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Shape & Situate: Posters of Inspirational Women

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'Shape And Situate: Posters of Inspirational European Women' zine

(Photos and info here: http://remember-who-u-are.blogspot.com/2010/11/shape-and-situate-zine.html )

This zine is made up of of posters made by artists and DIY creatives within Europe, each poster highlighting the (often hidden) history and lives of radical inspirational women and collectives from Europe, as a way of connecting us with the past, the present and to help us to make sure that there will be a future which contains such creative and pioneering female action and activity.

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Zine
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Art
History & memory
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CFP: Thematic stream „Feminist Media Production in Europe“ @ „Civilmedia 11“, Salzburg, 14.–16. 04. 2011

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The thematic stream „Feminist Media Production in Europe“ is part of „Civilmedia 11: Community Media for Social Change: Low Threshold – High Impact“ in the University Salzburg, 14.–16. 04. 2011 and will be organised by Rosa Reitsamer and Elke Zobl.

http://wiki.civilmedia.eu/index.php/Main_Page
http://blog.radiofabrik.at/civilmedia/

Call for Presentations

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Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Zine
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Bang Bang zine

Location

Geneva
Switzerland
46° 12' 13.716" N, 6° 8' 23.8524" E

Bang-Bang est un produit de La Croisière. Sa naissance a été programmée pendant La Croisière II. C’est venu d’une envie commune de faire exister un bulletin de liaison entre les Croisières permettant de continuer les discussions. Mais c’est aussi l’envie de faire participer toutEs les copines et copains à nos discussions et nos réflexions.Comme La Croisière, ce zine est un produit pur pédé, il s’adresse toutefoisà toutes les lectrices et à tous les lecteurs qui voudront bien y jeter un coup d’yeux.

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Feminist Memory (Blog)

Location

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

This blog will serve as a research platform for a doctoral project on feminist media and feminist memory at London South Bank University, supervised by Dr. Anna Reading.

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Echo

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ECHO is...

a low-budget DIY feminist media, music and art production project started in 2001

ECHO produces...

- the zines Flapper Gathering, Same Heartbeats, Not Lady-Like, Coma To Action...
- the comix Radix
- pamphlets about anarcha-feminism, riot grrrl...
- the compilation tapes Echoholic, Riots in the Benelux...
- crafts
- artwork
+ more

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Comics
Crafts
Illustration
Music
Zine
Topic: 
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
Zine
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La Mestiza Colectiva

Location

Lima
Peru
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Scum Grrrls (Maga|zine)

Location

Brussels
Belgium
50° 50' 46.6116" N, 4° 21' 17.0172" E

Scum Grrrls is a feminist (maga)zine from Brussels, Belgium, inspired by radical feminism and riot grrrl:

"Scumgrrrls emprunte son titre au Scum Manifesto de Valérie Solanas, brûlot féministe radical des années 70 ainsi qu’au mouvement des riot grrrls, appartenant au féminisme des années 90 et 2000, les conjuguant pour créer un lien entre différents courants et histoires du féminisme, entre analyse et action féministes, avec du sérieux, de l’impertinence et une dose d’humour !

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De Tweede Sekse (Blog + zine)

Location

Belgium

De Tweede Sekse is a feminist blog started by a few Dutch-speaking feminists in Belgium. De Tweede Sekse is Dutch for The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe), also the name of the classic book by Simone de Beauvoir. The blog was started in the end of 2008 and several women plan to write for it. Topics include theories of oppression, patriarchy, feminist herstory, anti-racism and intersectionality, pornography, zines and more. In April 2010 several articles from the blog were also published as a zine: De Tweede Sekse Blog op Papier

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"Cultural revolution is an important weapon against all oppressions": An e-mail interview with Carla, Julie and Íris from Histérica Zine, Brazil

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"We are three brazilian girls that made a paper zine using the internet. The Riot Grrrl Movement inspires us, the radical feminists of the 60's too, our personal expirience, [and] we try to put links between what's important for us. There's a lot of other things that are mixed in what we are doing and you can feel it reading the fanzine. It's all written in portuguese, our first issue was out on March 09 and we interviewed: Allison Wolfe (lead singer of seminal riot grrrl band Bratmobile and nowadays vocal fo Partyline) and the seminal punk feminist band from the brazilian riot grrrl: Dominatrix. Texts and artwork. Soon the second issue is done and you girls will probably heard about it. "

Interviewee: 
Carla, Julie and Íris
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl
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Ladyfest Paraguay: An email interview with Monica Beatriz Martinez Echeverria from Asuncion

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Ladyfest
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Please introduce yourself!
Hi! My name’s Monica, I´m a veterinary student at Sao Paulo State University (Brasil) but I´m from Asuncion, paraguayan city in South America. I make part of the collective Riot Grrrls chapter Paraguay, and organized with the collective 3 Ladyfests from Paraguay.

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What is your zine “Synthemesco y las Ptitsas Zine” about? What topics do you discuss most often? What made you decide to start this project? How did you come up with the idea and the name?

Interviewee: 
Monica Beatriz Martinez Echeverria
Interviewer: 
Elke Zobl
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