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Interview

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“Ladyfest: Play if you feel like it, not for the money”: An email interview with Melissa from Auckland, New Zealand.

Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Melissa discusses DIY, why white Ladyfest organizers need to mind being "inclusive", and the importance of the festival as a queer event.

Interviewee: 
Melissa
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Ladyfest: We need to rip it up and start again”. An email interview with Terese from London, UK

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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An interview with Ladyfest organizer Terese on the limitations of the Ladyfest format.

Interviewee: 
Terese, Ladyfest London 08 organizer
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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Morgenmuffel. An email interview with Isy from Brighton, UK

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Topic: 
Zine
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Interview with Isy from the rad autobiographical comic zine Morgenmuffel about "contributing to the downfall of the existing order in some way" and creating community. Her comics are also available to view and download at http://www.morgenmuffel.co.uk

Interviewee: 
Isy Morgenmuffel
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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Mama Sez No War. An email interview with Vikki Law from New York, United States

Topic: 
Activism
Parenting & motherhood
Peace
Zine
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Vikki Law is a writer, photographer and mother who has been working on a survey of anarchist mothers for the past two years. She also put out the zine Mama Sez No War , a compilation of mothers' experiences and activism against the U.S. war on Iraq. Check out this interview about mamma, zines, supporting families in your activist community, and protest!

Interviewee: 
Vikki Law
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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Tenacious: Art and Writing from Women in Prison. An interview with Vikki Law from New York, United States

Topic: 
Prisoner Support
Zine
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Tenacious zine started in 2003 after Vikki Law was approached as an outside publisher and co-editor by women incarcerated in Oregon; they needed a self-determined forum for female prisoners' voices after the mainstream media kept ignoring their proposals. Vikki wrote a piece called "Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media" for the feminist magazine, Off Our Backs, detailing this background, and recently published a book entitled Resistance Behind Bars from her involvement in prisoner support and incarcerated women's struggles. An interview with Vikki on the role that zines play in movements for social change, and the importance of striving for liberation for all in freedom, not equality for some in injustice.

Off Our Back article, ""Incarcerated Women Create Their Own Media", http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3693/is_200701/ai_n19512053

Interviewee: 
Vikki Law
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Ladyfest is something anyone can do”. An email interview with Nina from Hasselt, Belgium.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
Riot Grrrl
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Nina is a prolific DIY creator, making zines, illustration, and music. Here she talks about Ladyfest as a temporary community and a much-needed place to renew your energy and creativity.

Interviewee: 
Nina, Ladyfest Belgium organizer
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Ladyfest as a ‘now’ kind of action”. An email interview with Melanie Maddison from Leeds, UK.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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The ever wonderful, and busy, Melanie chats about finding your allies, accessing your creativity, and whether Ladyfest needs to start getting political again.

Interviewee: 
Melanie Maddison
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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"New Kids on the Block: Performing as a Boy Band at Ladyfest". An interview with Tina and Melita at Ladyfest Amsterdam

Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
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Ladyfest is a festival mainly by women, for women. And sometimes those women come as boys. Hark the wonder of New Kids on the Block at Ladyfest Amsterdam 2008. Tina and Melita discuss queer feminism, DIY, and looking hot in leather jackets.

Interviewee: 
Tina & Melita
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Debi Withers
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“Ladyfest: The ideas we want in a festival”. An interview with Fege from Pavia, Italy.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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Fege talks about the real meaning of girl power in this day and age.

Interviewee: 
Fege, Ladyfest Pavia organizer
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Debi Withers
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“Ladyfest: I need to feel friction in the activism I do”. An email interview with Debi from Bristol, UK

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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Debi, from the self-identified 'post-ladyfest' band Drunk Granny, discusses activist home-comings, the need for feminist space, and the problem of nostalgic tendencies in Ladyfest organizing.

Interviewee: 
debi, Ladyfest Cardiff organiser
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl