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Global Sister Networking Site

Submitted by redchidgey on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 10:59

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GlobalSister.org, a project of The Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI), is a global communications network and unique online social networking space, enabling women and organizations to advance issues from a local platform to a global stage.

GlobalSister.org is…

- A virtual “women’s center” for women and women’s organizations to meet, organize, discuss, coordinate, and mobilize.
- An online learning and communications environment for women’s organizations to share and teach social organizing tools and techniques without boundaries of time, space, and location.

Type of project:

Blog & Web 2.0

Group/Network

Topic:

Activism

Global affairs & transnationalism

Networking & community building

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Breaking the Waves: Cardiff Feminist Festival

Submitted by redchidgey on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 09:28

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“Breaking the Waves” is a grassroots, non-profit, innovative festival exploring diverse expressions of feminism through a vibrant weekend-long programme of events in Cardiff, including speakers, arts, music, discussions, and loads more!

The festival will take place in March 2011 as part of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. It will be open to all and will stimulate intergenerational dialogue between all who are, or have been, working towards gender equality.

With an ethos of empowerment, inclusion and innovation, we hope to break down perceived or real generational divides, build supportive networks for future anti-sexist work in Cardiff, and ultimately seek new ways of defining what it means to be a feminist today.

Type of project:

Festival

Topic:

Girls and young women

Older woman

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NOC WALPURGII / VALPURGIS NIGHT FESTIVAL

Submitted by redchidgey on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 08:34

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Noc Walpurgii festival started in 1996 in Warsaw, Poland and is organized every two years.

It's a pioneering event in Poland taking struggle against sexism and homophobia and promoting girl-fronted bands and activities.

These issues are often not taken seriously inside of the punk, DIY or antifascist scenes and we felt the importance to show that most forms of discrimination like racism, sexism, homophobia are linked and that fighting against these forms of oppression is basic for antifascist, leftist, anarchist and hardcore/punk movements.

Type of project:

Festival

Video & Film

Topic:

Do-It-Yourself

Grassroots media in Europe

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New essay on Eva & Co, feminist mag from Austria

Submitted by redchidgey on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 15:47

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Eva and Co magazine, launched in 1982, was a successful femininist magazine from Austria which combined theory, strategy, and creativity to promote the work of contemporary women artists and activists.

When the magazine disbanded in 1992, the magazine team wrote a manifesto of continued promise: “We will infiltrate everything! We will go underground and to the sky. And be warned: in the future we will camouflage ourselves.”

Read Eva Ursprung's first person history of the magazine and its exploits.

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“No Rent-A-Feminist”: An interview with Catherine Redfern from The F-Word (UK)

Submitted by redchidgey on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 10:28

Topic:

Activism

Girls and young women

Grassroots media in Europe

Internet & digital divide

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The F-Word: Contemporary UK Feminism is a phenomenally successful e-zine that has helped rejuvenate feminist networking in Britain and further afield. Red talked to founder Catherine Redfern about the site's history, emerging forms of feminist activism, and her exciting new book Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement, co-written with Kristin Aune (Zed Books, 2010).

Interviewee:

Catherine Redfern

Interviewer:

Red Chidgey

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Reclaiming the F Word (Book)

Submitted by redchidgey on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 16:57

Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

London

United Kingdom

51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

In today's 'post-feminist' society, women and men are considered equal. For younger women and men, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the beginning of the new millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions and assert a vibrant new agenda. This groundbreaking book reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women's lives in today's society.