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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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“Producing outside the capitalist circle”: An interview with radio broadcaster, Nicole Niedermüller (Switzerland)

Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe

Nicole Niedermüller is the Coordinator of the Women’s Programme at Radio LoRa in Zurich. Red caught up with her to find out how community radio stations work, what she loves about broadcasting, and how international collaborations over skype can feed inspiring new projects.

Interviewee: 
Nicole Niedermüller
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey
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Ladyfest Norwich 2010

Location

Norwich
United Kingdom
52° 37' 23.016" N, 1° 17' 27.2184" E

"LADYFEST NORWICH 2010
so what the hell's all this talk of LADYFEST NORWICH then??

well....this year marks the tenth anniversary of LADYFEST, a worldwide festival that celebrates female creativity. as a born and bred norwich resident, it became apparent that being such a purveyor of gender equality in creative industries, norwich was missing out on all this lady action and celebration. SO, on the 31st july, after partying it up with the norwich pride parade, norwich arts centre will host a unique display of female talent from local shores and further.

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Ladyfest Berlin 2010

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 30' 58.3956" N, 13° 23' 32.4024" E

Ladyfest Berlin will happen from 16th to 19th of September 2010.

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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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