"squeezed up"

On November 4, 2013, the Autonomous Women's Center hosted a discussion on the topic of sex work. "Legal, illegal or doesn't matter?" was the question posed to representatives of the Viennese association "Feminist Discourse" and activists from maiz, the autonomous center by and for migrant women in Linz. They dealt with questions such as:

Literature is an obsession - Interview with the poet Ann Cotten

We're in a bubbly celebratory mood: author Julya Rabinovic is the winner of the Marianne von Willemer Prize, The Empress Club has invited Feral is Kinky to a pre-concert lecture, a film about feminism has been released and FIFTITU% is 15 years old. Glamorous October!

"queered up"
On Thursday, October 24, the Marianne von Willemer Prize was awarded in the Old Town Hall. The Women.literature. Marianne von Willemer Prize is intended to recognize high-quality works by female writers and to help women gain a foothold in the local literary scene.

On September 6, the campaigning parties discussed the topic "What do the parties promise women? - What do women expect from the parties?" at the University of Art and Design Linz.
The event was hosted by the Autonomous Women's Center. We have summarized what came out of it in an article.

There was also a discussion about queerfeminist music in Austria. Radio FRO invited people to take part on September 14 as part of Willis Musikmarkt.
Christina Nemec, Birgit Michlmayr, Ulrike Mayer and Valarie Serbest as presenter talked about chauvinism in the music industry, but also about opposing trends.

At the beginning of July, FIFTITU% hosted a feminist boat trip on the Danube for the second time. The "traveling merchants" met to discuss the topic of activist knowledge. Marty Huber, Gin Müller and activists from maiz discussed together with activists from the Refugee Camp Vienna. Fellow travelers were also invited to collect, trade and exchange knowledge. There were three topics to choose from: "activist techniques", "queerfeminist strategies" and "media of self-determined protest". You can listen to the second part of the panel discussion on dortTV. Moderated by Roswitha Kröll, the following activists had their say: Tanja Araujo, Marty Huber, Marissa Lobo, Gin Müller and Xhejlane Rexhepi.

The ARGE "lustvoll böse" is an association of Upper Austrian cultural initiatives, (queer) feminists and (queer) feminist men

The aim of ARGE is to question and make visible patriarchal-white-heteronormative structures that are reflected in public space, to empower and reinterpret them performatively

Content considerations/objectives

making patriarchal-white-heteronormative structures visible, empowering and performatively reinterpreting them
be lustfully evil
network in the regions & form conspiratorial cells

be lustfully evil

Here you can find the article by Rosi Kröll in the Radio FRO programme booklet N°9 with the focus on accessibility: From the perspective of language, the everyday reality of making radio or within an organization. Gunter Trübswasser and Andi Wahl, Manuela Mittermayer, Sabina Köfler and FIFTITU% worked on the main topic.

The magazine is also available as audio magazine

In 2011, FIFTITU% focused on equality policies. The FIFTITU% annual program with the motto "We are not all equal, but some are more equal" came to an end at the afo - Architekturzentrum OÖ. The last series of events focused on queerversity, image politics and artistic interventions in public space.
A subjective report.

Popular fantasies

Do you have what it takes to be an honorary citizen? A cultural initiative aims to increase the number of women honored

"Kunstorte in Genderperspektive", September 5 - 8, 2001 in Bielefeld (FRG)

Report by Michaela Schoissengeier on her participation in the expert workshop

The idea of the workshop was to contribute to the exchange between female visual artists, cultural scientists and cultural workers from Central and Eastern Europe, North America, South America and South Africa and to create the conditions for a comprehensive research project on the working situation of female visual artists in different countries and continents.