Media activist (paper tiger TV as well as Canal+)
and feminist, I've been running several lists and
forums, one of them with the feminist group "les
chiennes de garde". I'm a professor at l'Ecole
Nationale Superieure des beaux arts de Dijon,
France.
In the fench context, feminism was almost extinct
from public visibility until the late 90's. This
changed with the group "les chiennes de garde" .
I set up their website, the maillinglist was soon
overflowing, hence set up a php forum. This
answared to a need I didn't expected to that
extend. It soon became a highly discursive space
on feminist issues in french, a rare thing. All
level of discussion found their place (and I set
other type of soft, for different type/speed of
dicussion). Moderators were coopted from the
forum, and 3 years later & manay adventures there
were 8 of us around the clock on it.
However, as I opened what I though was the much
needed women-cyber-cafe-online, turn out to be a
propaganda tool for victimized feminism, who
advocated abolition of prostitution as our
minister of interior was currently running
prostitutes under ground.
Question I am interested in :
- Is there other experiences of public
collaborations who manage to survive and still
remaining technically "open" (no pseudonyms, no
registrations, no trace route·), and if so, how ?
- How did people dealt with propagandists (not
only trolls, easier to deal with) ?
- how did people dealt with the over
visibility/power aquired by the ones who master
language (and theory) and only on that formal
basis ?
- how to build up knowledge and not start all
over again each time new comer arrive (beyond the
faq system).
voila voila
a+
nathalie