Indexers perhaps best exemplify the term “information activist” because they work most explicitly with “raw” information that awaits processing to be meaningful. The writing these women did to introduce their projects to readers frames the indexes they worked on as indispensable interfaces that would mediate between a public and the information they both desired and couldn’t do without. Dispersed users needed this information to be intelligible as a “public” in the first place. Potter explains that lesbian newsletters needed systematic indexing because “They provided a means of expression for a community in the process of creating itself.”

— Information Activism by Cait McKinney (42% - 43%)