Clara Pacotte & Charlotte Houette (EAAPES) | À l'oeuvre 2020
EAAPES is a research group around feminist writings in science fiction, created in 2017 by Clara Pacotte and Charlotte Houette within The Cheapest University.
The project received the CNAP research grant in 2019. Their publications, readers, provide the French public with access to texts, archives and interviews of contemporary feminist authors.
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EAAPES is a collective that was created in 2017 at the Cheapest University with the aim of investigating the different forms of feminist science fiction, both contemporary and historical.
It started with workshops where we invited people to come and work on the issues that interest us. So, the choice of a reader format was quite interesting because it fit with the fact that the people who worked with us could rewrite it and correct it—it’s more in the form of a fanzine.
We wanted to gather all the material we had collected over the months and compile it without establishing any hierarchy. There’s a very long table of contents to pick and choose from: it’s not really something you read from start to finish.
Now we’re preparing the fourth reader. It’s cool that we can also reprint the old readers. Now you’ll be able to get the whole series.