Interview

The PRIDE PARADE took place.
This is roughly the fourth time that there was an attempt to organize it, gather the people, stroll down the streets, so that we can show that lesbians, gays, trans and queer people exist in Serbia. However you classify yourself, whichever group you belong to, you either think you have freedom or you know that you don’t have it.

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When I first heard about ! Women Art Revolution – A Secret History, I thought that a film had been made about the Guerrilla Girls and that era and was thrilled as it was a period of history crying out for a documentary. The film starts out quite ambiguously, introducing some of the characters, and then asks women through vox pops to name female artists – and my reaction as a viewer, and someone who went to art school, was of shock that people weren’t listing the likes of Jenny Saville, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gillian Wearing, Julie Doucet or even Tracy Emin straight off the bat.

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Evie, please could you shortly introduce yourself?
My name is Evie. I have been a feminist for several years and an antiracist, gender and transgender activist before that as well. I've studied computer science before, and right now I'm studying psychology. I'm a member of several feminist groups in Belgium; I'm writing for a magazine and doing activist work in Ghent and I started the De Tweede Sekse feminist blog http://tweedesekse.wordpress.com/ at the end of 2008.

How did you come to feminism?

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Robin, please could you introduce yourself?

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Chris, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich heiße Chris Campe, habe in Hamburg Illustration studiert und habe seit ungefähr vier Jahren, die Website queeristics, mit der ich meine Zeichnungen zum Thema Gendernormen und visuelle Codes dokumentiere

Bist du über das Illustrationsstudium zum Zeichnen gekommen?

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Roman Kuhar: “Narobe” (http://www.narobe.si/ and http://www.narobe.si/menu/arhiv) means “Wrong”. It‘s a kind of subversion which we wanted to have in the title of the magazine. People keep on asking us why the magazine is called Wrong, isn’t it supposed to be a magazine which affirmed with the LGBTIQ community? The fact that we get this kind of feedback is a sign that choosing this name was a good decision. There is also a subtitle – “a magazine where everything is right” – which, in my opinion, makes our message quite clear.

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Rochus, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Rochus Wolff, bin 37 Jahre alt und habe Germanistik und Geschlechterforschung in Deutschland und in England studiert. In England habe ich einen Abschluss in Women’s Studies gemacht. Derzeit lebe ich in Paris, bin Vater von zwei Kindern und betreibe seit März 2005 das http://genderblog.de, eines von drei Blogs (http://i.rrhoblog.de und http://buttkickingbabes.de/), die ich insgesamt habe.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

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An interview with Fikasicula, the group who founded the Italian anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-facist blog Femminismo a Sud http://femminismo-a-sud.noblogs.org/.

How did your blog Femminismo a Sud came into being? Since when does it exist? What is the idea of your blog?

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Melanie, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

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When studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, media artist Evelin Stermitz also became interested in new media art. She started ArtFem.TV, “an artistic online television, platform and archive”, in 2008 as a way “to push more women in the arts and to raise the voices of women artists”. Red caught up with her at Rdece Zore festival to find out about her cyberfeminist projects.