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Inside The _____est Girl In The World, you’ll find a full color, pull apart portrait zine lovingly created by Aurora Lady. Inside are watercolor and ink portraits of 16 different women—women who thought outside the box to make their dreams a reality… and are sure to inspire you on your quest toward greatness.

This twenty page zine measures 7.5 x5.5 inches. It is signed by the artist.

The 16 glorious women featured in the zine are:

Almie Rose of Apocalypstick
Maria Ewing of Locketship
Loulou Androlia of LouLou Loves You
Tanya Ramirez of Untamed Instincts
Taryn Hipp

Miss California is a poetry zine and a double helping of goodness-- the 8-page piece is written by wild child Augusta Gail, and lettered by Aurora Lady. It's color on cardstock, so it's just right for pulling apart and putting on your wall or inside your math notebook. Or keep it like a secret as it comes, with pretty colored thread holding it all together.

Don't Hide Behind Your Skirt is Aurora Lady's answer to S.E. Hinton's masterpiece, "The Outsiders". The half-size tome discusses abuse, grief, and the eternal search for a girl gang.

An excerpt:
"I wanted women around me that I could trust with everything. I wanted girls I could call at a moment’s notice and say, “let’s tear this down and build something up”, and they wouldn’t question. They’d be there, just as angry and full of venom as I was. My eyes were searching, wanting to close in."

"Don't Hide Behind Your Skirt" is the first release from Fair Dig Press.

This three-day festival invites to explore different queer activist struggles and strategies, and to think about what kind of alliances can be built around them. The festival is based on an idea that queer struggles and experiences always have to be seen not only as related to sexuality, oppression based on sexual orientation and gender, but also to other categories, such as race, class, ethnic background etc. that affect queer lives. In their own turn, these categories mark the lives of people that do not necessarily identify as or affiliate with the notion of queerness.

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/

The 2nd Lady*fest Mainz will take place on September, 7 2013

Das Lady*fest Mainz ist ein von Frauen* organisiertes Festival für Menschen aller Geschlechter, die Lust haben, sich mit Dekonstruktion und Feminismus auseinanderzusetzen. Das Festival ist unkommerziell und schafft einen Raum für linke, feministische Visionen und Ideen jenseits des Mainstreams. Spaß haben, Diskutieren, Netzwerken und Feiern versuchen wir in verschiedenen Vorträgen und Workshops sowie einem Riotgrrrl-Konzert umzusetzen.
Sex – Love – Riot

LaDIYfest Berlin 2013 will take place from August 15th until August 18th 2013

Films // Filme

Friday @ SfE, 9 pm

Edina Csüllög – Hearts in Vain (Finish/Estonian/English, English subtitles)
Estonia 2012, 21:27 min

Delphine Kermorvant – I Could Be Her She Could Be Me (English)
Germany/France 2012, 2:29 min

Claudia Bach – Dressed As Me (German / English subtitles)
Austria 2009, 10:31 min

Val Phoenix – Totally Girl Powered (English)
UK 2013, 10:31 min

Andrea Müller – Die Berührerin (German)
Austria 2013, 44:00 min

Sunday @ SfE, 9 pm

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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.