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Grassroots Media in Europe

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The Lady List (Website)

Location

Ireland

The Lady List: For Ladies Who Like Ladies

The Lady List is an independent online resource dedicated to providing comprehensive and up-to-date information on events and gatherings happening around Ireland for gay, lesbian, bi and transgender /gid women.

Why was it set up?

As the gay scene advances and improves in Ireland, so too should the access to information and it was felt that a proper professional service was not being provided for the lesbian community. Information was fragmented, sometimes outdated, unclear and at times, difficult to source. The Lady List is trying to change that.

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Gaelick (E-Zine)

Location

Ireland

Gaelick is made up of a group of Irish people who talk too much. We’re all friends who are sick of pretending to listen to eachother and basically just want an audience.
Ok, seriously, we’re a group of mates who decided that we wanted an e-zine for Irish lesbians, and why wait and complain when we can do it ourselves?

Gaelick is an Irish lesbian e-zine, comprising a group of Irish women who talk too much. So now, we’re lesbians online. We’re a motley crew of creative lesbians, media and political lesbians, bookworm lesbians, film fanatic lesbians, student lesbians and professional lesbians – all with one thing in common. In fact, we’re lesbian/gay/bi/whatever you’re having yourself. So, read, enjoy, comment and visit often! Remember we need an audience!

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Saying What We Want: Women's Demands in the Feminist Seventies and Now (Pamphlet)

Location

United Kingdom

'Saying that you want something - demanding it - does not necessarily mean that you will get it, but not saying what you want more or less guarantees that you will not get it.'
Zoë Fairbairns

This pamphlet is a thought-provoking and accessible introduction to the Women's Liberation Movement in 1970s UK and provides a spring-board for thinking about women's lives now.

In assessing the demands of the feminist past we challenge women to make present-day demands - once again its time to ask political questions and to 'say what we want'.

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Sheba Feminist Publishers (1980-1994)

Location

United Kingdom

ABOUT SHEBA FEMINIST PRESS

Sheba Feminist Press was established in 1980 -- one of a handful
of small independent publishers born of the UK women's movement
during the 70s and early 80s. The new feminist presses turned
their backs on the high-modernist clique then firmly in control
of the British book scene, and looked instead at what that world
literally couldn't see: the writing of women who hadn't been to
Oxford or Cambridge, and who weren't necessarily white or
heterosexual or middle-class, and who didn't speak with the
polished vowels of Bloomsbury. The new

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Women's Studies International Forum (Journal) former: Women's Studies International Quarterly (1978-)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Statement:
Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate.

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Msprint (Journal, 1978-?)

Location

Dundee
United Kingdom
56° 27' 41.1408" N, 2° 58' 5.1996" W

"Set up in May '78 as a successor to the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal. Quarterly publication, printed, circulation 1,000- to be increased. Distributed: PDC, bookshops, subs, women's centres, sales at meetings etc. available to men. ₤150 for an average issue, self financing and supplemented by fund raising. 6/7 women work on the paper. Publication is aimed at women in Scotland and sympathetic to men. Hopes to promote debate on all issues concerning women in Scotland.

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Feminist Review (Journal)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism. Feminist Review invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations. The FR Collective is committed to exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships.

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Megan (Newsletter, 1978-?)

Location

Swansea
United Kingdom
51° 37' 13.5912" N, 3° 56' 47.8644" W

"Set up in August '78, monthly paper. Circulation 250-500. Distribution: around pubs, door to door on estates, and in the local wholefood shop. Self financing n/l, costs: ₤8 an issue. 5 women work on the N/L, and the collective is open, and women are welcome to their monthly meetings. Aimed at any woman, and lets women know what's going on. Material from the collective plus other women, and they sometimes reprint an article.

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Working Class Women's Liberation Newsletter (1978-?)

Location

United Kingdom

"Set up in Jan '78 because they were pissed off with middle class crap. Appears 6 times a year, and their circulation is higher than any middle class feminist would expect. Distributed: subs. A different group does the newsletter each time, so it rotates. Takes about 50 hours to produce one. It is easy for women to get involved, also since they are demystifying the publication process. It is aimed at working class women's liberationinists, and provides contact, info, interest, impetus, support.

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Speak Out (Newsletter, 1976-?)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

"Set up in summer '76 to express the collective's political views. They hope that the newsletter will come out every 2 months. Circulation: 500, and it is available to everyone. Exists through donations from members and others and all the collective (Brixton Black Women's Group) work on the paper. Closed collective. Aim to policise black women. Invite contributions from women only. Marxist-leninist perspective".

- Information from the "Directory of Women's Liberation Newletters, Magazines, Journals...", by Dena and Shaila (York, UK), c.1978

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