Archival Textures: A conversation on publishing as intergenerational solidarity with Anne Krul, Tabea Nixdorff, Tamara Hartman and Tineke E. Jansen

Languages: spoken Dutch and English

We invite you to join us for an informal conversation, in which contributors and editors of the publication series Archival Textures reflect on having worked collaboratively on the first season of books, published in 2024, and what it means to (re)visit archives of queer, Black, feminist organizing in the Netherlands. How can publishing archival texts and materials nurture intergenerational solidarity?

The publication series Archival Textures seeks knowledges that are continuously obscured by normative perspectives on our bodies, desires, forms of cohabitation and expression. This entails critically tending to the site of the “archive,” as many institutional collections reinforce these normative perspectives and understand knowledge as something which can be classified, authorized, and recorded into a single intellectual framework. With Archival Textures, we draw from unlikely holdings of established archives and turn to local community archives, personal collections, and conversations to find writings of the past that can inform our current vocabularies of resistance and solidarity. By way of (re)assembling, translating, transcribing, annotating, and supplementing archival texts, the publications weave a poetic texture of knowledges, situating them within a transnational and intergenerational fabric of belonging. Each book is edited with a subversive strategy in mind, and is a testament to affective, collaborative practices and modes of research, building on queer, Black feminist thought.