Race & ethnicity

This three-day festival invites to explore different queer activist struggles and strategies, and to think about what kind of alliances can be built around them. The festival is based on an idea that queer struggles and experiences always have to be seen not only as related to sexuality, oppression based on sexual orientation and gender, but also to other categories, such as race, class, ethnic background etc. that affect queer lives. In their own turn, these categories mark the lives of people that do not necessarily identify as or affiliate with the notion of queerness.

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Slut was (?) a Swedish cultural magazine based on feminist and postcolonial critique and with an emphasis on ethnicity, racism, anti-semitism, whiteness, postcolonial and feminist perspectives, intersectionality, politics, etc.; two issues were published: #1 (2006), # 2 (2008). Unfortunately their website doesn't work anylonger

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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

The Antifee Festival 2012 took place in Göttingen (Germany) from 15 - 16 June 2012

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The Antifee Festival 2009 took place in Göttingen (Germany) from 4 - 5 June 2009

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Das Antifee-Festival soll ein sicht- und hörbares Signal gegen die sexistischen und nationalistischen Tendenzen sein, die sich in der Gesellschaft zunehmend breit machen. Es soll ein Raum geschaffen werden, der möglichst frei von diesen und anderen Herrschaftsmechanismen ist. Dazu sollen politische Inhalte musikalisch und in Form von Workshops und Vorträgen vermittelt werden.

Für ein Festival ohne Sexismus und Mackerattitüde!