Book club
Our first ever book club is almost underway! The book for discussion is Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action by Kevin Guyan. See kevinguyan.com/queer-data for more about the book and a variety of gay-friendly places to purchase it.
Since rainbowR is an international community, we’re running the book club in two cohorts, to accommodate a range of time-zones. For both cohorts, sessions will be on the second Thursday of the month (with the exception of February 2025, which will be on the third Thursday).
- Cohort 1: 3pm GMT
- Cohort 2: 11pm GMT
The meetings will be held on Zoom. Click on the buttons below to register for a cohort (you only need to register once to sign-up for all sessions).
register for cohort 1 register for cohort 2
The book club is open to LGBTQ+ folk and allies.
In our cohorts, we propose discussing the book in five sessions (though each cohort can decide in the first session whether that works for them and amend accordingly if not):
Date | Chapters |
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Nov 14th, 2024 | Introduction |
Dec 12th, 2024 | 1, 2 |
Jan 9th, 2025 | 3, 4 |
Feb 20th, 2025 | 5, 6 |
Mar 13th, 2025 | 7, 8, Conclusion |
We are then hoping for a final session with the author, Kevin Guyan. He’d love to join for a discussion/Q&A about the book once we’re done reading it. We’ll need to find a convenient date/time that suits him and as many book club participants as possible. It is likely we’ll need to combine the two cohorts for this.
There are two channels in the rainbowR Slack (one for each cohort) for further discussion and organisation. In particular, it would be great to have volunteers to lead the discussion of a chapter. For an invitation to the Slack, please join the community.