FULL TIME FEMINIST

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Feminist Training Camp in Berlin

Feminist Training Camp – 21 May – 24 June 2016 // Opening: 20 May 2016

Oranienstraße 25 10999 Berlin, Germany

Exhibition space: Daily 12–19h / Wed-Fr until 20h

Full program:

Wake up! This is station 2016 on your dial. If you can’t find it then you’re in trouble, sister. – Born in Flames, 1983

Wassan Ali, Bini Adamczak & Konstanze Schmitt, Anna Bromley, Cinenova Feminist Film and Video Distributor / Karolin Meunier & Sandra Schäfer, COOL FOR YOU, Kajsa Dahlberg, Athena Farrokhzad, Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe Berlin / Julia Bonn & Alice Münch & Inga Zimprich, Feminist Repair Café / Elisa Garrote Gasch, Annie Goh, Minna Henriksson, International Women’s Space, Karolina Kucia, Las Hipókritas, Lowkick Tag Team, Peer Projekt / Hydra, Iris Rajanayagam, Noha Ramadan, reboot.fm / Diana McCarty, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Sabrina Saase & Lanca, Nora Sternfeld, Dominika Trapp & Virág Bogyó, MC Xuparina, Andrea Zarza & Miranda Iossifidis a.o.

A message from the future is warning us that time is running out. In the past years Europe’s colonial continuities and deeply rooted fascist practices have come to the fore in ever more frightening ways. Resistance is now crucial. We urgently need to revive old and develop new feminist and anti-fascist strategies of resistance and survival.

What training do we need? No play proposes a structure, a temporal, spatial and social architecture that turns the exhibition space of nGbK into a resource, a site of activity and exchange in the shape of a Feminist Training Camp.

The Training Camp stems from a queer understanding of feminism with a strong  emphasis on grassroots models of collective organization, knowledges based in lived experience and the handling of daily oppressions. A space for disagreement and negotiation that can create a situated public considered political. For this, an intersectional understanding of how categories such as gender, race, class, ability, and sexual orientation are intertwined in oppressive power structures is necessary.

More info here

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Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) was a Chinese-American scientist who made important contributions to the field of nuclear physics. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, and for separating uranium metal into isotopes. These achievements led to her two male colleagues winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.

After finishing her initial studies in China, she moved to the US and studied at Berkeley, where she completed her PhD. She was then a research professor at Columbia University. She was the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton, and the first female president of the American Physical Society.

[full-time-feminist]

A 2014 talk by Adrian Piper on the women’s movement and feminist history at the National Academy of Art in Oslo.

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Is there a sexist data crisis? - BBC News

There is a "black hole" in our knowledge of the lives of women and girls around the world, campaigners say, because no-one is collecting the relevant data.

SEXIST DATA CRISIS - via BBC News

[full-time-feminist]

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

A fantastic collection of recordings with American women 1963-82, part of the Pacifica Radio Archives:

https://archive.org/details/Pacifica_radio_archives_NHPRC1_American&tab=about

The American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 collection includes 2,024 reel-to-reel tapes and 2,024 WAV files preserved as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives’ 2013-2016 “American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982” (“American Women”) preservation project. The recordings were selected as an “artificial collection” to document the Women’s movement and second-wave feminism as it was broadcast on the Pacifica network. The collection also includes recordings that, though they weren’t about feminism or women’s rights, are significant because they were produced by women or featured women important to American history and culture at that time. 

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New Yorkers File Emergency Lawsuit To Give Voting Rights Back To 3.2 Million People

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10 Things You Can Do for Transgender Day of Visibility

(from transstudent.org)

Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is a day to show your support for the trans community! It aims to bring attention to the accomplishments of trans people everywhere while fighting cissexism and transphobia by spreading understanding of trans people. Unlike Transgender Day of Remembrance, this is not a day for mourning: this is a day to be empowered and give the recognition trans folks deserve! Visibility is not about being seen as an individual: it’s working together to transform society.

Learn more about TDOV here

1. Go to Local Transgender Day of Visibility Events

There are TDOV events all around the world! Attending one in your community not only shows your support but can inspire others to do the same! You can also join the Facebook event and use #TDOV or #MoreThanVisibility on social media. 2. Learn About Trans history

Did you know that trans women of color were on the front lines of Stonewall? That a transgender man helped fund the New Age Movement? That a transgender woman exposed the U.S. government’s war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan? Our history is full of interesting facts and events!

3. Support Trans-Led Organizations

Less than 10% of grants going to LGBTQ organizations go to trans ones. Many trans organizations run on donations from people like you! The following are five trans organizations run by and for trans people that you can donate to: 1. Sylvia Rivera Law Project 2. Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project 3. Trans Justice Funding Project 4. Trans Student Educational Resources 5. Trans Women of Color Collective 4. Don’t Out Your Trans Friends

It may be Transgender Day of Visibility but sometimes trans folks don’t want to be or aren’t safe being visible. Always ask first! 5. Know the Differences Between Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Sex Assigned at Birth, Sexuality, and Emotional Attraction

Also know to ALWAYS refer to a trans person by their gender identity and not their sex assigned at birth. Gender is also much more complicated than the sex/gender/sexuality distinction. Learn more here. 6. Recognize the Intersections of Transness and Other Identities

This includes race, sexuality, class, disability, citizenship, etc. Recognition does not just entail acknowledgment, it means action and centering trans women of color. 7. Make Women’s Spaces Encompassing of Trans Women

If you have access to women’s spaces, make sure it is not exclusionary of trans women! Whether it’s a women’s college, party, or music event, trans women are women and deserve to be part of these spaces. Also recognize that we need more than inclusion: the entire space must be rethought in how it perpetuates transmisogyny.  8. Learn Trans Terminology

Trans language is always changing and important to know. You can learn some trans terminology here. 9. Tell People When They Say Something Transphobic or Cissexist

This may be calling out, calling in, or a different form of recognition. Accountability is vital for our community! 10. Celebrate – and Fight for – Trans Lives

This is Transgender Day of Visibility, it’s the time for education, empowerment, and action! Join the celebration! Start a protest! Host a movie night! Organize a rally! Make the world a better place for transgender people.

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Transfeminisms

Great conversation on trans- and sex worker-inclusive feminisms with Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack on James Butler’s show for Novara Media earlier this year.

You can listen here:

http://novaramedia.com/2015/02/trans-feminisms-roz-kaveney-ellis-suzanna-slack/

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BIBLIOTECA FEMINISTA

A great resource for Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian language books on feminism and gender-related topics.

http://bibliotecafeminista.tumblr.com/

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TRANSGRESSION: bell hooks at The New School

bell hooks scholar-in-residence events at The New School, Oct 3-10, 2015:

http://events.newschool.edu/event/bellhooksTNS_Transgression#.Vg6Zb2SeDGc

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SPEAKING FROM PRISON

Talk with Avery F. Gordon, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Alev Adil & Rana Dasgupta on the history of political imprisonment and the prison state apparatus. Event recorded at the HKW in Berlin on Sept 30th, 2015. 

https://voicerepublic.com/talks/speaking-from-prison

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SHOCK TREATMENT

Performance artist Karen Finley on current issues and the 25th anniversary edition of her classic Shock Treatment. Article by Sarah Toce

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com

(from: Windy City Times)

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BLUESTOCKINGS LAUNCHES CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN

NYC feminist bookstore Bluestockings has launched a crowdfunding campaign - to find out more and to contribute, please click here:

http://bluestockings.com/about/bluestockings-signs-new-5-year-lease/

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LENNY LETTER

New email newsletter by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner promises to be a spunky smorgasbord of feminism, politics & lifestyle. You can sign up here:

http://lennyletter.com/

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the PEN World Voices Festival, 5/10/15

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GUT FEMINISM

Elizabeth A. Wilson’s new book Gut Feminism is now out by Duke University Press:

https://www.dukeupress.edu/gut-feminism

"There is still something about biology that remains troublesome for feminist theory, ' writes Elizabeth Wilson, in Gut Feminism. This vigorous, rigorous, and riveting book not only asks what biology might do for feminist understandings of affect, illness, mood, and agency; it makes a searingly powerful case for an unashamed embrace of feminist aggression. A wonderful pedagogical experience."-- Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism

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New weekly series on gender research in German newspaper Tagespiegel

Issue 4 of new weekly gender research series: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/serie-gender-in-der-forschung-4-riskante-ideale-von-maennlichkeit/12349972.html