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Not Lady-Like

Location

Hasselt
Belgium
50° 55' 50.484" N, 5° 19' 56.928" E

Info:
Not Lady-Like is a travel zine by Nina Nijsten about her experiences at Ladyfest Berlin 2005. It's a combination of a travel journal, a long festival review, rants about the word lady, gender and "the Hooker incident", info about Berlin, with little portraits of some of the people she met, photos, recipes, drawings, tabs, DIY ideas, a few self-defense tips, a quiz, collages, etc. Nina has founded ECHO a "low-budget DIY feminist media, music and art production" label where she is publishing her various zines, tapes, etc. Not Lady-Like can get downloaded from this website; other zines: punk feminist, flapper gathering, Radix, (Different Wolrds) Same Heartbeats, Coma to Action

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Radix

Location

Belgium

Radical Counter-Culture Art and Comix

Statement

Radix #1:
my first comic zine with drawings, cartoons, short and longer comics. stories about a storm, a queer squat punk fairy tale, being on tour, menstruation, music, feminists, and more. I admit I’m quite proud of it.

Radix#2:
second issue contains comics, drawings and collages about cats, squat evictions, harassment, gender, street-art, feminist herstory and more.

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Flapper Gathering zine

Location

Hasselt
Belgium
50° 55' 50.484" N, 5° 19' 56.928" E

Info:
Belgian zine produced by Nina Nijsten; 6 issues have been published so far; emphasis on riot grrrl movement, anarchofeminism, DIY, zine culture, book and zine reviews, etc. Nina has founded the ECHO a "low-budget DIY feminist media, music and art production" label where she is publishing her various zines, tapes, etc. the first five issues can be downloaded frome this website; other zines: punk feminist, Not-Lady Like, Radix, (Different Wolrds) Same Heartbeats, Coma to Action,...

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Trans-feminism zine

Location

United Kingdom

Exploring the connections between feminism and transgender

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The Bent Pentacle zine

Location

United Kingdom

I've decided to start the Bent Pentacle as an outlet for people to share information, experience and stories of queer paganism with others. I hope it will allow those who identify with queer to see how paganism and spirituality can be relevant to their views on gender and sex, and that it will be of interest to pagans who want more information about what queer could have to do with their path, as well as anyone else with an interest in the queer experience, or pagan spirituality, or both. It is completley DIY, which means noone will be making any money from it at any point and the content will be defined by what people want to contribute to it. This allows it to be a space for anyone who has something to say to contribute, including pieces that wouldn't be published in more mainstream publications.

What is queer paganism? A ridiculously brief introduction
This is a very big question and one that will hopefully be explored in the Bent Pentacle. The terms "Queer" and "pagan" have similarities, in that both of them cover a large range of people, identities and activities, and both of them have often failed concrete definitions. Queer can be used as a synonym for Gay, but there has been a growing global movement that has taken on the word as a kind of "non-identity" that centres around the deconstruction and critique of rigidly defined roles of gender and sexuality and the idea that there are many more than two genders and two (or three) sexualities. There is alot of inspiration from the work of writers such as Michael Foucault and Judith Butler.

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F.I.A. (Blog) + Zina LF RO (zine, 2005 + 2007)

Location

Romania

Statement:
the F.I.A. (fete/femei/feminism in actiune/activism - women/girls/feminism in action/activism) group, formed in 2008 from the former ladyfest-ro collective, focuses on various anti-sexist initiatives in Romania. an important part of the group’s mission is collaborating and working together with other groups and people, as well as supporting other initiatives, that deal with social justice, including gender justice. our main projects are a “travelling” library of zines, books and other feminist/feminist-friendly materials, the f.i.a. site and blog, and the “gender network” list.

The ladyfest-ro collective has so far also organised two ladyfests in Bucharest (2007) and in Timisoara (2005) and published two zines (Zina lf_ro #1 & #2) to accompany the festivals which can get read on this blog

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The RAG (Magazine)

Location

Dublin
Ireland
53° 20' 59.298" N, 6° 15' 37.116" W

The RAG is a magazine produced by a diverse group of anarcha-feminist women in Dublin. We are all feminists, united in our recognition that women's subordination exists. We are all anarchists, united in our belief for the need to create alternatives to this capitalistic, patriarchal society wherein all are dominated and exploited.

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Grrrl Fest Berlin: July 3-5, 2009

Teaser Image: 

Grrrl Fest Berlin in den Räumen des Subversiv e.V und der Scherer 8

Programm:
Freitag, 3.Juli 2009
in den Räumen der SCHERER 8 (Schererstr. 8 / U & S Wedding)

Einlass: 19:30 Uhr

# Film: Itty Bitty Titty Committee (87min.)
# Konzert: Ex Best Friends (Postpunkheldinnen/Bln.), Totally Stressed (Art Rock/Bln.) & Respect My Fist (NRW-ScreamOh!/Bln.)
# Aftershowparty

Zines Zines Zines!
there’s gonna be one or more zine distros all over grrrl fest berlin 09, too, as well as a zine library that needs YOU!

Type of project: 
Event
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Networking & community building
Zine
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Bunnies on Strike (website & zine)

Location

Netherlands

Bunnies On Strike is a work in progress. And it grows! It is no longer just a zine: it's a website, it has a spoken word section, a radical cheerleading section, had a band and a more then music festival and is still growing. But we want Bunnies On Strike to grow in more aspects. We are now working on organising a festival called GENDER OUTLAW that will contain performances of bands together with other kinds of performances [think of dj's spoken word performances, reading/storytelling, games, radical cheerleading, films, foodsharing etc.]

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Shocking Pink (Magazine, 1981-1982 and 1987-1992)

Location

United Kingdom

Info:
16 issues were published; zine written by and for young women with an emphasis on topics like contraception, abortion, sexuality, lesbianism / queer issues, violence against women, women culture / music etc., skill sharing (e.g. how to form a band, a women's group etc.), racism, women's rights etc.

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