Illustration © Nikki McClure

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migrantas | eine visuelle Sprache der Migration. Marula Di Como, Florencia Young und Estela Schindel sprachen mit Rosa Reitsamer über die Arbeit von migrantas.

Topic: 
Art
Migration & border issues
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"Im Stadtraum sichtbar zu machen, was diejenigen denken und fühlen, die ihr eigenes Land verlassen haben und nun in einem neuen Land leben, ist das Ziel von migrantas. Mobilität, Migration und Transkulturalität sind in unserer Welt keine Ausnahme, sondern die Regel. Trotzdem sind Migrantinnen und ihre Erfahrungen für die Mehrheit der Gesellschaft meist unsichtbar. Migrantas thematisiert Migration, Identität und interkulturellen Dialog und bedient sich in seinen Projekten der Werkzeuge der Kunst, des Designs und der Sozialwissenschaften.

Interviewee: 
Marula Di Como, Florencia Young und Estela Schindel
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization in Slovakia. Jana Juranova, one of the founders of ASPEKT and still working there, talked with Rosa Reitsamer about the history and current situation of ASPEKT.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Education
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization. It was founded in 1993 (the official registration July 26, 1993) as an interest association of women, who agreed it was time to take the discourse on equality and democracy seriously and apply it to the lived realities of the people of feminine gender in Slovakia. Already second decade Aspekt does so by means of its (subversive and pioneering) publishing and educational activities.

Jana, how did ASPEKT, the first feminist magazine in Slovakia, evolve at the beginning of the 1990s?

Interviewee: 
Jana Juranova
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Verena Reygers, Redakteurin bei maedchenmannschaft.net, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Girls and young women
Grassroots media in Europe
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Mädchenmannschaft.net (http://maedchenmannschaft.net/) wurde von Susanne Klingner, Meredith Haaf und Barbara Streidl, den Autorinnen des Buches „Wir Alphamädchen. Warum Feminsmus das Leben schöner macht“ (2008) gegründet und besteht derzeit aus etwa einem Dutzend Autor_innen, die regelmässig Artikel und News schreiben. Eine der Redakteurinnen ist Verena Reygers. Sie verabredete sich mit Rosa Reitsamer am 8. März 2010, dem internationalen Frauentag, zu einem Skype-Interview.

Verena, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Verena Reygers
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Ka Schmitz, Comic-Zeichnerin, Illustratorin und Wen-Do-Trainerin, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Ka Schmitz, Comic-Zeichnerin, Grafikerin, Illustratorin und Wen-Do-Trainerin in Berlin sprach mit Rosa Reitsamer über ihre Comics, deren Verortung in einer queer-feministischen Community und die Schwierigkeit, Strichfiguren zu zeichnen, die nicht selbstverständlich als „Strichmännchen“ gelesen werden.

Ka, du zeichnest Comix, machst aber auch andere Dinge. Kannst du bitte ein wenig deine Tätigkeitsbereiche schildern?

Interviewee: 
Ka Schmitz
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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FEL: Feministisch en Links

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FEL is a grassroots feminist action and education/discussion group based in the Belgian city Gent. In 2009 FEL grew out of FAB (Feministische ActieBende), a feminist collective that doesn't exist anymore. FEL means Feministisch En Links: feminist and left.

FEL is a group of enthusiastic feminists who work on several themes. We take action (for example Take Back The Night), write editorial letters, give workshops and lectures and we have a reading group.

Type of project: 
Group/Network
Topic: 
Activism
Education
Networking & community building
Representation of women
Sexual violence
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LadyFest L'Aquila 2010

Location

Rome, L'Aqila
Italy
42° 20' 54.222" N, 13° 24' 21.8412" E

"In occasione del 32° anniversario della legge 180, venerdì 14,sabato 15 e domenica 16 maggio presso lo spazio “CaseMatte” all’interno dell’ex opp di Collemaggio dell’Aquila, la rete Ladyfest Roma e il comitato 3e32 presentano LADYFEST L’AQUILA: festival queer femminista di arte, musica e controcultura indipendente. Il tema sarà La liberta’ è rivoluzionaria, titolo che unisce, incrociandole, due storiche frasi sul muro del primo manicomio “aperto” nel 1978 a Trieste (“la libertà è terapeutica”/”la verità è rivoluzionaria”).

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Ladyfest Monterrey 2009

Location

Monterrey
Mexico
25° 40' 16.4496" N, 100° 20' 17.286" W

Ladyfest Monterrey happened from 11th to 13th of December 2009.

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La Mestiza Colectiva

Location

Lima
Peru
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Gender Art Net

Location

Germany

GenderArtNet is an experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary Europe.

GenderArtNet’s primary aim is to thematically link the various existing online resources of feminist and queer artists, projects and networks rather than provide yet another user platform for artist profiles. By connecting existing, often remote, online resources, we would like to improve the accessibility and readability of these resources while keeping the memory of feminist artistic and cultural production in the broader Europe alive.

By organising this information in a map, we work to provide contexts, connections, and relations between artists, artworks and networks and between geopolitics and artistic practice. Our starting point is a relational understanding of feminism as a critical, multilayered practice that considers the interrelatedness of various forms of social, political and cultural hierarchies and exclusions along the lines of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, bodily ability, race, class and geopolitical location.

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"One person is never just one identity; it’s not necessarily a schizophrenic situation". An interview with Tea Hvala from Prepih Blog (Slovenia)

Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
Queer feminism
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Tea is a super creative activist from Ljubljana, Slovenia. She’s been involved in media projects for over a decade now — from zines and community radio, satirical newspapers and festivals, to blogs and freelance writing (not to mention her collaborative feminist sci-fi writing workshops.

Red caught up with her at the Civil Media Conference to hear about her influences, how feminist generations can get caught up in ‘queer’, and how writing can be a form of activism – despite what the anarchist boys might think.

Interviewee: 
Tea Hvala
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey