QUEERING WIKIPEDIA Conference, 21-24 May 2020, in Linz, Austria ___Call for proposals!____________________
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Queering_Wikipedia/Call_for_proposals DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS FEBRUARY 15 >From the call: We invite all Wikimedians, activists, scholars, educators, community organizers, students, librarians, archivists, record keepers, knowledge keepers, critical theorists, computer scientists, data specialists, and creative individuals to network and build partnerships to consider and use how Wikipedia or other Wikimedia projects may lift up or diminish Queer populations and their cultural, historic, and scientific output. We invite work that offers critical reflections on access to Queer information, queering open culture, decentering the voices of privileged groups and empowering the marginalized. We are interested in work that suggests critical interventions into tools and traditions that oppress Queer people and Queer information within Wikimedia projects. We seek contributions that will describe or construct practices that challenge entrenched ideas about Wikipedia, the Queer community, the types of Queer information resources sought after around the world, cisgender heterosexual involvement in Queer Wikimedia projects and engagement, and the roles of Queer Wikimedians in regard to supporting Queer visibility, civil rights and activism. We are particularly interested in hearing perspectives on Queering Wikipedia from Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), the disabled, HIV+ people, sex workers, refugees, addicts in recovery, the formerly incarcerated, and people from non-English speaking, non-Western European countries. We are seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, capacity building workshops, strategy meetings, and team building sessions that would touch on the following themes: ● Questioning, challenging, and disrupting cisnormativity, heteronormativity, and / or homonormativity in Wikimedia projects; ● Making Wikimedia spaces welcoming, safe and receptive to everyone’s input through continuous education and systemic improvement; ● Building partnerships, community engagement, and outreach to Queer communities underrepresented in the Wikimedia movement; ● Promoting visibility of Queer content creators and Queer Wikimedia content; ● Empowering Queer individuals to become Wikimedia contributors and leaders; ● Linguistic, cultural, generational, ethnic, and national diversity among Queer Wikimedians; ● Emerging Queer Wikimedia projects (ex: queer places in WikiVoyage, Wiktionary, etc); ● Collaborations between Wikimedians and libraries, archives, museums, and community/academic/government projects; ● Wikidata and challenges of naming and categorizing Queer people and cultures; ● The role of the Wikimedia LGBT+ User group; ● Safety, bullying, and harassment; ● Peer reviewed research on any of the above topics.
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