuality in LCSH

Brian M. Watson

January 2020

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Abstract

This paper examines the addition of “asexuality” to the Library of Congress Subject Headings as a case study from which to examine the critical cataloging movement. Beginning with a review of some of the theoretical and practical issues around subject access for minoritized and marginalized sexualities, this paper then contextualizes, historicizes, and introduces the critical cataloging movement to the literature, situating it within a larger and longer history of radical cataloging. It will define critical cataloging as a social justice-oriented style of radical cataloging that places an emphasis on radical empathy, outreach work, and recognizes the importance of information maintenance and care. This paper introduces the concept of “catalogic warrant” to characterize the process of “reading” the catalog to examine the harm or benefit of terms on users and the wider library community.

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Journal article

Publication

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities | Brian M. Watson

Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities

Brian M. Watson

March 2020

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Journal article

Publication

American Archivist

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

[Forthcoming] Mind the Gap: Sexology and Library of Congress Classification of Erotica, Pornography, Families and Children. | Brian M. Watson

[Forthcoming] Mind the Gap: Sexology and Library of Congress Classification of Erotica, Pornography, Families and Children.

Brian M. Watson

January 2020

Abstract

Forthcoming article in special issue of Social Text edited by Joan Lubin and Jeanne Vacchario discussing Class H and the placement of Erotica and Children.

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Journal article

Publication

Social Text

⛔ No DOI found #nosource

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

[Forthcoming] Utopian Potentiality: Histories of Polyamory and Non-Monogamy | Brian M. Watson

[Forthcoming] Utopian Potentiality: Histories of Polyamory and Non-Monogamy

Brian M. Watson, Sarah Stein-Lubrano

January 2020

Abstract

We present the results of an investigation into the biographies, letters and archives of approximately 50 well-known figures in Western intellectual and artistic history in the post-Enlightenment era. In this article, biographies and partners of Virginia Woolf, Max Weber, Edna St. Vin-cent Millay, William Moulton Marston, Erwin Schrodinger, and Victor Hugo are mentioned. While some of these non-monogamous relationships are well-known, much of the evidence of their existence has been ignored, misrecognized, or intentionally obscured. The results of this survey demonstrate that contemporary patterns of non-monogamies are deeply rooted in historical precedence.

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Journal article

Publication

Archives of Sexual Behavior

⛔ No DOI found #nosource

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen Censorship | Brian M. Watson

NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen Censorship

Brian Watson

March 2019

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Abstract

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has included the American Library Association on their annual “Dirty Dozen” list of sexual exploitation enablers. You might be led to believe that the ALA was promoting open, free, and unfettered access to pornography—it’s not. Instead, NCOSE is targeting something alltogether different–the freedom of library patrons.

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Uncategorized

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Intellectual Freedom Blog

Published

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rogue Performances: A Review of Abigail De Kosnik’s Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom | Brian M. Watson

Rogue Performances: A Review of Abigail De Kosnik’s Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

Brian M. Watson

February 2020 LIS, Book Reviews

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Abstract

In Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (2016), Abigail de Kosnik establishes the idea of rogue archives as easily available, copyright-agnostic, and amateur-run digital archives that preserve non-traditional material. More than just a concept, De Kosnik’s interdisciplinary and wide-ranging rogue archives are used as a framework to understand shifts in media, internet culture, and as sites of individual and community social media performances. This review, which was originally livetweeted, also considers its own performance, situating Twitter reviews as a continuation of eighteenth-century book culture. This review was originally livetweeted. You can read the original threads here: https://twitter.com/historyofporn/status/1107292610597515266 and here: https://twitter.com/HistoryOfPorn/status/1107388760868704257

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Journal article

Publication

Digital Humanities Quarterly

digital archives media studies Abigail De Kosnik book reviews

Brian M. Watson

Archivist, Historian, Knowledge Organizer

I’m an archivist, a public historian, an author, a researcher, and a knowledge organizer.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

[Under Review] A Finding Aid to the Pornographic Imaginary: Implications of Amateur Classifications on/by reddit’s NSFW 411 | Brian M. Watson

[Under Review] A Finding Aid to the Pornographic Imaginary: Implications of Amateur Classifications on/by reddit’s NSFW 411

Brian M. Watson

January 2020

Abstract

A research paper on the development of sexual hierarchal and classification systems on Reddit and elsewhere.

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Journal article

⛔ No DOI found #nosource

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

[Under Review] “Stunted even unto Asexuality:” The History and Classification of Asexuality in LCSH | Brian M. Watson

[Under Review] “Stunted even unto Asexuality:” The History and Classification of Asexuality in LCSH

Brian M. Watson

January 2020

Abstract

A study of the recent addition of ‘asexuality’ to the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Drawing on historians of sexuality, feminist and asexual theory, and medical scholarship, I argue that this is a grave oversight. Throughout this essay, I also argue for the consideration of a new movement of critical catalogers (or #critlib).

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Journal article

⛔ No DOI found #nosource

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rogue Performances: A Review of Abigail De Kosnik’s Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom | Brian M. Watson

Rogue Performances: A Review of Abigail De Kosnik’s Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

Brian M. Watson

May 2020

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Journal article

Publication

Digital Humanities Quarterly

⛔ No DOI found

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

[WIP] Blue Laws, Blue Books: E. Haldeman-Julius & American Sexual Knowledge before Kinsey | Brian M. Watson

[WIP] Blue Laws, Blue Books: E. Haldeman-Julius & American Sexual Knowledge before Kinsey

Brian M. Watson

January 2021

Abstract

a book history-focused paper that examines the underexamined Haldemann-Julius company and their sexological publications.

Type

Journal article

⛔ No DOI found #nosource

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

[WIP] (Trans) Naming | Brian M. Watson

[WIP] (Trans) Naming

Brian M. Watson

January 2020

Abstract

A research article on how libraries and archives have dealt with trans* and crossdressing names, as well as the choice of the author in cataloging individual’s names..

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Journal article

⛔ No DOI found #nosource