Sam Bourcier is a French sociologist, and lecturer at Lille-III University. He is a transfeminist and queer activist. He is the author of numerous books and articles on queer cultures, theories and politics, sexual subcultures (such as BDSM), feminism, transfeminism, minorities and identity politics in France and abroad. Life Sam Bourcier, was born Marie-Hélène Bourcier, on 30 October 1963 in Berlin, his father was an infantry colonel. He studied at the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud (class of 1982), Sam Bourcier, who defined himself as "a baby of French post-structuralism", defended his doctoral thesis in 1998 at the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud. advanced studies in social sciences under the direction of Dominique Wolton5 and Alain Touraine6, whose title is The Narrative Discourse on Television during the Gulf War. Facilitator of Zoo seminars between 1996 and 1998, translator of Monique Wittig and Teresa de Lauretis, author of a trilogy on queer theory, (Queer Zones 1, Queer Zones 2 - Sexpolitiques, Queer Zones 3 - Identity, culture, politics), he is one of the initiators of the trans association Without Counterfeiting of the introduction in France of queer studies. Sam Bourcier translated The Contrasexual Manifesto published in the collection of Guillaume Dustan at Balland in 2000. From September 2000 to June 2001, Sam Bourcier was invited to New York University as part of a Fulbright fellowship, with the post-doctoral subject Queer Theory and French Philosophy: The Politics of Inverted Translation. Sam Bourcier's work concerns the fields of feminism, transfeminism, gender studies, trans studies, Queer Studies, post-colonial studies and Porn Studies, and falls under cultural studies. He is a queer activist, and the author of numerous books and articles on queer cultures, theories and policies, sexual subcultures (such as SM), feminisms, transfeminisms, minorities and identity politics in France and abroad. abroad. In 2002, Sam Bourcier founded the Archilesb group which, along with Vigitrans (Tom Reucher's group) claims within ArchiQ the inclusion of lesbians in the project for the documentation center and homosexual archives in Paris15. More broadly, he denounced the processes of infra-community exclusion within LGBTIQ cultures. He was accused of defamation for having affirmed that Judith Silberfeld, journalist of Têtu; he won in September 2004 the lawsuit brought against him. He followed a Lacanian psychoanalysis for seven years, he is against Lacanian normalization and the psychiatrization of trans people: