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City Tech Library
LGBTQIA editathon
City Tech - The Atrium
When and Where
DateThursday, April 11, 2024
Time12:30 - 3:30pm
AddressCity Tech Library Multimedia Room
300 Jay Street, Brooklyn NY
City, StateBrooklyn, New York 11201

We're excited to edit wikipedia with the new LGBTQIA collections at City Tech Library! Join us in person on April 11th to learn about these great new materials at City Tech Library; to learn about editing Wikipedia; and to help increase representation of LGBTQIA individuals and issues online.

Wikipedia Resources

Library Resources

City Tech Library is excited to launch its new LGBTQIA collection. You can find these materials shelved on the staircase in the library; we've also pulled some of them out specifically to use in this editathon.

City Tech faculty and students can also use online resources from the library. Explore our database list to get started, or take a look at some of these useful databases:

Articles to Create

  • Anthony Amiewalan (we have two books by him)
  • Trans Assistance Project (see a chapter on this in “Our Work is Everywhere”): there’s no article for this, but it’s mentioned in the Trans Lifeline article. Read that article to determine if a separate Trans Assistance Project is needed; alternately, you could add material about the Trans Assistance Project into the Trans Lifeline article if that feels most appropriate.
  • Pansy Beat magazine
  • Andy Robert (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black)
  • Chiffon Thomas (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black)
  • Alteronce Gumby (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black)
  • Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black)

Articles to Edit

  • Ma-Nee Chacaby: we have her book, A Two Spirit Journey. The existing Wikipedia article needs more information; one place to start is adding section headings and looking for other sources to cite.
  • GenderFail: the existing Wikipedia article needs better, scholarly citations.
  • Disability Studies: the existing Wikipedia article has an extensive section on crip theory, but you could look further into possible additions
  • New York Women’s House of Detention: the existing Wikipedia article is decent, but just has one short quote from Hugh Ryan’s book (which we have at City Tech). An editor could create a separate section on the queer history of Women’s House of Detention
  • Kehinde Wiley: the existing Wikipedia article is flagged as needing copyediting
  • Jordan Casteel (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black): the existing Wikipedia article is flagged as having a promotional tone; see if you could edit it to include more academic sources and if you could change the overall tone.
  • Samuel Levi Jones (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black): the existing Wikipedia article is classified as a stub, which means that it’s very short and needs more added to it
  • D’Angelo Lovell Williams (featured in the library book Young, Gifted and Black): the existing Wikipedia article is a pretty short one that needs more added to it
  • In addition, the Wiki Loves Pride Tasks page has a sampling of possible articles to create or improve, among other tasks to consider.

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