Aimé Dabbadie (they/he) is a genderfuck photographer, zine-maker, event facilitator, writer, and multimedia artist, born in 1992 in France and currently based in Berlin (GER).
Their work focuses on documenting underground queer, drag, punk and DIY performance scenes, mostly through analog photography. They compile these images into zines and small-run art books, published under their press, Lost and Found Press. They founded Xem Skaters (2016–2019), a community-led zine sharing stories from genderqueer skaters, and have since published a range of titles, some purely photographic, others created through workshops in collaboration with queer archives.
Aimé’s community organizing centers on creating low-barrier, self-archiving art spaces grounded in care and collaboration. Their zine-making workshops aim to pass on practical skills while inviting participants to engage with queer history and archives outside of mainstream and academic spaces. Their hope is to open paths for people to connect with the queer present and to see their own voices as part of ongoing cultural and political change.
Across media, their work raises awareness and visibility of queer and trans lives through photography, writing, zines, street art, public speaking, and performance. This has included soli-parties, queer safe space organizing in punk and rave scenes, and collaborations with local and international archives.
Their work has been exhibited across Europe, the US, and Australia.
Aimé Dabbadie is also a professional freelance Translator and Copywriter in French and English.
You can read Aimé on Substack
contact: aime.dabbadie[@]gmail.com
Hire me for workshops & lectures
I can host a wide range of workshops focusing on the following themes: archive-based zine making, open-call-based community zines, queer & political zines, DIY art-book making, and black and white analog photography (developing & printing). I am also happy to host lectures about queer zine-making history and community-based zines.
If you’d like more information, please send a clear proposal and clear fee amount in your first contact. If you are still new to the zine-making world, I am happy to help you shape and customize workshop ideas that are adapted to your vision. However, please note that I will not answer messages without mention of payment or budget unless they are related to crowdfunding purposes or nonprofit organizations. Reach out to: aime.dabbadie[@]gmail.com
Upcoming
Collective zine-making workshop as Lost and Found Press in collaboration with the Queer Zine Library Berlin and sponsored by Stadtbibliothek Pankow at Sonntags-Club, Berlin - November 30th
romcom (live) at Fruit Cake for Soli Tattoo Flash Day, Berlin - December 6th
Ongoing
Solo experimental washed-out punk ambient music project as romcom
Organizer, scenography & awareness with SWEAT, a trans-forward rave collective (Copenhagen & Berlin)
Resident DJ with lost and found show as MORT-MOI on Refuge Worldwide (Berlin)
Janitor & roadie at Whose Museum (Malmö)
1/2 of Agata with a.Monti, a noise poetry duo exploring the late Sant’Agata’s life from a trans perspective
Past works & exhibitions
2025
Fanmail4Fanzine release at Silver Future in collaboration with Spinnboden, Lesbenarchiv und Bibliothek and the Queer Zine Library Berlin - November 18th
Fanmail4Fanzine workshop at Spinnboden, Lesbenarchiv und Bibliothek in collaboration with Queer Zine Library Berlin - November 2nd
Artist talk about zine-making, queer archives and analog photography at Bard College, Berlin - November 4th
romcom live show at Kwia, Berlin, 27th of October
romcom live show at Bar Neun, Berlin - 25th of October
romcom x Rosa Derosa - outdoor live ambient sundown show, Berlin - 26th of September
Table at the Queer Zine Fest in Brussels, Belgium - 18th & 19th of October
Radio show on Kiosk Radio: Queer zine music, Brussels, Belgium - 16th of October
Zine releaser: Sascha The Fool’s Sporty SWEAT - October
Zine release: PUNX’N’KWEENS - Summer of love - August
Host and co-curator of the SWEAT segment at the performance stage at WHOLE festival, Germany - 18th of July
Zine release: Queer Zines Not Dead - July
Zine release: Fanmail4Fanzine - June
Radio show: lost and found (zines special) on Refuge Worldwide - 15th of August
Exhibitor table & talk Fanmail4fanzine: Queer Archive Activation & Community Zine Making at Read Wedding at Vagabund Kesselhaus, Berlin, Germany - 13th of July
Zine making workshops as part of trans*missions (queer archives and artistic practices) @ Spinnboden Lesbisches Archiv, Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft, FFBIZ, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany - June & July
Exhibitor table at the Glasgow Zine Fest, UK - July 5-6th
romcom live at Kwia with SWEAT - May 10th
Exhibitor table at Miss Read, HKW, Berlin, Germany - June, 13-15th
B2B as MORT-MOI with Bleach on Refuge Worldwide - Berlin, April
MORT-MOI/romcom dj session at migas, an ambient listening bar - Berlin, April
Live show with romcom as part of gugolmaps release at Kwia - Berlin, April
Zine release: SHEENA IS, March
Zine releaser: Polefluid’s HOT HOT Sweat, February
Panelist on the topic of Club Awareness at the ‘Unlocked: Promoters’ event organized by Refuge Worldwide and Resident Advisor - Berlin, February
2024
Zine release: La Sosi’s Holy Sweat, November
Zine release: Rosa Kwir x Whose Museum, November
Rosa Kwir x Whose Museum reunion, Balzan, Malta (Funded by the Goethe Institute and EU) - November 2024
Exhibitor table at Miss Read at HKW in Berlin - October 11-13,
Zine release: Healing, October
Whose Museum Was There - Roadie, janitor & noisemaker for Evacuation Ensemble’s first and final show ‘the exit cleaning’ at Whose Museum Malmö - August & September
100% Dalida radio show on Refuge Worldwide, 28th of August
Xem Skaters on display at SFMOMA as part of the exhibition “Unity through Skateboarding” curated by Jeffrey Cheung and Gabriel Ramirez, August 17, 2024–April 27, 2025
Zine release Sant’Agata’s room and noise poetry performance of Agata in collaboration with a.Monti and Hopscotch Reading room at DZIALDOV in Berlin, 31st of May
Exhibitor at the Paris Ass Book Fair at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, 17th -19th of May
TRANSCENDENT THREADS – HOUSES OF ADORATION - Weaving queer sanctuaries (an attempt) - A weekend of interdisciplinary poetry, celebrating queer expressions of devotion, faith and adoration – through writing, reading, listening, weaving, gathering, feasting facilitated by Aimé Dabbadie & a.Monti - 24-25th of February 2024 at Kurant visningsrom,Tromso, Norway
Analog self-portrait photography and printing workshops in collaboration with Jasper J. Maurer at we are village in Berlin, 14th of January & 17th of March
2023
DJ at Intonal in Malmö, Sweden - April
Co-organizer of Between the lines, a queer poetry weekend at Whose Museum, Malmö - April
Exhibition of “All gender is drag” at Tampere University, Finland as part of the Nordic Trans Studies Conference - February
2022
Organization and curation of the exhibition program Whose Museum x Rosa Kwir (a queer experimental archive from Malta) - host of the poetry night, fanzine and harness workshops - at Whose Museum in Malmö, Sweden - 17th of September - 23rd of october
Organizer of the 1st annual *untalented show in Oslo with Whose Museum and Open Forum (KHIO) - June 3rd
Zine release: second limited edition of the soft invisible weight of your absence takes so much space - June
Set design for the short movie “A very friendly search party” by C. Grace Chang - May
Zine release: 1st edition of the self-publication and visual piece the soft invisible weight of your absence takes so much space at Molekyl Gallery, in Malmö, group show Närmare - May 20th - June 12th
Zine release: The Queens of Tenerife, April
2021
“All gender is drag” exhibited at Deseo studio, Malmö - July to October
2020
Performance “Where do we go now?” at Whose Museum, Malmö - December 5th
Whose readings with Aimé & Jari at Whose Museum - 8th of November
Xem Skaters zine exhibited as part of the exhibition “They call themselves skaters, and the act of skateboarding they call skating” organized by Gemeinde Köln in Cologne, Germany - July 17th - August 23th
2019
Exhibition of “All gender is drag” during the L-Festival closing party in collaboration with Missfitte and Dance Divine at Lavallée, in Bruxelles, Belgium - November
“Fashion Storm: video performance during “Everything will happened” in Collaboration with Judy Moore and C. Grace Chang at Whose Museum, KRETS, Malmö, Sweden - June 22nd
Exhibition of selected pieces of the series “All gender is drag” as part of the group exhibition “Helt vanlig” at Galleri Blåherremölla in Degeberga, Sweden - June 29th - August 13th
Exhibition of “All gender is drag” at Café OYA in Berlin, Germany - July 24th - September 15th
Exhibition of “All gender is drag”, commissioned by the University of Bordeaux, in collaboration with Collectif Kunsthalle at Café Zig Zag. Bordeaux, France - March 3rd-30th
2018
Photos and video work exhibited at Rakel Stammer’s solo show Failure is Love // Love is Resistance at Gallery FRANK, Malmö, Sweden - October 13th-24th
Lecture "DIY zine making and community editorial - carving queer spaces in the skate scene" at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands - September 3rd
Invited speaker at the Pushing Boarders conference in the panel ‘Not just some homogenised bullshit’: Skateboarding and the Gender-Identity Evolution, London, United Kingdom / Speech published on Free Skate Mag - June 1st-3rd
Featured artist at the Folx of WOF exhibition during WOF 9 at the Evo Store - Exhibiting 9 original darkroom prints, Seattle, US - May 4th-31st