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CALL FOR PROPOSALS - House of African Feminisms 2021

House of African Feminisms (HoAF) is a regional project, aiming at regional exchange & networking of African feminists. This open call invites African artists, collectives and creative practitioners to produce a digital documentary artwork that can be presented on the HoAF website.
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Tumenye Sinema Project launch

The Tumenye Sinema Project officially launched in Musanze on the 19th of May. The main aim of the project is to bring unemployed youth into film related jobs and to create a wide international network of young professionals in the film sector.
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The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.
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Die Bienen sind unterwegs

© Illustration: Celine Buldun & Marta Krus

Granny Trude
Bugs: Protect them, repel them or eat them?

The more buzzing and droning around her, the happier Grandma Trude is. Because she knows that without insects, our species would be in hot water. Fortunately, we can all do a thing or two to protect the useful little critters.

There is now a third gender category in Germany: ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’.

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Intersex
Gender diversity

At the beginning of 2019, population registers in Germany were amended to include a third gender category. The option box is headed ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’, and it was introduced for a dual purpose: to remove the burden from parents faced with deciding an intersex child’s future and to show that being different can also be normal.

Attendees of the "Wikimania" in 2013.

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Reclaiming Space
Expanding Voices from Africa Online

There is more content on “Wikipedia” about France than about all the states of Africa combined. The WikiAfrica Education initiative aims to counter that. Adama Sanneh, co-founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, the organisation which founded this initiative, discusses the importance of adding African languages and histories to online databases and the global discourse.

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Tumenye Sinema Project

The Tumenye Sinema Project officially launched in Musanze on the 19th of May. The main aim of the project is to bring unemployed youth into film related jobs and to create a wide international network of young professionals in the film sector.

Wikipedia Competition cropped

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Decolonize the Internet

If you want to learn how to write, edit and publish articles on Wikipedia, then this is for you!

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Learning feminism from Rwanda

What experiences of female self-determination and equal rights can be found on the continent? What civil society commitments are activists and artists focusing on? "Learning Feminisms" explores these questions in a variety of local and national formats.

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