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In Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, Keilty and Dean put the field of Information Studies into critical conversation with studies of gender, sexuality, race, and technology. In classic and original essays, renowned scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of information and technology philosophies and practices. Conceiving of "information" in a broad sense, the contributors reevaluate conventional methods and topics within Information Studies to examine encounters with information phenomena and technology that do not lend themselves easily to the scientific and behaviorist modes of description that have long dominated the field. A Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword provide helpful context to the reader's 27 essays, arranged around topics that include information as gendered labor, cyborgs and cyberfeminism, online environments, information organization, information extraction and flow, archives, and performance.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One Information as Gendered Labor -- The Bride Stripped Bare to Her Data: Information Flow + Digibodies -- Essentialism and Care in a Female- Intensive Profession -- Reflections on Meaning in Library and Information Studies: A Personal Odyssey through Information, Sexuality, and Gender -- Part Two Cyborgs and Cyberfeminism -- Feminist Theories of Technology -- Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed -- Developing a Corporeal Cyberfeminism: Beyond Cyberutopia -- Part Three Online Environment -- Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era -- Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web -- "OH NO! I'M A NERD!" Hegemonic Masculinity on an Online Forum -- Part Four Information Organization -- How We Construct Subjects: A Feminist Analysis -- Queer Theory and the Creation of Contextual Subject Access Tools for Gay and Lesbian Communities -- Paraphilias: The Perversion of Meaning in the Library of Congress Catalog -- Administrating Gender -- Part Five Information Extraction, Information Flow -- On Torture: Abu Ghraib -- Tacit Subjects -- A Tapestry of Knowledge: Crafting a New Approach to Information Sharing -- Sharing Economies and Value Systems on the Nifty Archive -- Part Six Archive -- Police/Archives -- The Brandon Archive -- Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus! A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom -- "Welcome Home" An Exploratory Ethnography of the Information Context at the Lesbian Herstory Archives -- Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(er?) Archival Logics -- In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture -- Part Seven Performance -- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rape Kit -- Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell and the Islington Public Library: Defacement, Parody and Mashups.

Introduction: omnipresence of information as the incentive for transdisciplinarity / Mark Burgin and Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Part I. Theory of information -- How to produce a transdisciplinary information concept for a universal theory of information / Søren Brier -- Inaccessible information and mathematical theory of oracles / Mark Burgin -- Emergence of symbolic information by the ritualisation transition / R. Feistel -- The law of "information conversion and intelligence creation" / Yixin Zhong -- Topoi of systems : on the onto-epistemic foundations of matter and information / Rainer E. Zimmermann -- Part II. Philosophy of information -- Transdisciplinarity seen through information, communication, computation, (inter-)action and cognition / Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Daniel Kade, Markus Wallmyr, Tobias Holstein and Alexander Almér -- A unified science-philosophy of information in the quest for transdisciplinarity / Wu Kun and Joseph E. Brenner -- Natural information and spiritual information as an outcome of the transdisciplinary methodology / Basarab Nicolescu -- A new perspective on the existence and non-existence / Wu Tianqi -- Part III. Applications of information -- Information and the evolution of human communication / Manuel Bohn -- Information processing and Fechner's problem as a choice of arithmetic / Marek Czachor and Centrum Leo Apostel -- A few questions related to information and symmetries in physics / György Darvas -- The "sociotype" approach to social structures and individual communication : an informational exploration of human sociality / R. del Moral, J. Navarro, and P.C. Marijuán -- Information outliers and their detection / A. Duraj and P.S. Szczepaniak -- A physicist's perspective on how one converts observation into information / Robert W. Johnson -- The concept of systemic-resonance bioinformatics. resonances and the quest for transdisciplinarity / Sergey V. Petoukhov and Elena S. Petukhova -- Information society and apartheid in the context of evolutionary economics : perspectives from information theory / Rodrick Wallace and Mindy Thompson Fullilove -- Artificial and natural genetic information processing / Guenther Witzany

The proliferation, ubiquity, and growth of data, big data, and digital infrastructure raise a number of questions for library and information studies (LIS) practitioners, researchers, and educators. While some uncritically accept and embrace the idea that big data will fundamentally alter every sector of society including economics, politics, health care, and knowledge production, others are more critical of the data turn. Data can be contradictory in that it can be used for surveillance, impinge on privacy, be used for secondary purposes (often without consent), and can be totalizing in that we continually create data exhaust, it can be hacked, searched, aggregated, and preserved for years. Conversely, data can be used for the public good, to promote progressive social change, and to empower people. The overarching argument presented in this paper is that critical library and information studies must include critical data studies. To develop this argument, this paper explores the ontological nature of data and their contradictory implications and effects in terms of broader society, the academy, and in LIS research, education, and practice. Next, the philosophical foundations and the work being done in the budding area of critical data studies are presented (most notably work by Rob Kitchin). Finally, the intersections between critical data studies and LIS are discussed in terms of research methodologies, philosophical underpinnings, and application of critical social theory, values, and ethics using Dalton and Thatcher's seven data criticisms.

This paper provides a classroom-grounded inquiry into Library, Archival, and Information Studies (LAIS) engagement with Indigenous initiatives and issues. We review select diversity-oriented scholarship framed by our interest in LAIS pedagogy. We recognize incisive scholars who have identified pervasive racism and oppression within LAIS, called for change, and envisioned better futures. We contribute to this conversation through reflecting on our attempts to question professional norms in a LAIS classroom, specifically in relation to engagement with Indigenous initiatives. We share our experiences as educators, what we tried, what failed, what we think worked, and why. The paper concludes with our aspirations for diversity initiatives across LAIS education.