Representation of women

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MíraLES ("See them") is a Spanish lesbian ezine with an emphasis on lesbian/queer culture, literature, LGBTIQ, lesbian/gay parenthood / family, representation and visibility, sexuality, etc. It was founded in 2009 and also produces the monthly online-radio program Mírales radio (former: RadiografíaLES)

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Genero: časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture ("Genero: Journal of Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies") is Belgrade Women’s Studies Center major serial publication and a joint publishing project of BWSC and the Center for Gender and Politics at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade (from the issue 13/2009). Genero was established in 2002.

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Croatian magazine published by the Centre for women's studies in Zagreb since 1998 (two issues/year); every issue is based on a specific topic: emphasis on art/culture/book reviews/feminist art in Central and Eastern Europe, body politics, feminist theology, feminist theory and gender studies, ecofeminism, violence and power, sexuality/pornography, media, identity, ethics, politics etc.

The London Feminist Film Festival celebrates feminist films past and present. The first festival is 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2012.

The festival was set up as a response to the underrepresentation of women in the film industry, as well as to the lack of films addressing feminist issues and the fact that the representation of women on screen is often narrow and stereotypical.

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Medusa is a zine by Projekt L, a collective/group fighting lookism and also maintaining their info website lookism.info; emphasis on body images and beauty norms / myths, (anti)lookism, representation of women, queer perspectives, sexism, etc. two zines have been published so far, they contain texts published on the lookism.info website as well as comics, illustrations, art works, etc. and can get downloaded from the website

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Zum Selbstverstaendniss von “Medusa” hier ein Text aus dem ersten Zine: