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BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST COMMUNITY TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: This is our aim! To do so, please upload your projects, interviews you have done, resources you find interesting and join the grassroots feminist community! If you have questions, please email me (Elke Zobl) at elke.zobl(at)sbg.ac.at.
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Olympe - Feministische Arbeitshefte zur Politik (1994 - 2012)

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St. Gallen
Switzerland
47° 25' 26.76" N, 9° 22' 15.168" E

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Olympe was a Swiss trilingual (German - French - Italian, most articles in German) feminist journal; each issue had a special topic; emphasis on women's and gender politics, economy, migration/postcolonial perspectives, women's rights, equality, violence/power etc. With issue #33 (September 2012) the journal ceased publication, but all issues can get downloaded from the website of the Frauenarchiv Ostschweiz

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NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Location

Aalborg
Denmark
57° 1' 43.7196" N, 9° 55' 3.9756" E

Info:
interdisciplinary journal of gender and women's studies with an emphasis on the various Nordic positions of feminist and gender research, but international contributions are also welcomed; including book reviews, interviews, essays etc.

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Strickistinnen - guerilla knitting Vienna

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Wir, die Strickistinnen, sind eine Gruppe wollbegeisterter Aktivistinnen und seit Mai 2010 mit unseren Aktionen im öffentlichen Raum präsent. Wir sind der Meinung „abwarten hilft nicht, also stricken wir, ein an und gegen.“ Mit unseren Strickaktionen wollen wir auf politische Zusammenhänge aufmerksam machen, im Alltag überraschen, neue Blickwinkel auf Bekanntes eröffnen, zeigen, dass vieles auch ganz anders sein könnte und textile Techniken, die weiblich konnotiert und im Privaten verortet werden, in den öffentlichen Raum einbringen. Dabei spielt der Entstehungsprozess unserer Werke eine große Rolle. Wir haben große Freude an der Entwicklung von Gemeinschaftsprojekten, den Vorbereitungstreffen (die ebenfalls im öffentlichen Raum stattfinden und damit Teil des Projektes sind), den Strickgesprächen und besonders den Montageaktionen, die immer besonders aufregend und energiegeladen sind.

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Crafts
Topic: 
Activism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
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Spectra Speaks (afrofeminist media blog)

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Spectra is an award-winning Nigerian writer, women’s rights activist, new media consultant, and philanthropist. She is the voice behind the afrofeminist media blog, Spectra Speaks, which publishes news, opinions, and personal stories about gender, media, and diversity as they pertain to Africa and the Diaspora.

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Blog & Web 2.0
Topic: 
Anti-Imperialism
Global affairs & transnationalism
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Postcolonial theory & perspectives
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Ladyfest Darmstadt 2012

Location

Oetinger VillaDarmstadt
Germany
49° 52' 39.5328" N, 8° 39' 6.3432" E

Ladyfest Darmstadt 2012 will take place on 24th November 2012

Statement:

Ladyfest Darmstadt 2012 – still lovin’ feminism

Wir laden alle interessierten Menschen ganz herzlich zum dritten Darmstädter Ladyfest am Samstag, den 24.11.2012, in die Oetinger Villa ein.

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Gender Equality Festival 2012 (Oxford, 18 - 24 Nov 2012)

Location

University of Oxford
Wellington Square
Oxford, OX1 2JD
United Kingdom
51° 45' 26.802" N, 1° 15' 43.4196" W

WomCam are hosting this year's Gender Equality Festival! We have seven days of diverse and thought-provoking events lined up. Our events are open to people of all genders. Please see below for more details, and we hope to see you at one of our events! We will be updating this page as plans are finalised. If you have any questions, please email them to womensofficeratousu [dot] org.

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Feminist Performers - Interviews, reviews and profiles of feminist performers (Blog)

Location

Oxford
United Kingdom
51° 45' 6.2064" N, 1° 15' 19.026" W

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What is this blog about?

This blog is about feminist poets, comedians, musicians, actors, dancers, cabaret and burlesque artists, and performers of all kinds. I’ll be reviewing and interviewing some of the many wonderful feminist performers out there. I’ll mostly focus on those who are not yet very well-known, because you can find out about the rest elsewhere.

As well as telling you the basics of who performs what and where, I’ll also explore questions such as:

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Call: Camera Club Girls Film Festival 2013 (Deadline: 31st Dec 2012)

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After the success of our PinUp PlayBack film night in The Medway Towns, we are so excited to finally be presenting our very own festival! Camera Club Girls 2013 is part of the PinUp PayBack campaign, SisterHood Watch. We want to champion young women and girls and celebrate gender, cultural difference and sexuality while representing issues we face in the 21st century.We are not complicit with the narrow representation and exploitation of women in today’s media. We want to make our own!

Type of Resource: 
Calls & Submissions
Topic: 
Art
Girls and young women
LGBT and queer issues
Pop culture
Representation of women
Sex and sexualities
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Call: Davis Feminist Film Festival 2013 (Deadline: Dec 15, 2012)

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The Consortium for Women and Research is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Davis Feminist Film Festival!

The Davis Feminist Film Festival welcomes films from professionals, students, and community members locally, nationally, and internationally. People underrepresented in the media field are especially encouraged to submit a film for consideration.

The Davis Feminist Film Festival is a short film festival. Films must be shorter than 35 minutes in length.

Films submitted to the festival for consideration must meet at least two of the following criteria:

Type of Resource: 
Calls & Submissions
Topic: 
Art
Class
Global affairs & transnationalism
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
Sex and sexualities
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London Feminist Film Festival 2012 (London, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2012)

Location

Hackney Picturehouse
270, Mare Street
London, E8 1HE
United Kingdom
51° 32' 39.8112" N, 0° 3' 19.3788" W

The London Feminist Film Festival celebrates feminist films past and present. The first festival is 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2012.

The festival was set up as a response to the underrepresentation of women in the film industry, as well as to the lack of films addressing feminist issues and the fact that the representation of women on screen is often narrow and stereotypical.

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