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About this project

Grassroots Feminism: Building a transnational community towards participatory culture and civic engagement

The preconception of youth, and in particular of girls and young women, as culturally unproductive and as passive consumers of mass culture and media is still very much ingrained today. However, girls and young women are capable cultural producers who create a wide variety of their own films, music, media, and festivals. To gain insight into and to document the cultural spaces girls and young women create and the meaning they have, it is vital to look closely at their own cultural spaces - and not only at media produced for them (which is done more frequently).

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Young women as creators of new cultural spaces

Hertha-Firnberg Stipendium (funded by the Austrian Science Fund / gefördert vom Fonds für wissenschaftliche Forschung / FWF)
Project coordinator: Dr. Elke Zobl
2007-2011

A new phenomenon in female youth culture is the immense growth of non-profit, community-based, queer-feminist festivals created by young women that showcase and encourage the artistic, organizational and political work of women, so called “Ladyfests”. Originating in Olympia (USA) in 2000, these Ladyfests have spread across the globe: In the past ten years (2000-2010) 263 Ladyfests have taken place in 34 countries.

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Feminist Media Production in Europe

Stand-alone Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
2008-2011
Dr. Elke Zobl (Project coordinator)
Dr. Rosa Reitsamer (Postdoc, 2009–2011),
Red Chidgey, MA (2008–2010)
Dr. Jenny Gunnarsson-Payne (2008–2009)
Mag. Stefanie Grünangerl (2010–2011) (student assistant)

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Fair Use Info

Grassroots Feminism subscribes (like The Queer Zine Archive Project http://www.qzap.org) to the belief that what we do as archivists constitutes "Fair Use" under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107:

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About us: Rosa Reitsamer

holds PhD in sociology and a post-doctoral scholarship at the University Salzburg, Department of Communication. She is currently working at the research project “Feminist Media Production in Europe”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. She is co-founder of the digital archive http://www.digmeout.org Discourses on Popular Music, Gender and Ethnicity (together with Maria José Belbel) and co-editor of the anthologies Female Consequences.

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Course: Women Getting Crafty

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Women Getting Crafty: Zur Reevaluierung feminin codierter Handarbeit in gegenkulturellen Kunstkontexten
A Weblog in relation to the university course (lecture) “Women Getting Crafty: Zur Reevaluierung feminin codierter Handarbeit in gegenkulturellen Kunstkontexten”.
Lecturer: Mag.a Sonja Eismann und Dr.in Elke Zobl
Wintersemester 2007/2008
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Institut für Künstlerisches Lehramt, Vienna, Austria
http://womengettingcrafty.wordpress.com/

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Start of Project: Feminist Grassroots Media in Europe (12/2008-11/2010)

Feminist Media. Who makes them? Where can you find them? In what forms and shapes do they come? What do they mean for the people who are involved in producing them? What significance do they have for feminist communities and movements? These are just a few of the questions we are trying to find answers to in our research project Feminist Media Production in Europe. The research project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and will run over a two year period (2009-2010).

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Event: Neues aus der dritten Frauenbewegung: Kunst, Medien und Aktivismus der neuen Frauen-Generation

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Series of events and workshops in Salzburg, Austria, organized by Elke Zobl and Sonja Eismann
http://thirdwavefeminism.wordpress.com/
October - December 2008

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Book: Craftista - Handarbeit als Aktivismus

"Craftista - Handarbeit als Aktivismus"
Praxis trifft Theorie - Die Renaissance der Crafts-Bewegung

Edited by the Critical Crafting Collective (in German)
in progress
www.criticalcraftingcircle.net

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Online archive: www.grrrlzines.net

Grrrl Zine Network - A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects: www.grrrlzines.net/
maintained by Elke Zobl since 2001