Illustration © Nikki McClure

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Shocking Pink (Magazine, 1981-1982 and 1987-1992)

Location

United Kingdom

Info:
16 issues were published; zine written by and for young women with an emphasis on topics like contraception, abortion, sexuality, lesbianism / queer issues, violence against women, women culture / music etc., skill sharing (e.g. how to form a band, a women's group etc.), racism, women's rights etc.

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Outwrite (Newspaper, 1982-1988)

Location

United Kingdom

Outwrite newspaper, produced by a collective of women throughout the 1980s, was dedicated to offering news by women, for women. Self-defined as an ‘internationlist feminist’ publication, the paper focused on ‘the development of feminism worldwide’ and an examination of women’s oppressions ‘in the context of imperialism, racism and class divisions.’

Liberation struggles in El Salvador, South Africa and Palestine, as well
as local campaigns including those of the Southall Black Sisters, Sari
Squad and the King’s Cross Women’s Centre were regularly featured in Outwrite’s monthly reports.

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LoveKills zine

Location

Romania

LoveKills manifesto

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"Love is a perverted feeling...". An email interview with the anarcha-feminist LoveKills Collective, from Romania

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
Zine
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Interviewee: 
LoveKills Collective
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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Sistren Book Release in Rome, Italy

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Saturday 18th April 2009

Sistren is a DIY book collection about the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality by feminists, lesbians, queers and trans coming from forced migration, slavery and the diaspora discourse.

Readings by

Humaira Saeed (Manchester,UK)
Sachi Nehra (London, UK),
Grada Kilomba (Berlin, Germany)

Gig by Kerieva McCormick (Edimburg, Scotland)
"Kerieva is a mystery; she is a performing musician and singer and simultaneously
an international advocate of Roma(Gypsy) issues. Although based in Scotland, she

Type of project: 
Event
Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
Race & ethnicity
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"Generating contexts in a fragile scene". An email interview with the feminist art collective Erreakzioa-Reacción

Topic: 
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
Zine
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"This project is posed as a space for encounter, reflection, debate and resistance around ways of doing that incorporate feminist thought, queer politics and postcolonial discourses in artistic practice."

- Here and Now! New Forms of Feminist Action , exhibition booklet

Interviewee: 
Erreakzioa-Reacción, feminist art collective
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Is Ladyfest a politics to settle down to?”: A conversation with Maaike from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Maaike helped organize Ladyfest Amsterdam 08 and played the final night with her band Dusty Blinds. Red interviewed her on her birthday about Ladyfests, whiteness, and coming up with a Ladyfest trademark plan.

Interviewee: 
Maaike, Ladyfest Amsterdam 08 organiser and musician
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey
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Trouble X comixs (Zines, Comics, Posters etc.)

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 31' 24.528" N, 13° 24' 41.3784" E

Info:
Trouble X produces queer-feminist zines, comics, posters, and other DIY stuff dealing with LGBTIQ issues and radical queer topics, left/queer activism, gender trouble/fun, DIY etc.

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an.schläge (magazine)

Location

Austria

Though the content of women in mainstream journalism has found acceptance and is recognized as a real perspective, feminist positions are still marginalized. This is the important fact: the vast majority of departmental leaders are males and thus the most journalistically processed information reflects male experiences and perceptions.

The project of an.schläge is a comprehensive news magazine from a feminist perspective. We are concerned with making visible women's realities and experiences in a (male-dominated media) world, to the breaking of patriarchal structures and the making of a feminist counter-public. The principle of collective editorial staff here is just as important as the openness to diverse feminist perspectives and lifestyles of women.

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Erinyen Zine

Location

Germany

Although anarchism is, in theory, inherently feminist, the reality is often quite different. Erinyen was created out of a need to bring issues of dominance, alienation, lack of control and masked hierarchy more into the anarchist sphere as well as for creating a place to share information, struggles and ideas. We hope with this platform and the magazine we contribute to more solidarity, understanding and change on all levels, regardless of gender, sex, age, ethnicity ... and so on.