Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus!: A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The rukus! archive project was launched in London in June 2005 by photographer Ajamu X, and filmmaker and theatre director Topher Campbell. The archive’s mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit, and otherwise make available for the first time to the public historical, cultural, and artistic materials related to the Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities in the United Kingdom through a variety of activities and events (exhibitions, film-screenings, oral history work, presentations, etc.). The purpose of this article is to introduce the work of rukus! to an international audience, and to highlight its specificities, such as its artist-led nature, its negotiation of the politics of loss and mourning, its intellectual origins in the work of Stuart Hall, and British Cultural Studies more generally, and the critical dialogue it establishes with both mainstream heritage practices and dominant Black and queer identity discourses.The article takes the form of the edited transcript of an interview that took place between the two cofounders of the archive and Mary Stevens, a researcher at University College London. This unusual format was chosen in order to allow Ajamu and Topher to present their work in their own words and on their own terms. The choice of format also seeks to reflect the idea of the archive as an intensely social practice, part of the process of fostering a shared memory that emerges only through dialogue. RÉSUMÉLe projet d’archives rukus! a été lancé à Londres en juin 2005 par le photographe Ajamu X et le cinéaste et metteur en scène Topher Campbell. La mission des archives est d’acquérir, de préserver, d’exposer et de rendre accessible au public pour la première fois des documents historiques, culturels et artistiques relatifs aux communautés lesbiennes, gaies, bisexuelles et transgenres noires au Royaume-Uni, et ce, par l’entremise d’une variété d’activités et d’événements (expositions, projections de films, travail d’enregistrement d’interviews, communications, etc.). Le but de cet article est de présenter le travail de rukus! à un public international et de mettre en évidence ses spécificités, comme le fait qu’il soit dirigé par des artistes, qu’il soit sensible aux politiques de la mort et du deuil, qu’il trouve ses origines intellectuelles tant dans le travail de Stuart Hall que dans les études culturelles britanniques, et qu’il établit un dialogue entre les pratiques patrimoniales traditionnelles et les discours dominants relatifs à l’identité noire et queer.L’article présente la transcription révisée d’une interview qui s’est tenue entre les deux co-fondateurs des archives et Mary Stevens, chercheure à la University College London. Ce format original a été choisi afin de permettre à Ajamu et à Topher de présenter leur travail dans leurs propres mots et à leur manière. Le choix du format vise aussi à refléter l’idée que la conception des archives est une pratique intensément sociale et qu’elle fait partie d’un processus de partage de la mémoire qui se concrétise seulement à partir du dialogue.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".