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April 2012

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Ladyfest Leipzig 2012

Location

Leipzig
Germany
51° 20' 56.5368" N, 12° 23' 37.7628" E

The Ladyfest Leipzig 2012 will take place on June 8 - 10 2012

illustration: Katharina Zimmerhackl

Program:

Bands/Künstlerinnen

Bell's Roar
She Said Destroy
Slux
Sookee
Cat'N'Guyen
Damn It Janet

Workshops

Sexualität und Sport
Selbstverteidigungstraining
Schweißen
Radical Cheerleading
Queer Burlesque
Schlagzeug-Tonabnehmer-Workshop (E-Drumkit-Selbstbau)
Bloggen
porNo/pornyes
Sextoy

Vorträge und Diskussionen

Feminismus in der Ukraine

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Ladyfest Graz 2012

Location

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

Ladyfest Graz 2012 will take place on Mai 18 - 20 2012 in Graz at Theater am Ortweinplatz (concerts) and Spektral (workshops, film program)

Be what you wanna be!
Jede_r kann bei uns sein wie sie_er sich fühlt. Ob Queer, Lady, Trans, Lesbe, Hete oder Bi... Fühlt euch wohl und willkommen!

Zum zweiten Mal organisiert unser Plenum das Ladyfest Graz in der steirischen Landeshauptstadt. In unseren Workshops sollt ihr euch ausleben und eure Kreativität erproben können. Wir bieten Workshops speziell für Frauen und Transgender. Euch wird ein Raum geboten, in dem ihr ihr selbst sein könnt.

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The F-Word Lady Fest 2012

Location

Florida State UniversityTallahassee
United States
30° 26' 17.7216" N, 84° 16' 50.6388" W

The Second annual The F-Word Ladyfest 2012 will take place on April 14th 2012 @ 9pm

The F-Word statement:
Welcome to the F Word at FSU!
What is the F Word?

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Ladyfest Boston 2012

Location

Cambridge YMCABoston
United States
42° 21' 30.3516" N, 71° 3' 35.1828" W

Schedule:

LADYFEST BOSTON
@ CAMBRIDGE YMCA (820 Massachusetts Ave.)
FEB. 3-5, 2012

Tickets are $15 per day or $35 for all three days. Presale has now ended, but tickets will be available at the door each day until we reach capacity.
All shows are ALL AGES

FRIDAY 2.3
DOORS 5PM
Potluck 5- 6:30PM
Show 6:30 sharp!

BEAUTIFUL WEEKEND (Boston)
SHEPHERDESS (Boston)
PROCESSION (NYC)
WAXAHATCHEE (NYC)
FOREIGN OBJECTS (Boston)
SHOPPERS (Syracuse)

SATURDAY 2.4
DOORS 11AM

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The F-Word Media Collective

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We are a grassroots feminist media collective operating out of Vancouver BC. The F Word Radio Show has been on air since 2007.

We operate from the following principles and values:

* We seek to facilitate feminist dialogue in the community and use media as a foundation for positive social change
* We acknowledge media as a primary mode of cultural communication and we hope to open a space for alternative feminist dialogue that does not exist in mainstream media

Type of project: 
Blog & Web 2.0
Group/Network
Radio
Workshop
Topic: 
Art
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Pop culture
Race & ethnicity
Representation of women
Sexual violence
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Feminist Media Project (2007-2009)

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The Feminist Media Project was started by a group of concerned academics and journalists focused on a feminist intervention in media depictions of missing and murdered women, and the related trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver, British Columbia, for 26 charges of first-degree murder in the slayings of women.

Type of project: 
Blog & Web 2.0
Topic: 
Gender studies
Representation of women
Sexual violence
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Zharava - Жарава (Magazine, 1997-2000)

Location

Sofia
Bulgaria

Info:
Zharava - Жарава was a monthly magazine of the Bulgarian NGO WAD - Women's Alliance for Development covering a wide range of topics with emphasis on women's rights, equality, economic justice, development, power, violence, women and conflict/war, women and career/education/labour, family/motherhood, environment, health, literature/culture etc. WAD also published the English magazine Fair Play for the KARAT coalition

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Fair Play (Magazine, 1997-2002/2005)

Location

Sofia
Bulgaria

Info:
Fair play was an English magazine published by the Bulgarian WAD as member of the KARAT coalition (a network organisation of various women's rights NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe, based in Warsaw/Poland); emphasis on women's rights and situation of women in Central and Eastern European countries, equality, development, economic equality, violence, feminist news, art/literature, info about Women's organisations in various countries etc. WAD also published a Bulgarian magazine called Жарава - Zharava

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Faces de Eva (Journal)

Location

Lisbon
Portugal
38° 42' 24.9552" N, 9° 8' 8.2752" W

Info:
Portuguese journal of the Women's Studies Center of the University Nova of Lisbon. Emphasis on women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory, history, literature etc.

Statement:

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ex aequo (Journal)

Location

Porto
Portugal
41° 8' 59.8848" N, 8° 36' 36.8748" W

Info:
Portuguese peer reviewed journal publishing two issues every year with original research papers in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English; emphasis on feminist theory, euqality, women's rights and citizenship, gender studies, research etc.

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