projects

Queer Metadata Collective

CritCat is short for “critical cataloging,” a movement of cultural heritage workers who work to bring social justice, radical empathy, and outreach work into their everyday practice. This site aims to serve as a resource for catalogers and the cataloging-curious.

Trans Metadata Collective

TMDC is a group of dozens of information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the description and classification of trans and gender diverse people. The Collective’s primary goal was the development of a set of best practices, released June 2022.

CritCat.org

CritCat is short for “critical cataloging,” a movement of cultural heritage workers who work to bring social justice, radical empathy, and outreach work into their everyday practice. This site aims to serve as a resource for catalogers and the cataloging-curious.

HistSex.org

A freely-available, peer-reviewed, and open-source resource by sex educators, historians, and librarians active in sexuality fields.

50 Years on, Many Years Past:Bibliography of Sexuality

The Marriage Equality Collection, held at the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collection, includes audio and video files, photographs, historical documents and ephemera representing experiences of same-sex couples.