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Sam Bourcier

A sociologist and transfeminist activist, volunteer at the LGBTQI+ Archives Center Paris IDF, Sam Bourcier teaches feminist studies and queer theory at the University of Lille and abroad. He is the author of the Queer Zones trilogy, published by Amsterdam, Comprendre le féminisme (Max Milo), Homo Incorporated, le Triangle et la licorne qui pète, published by Cambourakis. Winner of the Institut Universitaire de France for a project on LGBTQI+ archives, his next book Le Pouls de l’archive, c’est en nous qu’il bat, will be published by Cambourakis in early 2025.
  • The Incompleteness of the Archive Belongs to Us

    Rather than writing history, practising the living archive

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    • Sam Bourcier

    Invisibilisation, erasure, dispossession; numerous are the forms of incompleteness affecting trans* archives. Writing a compensatory or reparative trans* history often proves to be the solution. However, other archival strategies and practices – such…