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February 2009

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Workshops mit Mädchen/with girls in Salzburg

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PRESS RELEASE -- Official launch of the online community platform and living history archive: Grassroots Feminism

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Austria, February 25, 2009

Establishing a transnational community platform and living history archive

Website launch to coincide with International Women’s Day, March 8, 2009.

The interactive network portal www.grassrootsfeminism.net is a new and unique feminist meeting point. This website aims to establish transnational feminist networks and to archive cultural and political activities of the grassroots feminist movement worldwide.

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Drunk Granny/ Husbands Split 7" Release on Local Kid/ F.A.G club

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homo punk heart & granny powrrr combined on a precious slice of wax. 2 Years in the making, finally to be released into the world!

Grab yr very own copy from Bristol based, DIY queer feminist record label, Local Kid.

http://www.localkid.co.uk/news.htm

Track Listing:

Husbands side:

A: Hidden Hands
B: Knit to Kneedle
C: I'm a fan

Drunk Granny side:

1. Queers on the TV
2. Tranny in a red dress
3. the bristol song

We will be touring Europe in the Autumn, so look out for us....

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Music
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Do-It-Yourself
Queer feminism
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"Taking up Deserved Space". An email interview with MissTer Scratch from London, UK

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Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
Race & ethnicity
Sex and sexualities
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This is not a zine; it is an important gender minority document.

Masculine Femininity is stories, poetry, images and all those things that don’t get discussed; all those gender minorities that do not get enough recognition, visibility or representation. It comprises of people of colour, trans femme boys, faggy butches, masculine females, feminine males, trans male drag queens, gender variants, andogynes, femmes, masculine and feminine people of all genders and then some!

- Misster Scratch, editor of Masculine Femininity

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MissTer Scatch, zine editor
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Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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"Fake it till you make it". An email interview with Karolina Bång from Malmö, Sweden

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Grassroots media in Europe
Queer feminism
Sex and sexualities
Zine
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"I work a lot with reclaiming sexuality - and the right to express sexual things - from the sexists"

- Karolina Bång , Swedish comic maker

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Karolina Bång, comic maker
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Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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Ladyfest Stuttgart-Esslingen 2004

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Stuttgart-Esslingen
Germany
48° 46' 14.4192" N, 9° 10' 24.9024" E

Ladfest Stuttgart-Esslingen 2004 happened 29-31 October, Germany

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The Ladyfest Stuttgart-Esslingen is a feministic, non-commercial festival in the region around Stuttgart and Esslingen from October 29th to 31st. It is organized by a group of artists and people engaged in the cultural sector from around Stuttgart.

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Ladyfest Tijuana 2008

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Tijuana
Mexico
32° 31' 41.8404" N, 117° 2' 14.4744" W

Ladyfest Tijuana 2008 happened 13-15 June 2008, Mexico

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See Red Women's Workshop, UK (c.1974-1990s). Part II.

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United Kingdom

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We are a recently formed group of women interested in visual aspects of the Womens Struggle. We want to combat images of the "model woman" which are used by capitalist ideology to keep women from disputing their secondary status or questioning their role in a male dominated society.

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See Red Women's Workshop, UK (1974 - 1990s)

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United Kingdom

See Red Women's Workshop was a screen-print workshop run as a women's collective between c 1974 and the early 1990s. It was a radical campaigning and publicising organisation fully committed to the ideals of the second wave feminist movement.

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Workshops mit Mädchen in Salzburg

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