Emma Ydiers
Emma Ydiers, a writer and researcher, experiments with bringing lesbian feminist archival material from the 1980s and 1990s, that they encounter throughout the research process for their PhD research, outside of the archival institutions and inside queer spaces. By gathering this scattered and distant material around contentious topics situated in specific temporalities and localities, they invite people to relate these traces of the past to their sense of this past and hope to facilitate time-crossing conversations and interventions. This practice is embedded in a tradition of this past itself in which reading, researching, writing, publishing, communicating, and archiving served as tactics to bring a public into existence by giving shape to networks, framing common interests, and acting as a shared resource for activists to imagine and enact transformative modes of counterpublics.