welcome 2 ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ถ ๐๐พ๐๐. a new forum for jagged and iridescent reflection on the โgirl onlineโ, or rather, the necessity of being a girl online.
Since being launched by writer and curator Ester Freider in December of 2023, Everyone is a Girl (EIAG) has flourished into a multimedia project that creates printed and digital publications, hosts panels and symposia, and platforms a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary work. EIAGโs main theme is the intersection between femininity and internet culture, but our project is also interested in documenting, interrogating, and playing with fandoms, porn, camp, and pseudoacademia.
EIAG has published two in-print zines, focusing on the themes of SEDUCTION and FANDOMS, as well as several Substack releases. Our print work has been distributed by Antenne Books and Meta Label and made available at indie bookstores and fairs across London.ย
EIAG has hosted events thus far at the Bread and Butter Collection (Shoreditch), Ethereal Maison Gallery (Bethnal Green), The George Tavern (Stepney Green), Omeara London (London Bridge), Pushkin House (Bloomsbury), and Glebe Road Studios (Dalston). Our work has also been featured at Sexyland (Amsterdam).ย
Frequent collaborators include the posthumanist magazine Apex Zine, the creative producers at Fetchish Studio, and the nomadic gallery Ethereal Maison. To feature us in your space, work with us on an innovative event, or for press inquiries, email us at everyoneisagirl@gmail.com.ย
๐๐ meet the team
Sofya Rakitina is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist. Her practice explores generative systems and computational aesthetics, using code, publishing, and 3D media to examine how form, behavior, and structure emerge in computational systems.
๐๐ project manifesto
โwhat is it to be a girl? drawing our projectโs name from alex quichoโs article << everyone is a girl online >>, we follow quicho in theorizing the girl as one who โtacticallyโ submits to the wills of the digital algorithm, โvying for both privacy and visibilityโ through a delicately โrealโ performance of identity. to participate online is to be a feminine subject, because it subjects one to a self-surveillance from the perspective of the masses. girls embrace the โdark forestโ (after bogna konior) of the internet in hopes to manipulate, collectivize, and forge the future. they can engage in ๐๐พ๐๐๐ท๐๐๐๐๐พ๐๐ (@stargir1z) in which the hypertextual leakages of online spaces become a watering ground for performances that perverse time/space.
in addition to girls online, we focus on Ester Freiderโs conception of ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ or the โinformational sublimeโ: a quality created through the hyperconnected nodes of todayโs platforms. wetness opens endless opportunities for identity rebirth for girls online, while also necessitating the de-nuanced flattening of content and the capitalistic fetish of gnawing endlessness. through wetnessโs infective kiss, girls online birth a new landscape: the ๐ธ๐๐ท๐๐๐ท๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐.ย
just as the baroque (coming from the Portuguese word for an odd, misshapen pearl) introduced entrails of illusion, drama, and subjectivity into early 18th century spaces, the girl, existing in the wet space that is the internet, adopts fluidity and illusion in her online performance. just as baroque ceilings were painted to replicate baby-blue, fluffy-cloud skies, the online girl fashions herself a character both real and saturated.
in this project, we aim to record and weave the thought done by ๐๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐ as well as their predecessors in cyberfeminism. we discard the priority/possibility of authenticity online, if at all. instead we yield to the pearly cavern of artifice, play, and swarm that might reveal that there was no true self in the first place.โ