I will give a workshop on Saturday October 15th on how to make feminist posters. The posters of the Feminist Poster Project can be shown as good examples.

The Zine Fest will take place in Gent (Belgium). It is organised by FEL and ECHO.

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What? “Again politicians in Poland wanna make the antiabortion law even more strict”

Language: Polish

Copyleft? copyleft

Download: aborcja (pdf)

An exhibition that sounds interesting to me, about 2-colour DIY print design (Can be an interesting technique for feminist posters as well!) :

Risografia exhibits prints by 24 Belgian and international artists. Everyone of them made a design in red and blue on A3 size for a one-color Riso-printer (RP 3700). The paper ran through the machine twice, once in red and once in blue ink. The results can be seen at Risografia in DOK, a new creative meeting space in the Belgian city Gent.

Topo Copy is a centre for print, paper, zines, etc that still has to be founded. The plan is to start workshops, talks, exhibitions, a label, a shop, a work space and more. I’m curious to see it in practice!

This project is a collaboration of Ladda vzw and El Topo, a street artist and graphic designer.

Where? in DOK in Gent (Belgium)

When? until July 24th 2011

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What? “Women’s Day postcard made in 2011”

Language: English

Copyleft: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Download: postcards-x4-haveahappywomensday (pdf)

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What? “An ode to the feminist group Bunnies On Strike who were active in the Netherlands in the 2000s. Made for Shape & Situate #2 zine.”

Language: English

Copyleft: Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Download: bunniesonstrike-posterA4 (pdf)

Made by: Trouble X

What? “easy and quick to use readymade stickers for leaving a feminist (and/or other) mark on advertisement and/or locations – just choose/add what you want to say and stick it up wherever you like and/or on whatever annoys you – against sexism, rassism, anti-semitism, homophobia, lookism and other oppressions!”

Language: German, English

Copyleft: Licence Creative Commons BY NC ND

Download: sheet_english_black_and_white (pdf) sheet_english_pink (pdf) sheet_german_black_and_white (pdf) sheet_german_pink (pdf) sticker_german_black_and_white (pdf) sticker_german_pink (pdf)

Made by: Coco Riot

What? “Using bathroom signs forms, the Genderpoo project aims to question the public who and how we belong to society standards and to pay a homage to every one and each of these identities, communities and people who fight for social justice and anti-oppression values. As long as there will be organizers and social fighters, the project will be growing, happy not to be ever done. Coco Riot attacks binary systems that divide individuals in two categories: normal/others.
Genderpoo started as a project that wanted to question the social division of man/woman, using restrooms as metaphors of the social western binary system of gender, and it has evolved into a more ambitious project growing under anti-oppression values. This project was born out of Coco’s personal experience on public washrooms, and it grows and evolves through discussions with different friends and people living different realities. For now, Coco has created more than 80 different bathroom signs and animation film. They are very simple signs that do not aim to represent the whole complexities of peoples struggles. This is a never ending project, as our understanding of oppressions and privileges is a never-ending process. Communities and experiences in Genderpoo are not represented as victims, this a homage to their/our struggle and fight.”

Language: /

Copyleft:

Download: 69POC (pdf) fauteuil (pdf) femmepoilue (pdf) hiv (pdf) kingPOC (pdf) nonne (pdf) question (pdf) transgender (pdf) sirena (pdf) genderpoostickers1 (stickersheet all except femmepoilue in pdf) genderpoostickers2 (stickersheet femmepoilue in pdf)

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What? “I’m pregnant but it’s me who decides what in my belly”

Language: French

Copyleft: Licence Creative Commons BY NC ND

Download: ds_le_ventre_v2_CMYB (colour, French, pdf) ds_le_ventre_v2_NB (black & white, French, pdf) ds_le_ventre_in_grembo_NB (black & white, Italian, pdf)

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What? Ceci n’est pas une femme: “This is not a woman”

Language: French

Copyleft: Licence Creative Commons BY NC ND

Download: Anatomy-pas-une-femme-CMYB (pdf)

Shape & Situate Exhibition: To celebrate the launch of the second issue of Shape & Situate, Melanie Maddison will be exhibiting a collection of DIY feminist history posters of inspirational women from this awesome zine.

Contributors to Shape & Situate #2 are: Erica Smith, Rachael House, Melanie Maddison, Michelle Mendonca, Anna Knowles, Verity Hall, Kathryn Taylor, Nina Nijsten, Peter Willis, Emily Aoibheann, Ed Webb-Ingall, Cara Corden, Patrick Staff, R Clout, Kathleen Teadrinker, Marylou Anderson, Flo Brooks, Charlotte Cooper, Cendrine Rovini, Gladys Badhands, James Clayton, and John Davison.