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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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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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Craftista! Handarbeit als Aktivismus.
Hrsg. Critical Crafting Circle - Elke Gaugele, Sonja Eismann, Verena Kuni & Elke Zobl
Mainz: Ventil-Verlag, 2011
ISBN 978-3-931555-60-3
254 S., durchgängig illustriert

Das Buch umfasst drei Hauptteile:
I Historische Wurzeln
II Intersektionen von Handarbeit, Kunst und Mode-Design
III Radical Crafting, DIY Aktivismus & Gender Politiken.

Es enthält Originalbeiträge von TheorerikerInnen, KünstlerInnen, DesignerInnen und AktivistInnen in Text(en) und Bild(ern).

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

How do I register?
Simply go to „register“ and put in your username and password. Please consider the username you choose, as this will be the name displayed to the community. Please provide us also with information where you live, as this will be automatically entered into google maps and we can see where everyone comes from. It would also be great if you provide an image of you (however you like it to be)!

Why should I register?

Red Chidgey is Lecturer in Gender and Media at King's College London. Her doctoral work, "Feminist Assemblages in the UK: Media, Memory and Archives" (2013, London South Bank University), examined the production of usable feminist pasts across recent sites of protest, heritage and citizenship discourses in the UK. She has published extensively on issues of feminist activism, grassroots media and digital memory, and was part of the research team "Feminist Media Production in Europe" based at the University of Salzburg between 2008 and 2010.

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Elke Zobl, Austria, created the Grrrl Zine Network - A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines, distros and DIY projects (www.grrrlzines.net) in 2001. The web site currently lists around 2000 zines from 43 countries. The Grrrl Zine Network site hosts information on zine distros, comics, magazines, connected organizations, resources and writings on zines; Zobl has also conducted more than 100 interviews with feminist zine editors and distributors in 34 countries.

The site is organized and maintained by Elke Zobl from Salzburg, Austria, in collaboration with Rosa Reitsamer, Austria, Stefanie Grünangerl, Austria, and Red Chidgey, England.

CREDIT IMAGES:
Header images "Reclaim" and "Read" from Nikki McClure (www.nikkimcclure.com). Used with permission. Copyright Nikki McClure.
Thanks a lot, Nikki!

DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING:
Design by Ingrid Sapp, Salzburg, Austria. http://sapp.at
Programming by www.roiders.net: Gerhard and Herbert Roider, Salzburg, Austria

FUNDING:

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:

Elke Zobl:
elke [dot] zoblsbg [dot] ac [dot] at
University of Salzburg, Austria
Department of Communication
Tel: +43 662 8044 2372

Roswitha Gabriel:
roswitha [dot] gabrielsbg [dot] ac [dot] at
University of Salzburg, Austria