My name is Margaret Breidenbaugh (she/her). I wear many hats (sadly, I am not wearing a hat in the photo to your left).

I am one of three co-chairs of the Library of Congress Gender and Sexuality SACO Funnel, a project that promotes and facilitates the creation and revision of authority records for Library of Congress controlled vocabularies used in the cataloging of resources about, for, and by transgender, gender diverse, intersex, asexual, and other queer, non-heteronormative or non-heterosexual people. The goal of our project is to improve access to gender- and sexuality-related resources, and to reflect more accurately the terminology used by non-heteronormative and/or non-heterosexual communities. We also create and revise terminology addressing personal relationships, with a focus on subject authority records that perpetuate or normalize cisgender and heterosexual perspectives and relationships as the standard.

I am the Resource Sharing Coordinator at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Local 1099. 

I've been working with information in academic libraries, public libraries, archives and special collections, and museums since 2014. I have an MA in Modern German Social History from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2018, and am a current MLIS student at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.

My research interests -- critical cataloging, women's travel writing, gendered language, paleography, and the language of surveys -- interrogate the power of words.