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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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WAM! It Yourself (13 - 24 March 2013, USA/Canada)

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WAM! It Yourself takes place from 13 - 24 March 2013 in various cities in the US and Canada (Austin, Boston, Camden NJ, Washington DC, Los Angeles, NYC, Ottawa, Vancouver) and also encompasses two online events.

Announcement:
Do you care about creating gender justice in media? Want to connect with folks in your area who share your concerns, and join an international community of activists, journalists, academics, artists and media-makers, all taking action at the same time? Then you want WAM! It Yourself, a decentralized version of our annual Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) conference. This year, instead of everyone who cares about gender justice in media gathering in one place for WAM!, WAM! is happening exactly where you are.

Type of project: 
Conference
Festival
Video & Film
Workshop
Topic: 
Activism
Education
Internet & digital divide
Representation of women
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Womens Erotic Art

On International Women's Day (8th March 2013
and beyond) women will be invited to upload their
erotic art work on this web site.
www.womenseroticart.com

The aim is to create an on line community that
seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means
to be a women in relation to art and sexuality.

If sexuality used to be a place where real
people had a real connection…

Using the power of aesthetics
We are now here to readdress the balance

You can also do this today!

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Race Revolt (zine)

Location

Manchester
United Kingdom
53° 28' 45.3036" N, 2° 14' 52.5336" W

Info:
Race Revolt is "a zine on race politics by feminists and queers" with an emphasis on (anti-)racism, ethnicity, identity and a critical view on feminist/queer/DIY/punk activism and communities related to their own whiteness and ignorance of "race". Humaira Saeed (editor): "This is a beginning. A beginning of a much needed conversation that considers and addresses race within feminist, queer and diy communities and beyond. That considers the whiteness of these communities, that finds ways for us to move forward." So far five issues have been published, all of them can be read on the website

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Liberazione Gener-ale - Tavola rotonda sulle correlazioni tra antispecismo, antisessismo, intersessualità, omotransfobia

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Liberazione Gener-ale - Tavola rotonda sulle correlazioni tra antispecismo, antisessismo, intersessualità, omotransfobia - Firenze 9 febbraio 2013
https://anguane.noblogs.org/?p=963

Per riflettere e condividere pensieri, idee e azioni sulle intersezialità tra le oppressioni e le liberazioni è stato organizzato il seminario Liberazione Gener-ale.
Il programma si svilupperà intorno ai seguenti temi:
* Antispecismo: Stare dalla parte degli animali è contronatura? (Marco Reggio)
* Soggetti politici e diritti: lo status di chi non deve esistere (Egon Botteghi)

Type of project: 
Conference
Event
Performance & theatre play
Video & Film
Workshop
Topic: 
Activism
Environment & animal rights
Gender studies
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
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Žene protiv rata (Magazine, 1994-1995) + Žene za mir (Compilations, 1993-2002 + 2012)

Location

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

Info:
Žene u crnom ("Women in Black") is a feminist antimilitarist peace organization founded 1991 and based in Belgrade to promote activities (protests, performances, campaigns) against militarism, war, sexism, nationalism, fascism etc. 4 issues (#1, #2, #3-4) of the magazine Žene protiv rata ("Women against War") were published in 1994/95; the organization has also published nine compilations of Žene za mir ("Women for Peace") between 1993-2002 presenting women's testimonies on war and women's resistance to war, primarily in the area of the former Yugoslavia as well as throughout the world. In 2012 another issue of Žene za mir was published and can get downloaded as pdf-file from their website

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Woman Plus.../Женщина Плюс… (Magazine, 1994 - 2004)

Location

Moscow
Russia
55° 45' 4.4712" N, 37° 37' 6.3192" E

Info:
Woman Plus…/Женщина Плюс… was a bilingual magazine by the Russian NGO East-West: ZiHP published between 1994 and 2004; all articles can be read on the website! Emphasis on feminist news, situation of women in Russia and worldwide, equality, women's rights, feminist theory/history, feminist activism, women's movement, violence, women and war, health/body/reproductive rights, culture, stereotypes/sexism, but the magazine also contained a ressource page "Internet for Women" with lot of links from Women's organisations, groups, etc.; East-West: ZiHP also published the web portal OWL - Open Women Line

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NEWW - Network of East-West Women / NEWW Polska (Network, E-Zine)

Location

Gdánsk
Poland
54° 21' 7.29" N, 18° 38' 47.8968" E

Info:
"Founded in 1991 NEWW is an international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange, and activism among those concerned about the status of women in Central and Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States, and the Russian Federation (members in over 30 countries). NEWW coordinates research and advocacy that supports women's equality and full participation in all aspects of public and private life. (...) NEWW connects women's advocates in who work in partnership to promote women's rights and to strengthen women's role within civil society. NEWW members represent all strata of society - human rights activists, writers, students, journalists, lawyers, parliamentarians, professors, artists, union organizers, health care workers and feminist activists." The Polish NEWW Polska was founded in 1999 and since 2004 has been running the International Secretariat of the whole NEWW network and is responsable for running this bilingual news portal and two listservers; emphasis on women's and human rights, equality, violence against women, feminist regional/European/international news; => lot of links to members of the NEWW network and to other organisations!!!

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Lysistrata's Path - Путь Лисистраты (E-Zine)

Location

Russia

Info:
Russian radical feminist information portal with an emphasis on radical feminist theory, lesbian culture, lgbtq, feminist news, culture, violence and power, politics, feminist activism, news etc. The website also provides a kind of ressource page that announces, presents and links to other feminist groups, websites and material about feminism on the www (especially Russian sites/feminist movement in Russia) and also provides a forum and a gallery (both accessible only as registered user) => lot of links!!!

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Svobodna - свободна (Blog & zine)

Location

Ukraine

Info:
blog of an Ukrainian anarcha-feminist collective; emphasis on feminist theory, activism, protest, discrimination, stereotypes, lgbtq, homophobia, anarcha-feminism, women's rights, equality, anti-capitalism, violence, sexism (in media, advertising, everyday life, but also in anarchist/activist movements), body politics (abortion, reproductive rights), feminist comics/flyers/stickers/visual material, DIY, arts, etc. They work a lot with feminist/lgbtq/anti-homophobia visual material/comics, distributing it in the DIY section of their blog. In 2010 they have published a special issue print zine dealing with the problem of power structures, domination, sexism and violence in activism and especially in the anarchist movement, but also including a section about feminist self-defense.

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