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Grassroots Media in Europe

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MíraLES (E-Zine, Podcast-Radio)

Location

Madrid
Spain
40° 25' 0.39" N, 3° 42' 13.644" W

Info:
MíraLES ("See them") is a Spanish lesbian ezine with an emphasis on lesbian/queer culture, literature, LGBTIQ, lesbian/gay parenthood / family, representation and visibility, sexuality, etc. It was founded in 2009 and also produces the monthly online-radio program Mírales radio (former: RadiografíaLES)

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Mrs. Pepsteins Welt (Radio)

Location

Leipzig
Germany
51° 20' 22.9056" N, 12° 22' 23.07" E

Info:
Mrs. Pepsteins Welt is a monthly music radio show with an feminist emphasis produced since 1999 by Mrs. Pepstein and broadcasted via the Leipzig based free Radio Blau as well as by several other free German radio stations.

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Lesbomanija (Radio)

Location

Ljubljana
Slovenia
46° 3' 23.2236" N, 14° 30' 29.052" E

Info:
Lesbomanija is a monthly Slovenian feminist, queer-lesbian radio show broadcasted via the student radio Radio Študent. It was founded in 1998 and gets produced by the lesbian group ŠKUC-LL; emphasis on LGBTIQ issues and queer culture. Since 2003 all shows also are published as podcasts and are archived.

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Globale Dialoge (Radio)

Location

Vienna
Austria
48° 12' 29.4264" N, 16° 22' 25.7484" E

Info:
Globale Dialoge is a weekly radio show produced by the editorial collective Women on Air which was founded by the Viennese free radio station ORANGE 94.0 and the magazine Frauensolidarität. Since 2005 it gets broadcasted by radio ORANGE 94.0 (Vienna, also via livestream) every Tuesday (13:00 - 14:00) and puts an emphasis on the international women's movement, global feminism, feminist/queer activism, sustainable development, human rights, migration, cultural production by women etc.

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genderfrequenz - sozialpolitisch, feministisch, unbeugsam! (Radio)

Location

Graz
Austria
47° 4' 14.5704" N, 15° 26' 22.2144" E

Info:
genderfrequenz is a queer-feminist radio show broadcasted twice a month via the free radio station radio Helsinki in Graz/Austria since 2010. Every show focuses on a specific topic, e.g.: 8th March, gender and language, feminist utopias, sexual work, violence etc.

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SPACEfemFM Frauenradio (Radio)

Location

Linz
Austria
48° 18' 24.984" N, 14° 17' 8.988" E

Info:
The women's radio show SPACEfemFM was founded in 2000 and since then gets broadcasted via the free radio station FRO in Linz /Austria 3-4 times a month (Monday 19:00-20:00); emphasis on feminist and women's perspective on culture and society, gender politics, international perspectives, etc.
The show also gets broadcasted on: Orange94.0 (Vienna, twice a month); "Frauenstimmen – Glas žena" on Radio Agora 105.5 (Klagenfurt, monthly) Radio Helsinki 92.9 (Graz, weekly)

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Frauenzimmer (Radio)

Location

Salzburg
Austria
47° 48' 34.164" N, 13° 3' 18.036" E

Info:
This feminist and women's radio show gets broadcasted every Wednesday evening (18-18:30) by the Salzburg based free radio station Radiofabrik. The radioshows can also get heard via livestream and podcast. For every show another editorial board is responsable for the program, at the moment there are three different editors/editorial teams:
sisterresist (Salzburg based feminist activist group; emphasis on feminist activism and gender politics)

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Genero (Journal, since 2002), former: Ženske studije (Journal, 1995-2002)

Location

Belgrade
Serbia
44° 49' 14.0016" N, 20° 27' 43.9992" E

Statement:
Genero: časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture ("Genero: Journal of Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies") is Belgrade Women’s Studies Center major serial publication and a joint publishing project of BWSC and the Center for Gender and Politics at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade (from the issue 13/2009). Genero was established in 2002.

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Žibutė (Online-TV)

Location

Vilnius
Lithuania
54° 41' 13.7616" N, 25° 16' 46.7436" E

Info:
Žibutė ('Violet') is a Lithuanian feminist internet TV show. It was launched in December 2012 and currently is the only regularly updated grassroots feminist media project in the country with a vision to become a feminist media platform in Eastern Europe, also accessible in English, and with a focus on the region’s extensive feminist scene and history. The show is entirely run by volunteers and recently the first English episode has been launched (with a focus on feminists who fight Neo-Nazism in Lithuania).

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Women: A Cultural Review (Journal)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 40.3704" N, 0° 7' 11.3664" W

Statement:
Women: a cultural review explores the role and representation of gender and sexuality in arts and culture, with a particular focus on the contemporary world. The journal analyses the theory and politics of sexual difference in literature, the media, history, education, law, philosophy, psychoanalysis and the performing and visual arts.

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