Illustration © Nikki McClure

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Genderblog.de - Rochus Wolff, Initiator des Blogs, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer.

Topic: 
Activism
Gender studies
Grassroots media in Europe
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Rochus, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Rochus Wolff, bin 37 Jahre alt und habe Germanistik und Geschlechterforschung in Deutschland und in England studiert. In England habe ich einen Abschluss in Women’s Studies gemacht. Derzeit lebe ich in Paris, bin Vater von zwei Kindern und betreibe seit März 2005 das http://genderblog.de, eines von drei Blogs (http://i.rrhoblog.de und http://buttkickingbabes.de/), die ich insgesamt habe.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

Interviewee: 
Rochus Wolff
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Lady Fest D.F. (Mexico)

Location

Mexico D.F.
Mexico
19° 25' 37.38" N, 99° 7' 39.2556" W

"PRIMER LADY FEST MÉXICO D.F. '10 CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA! PARTICIPA! MANDA TUS PROPUESTAS!!!

LLegó al Distrito Federal el evento Lady Fest de reconocimiento nacional e internacional con la finalidad de reunir a todas las mujeres que quieran ser escuchadas!!!
es un Festival no lucrativo y cultural!

Si estás interesada en formar parte de las siguientes actividades culturales, es tu oportunidad!!

CATEGORIAS:
Música : podrán participar bandas de chikas (ó con al menos una integrante mujer) cualquier género musical.
Fotografía: se contará con una zona para exponer su trabajo.

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A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism, York, UK. March 3-5th 2011.

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Thursday, 03 March 2011 - Saturday, 05 March 2011

University of York, UK
www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

We ask, can feminist art* save the world, and if so, how?, and issue an invitation to artists, activists and academics to respond. Please send 300-word proposals for papers and presentations. Deadline 31st October 2010.
e: carnivalatfeminist-cultural-activism [dot] net

Full details on www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

Type of project: 
Art
Event
Exhibit
Festival
Performance & theatre play
Spoken word
Workshop
Zine
Topic: 
Activism
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Femminismo a Sud: „a space where people can share their opinion about what‘s going on in our society“.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Education
Migration & border issues
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An interview with Fikasicula, the group who founded the Italian anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-facist blog Femminismo a Sud http://femminismo-a-sud.noblogs.org/.

How did your blog Femminismo a Sud came into being? Since when does it exist? What is the idea of your blog?

Interviewee: 
Fikasicula; photographer Tano D'Amico
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Side Glance: Melanie Niethammer im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer über ihre Motivationen ein Blog zum Thema Feminismus und Technik zu betreiben.

Topic: 
Activism
Internet & digital divide
Work and employment
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Melanie, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Melanie Niethammer
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Feminist Memory (Blog)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

This blog will serve as a research platform for a doctoral project on feminist media and feminist memory at London South Bank University, supervised by Dr. Anna Reading.

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HerStoria (Magazine, 2009-)

Location

United Kingdom

"Look at history from a female perspective and everything changes. HerStoria magazine in print, and Discover Women's History Web online, will entertain, inform and create a community. We turn a kaleidoscope on the past to uncover a different history - women's history - and celebrate the women who made it.

What is women’s history?

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FAN: Feminist Art News (1980-1993)

Location

United Kingdom

A quarterly magazine produced around different themes and by a different production collective each time. Grew out of the Women Artists' Newsletter.

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Battleaxe: The New Labour Movement Paper for Women (1986-?)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

"We are a group of women in the Labour Movement fighting for Womens Liberation and Socialism. We see the two as inseparable. Women are not going to be liberated by an act of parliament, although this does not mean we do not fight to elect a Labour government committed to equal rights for women. But we do not think this is the way women will have true liberation, nor do we believe that the working class is white, heterosexual and male.

We cannot expect male members of parliament nor for that matter male revolutionaries to give us liberation.

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Al-Nisa (Magazine, 2000-)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

"It is clear that having a forum to speak about things that are kept silent, about the daily violation of women's rights, to defend women who have nobody to stand up for them, to discuss and work to change the rules, laws, and decrees which dominate women's lives, to stop the emotional and moral harassment committed by society, to raise awareness about women's human rights, to give women the hope that our lives can be better, is more needed: a forum, a journal, an organisation, to show that women have something to say, to express our views, to have our voices heard: a forum to show that women