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Projects

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Microcredit: an alternative for women´s empowerment? (WIDE event in Brussels)

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WIDE, in the current context of its work on the neoliberal agenda, will
address the issue of microcredit as an alternative for women´s
empowerment during a one-day conference organized on the 15th of May in
Brussels.
The conference will aim at providing a comprehensive approach to microcredit: its specificities and impacts in the South, its implementation in the EU and its challenges especially in the context of the current financial and economic crisis. It will be an opportunity to gather different views and share experiences around microcredit practices.

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Event
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Entrepreneurship
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Autonomous Feminist Womyn’s Gathering, April 9-14 2009 in Vienna, Austria

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For women and lesbians Europe-wide

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Festival
Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
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Race, Privilege & Identity Gathering, 24-26th April 2009 in Bristol, UK

Race, privilege and identity is a gathering taking place in Bristol, UK, 24-26th April 2009.

To contact us to get involved please email: raceprivilegeidentityatriseup [dot] net

Its aim is to engage with issues of race, privilege and identity in radical queer-feminist communities through building dialogue, coalitions and resources.

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Event
Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
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Sistren Book Release in Rome, Italy

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Saturday 18th April 2009

Sistren is a DIY book collection about the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality by feminists, lesbians, queers and trans coming from forced migration, slavery and the diaspora discourse.

Readings by

Humaira Saeed (Manchester,UK)
Sachi Nehra (London, UK),
Grada Kilomba (Berlin, Germany)

Gig by Kerieva McCormick (Edimburg, Scotland)
"Kerieva is a mystery; she is a performing musician and singer and simultaneously
an international advocate of Roma(Gypsy) issues. Although based in Scotland, she

Type of project: 
Event
Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
Race & ethnicity
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Punkrock Feminism Zine

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Das Punkrock Feminism Zineist ein deutschsprachiges Fanzine für Punkrock Grrrls. Wir sind kein typisches Riot Grrrl/Feminism Zine sondern verbinden wichtige(!) Aspekte des Feminismus mit Musik Politik, DIY, Sex und Lifestyle. Wir bieten kreativen Grrrls eine Plattform um ihren Stuff zu supporten und veröffentlichen in Bild und Text ihre Projekte.

Type of project: 
Zine
Topic: 
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Riot Grrrl
Zine
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Gender Justice Uncovered Awards / Premios Género y Justicia al Descubierto

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(En español al final)

Women's Link Worldwide is looking for the BEST and WORST recent decisions or statements on gender equality in Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Send us your submissions of written statements, decisions or judgments made during the resolution of a legal case which has had an effect on gender equality.

The submissions may have been made in any court, tribunal, committee or administrative body for example by judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, ombudsman, UN committees, regional and international courts, or asylum boards.

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Event
Topic: 
Global affairs & transnationalism
Human rights
Political participation
Representation of women
Reproductive rights
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Callout for LoveKills Festival #4 (Camp in Romania)

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LoveKills Collective intends to bring about the fourth edition of LoveKills Festival in the summer of 2009. We will organize again the anarcha-feminist gathering, but this time we would like to organize it as a one week camp. The camp will take place in the mountains (west of Romania, Socolari village) between 27 july - 02 august 2009. Our experience with the previous editions and the impact they had, above all in the local context, conferred us not only with the motivation but also with the strength to keep on organizing such an event.

Type of project: 
Festival
Topic: 
Activism
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
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Ladyfest Vilnius (Lithuania) 2009

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The theme of the Festival is “Rewritten stories”. The Festival consists of six parts: concert, exhibition, conference, film review, creative workshops and action.

The concert of rock groups of girls will turn Vilnius into the centre of alternative culture and the place of meeting of different styles of music venue. Rock groups of girls from different countries of Europe are invited to the concert: La Fraction (France), Las Revolettes (Italy), Ex-Boyfriends (Finland) and Zimbabwe (Lithuania).

Type of project: 
Festival
Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
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All-European Autonomous Feminist Womyn's Gathering

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April 9 - 14, 2009
Vienna, Austria

What we want from this gathering

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Event
Topic: 
Activism
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
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Drunk Granny/ Husbands Split 7" Release on Local Kid/ F.A.G club

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homo punk heart & granny powrrr combined on a precious slice of wax. 2 Years in the making, finally to be released into the world!

Grab yr very own copy from Bristol based, DIY queer feminist record label, Local Kid.

http://www.localkid.co.uk/news.htm

Track Listing:

Husbands side:

A: Hidden Hands
B: Knit to Kneedle
C: I'm a fan

Drunk Granny side:

1. Queers on the TV
2. Tranny in a red dress
3. the bristol song

We will be touring Europe in the Autumn, so look out for us....

Type of project: 
Music
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Queer feminism