On 5/31/12 11:45 PM, koltzenb...@w4w.net wrote:
Hi Sarah, hi @all,
thank you, Sarah, for this new thread
and thank you for sharing your activitities with us, I particularly like the
teahouse :-)
Yeah! Glad you like the Teahouse. I can't wait to share the data with
people and explore more ways to get it in the hands of women who need
help editing!
at the annual meeting that picks up a 1920s Berlin tradition of lesbians who
meet over the extended
weekend of Whitsuntide, we met in Nuremberg (city of human rights) this year
for another fabulous self-
organized non-commercial bunch of worshops, plenary sessions, cultural
programme and a manifestation in
downtown Nuremberg - and all of this in 90% barrier-free arrangements, one of
the acknowledged hallmarks
of this meeting, called LFT (Lesben-Fruehlings-Treffen, lesbian spring
meetings)
I love how you always share information about these gatherings. I do
think that German lesbians surely must be the most active when it comes
to intellectual gatherings, merely based on all the activities you share
with us.
for the first time, a Wikipedia workshop was held (initiated by me and
spontaneously co-moderated by a
visually-impaired translesbian colleague), with 8 participants
Wow. I'd love to learn more about how a visually impaired translesbian
participated and what she shared about editing Wikipedia.
for a short round-up of what Lesbenfruehling meetings are doing to promote
transparency
and openness also in other respects:
the meeting also included a panel discussion on the current situation for
lesbians in neighbouring countries
like Croatia (to be joining the EU in July 2013), Poland (EU member since
2004), Hungary (EU member since
2007) and Russia (member country of the Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/
that is human rights-
related), with Poland clearly on the upside, Croatia almost, and Russia and
Hungary on servere downsides,
with Russian regional parliaments having introduced explicitly homo- and
transphobic bills that we are
fighting against in international solidarity. By way of an example, our panel
speakers from Croatia belong to
the team who form the lesbian feminist mixed choir Le Zbor (www.lezbor.com)
and the last song of their
evening programme was from Russia and sung in Russian. We also had workshops
dedicated more
specifically to the situation in Russia and Hungary and in Germany, e.g. on an
initiative to finally put up a
specifically lesbian memorial stone on the site of the former concentration
camp Ravensbrueck that was
women only. At the downtown rally we read out the names of known lesbian
individuals that died because
of persecution during the Nazi regime (i.e. those who could not or did not want
to leave the country early
enough in those years).
Wow, sounds really moving and powerful the work that people are aiming
towards. The unification of these womyn is pretty amazing!
this is just to give you an example of how LFT meetings work on a culture of
openness that I think is close to
what Wikipedia is aiming at, too,
Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing as always Claudia!
-Sarah
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