{"id":575,"date":"2026-07-27T12:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?post_type=confab_session&#038;p=575"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:34:47","slug":"dr-kevin-guyan-prefer-not-to-say","status":"publish","type":"confab_session","link":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?confab_session=dr-kevin-guyan-prefer-not-to-say","title":{"rendered":"Keynote 1: Dr. Kevin Guyan &#8211; Prefer Not To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"taxonomy-confab_location wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Location: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/?location=g07-meadows-lt\" rel=\"tag\">G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">About the presenter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"989\" src=\"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dsc00704-smaller-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dsc00704-smaller-3.jpg 759w, https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dsc00704-smaller-3-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinguyan.com\/\">Kevin Guyan<\/a> (he\/him) is a writer and researcher whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/rainbow-trap-9781350429680\/\"><em>Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/queer-data-9781350230729\/\"><em>Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;He is a Chancellor\u2019s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gensexdatalab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gender + Sexuality Data Lab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to LavLang 32! Our first keynote talk is from Dr. Kevin Guyan, title: Prefer Not To Say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"confab_track":[27,28,29,26],"session_locations":[25],"class_list":["post-575","confab_session","type-confab_session","status-publish","hentry","confab_track-cm-1","confab_track-cm-2","confab_track-cm-4","confab_track-0-meadows","confab_location-g07-meadows-lt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/confab_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/575\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"confab_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fconfab_track&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"confab_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fsession_locations&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}