Name: Breakout 5.1: Naming, knowing, and belonging:Centering queer and trans communities in our “good questions.”
Start: 2026-11-17T14:35:00-0500
End: 2026-11-17T15:50:00-0500

Breakout 5.1: Naming, knowing, and belonging:Centering queer and trans communities in our “good questions.”

Tuesday November 17, 2026 2:35pm - 3:50pm EST

TBA

LGBTQ+ communities, information practice, reading practices

Speakers

Rhys Dreeszen Bowman

Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute

Rhys Dreeszen Bowman is an assistant professor at Pratt Institute. They have a PhD from the University of South Carolina, an MLIS from Simmons University, and are a former school librarian. Their research studies the information practice of queer and trans people.

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango

The University of Alabama

Shengang Wang

Assistant Professor, aSchool of Library and Information Science, Simmons University, USA

Shengang Wang is an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. He received his PhD in information studies from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His research interests include human information behavior, human-computer interaction... Read More →

Karen Snow

Professor, Ph.D. Program Director, Dominican University

Karen Snow is a Professor and the Ph.D. Program Director in the School of Information Studies. She teaches face-to-face and online in the areas of cataloging, classification, and metadata. Dr. Snow’s main areas of research interest are cataloging quality, ethics, and education... Read More →

Travis L. Wagner

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Travis Wagner is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. They received their PhD in information sciences from the University of South Carolina. Their research explores the sociotechnical practices of creating, curating... Read More →

Jason Ezell

Milo Ono

Emrys Brandt

Doctoral Student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Emrys Brandt (he/they) is a doctoral student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illlinois, Urbana-Champaign. Their research interests include queer archival methods and early web history, currently focusing on pre-World Wide Web internet communication systems... Read More →

Evan M. Allgood

Doctoral Student, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Evan M. Allgood is a doctoral student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Allgood recently received their MSLIS from UIUC in 2025. Their research interests include representations of queer life in archives, transgender history... Read More →

Tuesday November 17, 2026 2:35pm - 3:50pm EST
TBA

SIG, Breakout Series 5

2026 ALISE Annual Conference