Introducing to Pikaramagazine.com (part 1)

http://www.pikaramagazine.com/ is an online media, created five years ago by a group of young journalists from the Basque Country. We wanted to offer quality non sexist journalism, because women are still a minority in mainstream media, where we find a lot of sexist clichés yet.
I think we have made a difference because we offer fresh perspectives and an original iconography, so we have become attractive to a large public and not only for people who already are committed feminists.
In Spain, a lot of people think that feminists are angry women who hate men, they call us feminazis. We say that we have strong reasons to be angry, but we are more than that. We talk about sex, we have sense of humor and we don't want to be portrayed as victims. I mean that mainstream media talk about gender violence, but generally they caracterise victimis as weak and coward women who are unable to scape from that.
Feminism is our point of view, but we write about all kind of topics: human rights, sports, music... We talk about women's rights, about abortion, gender violence, empowerment... but we also care about racism, homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, masculinity... We try to offer intersectional approaches, also talking about our privileges as european, middle-class, white women.
Related to this concern, we have developed another website: a feminist glossary in sign language. We claim against discrimination but we often forget about deaf people. So this is our way to get more committed to functional diversity.
Another goal was to be a meeting point to contribute to the understanding and the dialogue between feminists. In Spain there are a lot of disagreements between feminist from the academy, queer feminists, etc. and Pikara is a friendly and welcoming environment for all of them.
In addition to the magazine, there host a lot of debates in our Facebook and Twitter, we have more than 80.000 followers in them. We have just created a online debate forum to promote deeper and more specialized exchanges. In Pikara Forum, people are talking about feminist sci-fi, queer videogames, our own struggles and contradictions... For example: “I'm a feminist, I have a critical sense about romantic love, but I still dream with getting married with my boyfriend. Is that ok? That makes me a terrible feminist?” The Forum is being helpful specially for very young feminists who feel alone, who don't have a collective or feminist friends to talk about this topics.

Introducing Pikaramagazine.com (part 1)

Pikara Magazine is an online media, created five years ago by a group of young journalists from the Basque Country. We wanted to offer quality non sexist journalism, because women are still a minority in mainstream media, where we find a lot of sexist clichés yet.
I think we have made a difference because we offer fresh perspectives and an original iconography, so we have become attractive to a large public and not only for people who already are committed feminists.
In Spain, a lot of people think that feminists are angry women who hate men, they call us feminazis. We say that we have strong reasons to be angry, but we are more than that. We talk about sex, we have sense of humor and we don't want to be portrayed as victims. I mean that mainstream media talk about gender violence, but generally they caracterise victimis as weak and coward women who are unable to scape from that.
Feminism is our point of view, but we write about all kind of topics: human rights, sports, music... We talk about women's rights, about abortion, gender violence, empowerment... but we also care about racism, homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, masculinity... We try to offer intersectional approaches, also talking about our privileges as european, middle-class, white women.
Related to this concern, we have developed another website: a feminist glossary in sign language. We claim against discrimination but we often forget about deaf people. So this is our way to get more committed to functional diversity.
Another goal was to be a meeting point to contribute to the understanding and the dialogue between feminists. In Spain there are a lot of disagreements between feminist from the academy, queer feminists, etc. and Pikara is a friendly and welcoming environment for all of them.
In addition to the magazine, there host a lot of debates in our Facebook and Twitter, we have more than 80.000 followers in them. We have just created a online debate forum to promote deeper and more specialized exchanges. In Pikara Forum, people are talking about feminist sci-fi, queer videogames, our own struggles and contradictions... For example: “I'm a feminist, I have a critical sense about romantic love, but I still dream with getting married with my boyfriend. Is that ok? That makes me a terrible feminist?” The Forum is being helpful specially for very young feminists who feel alone, who don't have a collective or feminist friends to talk about this topics.