Grassroots Media in Europe (405)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sqJRheg4Zw

The latest episode of VIOLET is with the artist Gabrielė Gervickaitė, currently based in Vilnius. Gabrielė is well-known in Lithuania for careful juxtaposition of medical and industrial materials in her work. Her collages make limbs in orthopaedic devices look like radio towers and by using electrical tape she constructs androgynous torsos. Such strategies have established Gabrielė as one of the most interesting artists of her generation in Lithuania. More on Gabrielė - http://gabrielegervickaite.com/

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Italian network and online portal founded as an interactive tool to connect different women's and feminist groups, projects, initiatives and activists in Italy and world wide. After registration all members can post infos about their projects, documents, surveys, calls, manifestos, etc. There is also a news section, a blog, a forum, book and film reviews, as well as a Mappatura mapping and linking feminist projects, websites, activists, etc.

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Spanish/Basque online magazine providing quality journalism with a gender and feminist perspective on culture and society; emphasis on arts, body politics, health, sexuality, ecology, global perspectives, solidarity, feminist (online) activism and networks, media, interviews, etc.

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Hungarian blog about sexual violence and rape founded to help and support survivors of sexual violence and to provide a platform where they can share their experiences. The blog doesn't get updated any longer and posting is no longer possible, but all the content is still online with links to further helplines.

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Nökért.hu is a Hungarian feminist culture blog founded in 2009 with an emphasis on culture and women's literature (especially Gothic), stereotypes and representation of women, feminist theory and debate, herstory, Women's Liberation Movement, Gender studies, etc. It gets edited by two editors (Mihala Boglárka and Antoni Rita) - both with an university background - but publishes contributions by various authors.

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Austrian feminist online magazine and interactive platform for women and the autonomous women's and lesbian movement, providing discussion forums, news/info/text publishing, calendar, lots of links and a database of women experts and women in bussiness. The last info/postings are from September 2011, but the website is still existing and some of the forums, the calendar, links etc. are active and get updated.

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Unzine was a monthly e-zine by Rafaela Drazic distributed as pdf (from 2006 until 2008); it was not an exclusively feminist e-zine but covered a wide range of topics: "Unzine is a monthly zine with various art, design and music contributions for expressing minority opinion (in Croatian language). The topics are mostly social oriented: from human rights, animal rights, feminist topics through politics to recycling, homophobia, culture news and so on, and so on..." (Drazic) Unfortunatelly neither the website nor the myspace-account exist any longer.

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e-zine with an emphasis on violence against women/gender violence run by a network of Spanish feminist NGOs; beside news, they also publish documents, comments and other material/texts on various aspects of violence/power like sexism in media, abuse, prostitution and human trafficking, economic inequalities etc. as well as statistics indicating the number of victims of gender based violence every year in Spain

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Qunst.mag is an e-zine created by members of Bildwechsel and the contributing artists. Our aim is to provide a platform for queer feminist artists working in various media.

The zines can get downloaded as pdf, some even as printable version

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querelles-net is an academic e-zine reviewing new publications in Women's and Gender Studies from various disciplines (with an emphasis on the German speaking countries). QJB - Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung is an academic annual journal founded in 1996 which puts an emphasis on Women's and Gender Studies from a transdisciplinary perspective. Since 2011/2012 it gets published as open access e-journal.