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Ways to contribute

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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Interview with Terre Thaemlitz

Interview with Terre Thaemlitz

January 25, 2010
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by steffen and verena What do you do? i produce all aspects of my own projects (planning, development, audio, text, design, video, etc.), run a…

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Interview with Julianna Bright (The Quails)

Interview with Julianna Bright (The Quails)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? I play the drums and sing. Please describe your political ideology/standpoint. Idealogically I try to focus on…

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Interview with Bernadette La Hengst

Interview with Bernadette La Hengst

January 25, 2010
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interviews, music

by steffen and verena Was machst du? Ich war von 1990 bis 2000 Sängerin, Gitarristin von “Die Braut haut ins Auge”, einer All Girl Band…

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Interview with Sara Jaffe (Erase Errata)

Interview with Sara Jaffe (Erase Errata)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? I play guitar. Please describe your political ideology/standpoint. I don’t really put a label to it. Does…

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Interview with Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8)

Interview with Lynn Breedlove (Tribe 8)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? yell my own lyrics. Please describe your political ideology/standpoint? queer anarchist. Does your political standpoint influence your…

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Interview with Lindy Morrison (The Go-Betweens)

Interview with Lindy Morrison (The Go-Betweens)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? Drummer Please describe your political ideology/standpoint? Left of centre Does your political standpoint influence your music? I…

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Interview with Jean Smith (Mecca Normal)

Interview with Jean Smith (Mecca Normal)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? I am the lyricist and singer. Sometimes I play guitar. I do booking and publicity. Along with…

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Interview with Aliccia Berg Bollig (Slumber Party)

Interview with Aliccia Berg Bollig (Slumber Party)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? I started a band called Slumber Party in Detroit in 1999. Please describe your political ideology/standpoint? I…

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Interview with Greg Saunier (Deerhoof)

Interview with Greg Saunier (Deerhoof)

January 25, 2010
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? I do many things – sing, play drums, play other instruments, write music, record, mix, produce, drive,…

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Interview with Kevin Blechdom

Interview with Kevin Blechdom

July 25, 2009
by admin
interviews, music

by steffen and verena What do you do? I play solo singing songs, playing banjo and keyboards, and programming my computer before and during the…

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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.

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