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Echo

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ECHO is...

a low-budget DIY feminist media, music and art production project started in 2001

ECHO produces...

- the zines Flapper Gathering, Same Heartbeats, Not Lady-Like, Coma To Action...
- the comix Radix
- pamphlets about anarcha-feminism, riot grrrl...
- the compilation tapes Echoholic, Riots in the Benelux...
- crafts
- artwork
+ more

Type of project: 
Comics
Crafts
Illustration
Music
Zine
Topic: 
Art
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
Zine
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HUGS & KISSES: Tender To All Gender. Christiane Stephan, Gründerin von Hugs & Kisses, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer.

Topic: 
Art
Do-It-Yourself
LGBT and queer issues
Pop culture
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Kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Christiane 42 Jahre alt, arbeite als Fotografin und bin seit 2001 in der linken Subkultur unterwegs. Ich veranstalte sehr gern Konzerte und Parties, sehr gern auch mit mehreren Menschen zusammen wie z. B. das Ladyfest 2003 in Hamburg.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

Interviewee: 
Christiane Stephan
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Join the femmepop revolution

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Type of project: 
Music
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Pop culture
Representation of women
Riot Grrrl
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taking cultural production into our own hands

Location

United Kingdom

This zine is a way to show how we can make the changes we want to see in our
culture, by ourselves.

-To inspire others
-To show how easy it can be
-To harness potentials
-To show DIY-in-action
-To show that we all have the potential to be creative producers and creative
consumers everyday
-To share tips
-To explore how and why we do the things we do
-To show creative alternatives to blind consumption of mainstream culture

Articles include:
Booking and Organising spoken-word tours, Curating Art Shows, Being a queer femme performance artist, Making Comics, Making poster artwork for gigs and events, Making your own animations, Making your own [documentary] films, Making Zines, Opening your own independent Gallery Space, Organising a Zine Fest, Organising Comedy Nights, Putting on Gigs, Putting on your own club night, Running a Magazine, Running a Zine Distro, Running your own record label, Recording Albums, Opening up your own Vegan Cafe, Screen printing, Setting up a Zine Library, Starting your own publishing house, Starting your own band, Starting your own theatre company, Writing and performing poetry, Writing and Publishing your own Book, Organising an Exhibition, Opening your own Shop, Opening your own Comic Shop.

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„Auf der Suche nach immer neuen Formen…“. Lea Susemichel, koordinierende Redakeurin der feministischen Monatszeitschrift an.schläge und Co-Produzentin von an.schläge-TV, traf sich im Februar 2010 zu einem Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself

Lea, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Lea Susemichel und arbeite seit ca. acht Jahren beim feministischen Magazin an.schläge http://www.anschlaege.at. Ich war lange Zeit freie Redakteurin, die letzten dreieinhalb Jahre war ich, gemeinsam mit Saskya Rudigier, später mit Vina Yun, die koordinierende Redakteurin des Magazins.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

Interviewee: 
<strong>Lea Susemichel</strong>
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Ptqk Blogzine: Maria Ptqk is writing her blogzine http://ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com since 2004. In the interview with Rosa Reitsamer, Maria Ptqk talks about her way into feminism, cyberfeminism and her blogging experience.

Topic: 
Activism
Art
Do-It-Yourself
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Can you shortly introduce yourself?
It's difficult because I have a heterogeneous background. Sometimes I am a producer or assistant for other people, sometimes a curator, an art critic or a teacher. I have a hybrid profile in the cultural field, so I consider myself as a cultural researcher. The topics I am interested on are situated at the crossroads between technology, media, cultural and gender studies, but it changes with my obsessions. My academic background is law and economics. I don't have any formal training in art. In this field I am completely do-it-yourself.

Interviewee: 
Maria Ptqk
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization in Slovakia. Jana Juranova, one of the founders of ASPEKT and still working there, talked with Rosa Reitsamer about the history and current situation of ASPEKT.

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Education
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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization. It was founded in 1993 (the official registration July 26, 1993) as an interest association of women, who agreed it was time to take the discourse on equality and democracy seriously and apply it to the lived realities of the people of feminine gender in Slovakia. Already second decade Aspekt does so by means of its (subversive and pioneering) publishing and educational activities.

Jana, how did ASPEKT, the first feminist magazine in Slovakia, evolve at the beginning of the 1990s?

Interviewee: 
Jana Juranova
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Verena Reygers, Redakteurin bei maedchenmannschaft.net, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Girls and young women
Grassroots media in Europe
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Mädchenmannschaft.net (http://maedchenmannschaft.net/) wurde von Susanne Klingner, Meredith Haaf und Barbara Streidl, den Autorinnen des Buches „Wir Alphamädchen. Warum Feminsmus das Leben schöner macht“ (2008) gegründet und besteht derzeit aus etwa einem Dutzend Autor_innen, die regelmässig Artikel und News schreiben. Eine der Redakteurinnen ist Verena Reygers. Sie verabredete sich mit Rosa Reitsamer am 8. März 2010, dem internationalen Frauentag, zu einem Skype-Interview.

Verena, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Verena Reygers
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Ka Schmitz, Comic-Zeichnerin, Illustratorin und Wen-Do-Trainerin, im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Ka Schmitz, Comic-Zeichnerin, Grafikerin, Illustratorin und Wen-Do-Trainerin in Berlin sprach mit Rosa Reitsamer über ihre Comics, deren Verortung in einer queer-feministischen Community und die Schwierigkeit, Strichfiguren zu zeichnen, die nicht selbstverständlich als „Strichmännchen“ gelesen werden.

Ka, du zeichnest Comix, machst aber auch andere Dinge. Kannst du bitte ein wenig deine Tätigkeitsbereiche schildern?

Interviewee: 
Ka Schmitz
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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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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