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What is this blog about?

This blog is about feminist poets, comedians, musicians, actors, dancers, cabaret and burlesque artists, and performers of all kinds. I’ll be reviewing and interviewing some of the many wonderful feminist performers out there. I’ll mostly focus on those who are not yet very well-known, because you can find out about the rest elsewhere.

As well as telling you the basics of who performs what and where, I’ll also explore questions such as:

The 2nd edition of Ladyfest Paris took place Oct 1 - Oct 28 2012

Ladyfest Paris est un festival artistique indépendant à but non lucratif, organisé par un collectif de bénévoles animé-e-s par les valeurs du féminisme.

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.

The 6th Vox Feminae Festival takes place in Zagreb from Nov 21st to Nov 24th 2012

Šesto izdanje Vox Feminae Festivala održati će se od 21. do 24. studenog u Kinu Europa u Zagrebu.

The HTMlles is a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture produced in Montreal by Studio XX, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre for technological exploration, creation and critique. Initiated in 1997, the HTMlles is an international platform dedicated to the presentation of women’s, trans and gender non- conforming artists’ independent media artworks from all facets of contemporary technological creation.

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The queer WebComicKollektiv was initiated by German comic artist Anna Heger and since October 2012 publishes every month a new issue based on a specific theme (Oct 2012: Langsamkeit/slowness, Nov 2012: Theory) and linking together contributions by various comic artists. There is a permanent open call for contributions and the collective wants to promote German speaking queer and alternative Comic writing.

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Munich based comic artist Anna Heger is publishing her MiniComics (5x5cm²) since 2010. So far 15 MiniComics have been published, some in German and English versions, and all of them can be read on Anna's blog. The comics deal with more personal issues and other stories, (queer-feminist) theory, LGBT and queer issues, critique of gender binarism, stereotypes and heteronormativity, comic writing, etc. In 2012 Anna Heger also initiated the WebComicKollektiv.