Decolonizing Sexualities Network (DSN) is a transnational collective that brings together academics, activists and artivists from across the global norths and souths for whom colonialism, coloniality and decolonization are central to the analytics, politics, experiences, and movements of gender and sexuality. DSN organizes events (such as conferences, panels, speakers, workshops), creates publications, provides access to talks and some publications and art on its website, and organizes forms of solidarity when called upon to do so. The network is variously financially supported by: LARCA, Études Anglophones, Université Paris Cité (France), and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley in Huichin, Turtle Island (Berkeley, CA, USA). Previously, it received support from Kent Law School, University of Kent (UK), and Birkbeck College, University of London (UK) as well.

Website : https://decolonizingsexualities.org/about

Transnational Archiving of Sexualities: Engaging Plural Pasts

A Project by Decolonizing Sexualities Network, with the France-Berkeley Fund

SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC EVENTS MAY 2023

 

Friday 5th May 2023 – 14h00

Lectures Transfrontalières

Collective readings of excerpts from French (and English) editions of Gloria Anzaldúa Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (with preface author Paola Bacchetta and translators Nino S. Dufour and Alejandra Soto-Chacón)

Academics, activists and artists are invited to participate

Library Research Room, Université Paris VIII, 2 rue de la Liberté – 93526 Saint-Denis

Organized by Groupe d’études politiques en réseaux

Many thanks to Béatrice Rettig

Co-sponsored by: Decolonizing Sexualities Network; Séminaire libre des jeunes chercheur·e·s du LLCP-Paris VIII; Éditions Cambourakis

 

Tuesday 9th May 2023 – 16h00-17h30

Conference – Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley, hosted by the Cité du Genre, Université Paris Cité

Rassembler Dyketactics!: Notes sur intérieurs/extérieurs de l’archivage sauvage

Analyse des archives du groupe lesbien et queer de Philadelphie dans les années 70

Discutant·e·s : Malek Cheikh, Membre de la revue AssiégéES et militant féministe

                         Mathieu Duplay, Professeur, LARCA/Université Paris Cité

Salle M019, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges

8 Rue Albert Einstein/Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris

Contact: Sandeep Bakshi (sandeep.bakshi@u-paris.fr)

Co-organized by Cité du Genre and Decolonizing Sexualities Network

 

Wednesday 10th May 2023 – 17h00-19h00

Roundtable, hosted by “Empires, Souths, Sexualities”, LARCA, Université Paris Cité

Lesbian, Queer and Trans of Color and Decolonial Archiving

Mel Chen (Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley), Lisbet Tellefsen (Visiting Archivist, University of California, Berkeley), Paola Bacchetta (Professor, University of California, Berkeley) with Sandeep Bakshi (Associate Professor, LARCA/Université Paris Cité)

Room 127, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges

8 Rue Albert Einstein/Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris

Contact: Sandeep Bakshi (sandeep.bakshi@u-paris.fr)

Organized by Decolonizing Sexualities Network

Hybrid event. Registration link: https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc–vpzMjEtRg1JTZEmPBN9vLtEqTR2N8

 

Saturday 13th May 2023 – afternoon

Archiver comme Lisbet Tellefesen

Contact: Sam Bourcier (sambourcier1@gmail.com)

Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, 13 rue Santeuil, 75015 Paris

Organized by Decolonizing Sexualities Network

 

Events organized and co-sponsored by Decolonizing Sexualities Network.

Many thanks to France-Berkeley Fund, Cité du Genre and LARCA for financial support.

https://fbf.berkeley.edu/publications/transnational-archiving-sexualities-engaging-plural-pasts