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November 2011

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“Ou Antes, o que Podem as Palavras? / Or Rather, What Can Words Do?” An interview with Carla Cruz, founder of All My Independent Women, on the occasion of the AMIW@VBKÖ exhibition in Vienna that still runs until Dec 3rd

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 13:25
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Art
Grassroots media in Europe
Networking & community building
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Photo: "Open Source Embroidery" a project by Ele Carpenter, with Carla in the left foreground; taken by Catarina Miranda

First of all, could you just introduce yourself shortly? And could you also present your project All My Independent Women (AMIW) a little bit? So what was the initial idea and how was the formation process?

Interviewee: 
Carla Cruz
Interviewer: 
Stefanie Grünangerl 
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womeninmuseum (Network)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 12:53
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The network womeninmuseum is a loose union of Women’s Museums, initiatives and museums dedicated to women.

Type of project: 
Group/Network
Topic: 
Education
History & memory
Women's Liberation Movement 
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Gender Museum - Museum of history of feminist and gender movement (Kharkiv, Ukraine)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 12:36
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The museum of women's history and history of women's and gender movement is the first and only one in Ukraine. The goal of its informational and educational activities is to attract attention of broad sections of the public to women's and gender problems; to facilitate the strengthening of cultural connections between Ukraine and other countries and the consolidation of an international women's movement.

We invite you to visit the exhibition of the museum. Thanks to these exhibitions you will be able to feel how gender construction is realized in society.

Type of project: 
Exhibit
Topic: 
Education
History & memory
Sexual violence
Women's Liberation Movement 
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Feminisn'ts - Я не феминистка, но… (Feminisn'ts - I'm not a feminist, but…) (Blog)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 02:30
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Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

Russia

Info:
blog of the Russian journalist and feminist Natasha Bitten who is also a co-founder and very active in the feminist collecitve Za feminizm!
blogs emphasis on discrimination, sexism, women's rights and human rights especially in Russia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet States, equality, violence against women, history/theory of feminism, feminist news, international news on the situation of women, women artists, culture, etc.

Statement:

Путеводитель по феминизму для "плохих" девочек

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Women Artists, Feminism in the 80s and Now

Submitted by Carla Cruz on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 17:52
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Saturday 3 December
Goldsmiths University, Ben Pimlott Building, 10am-5pm

The symposium is collaboration between The Women’s Art Library and BAG Women (Brixton Art Gallery women artists group) to coincide with Brixton Calling! exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning (28 October – 21 December 2012).

Women Artists, Feminism in the 80s and Now is a cross generational symposium that examines the legacy of UK 80s women artists and feminists in the light of current feminist practice and thinking.

Type of project: 
Art
Event
Topic: 
Art
Education
Gender studies
Queer feminism
Representation of women 
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New website for international feminist art journal n.paradoxa

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 01:51
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n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal announces its new dynamic website: http://www.ktpress.co.uk

The new website offers an exciting portal/platform for research on feminism and contemporary art in the last 40 years as well as presenting the journal's history over the last 14 years. Book reviews and editorials are now available online.

In its 14 year history, the journal has published the work of over 300 writers from more than 50 countries around the world.

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n.paradoxa (Journal, E-Zine (1996-2010), Database)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 01:44
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Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

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

n.paradoxa began as an online journal in December 1996 (ISSN:1462-0426). The online version continued simultaneously with the print journal for more than 10 years with entirely separate content from the print journal. In the archive section you can read the 21 issues that were published online between 1996-2010.

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web engineering: www.roider.at