Just learned about #Homosaurus (homosaurus.org/v4) and #Gender #Sexuality and #Sexual Orientation Ontology (www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontolog...), 2 resources for #librarians cataloging/describing #LGBTQ #books and other materials. Since I purchase these topics, these lists are very helpful!
and, a little sneak preview in that the #Homosaurus 🦕 will soon be able to count on FIMS as one of its homes (and at home in Canada--but more to come on that!!)
I have So Much To Do between now and then, including getting cats from mexico, finding a apartment in LondON defending..
#dinosaurs #queerartist #lgbtqartist #collageart #pridepins #analogcollage #homosaurus #lgbtqpin #lgbtqiapin #badges #buttons #pinbackbutton #dino #dinosaurart #pins #queer #smallartist #collage
This obviously doesn't need to be said, but the #Homosaurus, used in thousands of contexts by hundreds of institutions around the world, will not be following the Court's historically inaccurate, morally dissolute, perverted, and honestly kinda creepy definitions.
the homosaurus logo; a black brontosaurus in front of a rainbow and the words HOMOSAURUS
hi folks! big changes happening at the #Homosaurus that have been in the works for a year+. We're moving towards an entirely community-owned and led model to invite more people in, decentralize leadership, invite broader participation and translation. The #HomosaurusCollective is the result
text: By way of example, a queer archivalimaginary would include same-sex love letters or suggestive diariesdestroyed by individuals or family members.17Developing this, the Homosaurus often creates what could becalled “metadatic imaginaries” when we create terms for things thatwe can imagine existing, even if there is no evidence for their exis-tence. We often refer to this by the shorthand of “bisexual beaches,”a real Homosaurus term created in a batch alongside “gay beaches”and “lesbian beaches.” Even though we have no evidence for the exis-tence of a bisexual beach, they are things that we can imagine, giventhe existence of other queer beaches.
tldr to imaginaries in #critarch: "archival imaginaries” describes the ways that individuals and communities use historical materials to “creatively and collectively re-envision the future through archival interventions in representations of the shared past." And #Homosaurus has plenty of those:
Last week was so insanely busy that I didn't get a chance to tw/skeet about a recently-published article that I'm particularly proud of. So lets do a little dive into The #Homosaurus, Queer Vocabularies, and Impossible Metadata 📚 #critcat #critlib
I cannot express how amazing and lovely it is to see the work of @ncpwg_org #TransMetadataCollective and #Homosaurus at #QueerBibliography 🥰🥰🥰 its such a rewarding payoff for the huge amount of labor that my collegues and I put into these things
every day i wake up and take joy in the fact that the #Homosaurus #MARC code is "HomoIT" 🌈🥰 #cataloging
have you ever wanted #Homosaurus swag? well now you can! homosaurus.threadless.com/designs/homosaurus-logo
just another thing LCSH doesn't have 😉
#cataloging #critcat #homoit
pretty excited to listen to @AllisonNolan7 and @jlhardes talk about their use of the #Homosaurus #linkeddata vocab with @iulibraries' catalog!
events.iu.edu/libraries/event/159095-b...
