text: By way of example, a queer archivalimaginary would include same-sex love letters or suggestive diariesdestroyed by individuals or family members.17Developing this, the Homosaurus often creates what could becalled “metadatic imaginaries” when we create terms for things thatwe can imagine existing, even if there is no evidence for their exis-tence. We often refer to this by the shorthand of “bisexual beaches,”a real Homosaurus term created in a batch alongside “gay beaches”and “lesbian beaches.” Even though we have no evidence for the exis-tence of a bisexual beach, they are things that we can imagine, giventhe existence of other queer beaches.
tldr to imaginaries in #critarch: "archival imaginaries” describes the ways that individuals and communities use historical materials to “creatively and collectively re-envision the future through archival interventions in representations of the shared past." And #Homosaurus has plenty of those: