User:Senka/Caretakers 7

This broadcast fell on the date of Halloween, so I volunteered to be a caretaker. Halloween holds a special place for me as a queer person. At a time when gender non-conformity was heavily looked down upon, Halloween used to be the day queer people could explore alternative modes of gender expression, do drag and imagine alternatives, without getting arrested. All under the pretence that it is just play-pretend, or a costume.
I wanted to play with the idea of creatures and monsters, sine a some of them have been created with the intention of social critique. Eg. zombies were a critique of commodity fetishism and consumer society, vampires a critique of the bourgeoisie. playing with fiction and the idea of creature I thought we can open up a different way to think about archives.
In my own practice regarding archiving, Saidiya Hartman's method of the critical fabulation was a crucial discovery. Critical fabulation is a writing method which combines archival records, critical theory and fiction to imagine and alternative and expand upon how we think about histories of oppression.

Etherpad of the broadcast [1]