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Feminoteka was established in 2001, as a feminist information service and bookstore. From the very beginning, this initiative has been independent from any organization or institution, yet it has been co-operating with many of them.
On October 10, 2005 Feminoteka has been turned into Foundation and legally registered as such.
The aims of the Foundation are:
1) to act for the elimination of sex-based discrimination in literature, culture, arts and public life;
2) to support and publicize women’s and gender issues, as well as feminism;
3) to promote authors and publications devoted to broadly understood women’s issues;
4) to promote equality of women and men;
5) to combat violence against women;
6) to combat sex-based discrimination;
7) to support women’s participation in public and political life;
8) to liquidate barriers preventing women from accessing knowledge about new technologies;
9) to spread knowledge about new technologies among women.
Feminoteka is achieving its goals through the following programmes:
Information programme
- Running daily Internet information service containing information about the most important events and activities concerning equality of women and men, discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation or religion; organizing different activities and meetings;
- Preparing newsletter and sending it to subscribers;
- Promoting and taking matronage over the most interesting, in our opinion, events related to equality issues.
Programme of equality on the Labour market
- Feminoteka Foundation is a partner in Gender Index project, realized in the framework of the EU EQUAL initiative. Within the project, Feminoteka is responsible for an awareness-rising campaign, workshops for employers and regional debates devoted to the issue of equality of women and men on the labour market.
Training programme
Feminoteka is organizing workshops on the following issues:
- gender
- equality
- WenDo – combating violence against women
- establishing and running NGOs
- co-operation of NGOs with local authorities
Cultural progamme
- Organizing meetings with authors, as well as devoted to books and/or authors;
- Writing books rewievs
- Running Internet bookstore, established to promote information about authors, books, magazines etc., connected with broadly understood women’s issues. All the income from the bookstore is supporting realization of the aims of Feminoteka Foundation.
Feminoteka:
Co-organized Mia100 Kobiet Women’s Festiwal In 2001 and 2002;
Supported following women’s groups, NGOs, women’s and equality initiatives in creating their websites:
- Akcja Akacja (Akacja Action)
- Śląska Strefa Gender (Silesian Gender Zone)
- Porozumienie Kobiet 8. Marca (8 March Women’s Alliance)
- Astra Network
- Fundacja Rodzić po Ludzku
- Supernova
- WenDo
- Kampania społecznej Tiszert dla Wolności (T-shirt for Freedom Campaign)
- Stowarzyszenie Liderów Lokalnych Grup Obywatelskich (Local Citizen Gropus Leaders Association)
Organized a meeting devoted to Sarah Waters and her books in le Madame club (2005).
Feminoteka took matronage over the following books/CDs and publications:
"Pogrzeby" by Tomasz Białkowski (issued by Stowarzyszenie Artystyczno-Kulturalne „Portret”)
"Lesbijki w życiu społeczno-polityczym" (issued by Fundacja Lorga)
"Kobiecy eunuch" Germaine Greer (issued by Rebis)
"Muskając Aksamit" Sarah Waters (issued by Prószyński i S-ka),
"Coming out. Ujawnienie orientacji psychoseksualnej" by Agata Engel-Bernatowicz, Aleksandra Kamińska (issued by Anka Zet Studio).
"Sukisukom", a CD by a feminist hip-hop group Duldung
Feminist calendar for 2006
Feminoteka supports/supported:
Diversity”, a competition organised by Motorola, aiming at increasing a number of women software engineers working in Motorola’s software centers around the world (2005-2006);
Family bounds” initiative, a part of 16 Days against VAW (2005);
Virtual game “Contraception”, prepared by informal group “Grzenda” (2005);
Cause this bitch provoked me”, action devoted to combating sexual violence against women, designed by the feminist fraction of Twozywo Group, which was a part of 16 Days against VAW (2005);
Other activities:
Feminoteka has issued feminist postcards designed by Twozywo Group and it’s collaborators: Anna Pochmara, Kasia Piwko and Magda Gryszko.
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