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March 2013

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Žibutė (Online-TV)

Location

Vilnius
Lithuania
54° 41' 13.7616" N, 25° 16' 46.7436" E

Info:
Žibutė ('Violet') is a Lithuanian feminist internet TV show. It was launched in December 2012 and currently is the only regularly updated grassroots feminist media project in the country with a vision to become a feminist media platform in Eastern Europe, also accessible in English, and with a focus on the region’s extensive feminist scene and history. The show is entirely run by volunteers and recently the first English episode has been launched (with a focus on feminists who fight Neo-Nazism in Lithuania).

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Women: A Cultural Review (Journal)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 40.3704" N, 0° 7' 11.3664" W

Statement:
Women: a cultural review explores the role and representation of gender and sexuality in arts and culture, with a particular focus on the contemporary world. The journal analyses the theory and politics of sexual difference in literature, the media, history, education, law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and the performing and visual arts.

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Womens Erotic Art

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We have launched and International Competition for Women's Erotic Art.
The first prize will be £300 and a solo show, in London Uk, Dates: September 28th-October 28th, 2013.

The winner and runners up will also be given a review from the judges Susana Medina and Joanna Pocock.

Closing date May 5th 2013.

*If the winning artist can not make the dates for the solo show it will be passed on to a runner up.

link: http://www.womenseroticart.com/competition.php

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AMIW video lounge @ Brotherton Library (University of Leeds, 8th March - 8th April 2013)

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All MY INDEPENDENT WOMEN video lounge

8th March - 8th April
Special Collections, Brotherton Library
University of Leeds

Month long exhibition of video art by artists from the feminist network All My Independent Women

Special Guest: Feminist Archive North

exhibiting artists:

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Art
Video & Film
Topic: 
Art
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Ausserirdische Körper, queere Welten und transgalaktische Netzwerke / Extraterrestrial bodies, Queer worlds and Trans-galactic networks (VBKÖ, Vienna 21/03/2013, 7pm)

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Ausserirdische Körper, queere Welten und transgalaktische Netzwerke

Ein Performanceabend der durch migrantische/postkoloniale und queere Körper und Netzwerke zeitgenössische Debatten über Intersektionalität und Privilegien erkundet.

Donnerstag 21.03.2013
Ab 19h

VBKÖ
Maysedergasse 2, 4ter Stock
1010 Wien

Die VBKÖ wurde in einen intergalaktischen Hafen für vertriebene Körper verwandelt.

Type of project: 
Art
Performance & theatre play
Topic: 
Art
LGBT and queer issues
Postcolonial theory & perspectives
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Wolverette (Zine)

Location

Germany

Info:
Wolverette is a grrrl zine with an emphasis on riot grrrls, popular culture, literature, sexuality, body politics, etc. The first issue was published in 2007; the zine was founded and gets edited by Dodo B. Every issues is based on a specific topic and for every issue a call for contributions gets organised. So far five issues have been published

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Virginia - FrauenBuchKritik (Magazine)

Location

Germany

Info:
Virginia FrauenBuchKritik was founded in 1986, gets published twice a year and reviews books (literature as well as non-fiction) by women and feminist authors, books on women's biographies, women's/gender studies and feminist theory, presents biographies of women authors and feminists etc.

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Tulva (Magazine)

Location

Helsinki
Finland
60° 10' 11.442" N, 24° 56' 18.7836" E

Info:
Tulva is a Finnish feminist magazine on popular culture, politics, culture and entertainment. It gets published quarterly by the Non-Profit association Naisasialiitto Unioni ry (Women's Union).

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Trabajadora (Magazine)

Location

Spain

Info:
Trabajadora is the magazine of La Secretaría confederal de la Mujer (Confederate Women's Secretary) of the Spanish labor union CCOO. The magazine was founded in 1984 and now gets published quarterly; emphasis on women and work, discrimination, equality, women's rights, etc. All issues since 2001 can get downloaded as pdf-files for free.

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International Womens Day Activism, Womens Erotic Art

Today 8th March, International Women's Day. There is a new web site called Womens Erotic Art,
artists are invited to upload their work on this web site: Womens Erotic Art. The aim is to create an on line community that seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means to be a women in relation to art and sexuality. If sexuality used to be a place where real people had a real connection…Using the power of aesthetics. We are now here to readdress the balance
www.womenseroticart.com