Aimé Dabbadie

Aimé's self-published collection of zines includes:
- Xem Skaters #1, #2 & #3 (2016-2018)
- the soft invisible weight of your absence takes so much space (2022)
- Sant'Agata's room (2024)
- The queens of Tenerife (2022)
- (top surgery) healing zine (2020)
- butterflies (2023)
- transfaggots poem (2024)
- La Sosi's holy sweat (2025)
- Polefluid's hot hot sweat (2025)
- Rosa Kwir x Whose Museum (2024)
- Norhell (2023)

“the soft invisible weight of your absence takes so much space” is a zine compiling photographs, paintings, prints, fabrics, visual poems, and texts exploring and diving in the themes of absence and grief. Delving into what seems insignificant at first, such as unreadable notes, blurry photos, missed shots and faceless portraits, Aimé threads different multi-layered attempts to grasp the space that remains where absence begins. Haunted by the influence of writers such as Marguerite Duras, Sarah Kane, Jean Luc Lagarce and Fabrice Melquiot, they explore the different feelings tied to absence and grief relating to the concepts of identity, gender, relationships, family, the body and collective imaginaries. The result is visions of paradoxes, in-betweens and nonplaces, suspended outside of time and space, flying out of a stranger’s hands. 3rd limited edition of 50 Hand sewn and printed onto the following mix of papers: 40g glassine, 90g transparent, rice paper, 80g design offset, 60g recycled & 170g design offset

Xem Skaters is a community queer skate zine founded by Aimé Dabbadie in June 2016. It was created with the aim to start the conversation about homophobia, transphobia and genderqueer visibility in the skateboarding scene. The zine is constructed on the community editorial basis. Aimé published “Call for Submissions” inviting all genderqueer and genderqueer-friendly skaters to submit all kind of content that could fit in the zine format for each issue. Submissions were sent from various places in the world including Chile, France, Australia, U.S.A, the U.K, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and many more. Aimé handled the editorial process, ran interviews with selected skateboarders and artists for each issue and created playlists of queer-fronted music as well as queer zines and books recommendations. The submissions took the form of poetry, testimonies, photographs, drawings, artworks, music lyrics, band presentations and more. The zine was also meant as a tool for queer skaters to connect and avoid feeling isolated and an easy format to bring to local skateparks to raise awareness about queer and trans inclusivity. The zine was mainly made of analog collages and followed the usual A4 double sided black and white format in order to be easily printed anywhere in the world. The PDFs were shared with local actors of the skate scene in different countries so they could print it and distribute it for free during women and/or trans separatist skate sessions and meet ups.

Preview of Rosa Kwir x Whose Museum publication, a zine and collection of inserts documenting the collaboration between Whose Museum, a loose archival project accepting donations from anyone and Rosa Kwir, a trans masculine and alternatively masculine archive project from Malta.

A noise poetry zine by Aimé Dabbadie & a.Monti "Sant’Agata, patron saint of Catania resuscitates as a trans guy to meet Kathy Acker and Sarah Kane at a dyke bar, later goes to study love with bell hooks and an underpaid tour guide. Together they bake booby cakes and explore wormholes in which they become one and all of us.