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Bodies on the stage. Women's bodies on stage.
On October 23, there was a poetry slam and a writing workshop on this topic. This event was supervised by Yasmin Hafedh aka YASMO - Poetry Slam Champion 2013, and Esra Özmen aka EsRAP. We spoke to YASMO and Esra about what motivated them to take to the stage and who motivated them to do so. More info: www.fiftitu.at
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What women should "be" or look like is often depicted in images and texts. Deviations from these norms and forms have been described as a "special development" ("special anthropology") of women. Social scientist and occupational therapist Gerlinde Mauerer in her lecture "Body norms and forms". The event took place on September 24 as part of the lecture series Frauenleben.heute in the Wissensturm. Medienwerkstatt Linz recorded the lecture and it can be viewed at www.medienwerksatt-linz.at.
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divensplitter
For our Divasplitter section, we spoke to journalist and author Hanah Pool and author and film curator Nadia Denton. Both were at the symposium "Afropea Now" in Linz at the end of September 2014.
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The German film industry is male-dominated - at least when you look at the director's chair. Less than 15 percent of films in cinema and television are made by women. One of the reasons for this is the unequal treatment in the allocation of funding by the state and federal film funding agencies. The recently founded initiative "Pro Quote Regie" wants to draw attention to this situation. The association of over 200 female film and television directors is calling for a quota system in the allocation of funding.
Radio Corax conducted an interview with director
Anette Ernst about Pro Quote Regie - for a quota for women in film funding.
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NEWS
1. female fighters in the comic cosmos: Thor, a gigantic giant and prototype of the masculine hero, will appear as a woman from October - "the one and only Thor". This is the starting point for a report on female comic readers, illustrators and writers. Find out more: http://diestandard.at/2000006487109/Kaempferinnen-im-Comic-Kosmos?ref=nl
2 According to a media report, the social network Facebook and the technology company Apple pay their female employees to freeze their eggs on request in order to postpone having children and thus be able to pursue their careers unhindered. Read more: http://orf.at/m/stories/2249685/ & http://diestandard.at/2000006872635/Es-wird-kaelter-fuer-Frauen
3. Norway introduces compulsory military service for women, first women can be called up from 2016. Compulsory military service gives the army the opportunity to recruit the best and most motivated personnel, according to Norway's Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide. Read more: http://diestandard.at/2000006858330/Norwegen-fuehrt-Wehrpflicht-fuer-Frauen-ein
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From November 14 to 16, 2014 maiz celebrates 20 years of maiz in mourning. A "University of the Ignorant" will be founded. More info: www.maiz.at
On November 17, 2014 at the Kepler Salon - "fem.pop - Is 10% women in Austrian pop music enough?"
Music: CC
Picture: © Petra Moser
