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After around ten months of an all-male government in the Upper Austrian state parliament, we have finally "got" a woman* in Upper Austria. The new Upper Austrian SPÖ leader Birgit Gerstorfer was also sworn in as a state councillor at the beginning of July.
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June 2 was declared International Whores' Day in reference to the sex workers' movement in France. On June 2, 1975, around 150 sex workers went on strike in Lyon (France), occupying a church and initiating a high-profile action that is considered to be one of the key initial impulses for the European sex workers' movement
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On March 8th is International Women's Day, we spoke to Ngueda Pauline, Tam Wenifred Starh and Nsambang Syluiane from the association ACAMASAL about their program for this day.
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On November 30, 2015, the Marianne.von.Willemer Prize was awarded by the City of Linz for the eighth time in the Old City Hall. The prize is an award for high-quality works by female writers and is intended to help women gain a foothold in the local literary scene
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Michèle, Fränzi, Sus and Muda - Les Reines Prochaines - were at the Posthof at the end of October 2015 as part of the event "Feminism and Humor". Rosvita Kröll conducted an interview with the queens. They talked about their music, ageing and their project "Fremde Torten im falschen Paradies".