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Do-It-Yourself (98)

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"New Kids on the Block: Performing as a Boy Band at Ladyfest". An interview with Tina and Melita at Ladyfest Amsterdam

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Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
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Ladyfest is a festival mainly by women, for women. And sometimes those women come as boys. Hark the wonder of New Kids on the Block at Ladyfest Amsterdam 2008. Tina and Melita discuss queer feminism, DIY, and looking hot in leather jackets.

Interviewee: 
Tina & Melita
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Debi Withers
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The Riot Grrrl Portrait Collection

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I have always felt that Riot Grrrl is a movement that offers a platform for women to express themselves in any way they feel necessary. This project offers a unique insight into an underground feminist subculture, showing the dedicated and creative people within it. I shall be photographing and collecting Portraits of people who feel they have been inspired or moved by Riot Grrrl, through the internet community and various photo booths which I will be setting up at feminist events over Britain.

Type of project: 
Photography
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Riot Grrrl
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Dandizette: a pulp magazine for media perverts

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Dandizette is an online gazette about deviant media in all its forms. We celebrate unique and independent contributions to an increasingly saturated and standardized media world. This includes old and new media alike, but we revel in the trouble-making potential of new media technologies and their — dare we say? — democratising nature.

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Blog & Web 2.0
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
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Make/Shift Magazine

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Make/shift magazine creates and documents contemporary feminist culture and action by publishing journalism, critical analysis, and visual and text art. Made by an editorial collective committed to antiracist, transnational, and queer perspectives, make/shift embraces the multiple and shifting identities of feminist communities. We know there’s exciting work being done in various spaces and forms by people seriously and playfully resisting and creating alternatives to systematic oppression. Make/shift exists to represent, participate in, critique, provoke, and inspire more of that good work.

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Magazine
Topic: 
Anti-Imperialism
Activism
Alternative economies
Class
Do-It-Yourself
Global affairs & transnationalism
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Networking & community building
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
Art
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Race Revolt Zine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Race Revolt is a collaborative print zine discussing race, ethnicity and identity in queer, feminist and DIY punk communities, and needs contributions for its 4th issue.The theme of this issue will be 'Whiteness'. This can be approached however you want.[Possible topics could be: migration, visibility, white privilege,passing, and more...] Looking for articles, scribbles, art, images and so on...

Deadline has been set for January 30th 2009 but please get in touch with your ideas for contributions even if you cannot make this deadline...

Topic: 
Class
Do-It-Yourself
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Feminist Activist Forum

The Feminist Activist Forum was set up in April 2007 by a bunch of people tired of being caught within a web of misrepresentation about what feminism is, and what feminism does. We want to challenge the claims of academia and the mass media that contemporary feminist activism does not exist, or that post-feminist stereotypes capture the collective imagination. We want a vibrant UK wide intergenerational feminist network to move forward with feminist activism today.

Topic: 
Activism
Disabilities
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
History & memory
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Networking & community building
Older woman
Queer feminism
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Hoopla: A radical craft zine. An email interview with Rayna aka Kakariki, originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand but now living in Melbourne, Australia

Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
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Interview by Elke Zobl, August 2008

Can you tell me first of all a little bit about yourself? How old are you, where are you originally from and where do you reside now?

I'm Rayna aka Kakariki and I'm 29. I'm originally from Aotearoa New Zealand but now residing in the occupied Kulin Nations known as Melbourne, Australia.

What do you do besides your zine?

Interviewee: 
Rayna aka Kakariki
Interviewer: 
Elke Zobl
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Grrrl Zine Network

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A resource site for international grrrl, lady, queer and trans folk zines,
distros and DIY projects

Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Networking & community building
Queer feminism
Youth culture
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