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“A Badass Veiled Girl”: E-mail Interview with Guerrilla Artist Princess Hijab

Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Migration & border issues
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Jenny Gunnarsson Payne: For how long have ‘Princess Hijab’ been around? How and why did the project start?

Princess Hijab: I created a personality in 2006. She is the synthesis of my own maturation, work, and introspection. I started doing collage, drawing, video, and fashion design, all of which were gradually absorbed by Princess, a veiled young girl, pure by day and wicked by night.

JGP: What are the main aims of your project? What are you hoping to achieve?

Interviewee: 
Princess Hijab
Interviewer: 
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
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Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada. Magazine & Website

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Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism. Rooted in a variety of social movements, we are anti-capitalists, radical feminists, anti-racists, queer and trans- liberationists, and anti-imperialists working to build resistance and alternatives to corporate power and empire.

Type of project: 
E-Zine
Magazine
Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Global affairs & transnationalism
type=digital_archives

Kruh & Ruze ("Bread & Roses", Magazine)

Location

Ženska infoteka
Varšavska 16
Zagreb , I 10000
Croatia

WOMEN'S INFOTEKA (ŽENSKA INFOTEKA) is women's information and documentation center founded in Zagreb in December 1992 as the first of the sort in Croatia and Eastern Europe. The basic activities are:

* Collecting and disseminating data and information
* A lending service Library
* Publishing (books and the magazine "Bread and Roses" ("Kruh i ruže")
* Organizing of training seminars and international conferences
* Conducting researches and providing help in researches

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Princess Hijab: Hijabizing Advertising

Location

France

Princess Hijab, born in 1988, is an unseen character. The young artist behind her wishes to remain anonymous. Since 2006, the Princess, who has begun a movement (Hijabism) based on the subverting of advertisements (Hijabizing) veils faces on billboards using a black marker pen.The black hijab encompasses every existing form of distinction. PH also operates on the Internet by creating animated gifs.
She initiated the hijab_ad collective.

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Race, Privilege & Identity Gathering, 24-26th April 2009 in Bristol, UK

Race, privilege and identity is a gathering taking place in Bristol, UK, 24-26th April 2009.

To contact us to get involved please email: raceprivilegeidentityatriseup [dot] net

Its aim is to engage with issues of race, privilege and identity in radical queer-feminist communities through building dialogue, coalitions and resources.

Type of project: 
Event
Topic: 
Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
type=digital_archives

Outwrite (Newspaper, 1982-1988)

Location

United Kingdom

Outwrite newspaper, produced by a collective of women throughout the 1980s, was dedicated to offering news by women, for women. Self-defined as an ‘internationlist feminist’ publication, the paper focused on ‘the development of feminism worldwide’ and an examination of women’s oppressions ‘in the context of imperialism, racism and class divisions.’

Liberation struggles in El Salvador, South Africa and Palestine, as well
as local campaigns including those of the Southall Black Sisters, Sari
Squad and the King’s Cross Women’s Centre were regularly featured in Outwrite’s monthly reports.

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Make/Shift Magazine

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Make/shift magazine creates and documents contemporary feminist culture and action by publishing journalism, critical analysis, and visual and text art. Made by an editorial collective committed to antiracist, transnational, and queer perspectives, make/shift embraces the multiple and shifting identities of feminist communities. We know there’s exciting work being done in various spaces and forms by people seriously and playfully resisting and creating alternatives to systematic oppression. Make/shift exists to represent, participate in, critique, provoke, and inspire more of that good work.

Type of project: 
Magazine
Topic: 
Anti-Imperialism
Activism
Alternative economies
Class
Do-It-Yourself
Global affairs & transnationalism
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Networking & community building
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
Art
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Outwrite History Project

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WANT TO WORK ON AN EXHIBITION OF 1980s RADICAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST MEDIA??!! Outwrite newspaper, produced by a collective of women throughout the 1980s, was dedicated to offering news by women, for women. Self-defined as an ‘internationlist feminist’ publication, the paper focused on ‘the development of feminism worldwide’ and an examination of women’s oppressions ‘in the context of imperialism, racism and class divisions.’ The goal of this exhibition is to bring Outwrite’s politics alive in the present, to reflect on its struggles and successes with the aim of igniting future possibilities.

Type of project: 
Exhibit
Topic: 
Anti-Imperialism
Activism
Class
Global affairs & transnationalism
Grassroots media in Europe
History & memory
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Poverty
Race & ethnicity
Sexual violence
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