I mentioned in my first introduction that I want to write more about the ethical dilemma I'm having. I want co-production to be at the core of this museum, but I am uncomfortable with the concept of unpaid work. If we ask people to work unpaid or volunteer, we make it so that only people who can afford the time can produce content- and we don't hear the voices of those who cannot. I certainly don't want to exclude anybody who might otherwise make wonderful content to share with the world.

For now, though, the project is just a fever dream and the skeleton of a website. I'll need to build it up before it can become anything. I will start this all off alone as my own labour of love, but my vision is to have this museum some day become a patchwork of all different people's work and perspectives. To combat the inherent bias of unpaid work, I have promised myself that I will acknowledge this bias where I can, and try to begin by (consensually!) hosting content that has already been made, such as art, articles, videos and photography, to minimise extra labour that needs to be done.

Ultimately, I don't want this project to just be my voice, I want to hear of people of all ages, races, wealth, background, sexuality, gender, disability and any other diversity- although I'm undecided if I want just goths and alternative identifying people! I might have an optional section under any submission where contributers/researchers/artists can tell the audience whether they identify as a goth and any other details they want to share- just so we can be transparent about what perspective we're hearing from, although anonymous is cool too.

I'm going to have a sign up page for emails specifically for “I want to contribute but I will need money” so that one day I can email them when the time has come and we have funds.

{{I'm going to write under each work "this work was done for free" and acknowledge that it was willingly done with as much info and promotion as the author wants but link to an article where I'm writing about how unpaid labour is exclusionary and not ethical and that I seek to reach a point where it is not needed}}