Perverse Collections: Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives

“不正常的收藏”（PERCOL）提出的问题是：学者、酷儿和跨性别社区成员以及GLAM（画廊、图书馆、档案馆、博物馆）部门的工作人员如何利用对欧洲LGBTQ+档案演变的批判性和细致的理解来制定保护LGBTQ+历史的可持续战略，以及这在哪些方面可能对更广泛的文化遗产政治和政策具有变革潜力？为此，该项目将绘制欧洲酷儿和跨性别档案的成长地图，从20世纪70年代到现在；它将比较探讨这些藏品的运作，包括它们与国家支持形式的关系，它们在地方、国家和国际上促进的对LGBTQ+历史的理解，以及其中一些藏品所体现的另类存档模式。PERCOL将确定酷儿和跨性别收藏对其他底层档案的影响，以及更广泛的文化遗产部门，就它们对主流历史和政治叙事的挑战而言，它们可以揭示复杂的复音社区政治，以及它们对短暂经历的创造性处理。项目团队将与一系列欧洲文化遗产机构以及广泛的投资利益相关者合作，从欧洲酷儿和跨性别档案的历史中汲取灵感，为保护和维持LGBTQ+文化遗产制定创新战略。该项目处于一个现实的政治背景下：随着欧洲各地恐同和恐跨性别的暴力和歧视行为的兴起，在一些国家，右翼政治团体的偏见言论煽动了这些行为，该项目将争论LGBTQ+生活和经历的社会、文化和政治价值，以及支持和维护下层收藏的跨国生态的更广泛的伦理意义。

'Perverse Collections' (PERCOL) asks: how can a critical and nuanced understanding of the evolution of Europe's LGBTQ+ archives be used by scholars, queer and trans community members, and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sector workers to forge sustainable strategies for protecting LGBTQ+ history, and in what ways might this have transformative potential for cultural heritage politics and policy more broadly? To this end, the project will map the growth of Europe's queer and trans archives, from the 1970s to the present; it will comparatively explore the workings of these collections, including their relations to forms of state support, the understandings of LGBTQ+ history they promote locally, nationally, and internationally, and the alternative models of archiving some embody. PERCOL will identify the implications of queer and trans collections for other subaltern archives, as well as the wider cultural heritage sector, in terms of the challenges they present to dominant historical and political narratives, the complex polyphonic community politics they can reveal, and their creative handling of ephemeral experiences. Working with an array of European cultural heritage institutions, as well as a broad cross-section of invested stakeholders, the project team will draw from the history of Europe's queer and trans archives to model innovative strategies for preserving and sustaining LGBTQ+ cultural heritage. The project is situated in a live political context: as homophobic and transphobic acts of violence and discrimination rise across Europe, fomented in some countries by the prejudicial rhetoric of right-wing political groups, the project will argue for the social, cultural and political value of archiving LGBTQ+ lives and experiences, and for the wider ethical significance of supporting and maintaining a transnational ecology of subaltern collections.