Grassroots media in Europe

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emphasis on art, visual culture, representation etc.; since 2006 artmix is cooperating with www.obieg.pl, an art/culture net-magazine published by the Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, and moved to their website
very interesting (theoretically based) articles on feminist art/artists, interviews etc. Iza Kowalczyk also runs the Strasznasztuka2 blog

InterAlia, a peer-edited scholarly journal for queer theory, is open to submissions from a wide range of fields, written either in Polish or in English.

A queer magazine which celebrates all sorts of gender. Identity is not a fixed category for us, but a common process. We try to "queer" as a critical approach to social norms and conventions. We wish to question and challenge, where it is needed.

Hugs and Kisses combines visual art, music, literature and film. And it searches for glamor and movement in gender-related realities. It presents portraits and works by draftsmen, photographers, musicians, activists and theorists - B / W and color.

The magazine Frauensolidaritaet [Women's Solidarity] is published quarterly since 1982. Offers information on women's rights, women's movements and women's culture in the countries of the South and reflects the North-South relations from a feminist perspective.

Migrantas has been working on projects related to migration, identity and dialogue between different cultures. Their projects combine tools from the social sciences, graphic design and the visual arts to create a reflection of the migrant condition. Mobility, migration and transculturality are not exceptional any longer. On the contrary, they are becoming a very central phenomenon of our times. The thoughts and emotions of the immigrants though remain invisible to the greater part of society. Through their projects Migrantas aims to offer a means of making visible in the urban space the feelings and reflections of those who are now living in a new country. The members of Migrantas have themselves emigrated from Buenos Aires to Berlin. They conceive of their work with other migrants as a horizontal dialogue.

Anattitude magazine - founded in 2005 - is the first and only existing international Hip Hop magazine on print, to present the female side of Hip Hop culture. Intended as an antidote to the onesided, boring, even nonexistent representation of contemporary female Hip Hop culture in the media, Anattitude presents strong independent women from around the Hip Hop world with a special focus on the variety of gender styles.

fiber. werkstoff für feminismus und popkultur versteht sich als (Medien-) Projekt, das in seinem Selbstverständnis Frauen als Akteur_innen wahrnimmt und ihnen bewusst Präsenz verleiht. Wenn wir uns dabei auf den Begriff der geschlechtlichen Identität – in dem Falle „Frau“ – beziehen, ist uns klar, dass dieser Begriff von Ambivalenzen, Unschärfen, Widersprüchen und Uneindeutigkeiten durchzogen ist, wobei diese Unschärfen in unterschiedlichsten Formen sexueller bzw. geschlechtlicher Identität zum Ausdruck gebracht werden (können).

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AUF - Eine Frauenzeitschrift was founded in 1974 by the Austrian feminist activist group AUF - Aktion Unabhängiger Frauen and is said to have been the first feminist magazine in the German speaking countries. Until 2011 four issues were published every year, each based around a specific topic. Emphasis on: women's rights, equality, power, violence against women, culture / literature / arts, feminist theory, sexuality, activism/resistance, economy, lesbianism, etc. With issue #153 (6/2011) the magazine ceased publication

Statement:

"This zine is adapted from my Masters research thesis, entitled '"I'm not waiting'. Doing it yrself, now: Challenging constructions of feminist activism and aesthetics in women's punk music communities". (Thesis now held at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, England).

I wished to engage the activist community in which I am part, with the academic community in which my research was part of, and bring the two together in discussion of contemporary feminist activism.

This collective zine, which began as 'assess your weapons', a slogan from stella marrs (www.stellamars.com), is the offspring of the Leeds diy feminist group Manifesta.

Some RAYWs have special sections on different topics:
# 3: Confidence
# 4: Burn Out
# 5: Harrassment
# 7: Community, Collectivity and Communication
# 8: Independence
# 9: Recovery
#10: Boundaries