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“Ladyfest is something anyone can do”. An email interview with Nina from Hasselt, Belgium.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
Riot Grrrl
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Nina is a prolific DIY creator, making zines, illustration, and music. Here she talks about Ladyfest as a temporary community and a much-needed place to renew your energy and creativity.

Interviewee: 
Nina, Ladyfest Belgium organizer
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Ladyfest as a ‘now’ kind of action”. An email interview with Melanie Maddison from Leeds, UK.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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The ever wonderful, and busy, Melanie chats about finding your allies, accessing your creativity, and whether Ladyfest needs to start getting political again.

Interviewee: 
Melanie Maddison
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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"New Kids on the Block: Performing as a Boy Band at Ladyfest". An interview with Tina and Melita at Ladyfest Amsterdam

Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
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Ladyfest is a festival mainly by women, for women. And sometimes those women come as boys. Hark the wonder of New Kids on the Block at Ladyfest Amsterdam 2008. Tina and Melita discuss queer feminism, DIY, and looking hot in leather jackets.

Interviewee: 
Tina & Melita
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Debi Withers
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“Ladyfest: The ideas we want in a festival”. An interview with Fege from Pavia, Italy.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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Fege talks about the real meaning of girl power in this day and age.

Interviewee: 
Fege, Ladyfest Pavia organizer
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Debi Withers
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“Ladyfest: I need to feel friction in the activism I do”. An email interview with Debi from Bristol, UK

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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Debi, from the self-identified 'post-ladyfest' band Drunk Granny, discusses activist home-comings, the need for feminist space, and the problem of nostalgic tendencies in Ladyfest organizing.

Interviewee: 
debi, Ladyfest Cardiff organiser
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Ladyfest: Sisters instead of rivals”: An email interview with Carr from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Topic: 
Ladyfest
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Carr, a punk rock musician, discusses gender-free feminism, creative empowerment, and creating a culture of helping each other out.

Interviewee: 
Carr
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl
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Street Medics Guide: First Aid & Trauma Information

Street Medics Guide: First Aid & Trauma Information

Topic: 
Activism
Health
type=project

The Riot Grrrl Portrait Collection

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I have always felt that Riot Grrrl is a movement that offers a platform for women to express themselves in any way they feel necessary. This project offers a unique insight into an underground feminist subculture, showing the dedicated and creative people within it. I shall be photographing and collecting Portraits of people who feel they have been inspired or moved by Riot Grrrl, through the internet community and various photo booths which I will be setting up at feminist events over Britain.

Type of project: 
Photography
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Riot Grrrl
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Documentary: Abortion Democracy Poland/South Africa

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This documentary feature explores and contrasts changes in Poland and South Africa regarding abortion laws and their impact on the lives of women. Please contact the film maker if you can arrange a screening.

Type of project: 
Video & Film
Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
Reproductive rights
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Dandizette: a pulp magazine for media perverts

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Dandizette is an online gazette about deviant media in all its forms. We celebrate unique and independent contributions to an increasingly saturated and standardized media world. This includes old and new media alike, but we revel in the trouble-making potential of new media technologies and their — dare we say? — democratising nature.

Type of project: 
Blog & Web 2.0
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues