Grassroots Media in Europe

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An interview with Fikasicula, the group who founded the Italian anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-facist blog Femminismo a Sud http://femminismo-a-sud.noblogs.org/.

How did your blog Femminismo a Sud came into being? Since when does it exist? What is the idea of your blog?

Melanie, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

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When studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, media artist Evelin Stermitz also became interested in new media art. She started ArtFem.TV, “an artistic online television, platform and archive”, in 2008 as a way “to push more women in the arts and to raise the voices of women artists”. Red caught up with her at Rdece Zore festival to find out about her cyberfeminist projects.

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Kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Christiane 42 Jahre alt, arbeite als Fotografin und bin seit 2001 in der linken Subkultur unterwegs. Ich veranstalte sehr gern Konzerte und Parties, sehr gern auch mit mehreren Menschen zusammen wie z. B. das Ladyfest 2003 in Hamburg.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

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Please can you shortly introduce yourself?

Lea, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?
Ich bin Lea Susemichel und arbeite seit ca. acht Jahren beim feministischen Magazin an.schläge http://www.anschlaege.at. Ich war lange Zeit freie Redakteurin, die letzten dreieinhalb Jahre war ich, gemeinsam mit Saskya Rudigier, später mit Vina Yun, die koordinierende Redakteurin des Magazins.

Wie bist du zum Feminismus gekommen?

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Can you shortly introduce yourself?
It's difficult because I have a heterogeneous background. Sometimes I am a producer or assistant for other people, sometimes a curator, an art critic or a teacher. I have a hybrid profile in the cultural field, so I consider myself as a cultural researcher. The topics I am interested on are situated at the crossroads between technology, media, cultural and gender studies, but it changes with my obsessions. My academic background is law and economics. I don't have any formal training in art. In this field I am completely do-it-yourself.

Nicole Niedermüller is the Coordinator of the Women’s Programme at Radio LoRa in Zurich. Red caught up with her to find out how community radio stations work, what she loves about broadcasting, and how international collaborations over skype can feed inspiring new projects.

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"Im Stadtraum sichtbar zu machen, was diejenigen denken und fühlen, die ihr eigenes Land verlassen haben und nun in einem neuen Land leben, ist das Ziel von migrantas. Mobilität, Migration und Transkulturalität sind in unserer Welt keine Ausnahme, sondern die Regel. Trotzdem sind Migrantinnen und ihre Erfahrungen für die Mehrheit der Gesellschaft meist unsichtbar. Migrantas thematisiert Migration, Identität und interkulturellen Dialog und bedient sich in seinen Projekten der Werkzeuge der Kunst, des Designs und der Sozialwissenschaften.

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ASPEKT is a feminist educational and publishing organization. It was founded in 1993 (the official registration July 26, 1993) as an interest association of women, who agreed it was time to take the discourse on equality and democracy seriously and apply it to the lived realities of the people of feminine gender in Slovakia. Already second decade Aspekt does so by means of its (subversive and pioneering) publishing and educational activities.

Jana, how did ASPEKT, the first feminist magazine in Slovakia, evolve at the beginning of the 1990s?