Wikipedia:Meetup/justfortherecord/Events/Pink-screens

12.11.2016Pink Screens

Just For The Record presents a new event!
On the occasion of the Pink Screens Festival, Just For The Record proposes a workshop in which the participants are invited to question gender and its representations both on and off the screen.

Together with filmmaker Anne Smolar and members of the Pink Screens’ team, we will go back in the herstory of the festival and highlight lesbian and feminist filmmakers who were part of the festival’s program. We will look at how they are represented on Wikipedia, if they are, and how they are connected to each other. We will follow the thread developed during our last event in Hana Miletić’s exhibition at Beursschouwburg, on (red) links.

The collaborative writing of its contents produces a sort of patchwork of different voices, which represents a potential for diversity. In this digital fabric, how are our voices interweaved? How does this diversity of voices influence the network of subjects represented? Can it help to develop intersectional approaches and go beyond biases inherited from a long history of writing knowledge?

Event details

 * Venue: Muntpunt, Place de la Monnaie 6, 1000 Bruxelles
 * Date: Saturday November 12th 2016
 * Time: 12:00 – 16:30
 * Language: Dutch, English, French
 * Cost: Free
 * Participants: Open to anyone interested in this experience: beginners welcome! débutant(e)s bienvenu(e)s! beginners welkom! Experienced Wikipedia editors will be present and will share their knowledge in editing Wikipedia.
 * What to Bring: Attendees can bring their own laptops and power cords.
 * A temporary library will be set up by the participants who are invited to bring their books and digital documents to share with the others!

What can you do?
During the event, we invite you to contribute to Wikipedia and to the discussions around the gender gap on Wikipedia. You can edit an existing article to improve it, create a new one about a subject that doesn’t exist, but we also highly value the sharing of editing experiences, and ideas about what could make Wikipedia a more welcoming and colorful place!

Open questions:
Here are interrogations we would like to share with you:
 * if Wikipedia can be considered as a tool to re·write history, how would you like it to be written?
 * what is the influence the way we write on the representation of history and its main figures?
 * can writing ever be neutral?

First steps on wikipedia

 * Add your name to the participant list of this event at the bottom of this page
 * Write some informations on your own wiki page by clicking on your user name at the top of the page (so that your name doesn't appear in red when you start editing articles)
 * Write some informations on your Sandbox, also at the top of the page
 * Improve an existing article
 * Create a new article

Articles that need your help!
Here are lists identifying articles that could benefit from edits and expansion:
 * The Art+Feminism list of article to be improved
 * Women Artists, by the Women in Red
 * A list by the project Women in Red
 * Women Artists from all over the world, a list by the Project Women Artists
 * Women scientists, a list by the Project Women Scientists
 * Women writers, a list by the Project Women Writers

Translations

 * These lists mostly link to English Wikipedia, don’t forget your own language’s Wikipedia!

Look for problematic language
The page Writing about women offers great insights. Look for the following problems in existing pages and try to fix them: <!--
 * Man as false generic: Ban the use of the words man, men and mankind to refer to a person or persons of unspecified sex or to persons of both sexes.
 * Male is not the default: Avoid labelling a woman as a female (ex: author, politician etc.), unless her gender is explicitly relevant to the article. An opposite example is saying male nurse.
 * Use surnames: Look for articles using surnames for men, while calling women by their first name. See example
 * Infoboxes are an important source of metadata (see DBpedia) and a source of discrimination against women. For example, the word spouse is more likely to appear in a woman's infobox than in a man's.
 * This is a good and terrifying exercise, try to find a page (that is not) defining women by their relationships in the first paragraph.
 * One study found that women on Wikipedia are more linked to men than men are linked to women.
 * Use gender-neutral nouns when describing professions and positions
 * Try changing the order in which groups are introduced – man and woman, male and female, Mr. and Mrs., husband and wife, brother and sister
 * The use of the generic he (masculine pronouns such as he, him, his) is increasingly avoided in sentences that might refer to men and women.
 * Avoid problematic phrasing when talking about married people. See examples
 * Do not refer to adult women as girls or ladies!
 * Avoid images that objectify women!

Who are your heroines? (please complete!)
Feminists heroines and activists (but also artists and poets in their own way):


 * Adrienne Rich: NL FR
 * Aliaa Elmahdy: NL FR
 * Audre Lorde: NL FR
 * bell hooks: NL FR
 * Elizabeth Kaahumanu: NL FR
 * Fatima Mernissi: NL FR
 * Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 * Harriet Powers: NL FR
 * Harriet Tubman: NL FR
 * Josefa Camejo: NL FR
 * Malala Yousafzai: NL FR
 * María Luisa Cáceres Díaz: NL FR
 * Rosa parks: NL FR
 * Rosario Ibarra de Piedra: NL FR
 * Shirin Ebadi: NL FR
 * Tomoe Gozen: NL FR
 * Tsuda Ume: NL FR
 * Zahra Eshraghi: NL FR

Artists, writers, poets (but also often feminists heroines and activists):


 * Adrian Piper: NL FR
 * Alma Woodsey Thomas: NL FR
 * Assia Djebar: NL FR
 * Ayn Rand: NL FR
 * Betye Saar: NL FR
 * Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: NL FR
 * Dorothee Wong Loi Sing: NL FR
 * Jie Zhang: NL FR
 * Kara Walker: NL FR
 * Lorna Simpson: NL FR
 * Mary Edmonia Lewis: NL FR
 * María Teresa Carreño: NL FR
 * Marína Ivánovna Tsvetájeva: NL FR
 * Maya Angelou: NL FR
 * Nina Simone: NL FR
 * Odetta: NL FR
 * Renee Cox: NL FR
 * Sofía Ímber: NL FR
 * Zora Neale Hurston: NL FR

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Resources for editing

 * Art+Feminism resources
 * Gender gap resources
 * Writing about women
 * Gender neutrality in English
 * Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language
 * the he-she package

Lesbian/queer/feminist/women filmmakers (initiated by Anne Smolar)
To be completed with more filmmakers, more diversity, etc!

Historical directors

 * Carole Roussopoulos
 * Chantal Akerman (BE)
 * Delphine Seyrig
 * Lizzie Borden
 * Monika Treut
 * Ulrike Ottinger
 * Su Friedrich
 * Barbara Hammer (http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC24-25folder/BarbHammerWeiss.html)
 * Germaine Dulac
 * Yvonne Rainer
 * Donna Deitch
 * Andrea Weiss
 * Greta Schiller
 * Dorothy Arzner
 * Sarah Jacobson
 * Alice Guy
 * Cecilia Dougherty
 * Coline Serreau
 * Sadie Benning
 * Lea Pool
 * Annik Leroy (BE)
 * Annie Sprinkle
 * Mary Jimenez (BE)
 * Laura Mulvey (UK +theoricienne)
 * Eva Houdova (BE)
 * Mara Mattuschka
 * Jan Oxenberg (page in French: Jan Oxenberg)
 * Leontine Sagan
 * Lucrecia Martel (arg)
 * Agnes Varda
 * Maya Deren
 * Sara Gómez (cuba)
 * Michelle Parkerson (US)
 * Stephanie Rothman
 * Marguerite Duras
 * Catherine Breillat
 * Marleen Gorris (NL)
 * Vera Chytilová
 * Janie Geiser
 * Shirley Clarke
 * Jane Campion
 * Loredana Bianconi (BE)
 * Martha Rosler

After 1990-…:

 * Cheryl Dunye
 * Rose Troche
 * Virginie Despentes
 * Céline Sciamma
 * Jill Soloway
 * Shirin Neshat (Iran)
 * Anna Margarita Albelo
 * Émilie Jouvet
 * Kelly Reichardt
 * Kim Longinotto
 * Harry Dodge
 * Jamie Babbit
 * Ann Hui (Hong-Kong)
 * Ngozi Onwurah
 * Patricia Rozema
 * Catherine Corsini
 * Angelina Maccarone
 * Tracey Moffatt (Australia)
 * Sally Potter
 * Kika Thorne
 * Gabriella Romano (It)
 * Tami Gold
 * Cecilia Neant Falk
 * Hans Scheirl
 * Ana Kokkinos
 * Pratibha Parmar
 * Jules Rosskam
 * Shu Lea Cheang
 * Catherine Stewart
 * Florence Ayisi (Cameroon)
 * Esther Eng
 * Yoruba Richen
 * Yue-Qing Yang
 * Young-Joo Byun
 * Dee Rees
 * Malika Zouhali-Worrall
 * Campbell X
 * Kortney Ryan Ziegler

Short Films

 * Pauline Boudry
 * Renate Lorenz
 * Les panthères roses
 * Annette Hollywood
 * Laurence Rebouillon
 * Laurence Chanfro
 * Lamathilde
 * Kathy High
 * Annette Hollywood
 * Dayna McLeod
 * K8 Hardy
 * Sonali Gulati (INDIA)
 * Wu Tsang
 * Antonia Baehr

Other female filmmakers of relevance

 * Marina de Van
 * Lucile Hadzihalilovic
 * Naomi Kawase
 * Noémie Lvovsky
 * Delphine and Muriel Coulin

Links
grass roots, early cinema (silent movies), distributors, …


 * YWCA also organize movies evening but not only http://belgium.ywca.be/v1/|ywca or http://www.ywca.org/ or http://www.worldywca.org/

Ideas

 * Hi I thought this idea might be interesting for people to look at. The 1000 articles considered to be the most critical articles any Wikipedia language should contain: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_articles_every_Wikipedia_should_have
 * How to make banners (“message templates”) (like the unbalanced message template) that are more precisely talking a bout gender representations?

Articles improved

 * The page Film director = super unbalanced!!
 * Added an “unbalanced” banner
 * More pictures of women (as there were none) and names of important female film directors that were missing in the notable individuals section.
 * Message on the talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Film_director#Unbalanced_template
 * The page about Ulrike Ottinger had several problematic parts
 * in Personal life: “She is the daughter of the artist-painter Ulrich Ottinger” into “Her mother, Maria Weinberg, was a journalist and her father, Ulrich Ottinger, was a painter.”
 * in Personal life: mention that she was openly a lesbian.
 * Link to Delphine Seyrig
 * On the page Delphine Seyrig, mention that she was a feminist + “She also directed with Carole Roussopoulos an adaptation of the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas.”
 * On the page Carole Roussopoulos, added a link to the SCUM Manifesto.
 * Improved the French page of Inés Suárez

Articles created

 * Creation of the English page Émilie Jouvet (her movie Too Much Pussy! had a page but not her)

Still in need of care!

 * Women's cinema: “Most of the distinguished female directors have avoided any association with cinema in the hesitation of marginalization and ideological controversy.” ?
 * Inés Suárez
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Annik_Leroy needs improvement to be able to stay!! “This draft has been resubmitted and is currently awaiting re-review.”
 * create a new a category / message banner “filmmaker that need attention”

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