**Research Firsts Exhibition: Image and accompanying text by Kevin Guyan**
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My research first happened in December 2022 when a quote from my book Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action featured on the back of a t-shirt.
The t-shirts were produced to support a keynote talk at Google on my research into what happens at the intersection where data practices meet questions of identity.
The talk was a big moment for me as it made clear my research was engaging communities outside of academia and shifting how people in the tech industry engage with issues related to LGBTQ lives.
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