Queered by the archive: No More Potlucks and the activist potential of archival theory
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Launched on January 1, 2009, No More Potlucks1 (NMP) is the first and only independent web-based and print-on-demand journal of arts and politics in Canada, housed at the Library Archives Canada. Co-founded by Mél Hogan, M.-C. MacPhee and Dayna McLeod, the project came to fruition from a long-standing friendship, and also from a four-year volunteer experience with the Dykes on Mykes (DoMs) community radio show at CKUT, in Montreal. The project, however, was a decisive response to what they perceived to be lacking in content—politics, ideologies, and aesthetics—in arts and cultural publications, often sidestepped and largely overshadowed by American endeavors (Autostraddle and Bitch, for example). Over the course of the past five years, Hogan and MacPhee have hit the proverbial nail on the head in their assessment of what was lacking in queer feminist arts and cultural venues of publication: 29 issues have been published, and upcoming editions of NMP are curated months in advance. NMP supports marginalized voices, and modes of knowledge production and dissemination, which ideally facilitate acts of self-determination and cultural autonomy. Communities of artists, activists, and academics continue to supply the journal with material including artworks and collections, personal reflection pieces, critical interviews, works of fiction, and poetic political interventions, which together document the possibilities of new media publishing venues and a sense of urgency around the dissemination of underspoken voices and underappreciated perspectives. The focus is decidedly Canadian, with some international content. NMP’s stake in Research Justice however, pertains not only to bringing to light the journal’s strong feminist underpinnings, its Canadian-ness, and visibly queer ethics, but also, and perhaps more importantly, to the archival trajectory of the project and the political implications of the Archive.
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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 | 0.022 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.152 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.046 | 0.033 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.001 |
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".