Notes on the Sticky Note: Gay Smut, Archival Desires, and Tactile Tactics

Nils Meyn is a research associate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and is currently pursuing a PhD in the research traininggroup “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University Frankfurt. They previously completed the master’s program Film Culture: Archiving, Programming, Presentation at Goethe University Frankfurt and later received a research proposal scholarship from the Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Mainz. In their dissertation, Nils explores the material and affective history of the porn film collection of Schwules Museum in Berlin, framing the collection as an index of queer desires. At the museum, they conduct research, volunteer, and co-facilitate archival workshops focused on the porn collection. In addition, Nils works in a project that catalogs and provides access to the archive of AIDS-Hilfe Frankfurt, a health service organization that played a pivotal roleduring Germany’s AIDS crisis.