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Projects

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WPR Books

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Women’s Parliamentary Radio, an online radio station designed to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues and female parliamentarians in the UK. www.wpradio.co.uk was founded in 2007 and currently receives up to 56,000 hits per month. Our aim is to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues in government and provides a platform for female politicians to speak free from stereotypes and the pressure of the news agenda.

Type of project: 
Art
Literature
Radio
Topic: 
Art
Gender studies
Political participation
Representation of women
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Elles Tournent - An international feminist film festival in Brussels

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The only Brussels International film festival dedicated entirely to films made by women! The first one happened in 2008, now it's time for the second edition

"We’ve chosen 62 films that will take you to five continents. They explore everything from the exalted to the mundane, from war to working life, social pressure to passion, and the complexities of love. The diversity of films reaffirms that wherever they are, women are boundless in their vision, their interests and their creativity.

Type of project: 
Festival
Video & Film
Topic: 
Art
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The Small Science Collective (Zine library)

An online zine library of small science zines (downloadable as pdfs)! These can be used or produced yourself with kids and youth! I think it would be a great workshop to make a science zine with girls, let me know if you do one. Right now they are having the Zine-a-thon Contest 2009, so join in, make a science zine! The zines will be read by a panel of scientists, artists, and students from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Field Museum of Natural History.

Type of project: 
Zine
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
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Queer Beograd

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QueerBeograd is a group of eight people who decided to stand against the violence:

Because first attempt of organizing Pride Parade in Belgrade in 2001. was blocked by large group of violent homophobic hooligans.
Because this violence is a result of politics of war, clericalism, nationalism, militarism and machismo that has been mainstream politics in Serbia during last 15 years.
Because second attempt to make LGBT community and politics visible on streets of Belgrade in 2004. had to be canceled coz organizers again couldn’t guarantee for participants safety.

Type of project: 
Art
Performance & theatre play
Topic: 
Activism
Queer feminism
Sex and sexualities
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Freaky: Queer Art Conference, Workshop, Exhibition

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at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Berlin
August 28th–30th 2009

The conference will develop a queer-theoretical perspective on contemporary art practices. Four art and queer theorists will intensely and publicly work with, on, and about four art works, which will be on display during the conference. A film and performance programme and a workshop will bring in further perspectives, artistic material and visual/linguistic practices.

Type of project: 
Conference
Event
Exhibit
Workshop
Topic: 
Art
Queer feminism
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Grrrl Fest Berlin: July 3-5, 2009

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Grrrl Fest Berlin in den Räumen des Subversiv e.V und der Scherer 8

Programm:
Freitag, 3.Juli 2009
in den Räumen der SCHERER 8 (Schererstr. 8 / U & S Wedding)

Einlass: 19:30 Uhr

# Film: Itty Bitty Titty Committee (87min.)
# Konzert: Ex Best Friends (Postpunkheldinnen/Bln.), Totally Stressed (Art Rock/Bln.) & Respect My Fist (NRW-ScreamOh!/Bln.)
# Aftershowparty

Zines Zines Zines!
there’s gonna be one or more zine distros all over grrrl fest berlin 09, too, as well as a zine library that needs YOU!

Type of project: 
Event
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Networking & community building
Zine
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Queerscapes - Zürich. June 5-7, 2009

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Queerscapes − The Flow of Dunes and the Green Shimmer of the Oasis on the Horizon
An ephemeral collective exhibition spanning three days on a walk all in one breath across two spaces and more. Do−it−yourself from archives to everyday life art practices, providing a dense web of insights, approaches, positions, views, perspectives. More than that: аnd a library, movie program, live performances, talks, discussions, art pieces.

Type of project: 
Exhibit
Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
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off_pride - The Alternative Queer Festival, June 5 - 7, Zurich (Switzerland)

off_pride. The Alternative Queer Festival June 5 - 7, 2009, Zurich (Switzerland)

off_pride is the creative alternative to the official europride program: For all alterna-lesbians, non-designer gays, genderqueer free spirits and all of you who break the mold in some way or other. off_pride questions dominant gender and sexual norms. It offers a refreshingly uncanny platform for you to explore queer/trans*-lifestyles beyond consumption, conformity and commercialization.

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Event
Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
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Reclaim The Night - East Midlands

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Reclaim The Night - East Midlands

When : Saturday 24th October 2009
Time : 6:00pm onwards.

Reclaim The Night marches give women a voice and a chance to reclaim the streets at night on a safe and empowering event. We aim to put the issue of our safety on the agenda for this night and every day.

This is going to be a hugely inspirational event being held in Nottingham but we want it to represent the entire of the East Midlands. This will be a rally through the centre of Nottingham and then there will be speakers and acts (TBC) afterwards.

Type of project: 
Demonstration
Event
Topic: 
Activism
Representation of women
Self-defense
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Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada. Magazine & Website

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Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism. Rooted in a variety of social movements, we are anti-capitalists, radical feminists, anti-racists, queer and trans- liberationists, and anti-imperialists working to build resistance and alternatives to corporate power and empire.

Type of project: 
E-Zine
Magazine
Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Global affairs & transnationalism