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BUILDING A TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST COMMUNITY TOWARDS A PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: This is our aim! To do so, please upload your projects, interviews you have done, resources you find interesting and join the grassroots feminist community! If you have questions, please email me (Elke Zobl) at elke.zobl(at)sbg.ac.at.
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“Ladyfest: I need to feel friction in the activism I do”. An email interview with Debi from Bristol, UK

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Ladyfest
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Debi, from the self-identified 'post-ladyfest' band Drunk Granny, discusses activist home-comings, the need for feminist space, and the problem of nostalgic tendencies in Ladyfest organizing.

Interviewee: 
debi, Ladyfest Cardiff organiser
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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“Ladyfest: Sisters instead of rivals”: An email interview with Carr from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Ladyfest
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Carr, a punk rock musician, discusses gender-free feminism, creative empowerment, and creating a culture of helping each other out.

Interviewee: 
Carr
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl
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Street Medics Guide: First Aid & Trauma Information

Street Medics Guide: First Aid & Trauma Information

Topic: 
Activism
Health
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Wiki mainpage

This is a wiki

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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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Documentary: Abortion Democracy Poland/South Africa

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This documentary feature explores and contrasts changes in Poland and South Africa regarding abortion laws and their impact on the lives of women. Please contact the film maker if you can arrange a screening.

Type of project: 
Video & Film
Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
Reproductive rights
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Civil Media: What makes it democratic?

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There's a certain magic that goes with participating in Salzburg's annual Civil Media Unconference, www.civilmedia.eu (and not just because it takes place in the land of the Sound of Music).

We were there talking about feminist zines and blogs, and enjoyed every minute. This radical, participant-led three day gathering brings together media practioners, policy makers, researchers, tech heads, and social change enthusiasts for ongoing discussions and networking around a range of grassroots media concerns (and the programme is pieced together collaboratively online, through a wiki).

Over 100 folks turned up last December and both gums and laptop lids were flapping around the question of "Cultures-Participation-Dialogue". So, we want to know, what makes grassroots media "democratic"?

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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.

Type of project: 
Blog & Web 2.0
Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
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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.

Type of project: 
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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