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May 2010

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„Auf der Suche nach immer neuen Formen…“. Lea Susemichel, koordinierende Redakeurin der feministischen Monatszeitschrift an.schläge und Co-Produzentin von an.schläge-TV, traf sich im Februar 2010 zu einem Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself

Lea, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Lea Susemichel und arbeite seit ca. acht Jahren beim feministischen Magazin an.schläge http://www.anschlaege.at. Ich war lange Zeit freie Redakteurin, die letzten dreieinhalb Jahre war ich, gemeinsam mit Saskya Rudigier, später mit Vina Yun, die koordinierende Redakteurin des Magazins.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

Interviewee: 
<strong>Lea Susemichel</strong>
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Ladyfest London 2010

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 29' 42.234" N, 0° 9' 13.7124" W

"ABOUT LADYFEST
Ladyfest provides an opportunity for visitors to discuss and take action on their views on topics such as misogynism in the arts and beauty standards. It allows people attend shows by female performers,and have a good time in a space where they felt comfortable to be themselves. Ladyfest is a breath of fresh air to male dominated corporate sponsored music festivals where only a handful of women are "lucky" enough to perform every year.

HER-STORY OR CUNT-ROVERSY?

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Ptqk Blogzine: Maria Ptqk is writing her blogzine http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com since 2004. In the interview with Rosa Reitsamer, Maria Ptqk talks about her way into feminism, cyberfeminism and her blogging experience.

Topic: 
Activism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
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Can you shortly introduce yourself?
It's difficult because I have a heterogeneous background. Sometimes I am a producer or assistant for other people, sometimes a curator, an art critic or a teacher. I have a hybrid profile in the cultural field, so I consider myself as a cultural researcher. The topics I am interested on are situated at the crossroads between technology, media, cultural and gender studies, but it changes with my obsessions. My academic background is law and economics. I don't have any formal training in art. In this field I am completely do-it-yourself.

Interviewee: 
Maria Ptqk
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Harpies & Quines (Magazine, 1992-1994)

Location

Glasgow
United Kingdom
55° 51' 56.2572" N, 4° 15' 26.0028" W

Founded by Lesley Riddoch. Shortlisted for Orwell Prize. Unsuccessfully sued by Harpes and Queens before being declared bankrupt.

Excerpt from interview (4.10.2005), http://livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intHC.html

Helen Chambers: I got my first proper job which was Harpies and Quines magazine which was a feminist magazine, published in Glasgow which Lesley Riddoch was involved in starting so I did that for a while.

Vicky Woods: What was it called?

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“Producing outside the capitalist circle”: An interview with radio broadcaster, Nicole Niedermüller (Switzerland)

Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe

Nicole Niedermüller is the Coordinator of the Women’s Programme at Radio LoRa in Zurich. Red caught up with her to find out how community radio stations work, what she loves about broadcasting, and how international collaborations over skype can feed inspiring new projects.

Interviewee: 
Nicole Niedermüller
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey
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Ladyfest Norwich 2010

Location

Norwich
United Kingdom
52° 37' 23.016" N, 1° 17' 27.2184" E

"LADYFEST NORWICH 2010
so what the hell's all this talk of LADYFEST NORWICH then??

well....this year marks the tenth anniversary of LADYFEST, a worldwide festival that celebrates female creativity. as a born and bred norwich resident, it became apparent that being such a purveyor of gender equality in creative industries, norwich was missing out on all this lady action and celebration. SO, on the 31st july, after partying it up with the norwich pride parade, norwich arts centre will host a unique display of female talent from local shores and further.

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Ladyfest Berlin 2010

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 30' 58.3956" N, 13° 23' 32.4024" E

Ladyfest Berlin will happen from 16th to 19th of September 2010.

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migrantas | eine visuelle Sprache der Migration. Marula Di Como, Florencia Young und Estela Schindel sprachen mit Rosa Reitsamer über die Arbeit von migrantas.

Topic: 
Art
Migration & border issues
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"Im Stadtraum sichtbar zu machen, was diejenigen denken und fühlen, die ihr eigenes Land verlassen haben und nun in einem neuen Land leben, ist das Ziel von migrantas. Mobilität, Migration und Transkulturalität sind in unserer Welt keine Ausnahme, sondern die Regel. Trotzdem sind Migrantinnen und ihre Erfahrungen für die Mehrheit der Gesellschaft meist unsichtbar. Migrantas thematisiert Migration, Identität und interkulturellen Dialog und bedient sich in seinen Projekten der Werkzeuge der Kunst, des Designs und der Sozialwissenschaften.

Interviewee: 
Marula Di Como, Florencia Young und Estela Schindel
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization in Slovakia. Jana Juranova, one of the founders of ASPEKT and still working there, talked with Rosa Reitsamer about the history and current situation of ASPEKT.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Education
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization. It was founded in 1993 (the official registration July 26, 1993) as an interest association of women, who agreed it was time to take the discourse on equality and democracy seriously and apply it to the lived realities of the people of feminine gender in Slovakia. Already second decade Aspekt does so by means of its (subversive and pioneering) publishing and educational activities.

Jana, how did ASPEKT, the first feminist magazine in Slovakia, evolve at the beginning of the 1990s?

Interviewee: 
Jana Juranova
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Verena Reygers, Redakteurin bei maedchenmannschaft.net, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Girls and young women
Grassroots media in Europe
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Mädchenmannschaft.net (http://maedchenmannschaft.net/) wurde von Susanne Klingner, Meredith Haaf und Barbara Streidl, den Autorinnen des Buches „Wir Alphamädchen. Warum Feminsmus das Leben schöner macht“ (2008) gegründet und besteht derzeit aus etwa einem Dutzend Autor_innen, die regelmässig Artikel und News schreiben. Eine der Redakteurinnen ist Verena Reygers. Sie verabredete sich mit Rosa Reitsamer am 8. März 2010, dem internationalen Frauentag, zu einem Skype-Interview.

Verena, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Verena Reygers
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer