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Sam Bourcier is a French sociologist and lecturer at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III. They are a transfeminist and queer activist. According to Bourcier's twitter, they use the French gender-neutral neopronoun iel.

They are the author of numerous books and articles on queer cultures, theories and politics, sexual subcultures (such as BDSM), feminism, transfeminism, minorities, and identity politics in France and abroad.

Life

Sam Bourcier was born Marie-Hélène Bourcier on 30 October 1963 in Berlin, where their father was an infantry colonel. They studied at the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Bourcier later studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud (class of 1982), where they defended a doctoral thesis in 1988. They have described themself as the "child of French post-structuralism."

Bourcier has played an important role in the introduction of queer theory into France through public seminars (the "Q Seminars," which ran from 1996-1998) and their trilogy Queer Zones (2001-2006). They also have translated the work of French-American writer Monique Wittig, Italian-American academic Teresa de Lauretis and the Spanish writer Paul B. Preciado into French.

From September 2000 to June 2001, Bourcier was invited to New York University as part of a Fulbright fellowship, with the post-doctoral subject Queer Theory and French Philosophy: The Politics of Inverted Translation.

In 2002, Bourcier founded the group Archilesb, which advocates for the inclusion of lesbian history in Paris's planned gay history archive centre. More broadly, Bourcier has criticised exclusion within LGBTQI communities.

Although Bourcier underwent a Lacanian analysis for seven years, they have since taken a public position against Lacanianism and the psychiatrization of trans identity.

References

  1. Marie-helene, Bourcier. "Marie-helene BOURCIER - Université de Lille". pro.univ-lille.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  2. Bourcier, Sam. "Sam Bourcier (@mhbourcier1)". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  3. ^ "On a parlé théorie queer avec Sam Bourcier". www.vice.com (in French). 16 November 2018. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  4. Marie-Hélène, Bourcier (2004-01-28). "Cultural studies et politiques de la discipline : talk dirty to me!". multitudes (in French). Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  5. Bardou, Florian. "En France, les "Queer studies" au ban de la fac". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  6. Q comme queer : les séminaires Q du Zoo (1996-1997). Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Zoo. Lille: Gai Kitsch Camp. 1998. ISBN 2-908050-46-3. OCLC 44618104.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Bourcier, Sam (2018). Queer zones : la trilogie. Paul B. Preciado. Paris. ISBN 978-2-35480-174-8. OCLC 1078141677.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. "Recherche alumni | Commission Franco-Américaine Fulbright". fulbright-france.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  9. "Marie-Helene Bourcier | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
  10. Dictionnaire des féministes : France, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle. Christine Bard, Sylvie Chaperon. 2017. pp. 195–197. ISBN 978-2-13-078720-4. OCLC 972902161.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. Bourcier, Marie-Hélène (January 2012). "Cultural translation, politics of disempowerment and the reinvention of queer power and politics". Sexualities. 15 (1): 93–109. doi:10.1177/1363460711432107. ISSN 1363-4607. S2CID 146775169.
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