K J Rawson

Biographic Data

ID1479722
NAMEK J Rawson
GIVEN NAMESK J
FAMILY NAMERawson
SIGNATURERAWSON K J
AFFILIATIONSNortheastern University
ORCID0000-0001-5755-3624
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Trump’s Anti-Trans, Anti-Gender Executive Orders

    Libby Adler, K J RawsonARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…2026

    This is a transcribed interview with professors K.J. Rawson and Libby Adler, with questions from board chair Carla Kaplan, discussing the initial actions by the second Trump administration to set back transgender progress and erase all federal government recognition of trans existence. Much of the discussion focuses on Donald Trump’s executive orders from his first week in office, purporting to govern everything from military participation to pas…

  • Mediating Queer and Trans Pasts

    Open AccessMarika Cifor, K J RawsonARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2023

    Libraries and archives have long been rich sites of exploration for LGBTQ+ people in search of self-understanding, identification, shared experience, and community. Yet the information infrastructures that guide every quest for queer and trans information remain silently powerful mediators of our research processes. Through an extended discussion of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ linked data vocabulary that the authors helped to develop, …

  • Investing in Project Maintenance

    Open AccessEamon Schlotterback, Cailin Flannery Roles et al.ARTICLEDigital humanities quarterly2022

    In this case study of the Digital Transgender Archive, www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net, the authors discuss the results of a yearlong audit of the project. While scholarship in the field has focused on both the startup and sustainability stages of DH project lifecycles, far less attention has been paid to fostering healthy project growth and self-evaluation during the maintenance stage. After discussing the motivations for our audit and the met…

  • Documenting Rebellions

    K J RawsonARTICLEThe American Archivist2021

  • Button Rhetorics

    K J RawsonARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2021

    Buttons are strange historical objects. After they are retired from their honored place on a backpack or jean jacket (or perhaps rescued out of the junk drawer), scores of buttons have found their way to queer archives where they are proudly claimed as valued queer heritage artifacts. Buttons rarely have attributed creators and usually lack specific dates (aside from, say, political campaign buttons). Buttons are designed to be worn or posted, to…

  • Marie Høeg’s worldmaking photography

    Open AccessK J Rawson, Nicole TantumARTICLEJournal of Visual Culture2020

    Marie Høeg, who lived from 1866–1949, was a Norwegian photographer and activist for women’s rights. In this photo essay, the authors feature six photographs depicting Marie Høeg in gender transgressive scenes. These photographs are a few of more than 30 that were recovered in the 1980s from a property where Høeg once lived with her female partner, Bolette Berg. Standing out from the traditional landscapes and portraits that were common for the pr…

  • Transforming Citizenships

    K J RawsonARTICLEQED A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking2015Cited by: 2

    Book Review| October 01 2015 Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Articulations of the Law. By Isaac West. New York: New York University Press, 2014; pp. ix + 235, $75.00 cloth; $24.00 paper. K. J. Rawson K. J. Rawson College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2015) 2 (3): 160–162. ht…

  • Archival Justice

    K J RawsonARTICLERadical History Review2015

    In this interview from the summer of 2013, Ben Power Alwin discusses with K. J. Rawson his archival activism as the curator of the Sexual Minorities Archives (SMA) since 1977. Currently located in Northampton, Massachusetts, the SMA is one of the oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) archives in the United States, and it remains a radical grassroots collection. Housed in Alwin's personal residence for several de…

  • Archive

    K J RawsonARTICLETSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly2014Cited by: 3References: 2

    This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…

  • Transgender Worldmaking in Cyberspace

    K J RawsonARTICLEQED A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking2014Cited by: 7References: 3

    Advances in digital technology have provided new opportunities for historical activism, particularly through the collaborative channels of cyberspace. This article examines transgender historical activism on the Internet by identifying three types of worldmaking projects that respond to nonexistent or impoverished historical record keeping. With the affordances of cyberspace, transgender worldmaking invites collaborative, innovative, experimental…