The Rainbow System: Queer Data and the Limits of LGBTQ Inclusion
Whether you’re completing an employer’s diversity monitoring form or an immigration application, a drop-down menu on a website or a national census, many of the systems we encounter in everyday life have adapted to welcome some LGBTQ individuals. But with this turn to recognition, who is included and who is left behind?

In this lecture, Guyan will share new work on the importance of systems – and their associated documents, policies and administrative practices – as a key battleground for LGBTQ equalities in the UK.

Everyone loses when systems repeatedly fail to reflect the world around us and make bad decisions based on biased assumptions. How we choose to engage with these systems – or if we choose to engage – is fundamental to everyone’s future.
Date: 5 June 2023, 17:00
Venue: 1 St Giles', 1 St Giles' OX1 3JS
Venue Details: 1 St Giles Seminar Room
Speaker: Kevin Guyan (University of Glasgow)
Organising department: Oxford Internet Institute
Organiser: Ellen Mobbs (Oxford Internet Institute)
Organiser contact email address: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Host: Egerton Neto (Oxford Internet Institute)
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rainbow-system-queer-data-and-the-limits-of-lgbtq-inclusion-tickets-631468568487?aff=OxTalks
Audience: Public
Editor: Ellen Mobbs