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June 2013

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There is more to sexism than meets the eye (Live recording of a discussion round held on 20th May 2013, presented by Missy Magazine)

Topic: 
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
Representation of women
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Click on the links below to find an audio recording of a discussion round held at the HAU - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin on 20th May 2013 presented by Missy Magazine; with Angela McRobbie, Anne Wizorek, Sookee, Nana Adusei-Poku, Jasmin Mittag, and Sonja Eismann

Photo: Angela McRobbie, Nana Adusei-Poku und Anne Wizorek (v.l.n.r., Foto credit: Dorothee Leesing)

There is more to sexism than meets the eye - part 1
There is more to sexism than meets the eye - part 2

Interviewee: 
Angela McRobbie, Anne Wizorek, Sookee, Nana Adusei-Poku, Jasmin Mittag
Interviewer: 
Sonja Eismann
Tags: 
Sexism
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Call for Submissions: London Feminist Film Festival (Deadline: 31 August 2013)

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After a successful first year, we are excited to confirm that the London Feminist Film Festival will return for its second year! From now until the end of August, we are looking for submissions of feminist films from women filmmakers around the world. Please see below for submission guidelines.

Deadline: 31 August 2013.

Guidelines:

• Women directors from any country may enter. In the case of multiple directors, all should be women.
• Films should deal with feminist issues and/or be feminist in their representation of women.
• Films can be of any length or genre, and from any year.

Topic: 
Art
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Ladyfest London 2013 (June 21st - 23rd)

Location

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

Ladyfest London takes place from June 21st until June 23rd 2013

MIAOW! MIAOW!
It’s time for the 5th Annual Ladyfest London happening June 21st– 23rd!

This is our time to celebrate female creativity in our community. This year we are raising money for My Sisters’ Place! All of our events are $5-10 pay what you can, (suggested donation). Folks identifying as any gender are welcome to attend the shows! Detailed line-up and artist list to be announced later this week! There is still time to get involved!

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Wolfsmutter.com - Abenteuer Feminismus (E-Zine, Network)

Location

Vienna
Austria
48° 12' 29.4264" N, 16° 22' 25.7484" E

Info:
Austrian feminist online magazine and interactive platform for women and the autonomous women's and lesbian movement, providing discussion forums, news/info/text publishing, calendar, lots of links and a database of women experts and women in bussiness. The last info/postings are from September 2011, but the website is still existing and some of the forums, the calendar, links etc. are active and get updated.

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Unzine (E-Zine, 2006-2008)

Location

Split
Croatia

Info:
Unzine was a monthly e-zine by Rafaela Drazic distributed as pdf (from 2006 until 2008); it was not an exclusively feminist e-zine but covered a wide range of topics: "Unzine is a monthly zine with various art, design and music contributions for expressing minority opinion (in Croatian language). The topics are mostly social oriented: from human rights, animal rights, feminist topics through politics to recycling, homophobia, culture news and so on, and so on..." (Drazic) Unfortunatelly neither the website nor the myspace-account exist any longer.

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RED FEMINISTA Violencia de Género (E-Zine)

Location

Spain

Info:
e-zine with an emphasis on violence against women/gender violence run by a network of Spanish feminist NGOs; beside news, they also publish documents, comments and other material/texts on various aspects of violence/power like sexism in media, abuse, prostitution and human trafficking, economic inequalities etc. as well as statistics indicating the number of victims of gender based violence every year in Spain

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Qunst.mag (E-Zine)

Location

Germany

Statement:
Qunst.mag is an e-zine created by members of Bildwechsel and the contributing artists. Our aim is to provide a platform for queer feminist artists working in various media.

The zines can get downloaded as pdf, some even as printable version

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querelles-net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (E-Zine) & QJB - Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauen- und Geschlechter forschung (Journal/E-Journal)

Location

Freie Universität BerlinBerlin
Germany
52° 31' 9.0156" N, 13° 24' 21.9276" E

Info:
querelles-net is an academic e-zine reviewing new publications in Women's and Gender Studies from various disciplines (with an emphasis on the German speaking countries). QJB - Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung is an academic annual journal founded in 1996 which puts an emphasis on Women's and Gender Studies from a transdisciplinary perspective. Since 2011/2012 it gets published as open access e-journal.

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Les nouvelles NEWS - l'autre genre d'info (Newsportal/E-Zine)

Location

Paris
France
48° 51' 23.8104" N, 2° 21' 7.9992" E

Info:
Les nouvelles NEWS is a news portal/web magazine which neither wants to be a feminist e-zine nor a traditional women's magazine but wants to improve the representation of women (and men) in media and to overcome the stereotypical differentiation in soft "women's issues" and hard-fact "men's issues". Emphasis on politics, society, culture, (international) news, representation, gender roles, stereotypes, sexism, equality etc.

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Ladyfest Madrid 2013 (June 20 - 23)

Location

Madrid
Spain
40° 25' 0.39" N, 3° 42' 13.644" W

Ladyfest Madrid 2013 takes place June 20th to 23rd at different locations troughout the city

Después de un año de invasión ultralady en la fiesta y el estar de Madriz, celebraremos un gran festival feminista y autogestionado (y muchas cosas más) durante los próximos días 20, 21, 22 y 23 de junio en diversos espacios descentralizados de la ciudad.