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Call: Davis Feminist Film Festival 2013 (Deadline: Dec 15, 2012)

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The Consortium for Women and Research is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Davis Feminist Film Festival!

The Davis Feminist Film Festival welcomes films from professionals, students, and community members locally, nationally, and internationally. People underrepresented in the media field are especially encouraged to submit a film for consideration.

The Davis Feminist Film Festival is a short film festival. Films must be shorter than 35 minutes in length.

Films submitted to the festival for consideration must meet at least two of the following criteria:

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Art
Class
Global affairs & transnationalism
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
Sex and sexualities
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London Feminist Film Festival 2012 (London, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2012)

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Hackney Picturehouse
270, Mare Street
London, E8 1HE
United Kingdom
51° 32' 39.8112" N, 0° 3' 19.3788" W

The London Feminist Film Festival celebrates feminist films past and present. The first festival is 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2012.

The festival was set up as a response to the underrepresentation of women in the film industry, as well as to the lack of films addressing feminist issues and the fact that the representation of women on screen is often narrow and stereotypical.

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Ladyfest Zagreb 2012 - Vox Feminae

Location

Kino EuropaZagreb
Croatia

The 6th Vox Feminae Festival takes place in Zagreb from Nov 21st to Nov 24th 2012

Šesto izdanje Vox Feminae Festivala održati će se od 21. do 24. studenog u Kinu Europa u Zagrebu.

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Open call: Queer WebComicKollektiv

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Open call for a queer WebComicKollektiv by Anna Heger (please refer to contact info below):
Ich suche für ein WebComicKollektiv queere Menschen. Ich will im Internet mit Leuten aus meinen Szenen zusammenarbeiten. Ich bin queer + bi + poly + feministisch auf dem Trans*spektrum.

Für alle die Lust haben beim queeren WebComicKollektiv mitzumachen. Ich will mehr deutschsprachige WebComics abseits des Mainstream lesen.

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Comics
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Art
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Queer feminism
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WebComicKollektiv (Webcomics)

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Germany

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The queer WebComicKollektiv was initiated by German comic artist Anna Heger and since October 2012 publishes every month a new issue based on a specific theme (Oct 2012: Langsamkeit/slowness, Nov 2012: Theory) and linking together contributions by various comic artists. There is a permanent open call for contributions and the collective wants to promote German speaking queer and alternative Comic writing.

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MiniComics

Location

Kunst- und Textwerk
Ligsalzstraße 13
Munich, 80339
Germany
48° 8' 13.848" N, 11° 32' 32.3664" E

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Munich based comic artist Anna Heger is publishing her MiniComics (5x5cm²) since 2010. So far 15 MiniComics have been published, some in German and English versions, and all of them can be read on Anna's blog. The comics deal with more personal issues and other stories, (queer-feminist) theory, LGBT and queer issues, critique of gender binarism, stereotypes and heteronormativity, comic writing, etc. In 2012 Anna Heger also initiated the WebComicKollektiv.

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Anguane - Collettivo AnarcoQueer EcoVegFemminista

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Anguane – Collettivo queer ecovegfemminista
per la liberazione animale umana e altro-da-umana
per la liberazione dal dominio sui corpi e sulle menti
per la liberazione dall’andro-antropocentrismo patriarcale
per la liberazione totale

Spunti che proponiamo per la riflessione sono:
le pratiche e le teorie politiche queer-ecovegfemministe
lo scambio e la condivisione di saperi tra movimenti
l’affrancamento dalle logiche patriarcali di dominio e sfruttamento
la promozione di incontri, dibattiti, eventi, progetti
il mutuo sostegno e supporto alle lotte di liberazione

Type of project: 
Blog & Web 2.0
E-Zine
Event
Workshop
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Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Do-It-Yourself
Environment & animal rights
Gender studies
Human rights
LGBT and queer issues
Political participation
Queer feminism
Sustainable development
Women's Liberation Movement
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ecovegfeminism
LGBTQI
antispeciesism
animalism
anarcoqueer
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Medusa zine + lookism.info (zine + website)

Location

Germany

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Medusa is a zine by Projekt L, a collective/group fighting lookism and also maintaining their info website lookism.info; emphasis on body images and beauty norms / myths, (anti)lookism, representation of women, queer perspectives, sexism, etc. two zines have been published so far, they contain texts published on the lookism.info website as well as comics, illustrations, art works, etc. and can get downloaded from the website

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Zum Selbstverstaendniss von “Medusa” hier ein Text aus dem ersten Zine:

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Agenda de Mujeres (Magazine/Yearbook)

Location

Córdoba
Spain
37° 53' 5.0028" N, 4° 46' 44.8572" W

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The Andalusian Plataforma Andaluza De Apoyo Al Lobby Europeo De Mujeres publishes this magazine/yearbook once every year since 1998, providing a space to think about and discuss the most pressing issues concerning women's rights, the situation of women worldwide, questions of equality and of a free and fair society. Every issue is based on a specific topic, including education, religion, lesbian activism, migration, equality, arts and culture, politics etc. Since 2007 the platform also has been publishing another magazine: Ciudadanas del Mundo

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lambda nordica (Journal)

Location

Huddinge
Sweden
59° 14' 10.788" N, 17° 58' 55.7616" E

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lambda nordica is a Nordic scientific peer-reviewed journal presenting research in Humanities and Social Sciences with relation to LGBT and Queer Studies. We strive to support the dialogue between established and younger scholars to inspire to more LGBT research in the Nordic area and support the initiative to new research areas in the field. The journal also introduces and reviews international LGBT literature.

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