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Inter Alia: A Journal of Queer Studies

Location

Poland

InterAlia, a peer-edited scholarly journal for queer theory, is open to submissions from a wide range of fields, written either in Polish or in English.

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Hugs and Kisses: Tender to all Genders (magazine)

Location

Hamburg
Germany
53° 33' 12.2652" N, 9° 59' 31.9056" E

A queer magazine which celebrates all sorts of gender. Identity is not a fixed category for us, but a common process. We try to "queer" as a critical approach to social norms and conventions. We wish to question and challenge, where it is needed.

Hugs and Kisses combines visual art, music, literature and film. And it searches for glamor and movement in gender-related realities. It presents portraits and works by draftsmen, photographers, musicians, activists and theorists - B / W and color.

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An Interview with Judith (from Austria) at the Red Dawns festival, Ljubljana

Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
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Please introduce yourself....

J: I’m Judith and I am 21 years old. At the moment I live in Vienna, Austria. I’m doing feminist things for some years. The last big thing I organised was the queer-feminist days in Vienna. I think what is important to me at the moment is that my activism is feminist, but it is not this ‘we are women and we are proud to be women and we are all the same’ and stuff like that. At the moment some anti-racist stuff is important for me and feminism with queer politics also.

Interviewee: 
Judith
Interviewer: 
Debi Withers and Elke Zobl
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Ta det röda pillret (Blog)

Location

Sweden

Take the Red Pill--Face the World Problems (Queerfeminist blog by Alexander Alvina Chamberland)

Description: Activist, mainly within feminism, hbt/queer and animal's rights. Leading motifs are intersectionality and anarchofeminism! Am gay, byt rather 'dykey'. Studying Gender Studies in Lund. Columnist for the magazines ETC and Efter Arbetet [After Work].
(Freely translated from Swedish)

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"Safe[r] spaces online": An email interview with Helen from Bird of Paradox blog

Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
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Can you introduce yourself?
I’m an ordinary, boring, 50-something, white, middle-class transsexual woman; based in London and trying to build a life that feels more like mine and less like one I was camping out in until something better came along.

As well as my own blog, I contribute to two others - The F-Word (http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/by/helen_g/) and Questioning Transphobia ( http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/ ). I’m also co-curator of the Genderfork feed at Twitter (http://twitter.com/genderfork ) and the point of contact for the London hub of the National LGBT Cancer Network ( http://www.cancer-network.org/ )

Interviewee: 
Helen, blogger
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl
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Bird of Paradox (Blog)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 26.406" N, 0° 7' 39.6588" W

About Bird of Paradox blog:
I write about issues that interest and affect me as a transsexual woman: the civil, social and legal rights of transsexual women in particular – “the politics of being trans” – is a subject which motivates me more as I get further into my transition. As the saying goes: “Women may be second-class citizens, but trans women are second-class women”.

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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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Masculine Femininities Zine

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 26.406" N, 0° 7' 39.6588" W

Statement:
This is a free zine about gender Identities – femininity and masculinity – stories, poetry, images and all those things that dont 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, masculine people and femmes of all genders and then some!

It is put together by Misster Raju Rage, formally Misster Scratch, a trans- undefined person of colour

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GLU (Magazine)

Location

Netherlands

Girls Like Us (GLU) magazine was founded by Jessica Gysel and Kathrin Hero in 2005.

It was created as an antidote to the vanilla representation of contemporary lesbian culture: where's the fun, the wink, the subversiveness and the class? The magazine is made in Amsterdam, published in New York and available in the bigger cities worldwide.

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