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BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST COMMUNITY TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: This is our aim! To do so, please upload your projects, interviews you have done, resources you find interesting and join the grassroots feminist community! If you have questions, please email me (Elke Zobl) at elke.zobl(at)sbg.ac.at.
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Zine Fest Gent - DIY media & feminist activism

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When?
October 15th – 16th 2011

Where?
in DOK Kantine: htp://www.dokgent.be
address: crossing of Koopvaardijlaan and Afrikalaan, in Gent (Belgium)

Programme:

Saturday at 12:00: workshops about
- zines and alternative media
- writing fiction and articles
- designing feminist posters
Sunday at 13:00: making a zine together (or make your own zine)
Ongoing: a few tables with zines, exhibition of feminist posters

Info:

Zine Fest Gent is a gathering for alternative media, creativity and activism. It's organised by FEL en ECHO.

See you there!

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Event
Workshop
Zine
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Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
Zine
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bleck (1998 - 2003?)

Location

Tungelsta
Sweden
59° 6' 25.8588" N, 18° 2' 40.452" E

Info:
Swedish femzine founded 1998; in 2000 bleck became more magazine-like, but the last number was published in summer 2003 (still existing?); emphasis on popular culture, literature, sexuality/porn, feminist/queer theory, violence etc.

Statement:
bleck startades 1998. De åtta första numren kopierades och häftades. Dessa nummer är sedan länge slut - du kan inte beställa dem. Sedan nr 1/1999 trycks tidskriften. Nya nummer ges ut med ojämna mellanrum. bleck samarbetar inte med något förlag. Inte ens med Ordfront som det ibland påstås.

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BLAU - femzine aus Berlin (1990 - 2002)

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 31' 24.258" N, 13° 24' 41.04" E

Info:
femzine based in Berlin; 20 issues have been published in 12 years, issue #17-20 can be read online, issue #20 was published only as ezine. Emphasis on arts & culture, popular culture, feminist/queer theory, book reviews, lgbtiq perspectives etc.

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Panteras Rosa (blog) + a bichana (zine)

Location

Portugal

Info:
blog of the Portuguese trans-lesbian-gay activist collective Panteras Rosa with groups in Lisbon, Porto and Galicia (other Pink Panter groups are based in Paris and in Montréal). Since 2008 they are also publishing the "a bichana" zine; emphasis on LGBTIQ, gay-lesbian-trans rights, trans/homophobia, etc.

Statement:
As Panteras Rosa são um projecto de denúncia e combate à Homofobia e um Observatório deste tipo de discriminação:

- trabalham na resolução dos casos concretos de discriminação e na sua denúncia;
- documentam e analisam a homofobia em Portugal;

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Feminist Blog Camp (Turin, 28-30 October 2011)

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From October 28 to 30, 2011, at the Askatasuna occupied social center in Torino, you may join the Feminist Blog Camp. We are going to spend three days together, sharing our knowledge, attending workshops, shows, debates, music and art performances, readings, culture and IT in-deep examinations, open discussions on desire and sexuality, temporary employment, migrants and a lot of other topics. This meeting is entirely self promoted and managed.

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Festival
Workshop
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Activism
Internet & digital divide
Ladyfest
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Astra Nova (Magazine)

Location

Helsingfors
Finland
60° 10' 11.3268" N, 24° 56' 17.664" E

Info:
Astra was founded in 1919 by the Swedish Women's Federation in Finland to encourage women's activities and serve as a connecting link of Swedish women in Finland, but also to promote women's issues beyond language barriers and national borders. Since 1992 the magazine gets published under the new name Astra Nova by the Utgivarföreningen för tidskriften Astra Nova r.f.

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Ariadne Löng (Journal)

Location

Tallinn
Estonia

Info.
ENUT is a grassroots, non-profit, non- governmental organisation (located at the Tallinn University) with the aim to advance gender equality in all spheres of life. The journal Ariadne Löng (Ariadne's thread) was founded in 2000 and is the first and only academic gender studies journal in Estonia; emphasis on feminist theory and gender studies (publishes also translations of key texts of feminist theory and the feminist movement), literature/culture, body politics, family/parenthood, violence, equality etc. (last issue 2009)

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andaina! - Revista Galega de Pensamento Feminista (Magazine, Blog)

Location

Santiago di Compostela
Spain
42° 52' 49.6092" N, 8° 32' 46.6908" W

Info:
Galician feminist magazine based in Santiago di Compostela; emphasis on feminist theory and activism, women's organisations, equality, women's rights, literature/Arts, lgbtq, body politics (reproductive rights), prostitution, violence, etc. Starting with Issue #36 the magazine can get downloaded as pdf-file. Since April 2011 they are also running a blog

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AnAlize - revista de studii feministe (Journal, 1998 - 2004)

Location

Bucharest
Romania
44° 26' 15.7596" N, 26° 5' 50.5212" E

Info:
"first Romanian journal of feminist studies and multidisciplinary research on gender issues." every issue is based on a specific topic; the last issue was published in 2004

Statement:
AnaLize, prima revista romaneasca de studii feministe isi propune sa acopere o zona neglijata pana acum in Romania -cercetarea multidisciplinara pe probleme de gen. Temele propuse si modul de abordare a acestora recomanda AnaLize ca o revista feminista.

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AEP Informationen - Feministische Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft (Magazine)

Location

Innsbruck
Austria
47° 16' 9.1632" N, 11° 24' 14.7672" E

Info:
the associations AEP was founded in 1974 and is until now running an information / counseling center and library to promote feminist politics and women's issues; the quaterly magazine has an emphasis on women's / feminist politics, society, women's rights, equality etc.

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