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Sheba Feminist Publishers (1980-1994)

Location

United Kingdom

ABOUT SHEBA FEMINIST PRESS

Sheba Feminist Press was established in 1980 -- one of a handful
of small independent publishers born of the UK women's movement
during the 70s and early 80s. The new feminist presses turned
their backs on the high-modernist clique then firmly in control
of the British book scene, and looked instead at what that world
literally couldn't see: the writing of women who hadn't been to
Oxford or Cambridge, and who weren't necessarily white or
heterosexual or middle-class, and who didn't speak with the
polished vowels of Bloomsbury. The new

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Feminist Review (Journal)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for feminism. Feminist Review invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations. The FR Collective is committed to exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships.

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Speak Out (Newsletter, 1976-?)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

"Set up in summer '76 to express the collective's political views. They hope that the newsletter will come out every 2 months. Circulation: 500, and it is available to everyone. Exists through donations from members and others and all the collective (Brixton Black Women's Group) work on the paper. Closed collective. Aim to policise black women. Invite contributions from women only. Marxist-leninist perspective".

- Information from the "Directory of Women's Liberation Newletters, Magazines, Journals...", by Dena and Shaila (York, UK), c.1978

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Black/Brown Women's Liberation Newsletter (1978?-?)

Location

York
United Kingdom
53° 57' 27.7272" N, 1° 4' 56.2296" W

"Just starting, so first issue not out yet. To combat white supremacy in the WLM and create a space for what black and brown sisters have to say about our lives, experiences, our feminism, etc. Articles, poetry etc invited from black and brown women only. Newsletter available to all women only."

- Information from the "Directory of Women's Liberation Newletters, Magazines, Journals...", by Dena and Shaila (York, UK), c.1978

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dig me out: discourses on popular music, gender and ethnicity (CD Rom and online archive)

Location

San Sebastian
Spain
43° 19' 14.61" N, 1° 59' 4.0164" W

A DVD-publication edited my María José Belbel and Rosa Reitsamer, funded by Arteleku (Diputación de Gipuzkoa, Donostia/San Sebastian, Basque Country)

Popular music expresses our deepest wishes and political flights, our imaginary bright sides of life. It is a token of love, of post/adolescent wishes, of possible sexualities and genders. It's functions as a field of research and as a ground for feminist and anti-racist networking.

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Wir Frauen (Magazine)

Location

Düsseldorf
Germany
51° 13' 29.7948" N, 6° 46' 32.3472" E

Wir Frauen, a volunteer produced magazine, represents more than 25 years the same questions: Who benefits from the relationships? Who creates the conditions? Who pays the price? How can women resist, here and elsewhere? Where and how can they realize their ideas and concepts of life, their rights to self-determination and participation?

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Towards an anti-racist feminism (pamphlet)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W
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Critical Whiteness: Books, Articles, Websites

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Books
Robert Young, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West . London: Routledge, 1990.

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History . London:Verso, 1992.

Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

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Anti-Racist Feminisms: Books, Articles, Websites

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Books
bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1981.

Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race and Class . New York: Random House, 1981.

Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua (first published in 1981), This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women on Colour . 3rd ed. Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press, 2002.

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FUL (Magazine, Radio)

Location

Ful
Birger Jarlsgatan 18 A, 4 tr c/o Nya Kontoret
Stockholm, 114 34
Sweden

The queer feminist magazine Femkul (since 2004) was re-launched under the new name FUL the 24th of April 2008. Important aims are to promote the work of contemporary women artists and activists, as well as building up networks between women artists in local and international contexts.

In 2009 FUL_ launched FULRADIO, a montly pod radio programme including readings, interviews, drama, debates, sound art and more.

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