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Networking & community building (43)

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Genres Pluriels (Blog, platform)

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Brussels
Belgium
50° 51' 1.224" N, 4° 21' 6.156" E
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Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Queer feminism
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gender_by (Blog)

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Belarusian LJ-community-blog with at the moment 179 members who all can publish articles on the blog which has an emphasis on discrimination, equality, women's rights, stereotypes, feminist news, education, relationship, body politics, violence and power, etc. the blog's moderator (petra_leleka (= Jeanne Yamaikina)) is also editor of the Belarusian e-zine Amphi

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Belarus
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Education
Grassroots media in Europe
Human rights
Networking & community building
Representation of women
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feministiki (Blog)

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Russia
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Grassroots media in Europe
Networking & community building
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Feministinn (Blog)

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blog of the Icelandic Feminist Association (Femínistafélags Íslands) which was founded in 2003 and which "is a free and independent forum with the goal to foster critical and feminist discussion in all areas of Icelandic society." most of the time the blog is publishing news about feminist events and the association's meetings/events, but also feminist news about petititions, politics, events, violence against women, gender equality, discrimination etc.

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Reykjavík
Iceland
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Grassroots media in Europe
Networking & community building
Representation of women
Sexual violence
Work and employment
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Radiorageuses (Radio)

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Blog providing podcasts of various French feminist and queer/lgbt radio shows from all over the country

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Nébuleuse des émissions radio de féministes, gouines, trans, femmes...Découvrir, écouter, rechercher nos émissions + plein d’infos, chroniques, agenda et actualités féministes...

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France
Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Queer feminism
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féminisme.ch (E-Zine)

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Swiss feminist online portal (French/ Suisse Romande) founded and maintained by Kprod, a non-profit association that develops websites for other associations and NGOs (mainly Women's and culture NGOs); the website is edited by two of their webmistresses who publish most of the entries, but also members of the site (at the moment 104) can publish directly; emphasis on equality, culture, feminist news, conferences/gender studies, politics, portraits, publication reviews, violence, sexuality, feminism and (anti)racism / international/intercultural perspectives etc.

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Geneva
Switzerland
46° 11' 54.2112" N, 6° 8' 32.2656" E
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Art
Gender studies
Global affairs & transnationalism
Grassroots media in Europe
Networking & community building
Sex and sexualities
Sexual violence
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Femminismo a Sud (Blog)

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self-definition: anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-specist collective blog; emphasis on discrimination/sexism/racism/machism, violence against women, sexism/anti-feminism on the internet (cyberstalking etc.), especially on facebook, activism, anti-racism/anti-fascism, migration, reproductive rights, homo/transphobia etc.; although they are very critical about facebook and other social media, there exists a support group which runs a Femminismo a Sud facebook-group; lot of links!

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Italy
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Activism
Anti-Imperialism
Grassroots media in Europe
Internet & digital divide
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
Reproductive rights
Sexual violence
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feminism_ua - Фемінізм_уа (LJ-community blog)

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Ukrainian LJ-community blog with at the moment over 500 members (moderator: maryxmas); the blog covers a wide range of topics with an emphasis on feminist news, women's/human rights and equality, reproductive rights, feminism/gender studies/queer issues, culture, violence and power: "This community is for discussions on feminism, gender studies, and the struggle for equal rights for women and men. " Also provides lots of links to Ukrainian, Russian and international feminist blogs and LJ-communities.

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Kiev
Ukraine
50° 27' 0.36" N, 30° 31' 24.24" E
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Grassroots media in Europe
Human rights
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Reproductive rights
Sexual violence
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Osez le féminisme! (Newspaper)

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France
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Activism
Grassroots media in Europe
Networking & community building
Sex and sexualities
Women's Liberation Movement
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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

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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?

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Carla Cruz
Interviewer: 
Stefanie Grünangerl