Seeing the last development with the booklet, I find that it’s quite impractical both in circulation and in archival. The part I like the most about the booklet is that it’s quite freeform in nature, so the participants can choose to write or draw (or even insert images) as they please. It is also quite reminiscent of the days of elementary school back in Indonesia, where girls would have their own binders and friends would fill each other’s binders with their profiles.

This fun little recess activity was very easy to find in elementary and middle school girls. They would carry their binders, filled with decorative papers (and sometimes they would write the prompts themselves, so they would be ready to fill), and they would exchange information this way. Most of the time, it’s about general things like your birthday or your favorite colors. Sometimes, they will write in their best friend’s names, their crush, or even how they feel about the binder owner.

But, very much like the old binders, I found that it’s hard to imagine them existing beyond the time they are being filled. This is a weakness I must address, as well as the problem with how it is being circulated, which is very limited.

So, I created a prototype of a platform where women could submit images and texts about their experience and their wisdom. The look is not yet polished, but the intention is to bring back the nostalgic feeling of early 2000s blogging sites like Tumblr, WeHeartIt, and Polyvore that are predominantly used by girls to connect with each other.

This platform aims to become the main hive of archive, while workshops (however the shape of that workshop would look) still run to feed more entries to it, and the site is open to the public so women can independently add their entries. Looking forward, I would love for parts of this main archive to be curated and published as a book. The entries could become a source material for exhibitions, too. With the main archive running, a lot of things can be derived from it.