Illustration © Nikki McClure

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Working to Create Anti-Racist Spaces: A Practical Guide for White Dominated Social Justice Groups

While institutional change is becoming a greater priority within organizations, most antiracism workshops devote little attention to the structural impacts of the physical spaces that groups use. Accordingly, office areas, meeting spaces, event venues, libraries and social spaces may be neglected in anti-racism work.

Topic: 
Activism
Race & ethnicity
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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
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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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Outwrite History Project

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WANT TO WORK ON AN EXHIBITION OF 1980s RADICAL ANTI-IMPERIALIST MEDIA??!! Outwrite newspaper, produced by a collective of women throughout the 1980s, was dedicated to offering news by women, for women. Self-defined as an ‘internationlist feminist’ publication, the paper focused on ‘the development of feminism worldwide’ and an examination of women’s oppressions ‘in the context of imperialism, racism and class divisions.’ The goal of this exhibition is to bring Outwrite’s politics alive in the present, to reflect on its struggles and successes with the aim of igniting future possibilities.

Type of project: 
Exhibit
Topic: 
Anti-Imperialism
Activism
Class
Global affairs & transnationalism
Grassroots media in Europe
History & memory
LGBT and queer issues
Migration & border issues
Poverty
Race & ethnicity
Sexual violence
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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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Network of women's museums

"There exist more than 40 women's museums worldwide which differ quite a lot in the foundation history, organizational set up and possibilities and which are strongly marked by the respective geographic location. Additionally more women’s museums initiatives could be found just before the congress started in the course of the research to the congress. To bring together and to link up these different realities seemed to be even more interesting.

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History & memory
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Portfolio: Nikki McClure

Nikki McClure of Olympia, Washington is known for her painstakingly intricate and beautiful paper cuts. Armed with an X-acto knife, she cuts out her images from a single sheet of paper and creates a bold language that translates the complex poetry of motherhood, nature, and activism into a simple and endearing picture. - Cinders Gallery

She also gave us permission to use her beautiful images for our header for the grassroots feminism site. Thanks so much, Nikki!

Type of project: 
Art
Topic: 
History & memory
Parenting & motherhood
Art
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Portfolio: Nina Nijsten

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Art
Topic: 
Riot Grrrl
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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

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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?

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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