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Grassroots media in Europe

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Sappho (Magazine, 1972- 1981)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Sappho was a magazine established in 1972 to cater for lesbians with Jackie Forster as editor. Sappho organised meetings in a Chepstow public house with speakers including Anna Raeburn, Mikki Doyle from the Morning Star, Maureen Duffy who read her poetry, and the barrister Elizabeth Woodcraft who spoke on the rights of lesbian mothers. It was wound up in 1981 as a result of declining readership, falling subscriptions and criticism that it was not sufficiently political.

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Red Rag: A Magazine of Women's Liberation (1973?-1980?)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Published by a collective of Marxist feminists

"Set up in '72, grew directly out of WLM [Women's Liberation Movement]. Produced about twice a year, printed, and has a circulation of 4,000. Distributed through P.D.C., internal subs, WLM meetings, conferences, etc. Available to men. Costs: £500 per issue, mostly self-financing- plus fund raising. At present there is a closed collective working on the paper, and all work is shared out collectively, and they have weekly meetings to discuss the production. RR is for women in the WLM, and is a forum for debate of issues raised by the WLM. They invite and depend on contributions. All contributions are discussed by the writer and collective jointly; no contributions from men."

- Information from the "Directory of Women's Liberation Newletters, Magazines, Journals...", by Dena and Shaila (York, UK), c.1978

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Shrew: Women's Liberation Workshop (1969-1978)

Location

United Kingdom

"Traditionally, SHREW was put together by existing groups within the London Women's Liberation Workshop, usually by a local group who had been meeting together for some time." (Shrew, Autumn 1976).

Published by Women's Liberation Workshop from 1969 - 1974, with an additional issue s appearing sporadically after 1976. Publication address varied. Publication size and quality also varied, with some issues typed and photocopied on A4 paper, and some professionally printed broadsheet newspapers.

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Bezimena (Blog)

Location

Serbia

I'll be Post-Feminist in the Post-Patriarchy!

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Femgerila (Blog)

Location

Macedonia
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Identities - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

Location

Skopje
Macedonia

Identities, Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture is a bi-lingual international, transdisciplinary Journal published by the Research Center in Gender Studies.

The Journal is published semiannually and bilingually (in Macedonian and English/French/German), since 2001. Book reviews are published bilingually, in Macedonian and in Albanian.

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dieStandard (e-zine)

Location

Vienna
Austria
48° 12' 33.1416" N, 16° 22' 22.0008" E

Info:
daily updated feminist and women's news service of the online version of the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard

Statement:
dieStandard.at ist ein tagesaktuelles, feministisches Online-Medium mit Schwerpunkt auf Frauenpolitik, Arbeitsverhältnisse, Wissenschaft und Kultur.

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Archif Menywod Cymru/ Women Archive Wales (Blog)

Location

Swansea
United Kingdom
51° 37' 13.5912" N, 3° 56' 47.8644" W

Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales exists to promote the study, and to rescue and preserve the sources, of women's history in Wales.

This blog has been set up to keep members and supporters of Archif Menywod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales up to date with developments, news and items of possible interest to them.

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In Search of Forgotten Women Kings: An Email interview with Kvinnekongen, feminist blogger and mother (Norway)

Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
Parenting & motherhood
Sex and sexualities
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“Kvinnekongen refreshes parts of the brain that other blogs cannot reach”
(quote, reader of Kvinnekongen)

Jenny Gunnarsson Payne: Can you begin by telling me a bit about yourself?

Interviewee: 
Anne Aaby, a.k.a. Kvinnekongen
Interviewer: 
Jenny Gunnarsson Payne
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noidonne (Magazine, E-Zine)

Location

Rome
Italy
41° 53' 43.6776" N, 12° 28' 56.3664" E

Info:
the first issue of "Noi donne" was published even before 1944 as an underground medium of Italian women fighting against fascism in the Paris exil (1937) and then some issues followed, published in different Italian regions. But since 1944 noidonne has been published officially and regularly first in Naples then in Rome. Since 1945 it has been the magazine of the UDI (Unione Donne in Italia), but became independent during the 1990s. Emphasis on politics, social change, culture, women's equality, violence against women, health etc. Besides the monthly print version the website is published since 2004 as a weekly e-zine and puts an emphasis on politics, social change, culture, women's equality, violence against women, health etc.

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