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February 2012

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Le Ribellule (blog)

Location

Rome
Italy
41° 53' 25.872" N, 12° 29' 39.2964" E

Info:
Le Ribellule are an antifascist, antiracist, anti-clerical/Vatican feminist collective founded in 2006 by some students (in Rome); the blog exists since 2007 and puts an emphasis on body and body politics, violence & power, resistance, patriachal structures, sexism, machismo, inequality, etc.

Statement from 2007:

Le Ribellule nascono un anno fa dalla voglia di sperimentare un tipo di riunione e incontro politico differente, costruire modalità di confronto accessibili a tutte e scoprire nuove forme di comunicazione.

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Cin Ayşe zine (zine + blog)

Location

Istanbul
Turkey
41° 0' 18.972" N, 28° 58' 37.056" E

Info:
Turkish cultural zine publishing texts and visual material of Turkish but also translations of international writers, artists and feminist theoreticians. Since 2007 Cin Ayşe zine is published twice a year, in october and on the 8th of March. Every issue is based on a specific topic, e.g. #5: women and Art Brut, #4 women of the Beat generation, #3 Body, #2 women and Dada; some of the articles are also published on the blog

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Frauen in der Musik (Radio, 2010-2011?)

Location

Graz
Austria
47° 4' 14.5704" N, 15° 26' 22.2144" E

Info:
Radio program organised by the University of Music Graz (Kunstuniversität Graz), produced and presented by Livia Sellin; emphasis on women (especially local women) in music and broadcasted via Radio Helsinki - Freies Radio Graz 92.6 (last show: 20.03.2011)

Statement:
Frauen in der Musik
Livia Sellin

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LoRa Frauenredaktion (Radio)

Location

Zurich
Switzerland
47° 22' 7.14" N, 8° 32' 21.0588" E

Info:

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Girls Can Blog (Blog)

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 31' 27.3648" N, 13° 24' 22.644" E

Info:
blog which presents other female bloggers (most of them German) in a portrait series, publishes interviews with them and provides lots of links

Statement:
Girls Blog, Too, You Know
Dear bloggers and blog readers,

when it came to my attention that women are underrepresented in most blog charts, I wondered why. Certainly, there are many intelligent and outspoken girls and women out there who have been active in the blogosphere. Where are they, though? How come that, as of February 2010, we only know a fraction of them?

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Genres Pluriels (Blog, platform)

Location

Brussels
Belgium
50° 51' 1.224" N, 4° 21' 6.156" E

Info:

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gender_by (Blog)

Location

Belarus

Info:
Belarusian LJ-community-blog with at the moment 179 members who all can publish articles on the blog which has an emphasis on discrimination, equality, women's rights, stereotypes, feminist news, education, relationship, body politics, violence and power, etc. the blog's moderator (petra_leleka = Jeanna Krömer (Yamaykina)) is also editor of the Belarusian e-zine Amphi

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glücklich scheitern (Blog)

Location

Cologne
Germany
50° 57' 29.1132" N, 6° 55' 13.6164" E

Info:
personal blog of Melanie, young academic and mother, blogging about her (academic) life, feminism, gender, motherhood/parenting, equality, veganism etc.; she also runs a second blog, Doktor Indie, where she is blogging about music, pop culture, books and feminism

Statement:
glücklich scheitern – bei dem versuch allen ansprüchen zu genügen: zu promovieren und eine familie zu haben, ethisch und ökologisch korrekt zu leben und trotzdem spaß zu haben…

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flannel apparel - girlism. großkariert (Blog)

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 31' 27.3648" N, 13° 24' 22.644" E

Info:
fashion blog written by Teresa M. Bücker (journalist) with an emphasis on girlism, feminism, stereotypes, gender roles, politics, web 2.0/blogging etc.

Statement:
girlism. großkariert. Ein Blog über Politisches, Mode und den Liebeslebenswandel in digitaler Umnachtung.

Weitere Texte von mir erscheinen regelmäßig im FAZ-Blog "Deus ex Machina".

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feministiki (Blog)

Location

Russia

Info: