PUBLICATION

 PUBLICATION:
The project will culminate in a risograph printed publication that addresses the history of labor and organizing through archival texts, photographs, and contemporary narratives. Though it will be impossible for all of the submissions to be printed in the publication, everything will be documented, archived, and made available online. 

Though historically considered women’s work, where men like my bisnonno occupied more desirable and supervisory roles in the factories, the publication will challenge the gendered ideologies of textile production, dismantling the binaries of art / craft and masculine / feminine, and considering the relationship between queerness, textiles, and community. Containing photographs of the textiles and their stories, alongside the history and labor of creations, the resulting spiral bound publication will emphasize the power of collective action.

LINEAGES OF LABOR is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.