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BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST COMMUNITY TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: This is our aim! To do so, please upload your projects, interviews you have done, resources you find interesting and join the grassroots feminist community! If you have questions, please email me (Elke Zobl) at elke.zobl(at)sbg.ac.at.
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"Taking up Deserved Space". An email interview with MissTer Scratch from London, UK

Submitted by redchidgey on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 16:39
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Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
Race & ethnicity
Sex and sexualities
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This is not a zine; it is an important gender minority document.

Masculine Femininity is stories, poetry, images and all those things that don’t get discussed; all those gender minorities that do not get enough recognition, visibility or representation. It comprises of people of colour, trans femme boys, faggy butches, masculine females, feminine males, trans male drag queens, gender variants, andogynes, femmes, masculine and feminine people of all genders and then some!

- Misster Scratch, editor of Masculine Femininity

Interviewee: 
MissTer Scatch, zine editor
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl 
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"Fake it till you make it". An email interview with Karolina Bång from Malmö, Sweden

Submitted by redchidgey on Mon, 02/23/2009 - 10:39
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Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
Queer feminism
Sex and sexualities
Zine
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"I work a lot with reclaiming sexuality - and the right to express sexual things - from the sexists"

- Karolina Bång , Swedish comic maker

Interviewee: 
Karolina Bång, comic maker
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl 
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Ladyfest Stuttgart-Esslingen 2004

Submitted by redchidgey on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 21:07
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Stuttgart-Esslingen
Germany
48° 46' 14.4192" N, 9° 10' 24.9024" E

Ladfest Stuttgart-Esslingen 2004 happened 29-31 October, Germany

Statement:
The Ladyfest Stuttgart-Esslingen is a feministic, non-commercial festival in the region around Stuttgart and Esslingen from October 29th to 31st. It is organized by a group of artists and people engaged in the cultural sector from around Stuttgart.

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Ladyfest Tijuana 2008

Submitted by redchidgey on Sun, 02/22/2009 - 20:39
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Tijuana
Mexico
32° 31' 41.8404" N, 117° 2' 14.4744" W

Ladyfest Tijuana 2008 happened 13-15 June 2008, Mexico

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See Red Women's Workshop, UK (c.1974-1990s). Part II.

Submitted by redchidgey on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 02:39
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Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

United Kingdom

Statement:

We are a recently formed group of women interested in visual aspects of the Womens Struggle. We want to combat images of the "model woman" which are used by capitalist ideology to keep women from disputing their secondary status or questioning their role in a male dominated society.

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See Red Women's Workshop, UK (1974 - 1990s)

Submitted by redchidgey on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 01:16
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Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

United Kingdom

See Red Women's Workshop was a screen-print workshop run as a women's collective between c 1974 and the early 1990s. It was a radical campaigning and publicising organisation fully committed to the ideals of the second wave feminist movement.

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Fempunk Zine & Ladyfest Spain: An interview with Mabel and Maria from Madrid, Spain

Submitted by redchidgey on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 22:15
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Topic: 
Ladyfest
Riot Grrrl
Zine
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“We need more girl references and more girl heroes”
– Mabel

Interviewee: 
Mabel & Maria
Interviewer: 
Elke Zobl and Jenny Gunnarsson Payne 
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“Ladyfest: Play if you feel like it, not for the money”: An email interview with Melissa from Auckland, New Zealand.

Submitted by redchidgey on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 21:53
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Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Melissa discusses DIY, why white Ladyfest organizers need to mind being "inclusive", and the importance of the festival as a queer event.

Interviewee: 
Melissa
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl 
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“Ladyfest: We need to rip it up and start again”. An email interview with Terese from London, UK

Submitted by redchidgey on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 21:20
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Topic: 
Ladyfest
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An interview with Ladyfest organizer Terese on the limitations of the Ladyfest format.

Interviewee: 
Terese, Ladyfest London 08 organizer
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl 
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Morgenmuffel. An email interview with Isy from Brighton, UK

Submitted by redchidgey on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 19:54
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Zine
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Interview with Isy from the rad autobiographical comic zine Morgenmuffel about "contributing to the downfall of the existing order in some way" and creating community. Her comics are also available to view and download at http://www.morgenmuffel.co.uk

Interviewee: 
Isy Morgenmuffel
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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