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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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WIFP - Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press

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The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt research, education, and publishing organization. Our organization was founded in 1972, by Dr. Donna Allen, to increase communication among women and reach the public with our experience, perspectives, and opinions. Women's contributions to society must be heard and be taken into account if democracy is to function and the world's political decisions are to be viable.

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Networks and Associations
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Networking & community building 
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Ladyfest Trier 2010

Submitted by elkezobl on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 16:28
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Trier
Germany
49° 45' 13.4712" N, 6° 38' 46.5036" E

"Lady..was?! Ladyfest!

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Join the femmepop revolution

Submitted by femmepop on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 17:22
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Music
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Do-It-Yourself
Pop culture
Representation of women
Riot Grrrl 
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taking cultural production into our own hands

Submitted by redchidgey on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 14:17
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Zines

Location

United Kingdom

This zine is a way to show how we can make the changes we want to see in our
culture, by ourselves.

-To inspire others
-To show how easy it can be
-To harness potentials
-To show DIY-in-action
-To show that we all have the potential to be creative producers and creative
consumers everyday
-To share tips
-To explore how and why we do the things we do
-To show creative alternatives to blind consumption of mainstream culture

Articles include:
Booking and Organising spoken-word tours, Curating Art Shows, Being a queer femme performance artist, Making Comics, Making poster artwork for gigs and events, Making your own animations, Making your own [documentary] films, Making Zines, Opening your own independent Gallery Space, Organising a Zine Fest, Organising Comedy Nights, Putting on Gigs, Putting on your own club night, Running a Magazine, Running a Zine Distro, Running your own record label, Recording Albums, Opening up your own Vegan Cafe, Screen printing, Setting up a Zine Library, Starting your own publishing house, Starting your own band, Starting your own theatre company, Writing and performing poetry, Writing and Publishing your own Book, Organising an Exhibition, Opening your own Shop, Opening your own Comic Shop.

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Web 2.0, Blogs & Gender: Literature (in German)

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Carstensen, Tanja: „Das Internet“ als Effekt diskursiver Bedeutungskämpfe. In: kommunikation@gesellschaft, Jg. 7, Beitrag 5. http://www.soz.uni-frankfurt.de/K.G/B5_2006_Carstensen.pdf.

Carstensen, Tanja: Gender Trouble im Web 2.0 : Sexismus, Homophobie, Antifeminismus und Heteronormativität im neuen alten Internet. http://www.feministisches-institut.de/web2/

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Reading Lists
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Gender studies 
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Ladyfest München 2010: Ein Interview mit der Designerin Momo Stall

Submitted by elkezobl on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 09:13
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Ladyfest
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Könntest du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Ich bin die Momo, ich komme aus München und ich mache hauptberuflich Modedesign, hauptsächlich Mützen. Und hier auf dem Ladyfest biete ich Mützen an, die man sich selber nähen kann und Mützen, die man kaufen kann.

Ist das dein erstes Ladyfest?

Ja, ich habe vorher noch nie etwas darüber gehört. Mich hat eine Freundin darauf aufmerksam gemacht, die mir dann Flyer gegeben hat.

Was sagst du zu diesem Ladyfest, zu dieser Idee, zu diesem Konzept?

Interviewee: 
Momo Stall
Interviewer: 
Anita Hammer
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Ladyfest DIY
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist 
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„Auf der Suche nach immer neuen Formen…“. Lea Susemichel, koordinierende Redakeurin der feministischen Monatszeitschrift an.schläge und Co-Produzentin von an.schläge-TV, traf sich im Februar 2010 zu einem Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer.

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Activism
Do-It-Yourself

Lea, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Lea Susemichel und arbeite seit ca. acht Jahren beim feministischen Magazin an.schläge http://www.anschlaege.at. Ich war lange Zeit freie Redakteurin, die letzten dreieinhalb Jahre war ich, gemeinsam mit Saskya Rudigier, später mit Vina Yun, die koordinierende Redakteurin des Magazins.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

Interviewee: 
<strong>Lea Susemichel</strong>
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer 
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Ladyfest London 2010

Submitted by elkezobl on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 09:08
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 29' 42.234" N, 0° 9' 13.7124" W

"ABOUT LADYFEST
Ladyfest provides an opportunity for visitors to discuss and take action on their views on topics such as misogynism in the arts and beauty standards. It allows people attend shows by female performers,and have a good time in a space where they felt comfortable to be themselves. Ladyfest is a breath of fresh air to male dominated corporate sponsored music festivals where only a handful of women are "lucky" enough to perform every year.

HER-STORY OR CUNT-ROVERSY?

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Ptqk Blogzine: Maria Ptqk is writing her blogzine http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com since 2004. In the interview with Rosa Reitsamer, Maria Ptqk talks about her way into feminism, cyberfeminism and her blogging experience.

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Activism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
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Can you shortly introduce yourself?
It's difficult because I have a heterogeneous background. Sometimes I am a producer or assistant for other people, sometimes a curator, an art critic or a teacher. I have a hybrid profile in the cultural field, so I consider myself as a cultural researcher. The topics I am interested on are situated at the crossroads between technology, media, cultural and gender studies, but it changes with my obsessions. My academic background is law and economics. I don't have any formal training in art. In this field I am completely do-it-yourself.

Interviewee: 
Maria Ptqk
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer 
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Harpies & Quines (Magazine, 1992-1994)

Submitted by redchidgey on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 11:35
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Location

Glasgow
United Kingdom
55° 51' 56.2572" N, 4° 15' 26.0028" W

Founded by Lesley Riddoch. Shortlisted for Orwell Prize. Unsuccessfully sued by Harpes and Queens before being declared bankrupt.

Excerpt from interview (4.10.2005), http://livingmemory.org.uk/rememberwhen/interview/intHC.html

Helen Chambers: I got my first proper job which was Harpies and Quines magazine which was a feminist magazine, published in Glasgow which Lesley Riddoch was involved in starting so I did that for a while.

Vicky Woods: What was it called?

web engineering: www.roider.at
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