squeezed up
We conducted a telephone interview with Ugla Stefanía Jónsdóttir from Iceland. She is an international activist for LGBTI* rights. Ugla Stefanía is part of the organization Trans Ísland, organization for transgender people in Iceland, as well as part of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO). We spoke to her about visibility, the legal situation and violence against transgender people.
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Breaking the news
"#ausnahmslos" is an online campaign against media agitation against migrants and for greater awareness of sexual violence against women. The German journalist and political scientist Antje Schrupp is one of the authors of this appeal. Radio Corax from Halle spoke to her about sexual violence against women and the ethnicization of a social grievance.
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Bruised up
Bianca Miglioretto from Radio LoRa visited a women's media camp in Denmon Island, Canada, last summer. As part of the camp, she also visited the traveling exhibition "Walking with our Sisters". This talks about 1200 indigenous women who have either been reported missing or murdered in Canada over the last 30 years.
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NEWS "5-2 Minutes"- feminist news
For the first time in Germany, a museum is devoting itself to the comparatively new topic of "queer" comics: that is, comics with LGBTI* characters. The Schwules Museum Berlin tells the story of queer comic book heroes in an exhibition. The focus is on "superheroes", which does not just mean the usual supermen and women who have experienced coming-out stories in US mainstream comics in recent years. Rather, it is also about showing how heroic everyday stories of LGBTI* people can be, who have had to or still have to assert themselves in a heteronormative world - including a comic world dominated by censorship and codes. The show can be seen until June 26, 2016.
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served and decorated
On February 8, 2016, Feminism and Riot will once again be hosting a DJ protest lab. From 5pm to 8pm there will be a sound technology workshop with Sabina Schöberl and from 8pm to midnight there will be open decks at KUBA // Wienerstraße 127 // in Linz //. The technical workshop and open decks are reserved for women*, but the dancefloor and meeting are open to everyone. www.feminismus-krawall.at
On March 8, it's International Women's Day and Feminism and Riot is celebrating again! The next planning meeting for Feminism and Riot on March 8, 2015 will take place on January 28, 2016 // in the Time-based Living Room (Kollegiumgasse 2, 4th floor) - and more info in the 52Radiominutes in February!
The music in the show comes from the compilation Riot Grrrl is not Dead!
