Them, All

Issue 4 Flyer

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?

Previous launches /
actions / workshops

Issue 4 Flyer

Issue 3 Flyer

Issue 2 Flyer

Issue 1 Flyer

GWL Workshop


Contributors

Kimala Price

is a Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. In addition to her research & scholarship on reproductive health policy & politics, she has a strong commitment to feminist activism and policy advocacy. For nearly three decades, Dr. Price has been active in the reproductive rights & reproductive justice movements.

Winnie Soon

is a Hong Kong-born artist coder & researcher interested in the cultural implications of digital infrastructure that addresses wider power asymmetries. They are Course Leader at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, and also Associate Professor (on leave) at Aarhus University.

Mara Karagianni

is an artist, software developer & system administrator. Their work involves computational and analogue media for publishing, print-making, python programming, making technical user manuals, & writing about the internet, FOSS & feminism.

Fran Lock

is a poet, activist, essayist, editor, & the out-going Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow (2023). Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive (Dare-Gale Press, 2022); & recent collections are Hyena! Jackal! Dog! (Pamenar Press, 2021) and White/ Other (87 Press, 2022). She is Associate Editor at socialist arts cooperative Culture Matters where she edited The Cry of the Poor: An anthology of radical writing about poverty (2021).

Camille Auer

is a trans-disciplinary artist & writer. Her art practice has always been theory driven, but instead of illustrating existing theories she uses forms ranging from sound, moving image, performance & text-based installations as modes of thinking in their own right. A common theme in her diverse body of work is the othering of trans & nonhuman bodies, such as herself or queer birds. Her work is currently supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Rosa María García

is a working-class white non-binary trans person. She works as a translator, freelance researcher & writer. She has translated Whipping Girl (Julia Serano, 2020), Trans (Shon Faye, 2022), & Transgender Marxism (Gleeson and O'Rourke ed., 2023; not yet published). In 2024 she will publish Maps for a Trans Insurrection with Kaótica Libros.

Xeito Fole

is a multimedia artist & transfeminist & anti-speciesist activist. Cultural agitator expert in transfeminisms and GSRDI. Their work embodies an experimental and experiential dialogue, that emerges from their political practice, fragmented methodologies, and creative processes, with a critical and transversal perspective between art, activism, cultural policies, and education.

Dr Nat Raha

is a poet, activist-scholar, & Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. Her poetry includes of sirens, body & faultlines (Boiler House Press, 2018), countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and apparitions (nines) (Nightboat Books, 2024). With Mijke van der Drift, Nat is co-authoring Trans Femme Futures: An Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds (2024).

Estragon

is a media artist and web developer involved with feminist technological collectives and networks, including Varia, Systerserver, and /etc. She co-initiated the 'Feminist Hack Meetings' in Rotterdam, a series exploring the intersections of technology and feminism through research meetings and workshops. Big thanks to vo ezn -- sound && infrastructure artist and fellow SysterServer member. Together, we've spent quite some hours figuring out and crafting the necessary hook work for the Them-All-Magazine migration.

SysterServer

provides support to its network of feminist, queer and antipatriarchal folks. Run by feminists, using FOSS, it acts as a place to learn system administration skills, host services and inspire others to do the same.

Pratibha Parmar

is an award-winning British filmmaker – a writer, director and producer. She has worked across multiple genres – feature documentaries, short dramas, music videos, a narrative feature, and is a recent director of episodic television, LAW & ORDER SUV and Ava DuVernay’s QUEEN SUGAR. Pratibha’s documentary A PLACE OF RAGE, on African American women and the civil rights movement, which focused on June Jordan and Angela Davis, received international critical acclaim and was named Best Historical Documentary at the National Black Programming Consortium in the US. Her other documentaries include the award-winning KHUSH, the first film to document the lives and experiences of South Asian lesbian and gay people in UK, Canada and India. Once a graduate of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Parmar co-founded the first Black British women's publishing house (Black Women Talk) as well as being a member of Sheba Feminist publisher. She currently spends time between London & California where she is a Professor of Film.

Madeleine Stack

is an artist and writer. Their writing has been published in Granta, Hotel, Prototype, Cordite, Another Gaze, and Salt, and they are co-editor of Canal, a bilingual press publishing politics and poetics.

Shia Conlon

is a writer and artist whose work has been centered around marginalized voices and growing up in the landscape of working-class Catholic Ireland. His current research is focused on non-linear time and how to use the power of archives, language, and memory as tools for queer representation. His work is rooted incollaboration and would not exist without the vulnerability of his queer and trans community.

Melissa Lee-Houghton’s

third poetry collection, Sunshine, was a Guardian book of the year and won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2016. Her novel, That Lonesome Valley was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Award in 2019. Exposure/Ideal Palace is published by Pariah Press, forthcoming April/May 2024.

Hanna Paniutsich/XYANA

(BY/UK) is a multimedia artist and researcher. Their work is a collage of personal stories and histories, video footage, physical devices and biomatter. This is usually assembled into installations using different software and hardware. Their current research interests are nuclear technologies, chemical pollution and the effects of radioactivity on living systems. They are fascinated by exclusion zones, fungi, technological infrastructures and interfaces.