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Feminist Performers - Interviews, reviews and profiles of feminist performers (Blog)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 18:32
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Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

Oxford
United Kingdom
51° 45' 6.2064" N, 1° 15' 19.026" W

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What is this blog about?

This blog is about feminist poets, comedians, musicians, actors, dancers, cabaret and burlesque artists, and performers of all kinds. I’ll be reviewing and interviewing some of the many wonderful feminist performers out there. I’ll mostly focus on those who are not yet very well-known, because you can find out about the rest elsewhere.

As well as telling you the basics of who performs what and where, I’ll also explore questions such as:

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Call: Camera Club Girls Film Festival 2013 (Deadline: 31st Dec 2012)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 17:58
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After the success of our PinUp PlayBack film night in The Medway Towns, we are so excited to finally be presenting our very own festival! Camera Club Girls 2013 is part of the PinUp PayBack campaign, SisterHood Watch. We want to champion young women and girls and celebrate gender, cultural difference and sexuality while representing issues we face in the 21st century.We are not complicit with the narrow representation and exploitation of women in today’s media. We want to make our own!

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Art
Girls and young women
LGBT and queer issues
Pop culture
Representation of women
Sex and sexualities 
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Ladyfest Paris 2012

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 17:10
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Paris
France
48° 51' 23.8104" N, 2° 21' 7.9992" E

The 2nd edition of Ladyfest Paris took place Oct 1 - Oct 28 2012

Ladyfest Paris est un festival artistique indépendant à but non lucratif, organisé par un collectif de bénévoles animé-e-s par les valeurs du féminisme.

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Call: Davis Feminist Film Festival 2013 (Deadline: Dec 15, 2012)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 16:56
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The Consortium for Women and Research is now accepting submissions for the 2013 Davis Feminist Film Festival!

The Davis Feminist Film Festival welcomes films from professionals, students, and community members locally, nationally, and internationally. People underrepresented in the media field are especially encouraged to submit a film for consideration.

The Davis Feminist Film Festival is a short film festival. Films must be shorter than 35 minutes in length.

Films submitted to the festival for consideration must meet at least two of the following criteria:

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Art
Class
Global affairs & transnationalism
LGBT and queer issues
Networking & community building
Race & ethnicity
Sex and sexualities 
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London Feminist Film Festival 2012 (London, 29 Nov - 2 Dec 2012)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Sat, 11/17/2012 - 16:40
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Hackney Picturehouse
270, Mare Street
London, E8 1HE
United Kingdom
51° 32' 39.8112" N, 0° 3' 19.3788" W

The London Feminist Film Festival celebrates feminist films past and present. The first festival is 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2012.

The festival was set up as a response to the underrepresentation of women in the film industry, as well as to the lack of films addressing feminist issues and the fact that the representation of women on screen is often narrow and stereotypical.

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Ladyfest Zagreb 2012 - Vox Feminae

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 21:55
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Kino EuropaZagreb
Croatia

The 6th Vox Feminae Festival takes place in Zagreb from Nov 21st to Nov 24th 2012

Šesto izdanje Vox Feminae Festivala održati će se od 21. do 24. studenog u Kinu Europa u Zagrebu.

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Les HTMlles 10: Affaires à Risques - Festival féministe d’arts médiatiques + de culture numérique / Risky Business - Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture (Montréal, 10 - 18 Nov 2012)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 21:43
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Festivals: Ladyfest & Queer-Feminist

Location

Montréal
Canada
45° 30' 31.212" N, 73° 33' 14.3748" W

The HTMlles is a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture produced in Montreal by Studio XX, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. Initiated in 1997, the HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women’s, trans and gender non- conforming artists’ independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation.

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NIKK magasin (Magazine, 2000 - 2011)

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Thu, 11/15/2012 - 13:39
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Grassroots Media in Europe

Location

Oslo
Norway
59° 54' 49.9284" N, 10° 45' 8.082" E

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NIKK is a transnational resource- and information centre on gender research and gender equality in the Nordic countries and was established in 1995. Between 2000 and 2011 NIKK magasin was published 3 times a year, two issues in Nordic languages, one issue in English and all focused on a specific theme like violence, prostitution, power, religion, minorities, family politics, climate change etc. It presented new and current themes and perspectives on gender research and gender equality politics in the Nordic countries. Subscription were free and all issues still can be read and also get downloaded as pdf-files.

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Book: Feminist Media - Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship

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Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (eds.)
Feminist Media
Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship
September 2012, 292 S., kart., zahlr. Abb., 32,80 €
ISBN 978-3-8376-2157-0
Reihe Critical Media Studies
Funded within the Austrian-Science Fund (FWF) project: P21187
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts2157/ts2157_1.pdf

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transcript (publisher)
table of contents & intro
research project "Feminist Media Production in Europe" 
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Our new book: Feminist Media - Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship

Submitted by stefiegruenangerl on Mon, 11/05/2012 - 16:35
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Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (eds.)
Feminist Media
Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship
September 2012, 292 S., kart., zahlr. Abb., 32,80 €
ISBN 978-3-8376-2157-0
Reihe Critical Media Studies
Funded within the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)-project P21187
http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts2157/ts2157_1.pdf

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