The transnational queer underground is a project, which wants your voices to be heard. The private is political and everybody can write and create. We all should have the possibility to help shaping the world that surrounds us.

That is why I’m looking for your participation:

You want to interview a local musician/artist?
Write a concert/record/book/film review?
Let me know what and where.

You are organizing an event in you city and want more people to know about it?
Send an announcement.

You want to contribute pictures/drawings/illustrations to the articles?
Send them!

Also I would hate for this to be just an eurocentric page. I know that the situation for people that don’t fit into the heteronormative mainstream society is harder in some places than in others and people can’t always show their preferred way of life in public - wherever they are. But this is why writing for a transnational webmagazine might be a good way of letting more people in other parts of the world know about the situation in your area. There are many ways to contribute and I’m happy about any suggestion!

And please don’t hesitate, because you haven’t published anything before or you think that your english is not perfect. Don’t ever let anybody tell you there’s something you can’t do. You will get more confidence once you’ve started.

!!!LOOKING FOR CONTRIBUTIONS!!!
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Berlin Femme Show – march 15th

Berlin Femme Show – march 15th

March 12, 2012 · by admin · in events

Fem(me)inista productions, in association with the Berlin Femme Mafia present:
The Berlin Femme Show 2012

At long last, it is our great pleasure to present the second Berlin Femme Show!

You are invited to Lido for a fabulous evening showcasing the very best of queer femme creative talent! The evening begins in a relaxed and elegant way with a spoken word salon complete with delicious femme catering by Ohlàlà Tartes-shop, followed by a breathtaking & sexy cabaret! After the cabaret will be DJs and dancing late into the night.

This event is also a fundraiser & launch party for Dressed Like That zine: feminine voices on sexism in the queer community.

Performances by: Alexander Alvina Chamberland, Annie Good, Margaret Steenblock, Lady Gaby, Marsmaedchen, Candy Tricks, Mimi Monstroe, Rosebutt, Emy Femme, Hedi Mohr, Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Goldie Dartmouth, Lipstick Terrorist, Mademoiselle Kla, Yvette Bathory, Kay P. Rinha, Glittertrash, Lyndsey Cockwell, Femme Fraktionen and more!

Plus djs:
Marsmaedchen
Very Serious
Lisalotta P
MC Xuparina

Where: Lido, Cuvrystraße 7, Ubahn: Schlesisches Tor
Spoken word show: 7pm
Cabaret Show: 10pm
DJs & Dancing: 00.30
Cost: Sliding scale €4-€8 (Please give what you can!)

http://margretsteenblock.com/en/who.html

http://www.myspace.com/liadland

http://lipstickterrorist.wordpress.com/

www.emmacorbettashby.co.uk/

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The “transnational queer underground” emerged as a reference to the “international pop underground”, a convention initiated by Calvin Johnston (K Records/Portland/USA) in 1991 to take a stand against the sell-out of the music industry and also laid the foundation for the riot grrrl movement. In 2009 I was doing a lot of research on issues related to queer music for an article I was writing at that time and thought that the information I collected might be useful to some other people as well.

The articles that are posted here are mostly related to music, since that is my main topic, but as more and more people participate and help shaping the transnational queer underground I hope we will soon be able to offer a broader range of subjects. And I am always looking for people who would like to contribute something, either on a regular basis or just once. Go to the [PARTICIPATION] section to find out more.

Besides articles you can also find some basic information here. In the category [BANDS] there is a list of queer musicians, with links to their websites, so you can find out more about them. In the category [ARTISTS] you can find links to some visual artists. There are also a lot of queer [FILM FESTIVALS] worth checking out. [QUEER VENUES] offers you a list of places to go to in different cities around the world, recommended by people from those areas. In the [TEXTS] section you can find some links to (scientific) publications that are available on the internet. Finally there is a page called [LINKS] which I will have to work on in the near future to get a better structure.

There are a few things that are very important to me.
The history of queers has been widely neclected in the past and is still underrepresented in the present. So this is a small approach towards changing that.
The term queer, as used on this page, should be seen as a description for people or a group of people who do not act conforming to heteronormative rules and/or feel uncomfortable with categories implemented through a heteronormative society. This also means that there should be no references to biologisms, because they are constructed by society. There is nothing inherent about being a girl or a boy and you shouldn’t even have to define as either of these two, so there really is no need in reinforcing these categories here. And I see this the same way when it comes to sexual orientation, RACE, ethnicity or even nation states. We should question these categories and help deconstructing, instead of reproducing them.