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Activism (188)

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

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)

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.

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La Mestiza: Making new feminisms. An interview with Raquel from Lima, Peru.

Topic: 
Activism
LGBT and queer issues
Social Work
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Can you introduce yourself?

Interviewee: 
Raquel Andrade
Interviewer: 
Elke Zobl and Rosa Reitsamer
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FemAdLib Kolektiv (Blog)

Location

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

We are artists making feminist noise from a grass-roots level. FemAdLib is not just an exhibition, it's activism. It's creating a space for explicit political feminist art...and a challenge to all sexist, heteronormative art/artists/collectors/curators out there.

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Adhesively Unchallenged (Blog)

Location

United Kingdom

Sticker Designs for creative activism against the pornification of popular culture

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Stop the Strip Pub (Blog)

Location

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

Hello and welcome to the website/blog for the Stop The Strip Pub campaign. This is the movement to prevent Satchmo's on Stoke Newington Road (North London) being granted a license to put on strip shows.

On 8th March a group of nearly 100 local residents met outside Satchmo's to protest Satchmo's application.

On 11th April Hackney Council announced that they had received 525 written letters of objection - a new record for the borough.

We Won! On Tuesday 6th May Hackney Council rejected Satchmo's application for a Sex Encounters Establishment license.

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Penny Red (blog)

Location

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

Penny Red is...
A socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer, journalist, aspiring author, freelance copywriter and sometime blogger. She lives with toast-eating pagans in a little house somewhere in London, smoking and drinking and plotting to subtly re-arrange the world to suit her ideals. Consumes too much tea. Regrets nothing.

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Queer Female Art Show!

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Queer Grrrl Art Links

What: A zine, an art show based in Bellingham WA at the iGallery/Ground Floor in March 2010, and an ever-expanding directory of queer female artists.

Why: We need mentors! I have been searching the Internet to try to find queer female artists and come up short. We all need mentors and peers to bounce ideas off of and to enforce the notion that we do exist and we can succeed. We deserve representation!

Type of project: 
Art
Exhibit
Music
Workshop
Topic: 
Activism
Art
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
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Prepih (Blog)

Location

Slovenia

Queer, feminism, diy culture, critique, and sci-fi related writings from the entirely brilliant Tea Hvala

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Alek Ommert: The Use of Social Network Software for queer-feminist activism, using the example of Ladyfest

Location

Frankfurt
Germany
50° 6' 41.4432" N, 8° 40' 49.8216" E

This is a short version of a presentation that should have been held at the Civil Media conference 2009 in Salzburg (http://www.civilmedia.eu/). Unfortunatedly, Alek got sick and could not come but she sent this presentation and gave us permission to post it here.

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