Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus!: A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom
Why this work is in the frame
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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. RESUME Le projet d’archives rukus! a ete lance a Londres en juin 2005 par le photographe Ajamu X et le cineaste et metteur en scene Topher Campbell. La mission des archives est d’acquerir, de preserver, d’exposer et de rendre accessible au public pour la premiere fois des documents historiques, culturels et artistiques relatifs aux communautes lesbiennes, gaies, bisexuelles et transgenres noires au Royaume-Uni, et ce, par l’entremise d’une variete d’activites et d’evenements (expositions, projections de films, travail d’enregistrement d’interviews, communications, etc.). Le but de cet article est de presenter le travail de rukus! a un public international et de mettre en evidence ses specificites, comme le fait qu’il soit dirige 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 etudes culturelles britanniques, et qu’il etablit un dialogue entre les pratiques patrimoniales traditionnelles et les discours dominants relatifs a l’identite noire et queer. L’article presente la transcription revisee d’une interview qui s’est tenue entre les deux co-fondateurs des archives et Mary Stevens, chercheure a la University College London. Ce format original a ete choisi afin de permettre a Ajamu et a Topher de presenter leur travail dans leurs propres mots et a leur maniere. Le choix du format vise aussi a refleter l’idee que la conception des archives est une pratique intensement sociale et qu’elle fait partie d’un processus de partage de la memoire qui se concretise seulement a partir du dialogue.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 it