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Projects

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Join the femmepop revolution

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Music
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Do-It-Yourself
Pop culture
Representation of women
Riot Grrrl
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FEL: Feministisch en Links

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FEL is a grassroots feminist action and education/discussion group based in the Belgian city Gent. In 2009 FEL grew out of FAB (Feministische ActieBende), a feminist collective that doesn't exist anymore. FEL means Feministisch En Links: feminist and left.

FEL is a group of enthusiastic feminists who work on several themes. We take action (for example Take Back The Night), write editorial letters, give workshops and lectures and we have a reading group.

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Group/Network
Topic: 
Activism
Education
Networking & community building
Representation of women
Sexual violence
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Global Sister Networking Site

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GlobalSister.org, a project of The Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI), is a global communications network and unique online social networking space, enabling women and organizations to advance issues from a local platform to a global stage.

GlobalSister.org is…

- A virtual “women’s center” for women and women’s organizations to meet, organize, discuss, coordinate, and mobilize.
- An online learning and communications environment for women’s organizations to share and teach social organizing tools and techniques without boundaries of time, space, and location.

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Blog & Web 2.0
Group/Network
Topic: 
Activism
Global affairs & transnationalism
Networking & community building
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Breaking the Waves: Cardiff Feminist Festival

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“Breaking the Waves” is a grassroots, non-profit, innovative festival exploring diverse expressions of feminism through a vibrant weekend-long programme of events in Cardiff, including speakers, arts, music, discussions, and loads more!

The festival will take place in March 2011 as part of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. It will be open to all and will stimulate intergenerational dialogue between all who are, or have been, working towards gender equality.

With an ethos of empowerment, inclusion and innovation, we hope to break down perceived or real generational divides, build supportive networks for future anti-sexist work in Cardiff, and ultimately seek new ways of defining what it means to be a feminist today.

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Festival
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Older woman
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NOC WALPURGII / VALPURGIS NIGHT FESTIVAL

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Noc Walpurgii festival started in 1996 in Warsaw, Poland and is organized every two years.

It's a pioneering event in Poland taking struggle against sexism and homophobia and promoting girl-fronted bands and activities.

These issues are often not taken seriously inside of the punk, DIY or antifascist scenes and we felt the importance to show that most forms of discrimination like racism, sexism, homophobia are linked and that fighting against these forms of oppression is basic for antifascist, leftist, anarchist and hardcore/punk movements.

Type of project: 
Festival
Video & Film
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
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Art photography group show, March, London

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As part of V Day and International womens day celebrations, 6 female artists who are interested in different facets of gender in the New Players Theatre Bar. Come and see some interesting and new feminist art. A percentage of work sold will go to V Day charities.
PV Friday 5th March 6.30-8.30pm then til 20th March. The venue is open every evening til late.

1. Heather Joy Riggs

2. Pia Jamir

3. Emli Bendixen

4. Vicky Scott

5. Ingrid Berthon Moine

6. Cordelia Donohoe

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Art
Event
Exhibit
Photography
Topic: 
Art
Representation of women
Sex and sexualities
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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!

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Art
Exhibit
Music
Workshop
Topic: 
Activism
Art
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
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Hexennacht - Take Back The Night

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"Take Back The Night" is an action regularly organised by feminists to oppose violence against women. In Belgium and the Netherlands this type of action is called "Hexennacht" (= Witch Night). Often it takes place on November 25th, the international day against violence to women.

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Demonstration
Event
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Activism
Self-defense
Sexual violence
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Transnational Feminisms Conference, 4-5 December 2009, UK

Drawing on the impact of postcolonial feminism and its enactments, this conference will examine how women are affected by political systems in a global climate, how feminism translates and moves across borders, and how feminism can be utilised as a methodology for understanding the transnational context.
Here the transnational is understood to be a complication of notions of the 'elsewhere', highlighting the challenges of fluidity, movement and instability whilst also paying close attention to locatedness. This is a feminism that is engaged with the woman-as-subject without making universalising claims regarding women's experience; it both considers how gender operates and critiques categorisation.

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Conference
Event
Exhibit
Workshop
Topic: 
Global affairs & transnationalism
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WPR Books

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Women’s Parliamentary Radio, an online radio station designed to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues and female parliamentarians in the UK. www.wpradio.co.uk was founded in 2007 and currently receives up to 56,000 hits per month. Our aim is to give exclusive coverage to women’s issues in government and provides a platform for female politicians to speak free from stereotypes and the pressure of the news agenda.

Type of project: 
Art
Literature
Radio
Topic: 
Art
Gender studies
Political participation
Representation of women