Them, All supports feminist, queer and antiracist
derivations and deviations of reproductive labour
AT THE LEVEL OF
the word, sentence, string, command line, stanza, interface and page.
The project derives from research around histories
of Queer Net Art works and maga/zines that have addressed
questions of access to reproductive resources and medical technologies.
For example,
the 1970s magazine Sappho in the UK
who published poetry and operated as a network for resource sharing
across disability, sexuality, race and class struggles,
and who used a form of sexuality and gender non-conformity as
an expansive mode of collective action.
The title also comes from the project
The Wife of Them All,
an animated spoken opera film that follows a number of characters
navigating the intersections of waged and unwaged reproductive work,
inspired by Gertrude Stein's 1947 libretto
The Mother of Us All.
Them, All also thinks with proponents
of Black Feminist and Marxist Feminist thought,
who have emphasised the critique of a totality (“All”)
from situated knowledge(s) (“Them”).
"Them, All" from this perspective means
specific standpoints
and total transformation.
This online project is hosted with
Systerserver,
a server run by feminists using free and open source software (FOSS).
It acts as a place to learn system administration skills,
host services and inspire others to do the same.
What is
reproduced at the level of the word, sentence, string,
command line, stanza, interface and page?
What can be
non-reproduced or
reproduced otherwise?