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A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism, York, UK. March 3-5th 2011.

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Thursday, 03 March 2011 - Saturday, 05 March 2011

University of York, UK
www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

We ask, can feminist art* save the world, and if so, how?, and issue an invitation to artists, activists and academics to respond. Please send 300-word proposals for papers and presentations. Deadline 31st October 2010.
e: carnivalatfeminist-cultural-activism [dot] net

Full details on www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

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Art
Event
Exhibit
Festival
Performance & theatre play
Spoken word
Workshop
Zine
Topic: 
Activism
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Femminismo a Sud: „a space where people can share their opinion about what‘s going on in our society“.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Education
Migration & border issues
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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?

Interviewee: 
Fikasicula; photographer Tano D'Amico
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Side Glance: Melanie Niethammer im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer über ihre Motivationen ein Blog zum Thema Feminismus und Technik zu betreiben.

Topic: 
Activism
Internet & digital divide
Work and employment
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Melanie, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Melanie Niethammer
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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„Auf der Suche nach immer neuen Formen…“. Lea Susemichel, koordinierende Redakeurin der feministischen Monatszeitschrift an.schläge und Co-Produzentin von an.schläge-TV, traf sich im Februar 2010 zu einem Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself

Lea, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Lea Susemichel und arbeite seit ca. acht Jahren beim feministischen Magazin an.schläge http://www.anschlaege.at. Ich war lange Zeit freie Redakteurin, die letzten dreieinhalb Jahre war ich, gemeinsam mit Saskya Rudigier, später mit Vina Yun, die koordinierende Redakteurin des Magazins.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

Interviewee: 
<strong>Lea Susemichel</strong>
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Ptqk Blogzine: Maria Ptqk is writing her blogzine http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com since 2004. In the interview with Rosa Reitsamer, Maria Ptqk talks about her way into feminism, cyberfeminism and her blogging experience.

Topic: 
Activism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
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Can you shortly introduce yourself?
It's difficult because I have a heterogeneous background. Sometimes I am a producer or assistant for other people, sometimes a curator, an art critic or a teacher. I have a hybrid profile in the cultural field, so I consider myself as a cultural researcher. The topics I am interested on are situated at the crossroads between technology, media, cultural and gender studies, but it changes with my obsessions. My academic background is law and economics. I don't have any formal training in art. In this field I am completely do-it-yourself.

Interviewee: 
Maria Ptqk
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization in Slovakia. Jana Juranova, one of the founders of ASPEKT and still working there, talked with Rosa Reitsamer about the history and current situation of ASPEKT.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Education
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization. It was founded in 1993 (the official registration July 26, 1993) as an interest association of women, who agreed it was time to take the discourse on equality and democracy seriously and apply it to the lived realities of the people of feminine gender in Slovakia. Already second decade Aspekt does so by means of its (subversive and pioneering) publishing and educational activities.

Jana, how did ASPEKT, the first feminist magazine in Slovakia, evolve at the beginning of the 1990s?

Interviewee: 
Jana Juranova
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Verena Reygers, Redakteurin bei maedchenmannschaft.net, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Girls and young women
Grassroots media in Europe
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Mädchenmannschaft.net (http://maedchenmannschaft.net/) wurde von Susanne Klingner, Meredith Haaf und Barbara Streidl, den Autorinnen des Buches „Wir Alphamädchen. Warum Feminsmus das Leben schöner macht“ (2008) gegründet und besteht derzeit aus etwa einem Dutzend Autor_innen, die regelmässig Artikel und News schreiben. Eine der Redakteurinnen ist Verena Reygers. Sie verabredete sich mit Rosa Reitsamer am 8. März 2010, dem internationalen Frauentag, zu einem Skype-Interview.

Verena, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Verena Reygers
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Ka Schmitz, Comic-Zeichnerin, Illustratorin und Wen-Do-Trainerin, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Ka Schmitz, Comic-Zeichnerin, Grafikerin, Illustratorin und Wen-Do-Trainerin in Berlin sprach mit Rosa Reitsamer über ihre Comics, deren Verortung in einer queer-feministischen Community und die Schwierigkeit, Strichfiguren zu zeichnen, die nicht selbstverständlich als „Strichmännchen“ gelesen werden.

Ka, du zeichnest Comix, machst aber auch andere Dinge. Kannst du bitte ein wenig deine Tätigkeitsbereiche schildern?

Interviewee: 
Ka Schmitz
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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FEL: Feministisch en Links

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FEL is a grassroots feminist action and education/discussion group based in the Belgian city Gent. In 2009 FEL grew out of FAB (Feministische ActieBende), a feminist collective that doesn't exist anymore. FEL means Feministisch En Links: feminist and left.

FEL is a group of enthusiastic feminists who work on several themes. We take action (for example Take Back The Night), write editorial letters, give workshops and lectures and we have a reading group.

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Group/Network
Topic: 
Activism
Education
Networking & community building
Representation of women
Sexual violence
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Global Sister Networking Site

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GlobalSister.org, a project of The Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI), is a global communications network and unique online social networking space, enabling women and organizations to advance issues from a local platform to a global stage.

GlobalSister.org is…

- A virtual “women’s center” for women and women’s organizations to meet, organize, discuss, coordinate, and mobilize.
- An online learning and communications environment for women’s organizations to share and teach social organizing tools and techniques without boundaries of time, space, and location.

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Blog & Web 2.0
Group/Network
Topic: 
Activism
Global affairs & transnationalism
Networking & community building
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