Feminism
#Betweeners
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
#Living Archives
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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Not a Matter of the Past
How lesbian feminist tactics and strategies can help us overcome struggles of today.
#Epistemic Activism
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Once an Assistant, Always an Assistant
How AI representation is stuck in the gendered past.
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#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?
#Designing Resistance
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“They are killing us”
How Peruvian designers are reshaping the way we see femicide.
#Feminist Curricula
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Design and Gender Studies at FADU, Buenos Aires.
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Publishing is Being Present
How Maria Lamas surreptitiously used a fashion weekly to resist the dictatorship, question gender norms and encourage emancipation.
#Feminist Findings
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A Letter from the Future
Connecting across time and space with the team behind Berlin’s Courage magazine.
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Pen Pal Plots
A fictional American woman‘s correspondence with three memorable cover girls that graced the magazine Soviet Woman.
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Some Serious Surprises
A list of articles on feminist publishing in the 1980s feminist art magazine Chrysalis.
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Follow the Money
Questioning the politics of the US funding of Lebanese women’s studies journal Al-Raida.
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Iterative at Heart
Spare Rib’s continuously shifting design found a middle-ground between mainstream and counterculture.
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As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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The Void
What the lack of documentation on Feminist Yiddish periodicals brings to light.
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Feminism. What’s In a Word?
Reclaiming the keyword for women’s liberation from misogynistic nineteenth-century French literature.
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“What Do You Think History Is?”
A brief conversation with Liza Cowan, editor of 1970s lesbian separatist periodical DYKE A Quarterly.
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Torn in Two Directions
The journal making space for Muslim women’s voices during France’s notorious “veil affair.”
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Another Aspekt of Feminism
The 1990s journal that made feminist writing available in Slovakia for the first time.
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The Courage to Take Space
What can mapping the 1970s Women’s Movement in Germany tell us about feminism today?
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A Writer Is a Woman Who Writes
The ways Iowa City’s Common Lives/Lesbian Lives attracted its various voices.
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Whose Agenda?
The complex, contradictory first decade of South Africa’s academic journal about gender and activism.
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Financing Feminism Through Beads and Brioche
In the late 70s in Paris, an underground salon disguised itself as a tearoom to smuggle subversive ideas.
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Every One Page
A poem honoring the person who scanned all 27 issues of Heresies magazine.
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Finding Serendipity
Starting a feminist history of Swiss graphic design by calling up a neighbor.
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Is It Sexy or Satire?
How a British publishing empire capitalized on the women’s movement in the late 60s.
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A Many-Headed Monster
Comparing the oppression and empowerment of Asian American women in magazine Gidra and movie Crazy Rich Asians.
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
#Feminist Findings
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To All My Sisters Inside,
How lesbian arts journal Sinister Wisdom falls into the hands (and minds) of womxn loving womxn in prison.
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“Every Book We Do is Special”
Urvashi Butalia on co-founding India’s first feminist press.
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The Proverbial Cat of Publishing
On the appearances and disappearances of a New Orleans newspaper for women.
#LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.
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More Than Just a Typo
Looking back at the 1930s Tunisian feminist journal Leïla, starting with its header.
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Finding Community in the Past
Discovering a 1980s San Francisco newsletter for and by Asian/Pacific lesbians.
