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FETT (Magazine)

Location

Norway

Fett is a feminist magazine, which comes out with four issues per year. The magazine is published by the Women's Front, with financial support from the Freedom of Expression and the Norwegian Cultural Council, but the editorial work on independent basis. Fett is a member of the Norwegian Association Journal (www.tidsskriftforeningen.no)

Who are we to make fett? A lot of promising women and a few men who are tired of the usual press buy and sell stereotypical notions of gender and sexuality. Now hold it!

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Kruh & Ruze ("Bread & Roses", Magazine)

Location

Ženska infoteka
Varšavska 16
Zagreb , I 10000
Croatia

WOMEN'S INFOTEKA (ŽENSKA INFOTEKA) is women's information and documentation center founded in Zagreb in December 1992 as the first of the sort in Croatia and Eastern Europe. The basic activities are:

* Collecting and disseminating data and information
* A lending service Library
* Publishing (books and the magazine "Bread and Roses" ("Kruh i ruže")
* Organizing of training seminars and international conferences
* Conducting researches and providing help in researches

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Hallon TV

Location

Hallongrottan
Bergsundsgatan 25
Stockholm, 117 37
Sweden
59° 18' 56.9196" N, 18° 1' 46.92" E

HallonTV is an initiative from the Stockholm based, non-profit organization Hallongrottans vänner (Hallongrottan’s Friends). HallonTV is journalism, entertainment and culture with a focus on feminism, HBT-issues, and hence sexual politics. The programmes consist of interviews, reportages, animation, music videos, sketches, courses, documentation of direct actions, festivals and events, all tied together by a pedagogical host in form of a hand puppet.

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FUL (Magazine, Radio)

Location

Ful
Birger Jarlsgatan 18 A, 4 tr c/o Nya Kontoret
Stockholm, 114 34
Sweden

The queer feminist magazine Femkul (since 2004) was re-launched under the new name FUL the 24th of April 2008. Important aims are to promote the work of contemporary women artists and activists, as well as building up networks between women artists in local and international contexts.

In 2009 FUL_ launched FULRADIO, a montly pod radio programme including readings, interviews, drama, debates, sound art and more.

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Autonomous Feminist Womyn’s Gathering, April 9-14 2009 in Vienna, Austria

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For women and lesbians Europe-wide

Type of project: 
Festival
Topic: 
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
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“Is Ladyfest a politics to settle down to?”: A conversation with Maaike from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Topic: 
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
Race & ethnicity
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Maaike helped organize Ladyfest Amsterdam 08 and played the final night with her band Dusty Blinds. Red interviewed her on her birthday about Ladyfests, whiteness, and coming up with a Ladyfest trademark plan.

Interviewee: 
Maaike, Ladyfest Amsterdam 08 organiser and musician
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey
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Trouble X comixs (Zines, Comics, Posters etc.)

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 31' 24.528" N, 13° 24' 41.3784" E

Info:
Trouble X produces queer-feminist zines, comics, posters, and other DIY stuff dealing with LGBTIQ issues and radical queer topics, left/queer activism, gender trouble/fun, DIY etc.

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Plotki Femzine

Location

Berlin
Germany
52° 31' 24.528" N, 13° 24' 41.3784" E

"This issue is out to explore the hidden and the more obvious aspects of gender realities in our contemporary central and eastern European cultural sphere. Our common ground is large and diverse, especially the topic of gender draws attention to this."

(Editorial, 01 Nov 2006, By Isabella Willinger, Berlin, Munich)

About Plotki:
PLOTKI is a project from around the bloc. PLOTKI spreads rumours. PLOTKI investigates our cultural sphere. And PLOTKI brings together writers, photographers and graphic artists from Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.

PLOTKI was founded in 2000 by a group of students from Berlin, Warszawa and Praha. In the meantime PLOTKISTY from all over Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe have joined us. Our goal is to increase and intensify the contact between former East and West, between neighboring countries and people.

[plotki magazine]

PLOTKI started out as a printed magazine about culture and society in Central and Eastern Europe. We approach this broad field by giving each issue a thematic focus such as "playgrounds" or "failed projects" - perspectives on reality.

The variety of issues corresponds with the wide range of text styles. In PLOTKI you can find interviews, journalistic reporting or essays, personal impressions and literary texts as well as crossovers of texts and images, like photo-essays and comics.

[plotki platform]

PLOTKI enlargement - next to our printed magazine we are by now a unique platform for various projects connected to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe such as the monthly online magazine "Updated Rumours" or the exhibition "click-a-cliqué" in Berlin in Ocotber 2005.

PLOTKI is a non-commercial project that relies on the financial support of public institutions. Originally it was part of the project tutorial program of the Free University Berlin, which was much to our regret cancelled in 2002.

[plotki network]

PLOTKI is organized across borders - PLOTKISTY can be found in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Ukraine, Belarus, Albania, Bulgaria and Slovakia. Although Berlin has been the headquarters since the founding of PLOTKI, the project remains international in communication and organisation. Our seminars and network meetings held in a different place in Central Eastern Europe every year are the backbone of PLOTKI.

[plotki geography]

So far our seminars took place in Berlin, Warszawa, Brno, Szymbark, Praha, Budapest, Ceska Skalice, Romania (Transylvania) and Ukraine (Carpathians). These meetings are meant to unite the contributors of the PLOTKI universe.

We strongly invite anyone who would like to contribute to PLOTKI, no matter what country east of Rosenheim you come from. Please contact us, if you would like to come and join us - we don't have private jet planes yet, but we do have funding.

There is a whole bloc of possibilities!

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"Gender trouble/fun". An email interview with Trouble X, from Germany

Topic: 
Grassroots media in Europe
LGBT and queer issues
Queer feminism
Zine
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Can you introduce yourself?

hey! i’m 33 years old now, was born and raised as a White middle-class kid in a small town at the countryside of west-germany, close to the netherlands. after lots of trial-and-errors of how i wanted to live, and a huge depression, i left everything back there and moved to berlin in 2001, where i still am. the best choice i’ve ever made. 

What do you do besides your zine? 

Interviewee: 
Trouble X, comic maker
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey & Elke Zobl
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Ladyfest Vilnius (Lithuania) 2009

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The theme of the Festival is “Rewritten stories”. The Festival consists of six parts: concert, exhibition, conference, film review, creative workshops and action.

The concert of rock groups of girls will turn Vilnius into the centre of alternative culture and the place of meeting of different styles of music venue. Rock groups of girls from different countries of Europe are invited to the concert: La Fraction (France), Las Revolettes (Italy), Ex-Boyfriends (Finland) and Zimbabwe (Lithuania).

Type of project: 
Festival
Topic: 
Activism
Do-It-Yourself
Ladyfest
Queer feminism
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