All the texts have been translated to English and can be found below.

Enjoy the read!

1. Greeting from the President

Dear friends and supporters,

2024 was a year full of significant developments and groundbreaking successes for our institution. We are delighted to report that our application to set up a children’s and youth library was approved. As a result, our former office space was transformed into the new CID-Y in the summer – a place that now offers young readers a meaningful interaction with the world of books.

We were also able to make significant progress in terms of personnel: Thanks to the generous increase in the conventions with Luxembourg City and the MEGA, we were able to open new positions. We not only expanded positions to include an e  and two library assistant positions, but we are particularly pleased that our team has been so personally enriched by the addition of Esin, Caroline and Jamila.

Our annual theme “Armed conflicts and gender” characterised 2024, as did the events it inspired. We were able to contribute to the LuxFilmFest with this important focus, and held an impressive event with Monika Hauser in Neimënster in November, which many of us will remember for a long time to come. Meanwhile, we focused on critical topics in 2024 such as anti-feminism and hosted Tobias Ginsburg for a reading from The Last Men of the West.

These events would not have been possible without the commitment of our team and the support of our partners and sponsors. A big thank you is in order to the MEGA, the Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg City and the Ministry of Family Affairs; a great deal of our success and funding is owed to them.

I would also like to thank the many volunteers who supported us in 2024, especially our (SNJ) volunteers Ella, Anne and Sarah and the new CID-Y working group with Medy, Fabienne and Colette.

Together, we look forward to 2024 with confidence and look forward to realising new projects, creating engaging experiences and further expanding our offerings in the coming year.

I wish you a stimulating and memorable read.

Feminist greetings,

Julia Maria Zimmermann

2. 2024 in Review – Events and Highlights

3.The Gender Library and Media Centre

Women’s* and gender knowledge from the past and present for a just future: CID library, media centre and archives

The library team includes: Kathrin Eckhart (academic librarian), Tessy Schmitt (CID library and media library – specialising in scores and CDs), Jessica Sieradzki (reception and registration, until 12/24), Natalie von Laufenberg and Jamila Zakkoum (reception). From 12/24 Caroline Rocco joined us as a library and archive assistant.

The library and media centre is constantly growing to include new topics from the feminist movement. The collection focuses on the following topics:

• Women’s and gender studies, queer theory and feminism
• Pedagogy, body, psyche and sexuality
• Media, labour, politics, sociology, law and history
• Natural sciences, technology and computer science
• Art and culture
• Novels, children’s and young adult literature, audiobooks and comics
• Specialised Department of Music/Musicology.

CID library holdings online: a-z.lu (in the Luxembourg network) and meta-katalog.eu

The CID also houses archives on Luxembourgish women composers (Lou Koster, Helen Buchholtz and contemporaries) as well as on Luxembourgish women’s history and women’s movement (Press Archive Luxembourg 1992-2014), MLF and other initiatives, as well as the political estate of Jeanne Rouff (lawyer, feminist, co-founder of the MLF).

The CID in figures

901 Visits to the library

118  enrolments

1532 loans

Dreams come true: 2024 – more space, more working hours, a reading café and a real children’s and youth library

A book donkey moves into the CID:

Since its foundation in 1992, one of the central aims of the CID has been to reach children, young people and their parents, as well as all those working in education through our library in order to promote gender-sensitive education free of stereotypes. Today, the Gender Library offers more than 500 titles in the “School” and “Extracurricular Edducation” sections; “Family and Children” comprises more than 230 titles and the “Children’s and Youth Literature” section contains more than 3,200 works. In addition, CID hosts educational journals and many other works in other library sections that approach the topics of art, music, media and culture, work and politics, history and philosophy, sexual and gender diversity from an educational perspective.

For a long time, we regretted not having enough space for such relevant topics. In 2024, thanks to the generous support of Luxembourg City (for the expansion of our educational activities) and the support of MIFA (for the expansion of our infrastructure), we were finally able to embark on our dream project.

We spent the spring planning the reorganisation, selecting the furniture, preparing cost estimates for removal companies and submitting financial applications. In August, we moved from our former office to the 4th floor. Countless files had to be packed for archiving, cables had to be laid and rooms had to be renovated.

We inaugurated our new, very cosy and communicative reading area (with armchairs, carpet, reading lamps and small tables) in the large meeting room in time for the end of summer vacation.

At the beginning of October, the children’s and youth furniture and our new mascot, the book donkey, arrived. Since then, the entire library stock has been moved, freeing up the space where the “old” library was for other urgent needs.

The new library concept aims to organise the children’s and youth library in such a way that parents, teachers and our main target group – children and youths themselves – can use the books and materials intuitively, and leisurely enjoy spending time in the CID.

Another consideration for this move concerned furniture, layout, and most importantly, a review of our collection. A team of three former teachers, Colette Kutten, Marie-Thérèse Majerus and Fabienne Fischer, scrutinised our collection and asked important questions of CID’s offerings: Are the books visually outdated? Are they diverse and appealing? Is the content up-to-date? Are important topics sufficiently represented or do the books themselves contain clichés? Which new works should be acquired to fill gaps?

This review was complemented by our endeavour to create a clear, updated cataloguing system and a child-friendly list of offerings. More differentiated age recommendations, thematic stickers and updated keywords should soon make it easier for children to browse and find books on site and online.

Other events in the library:

After participating in a large-scale survey on Luxembourg’s libraries in Autumn 2023, we were able to represent the public special libraries on an advisory panel on the further development of Luxembourg’s library landscape and the renewal of the library law on 24 May as part of the Assises sectorielles des bibliothèques (attended by Minister of Culture, Eric Thill). Together with similar organisations, we are now hoping for financial support as part of the public libraries fund (a subsidy for rent, personnel and acquisition costs).

In June, the CID took part in the fifth edition of Luxembourg Archive Month, which this year focused on “A journey through Luxembourg history through its archives“. On Tuesday, June 25th, Jessica Sieradzki gave a guided tour of the CID’s political archives and used archive material to shed light on women’s rights activism in Luxembourg.

The tour was complemented by contributions from the feminist organisation Sweet Joséphine and by researcher Cathy Collard, who studied Jeanne Rouff’s (1928-2012) political archives in detail as part of her Master’s thesis. Radio 100.7 produced a series of 12 episodes “A Journey Through the Archives” to mark Archive Month. Check out the episode on the CID archives using the following link:

https://100komma7.lu/episoden/Archiv-vum-CID-Fraen-a-Gender?pd=radio

Natalie von Laufenberg and Kathrin Eckhart took part in the annual conference of our umbrella organisation i.d.a. at the end of September, which was hosted by Bochum this year. Under the theme: “Difference as a strength of feminist archive work“, 60 employees from 30 lesbian/women’s archives, libraries and documentation centres from Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northern Italy and Germany met to discuss the content of their work. They held discussions on class and archive work, recording standards, databases, funding and lobbying. The topic of AI-supported research opened up an exciting horizon for the next meeting.

From November 18th, three young colleagues visited us for a week as part of the EU education initiative ERASMUS+: Laura Peter and Nane Pleger from the Louise Otto Peters Archive in Leipzig, and Stephanie Velis from DENKtRÄUME in Hamburg.  Their visit took place as part of the networking project “Together we preserve our future“, in which 30 feminist library and archive experts have been travelling to various partner organisations, from Iceland to Cyprus, from Autumn 2024 through Spring 2025, to share their knowledge. We exchanged ideas with our guests about day-to-day project work, acquisition, user support and the development of events and social media content. During their stay, the travellers also visited other Luxembourg libraries, archives and organisations.

In 2024, we managed to showcase our books, media and literature lists at a wide variety of events beyond the CID premises, including:

–              events in cooperation with Luxembourg City

–              cinema screenings

–              museums

–              schools

–              equality organisations

–              health days around the “Bus Coeur de femmes”

–              our own events

Literature lists: https://cid-fg.lu/bibliothek/literaturlisten/

We were also able to make our premises available to various reading and working groups, creative groups, researchers and activists for feminist-associated activities:

Reading groups:

Bookclub Sweet Josephine

Bookclub: Between the lines

Bookclub: Reading Group

Club de lecture, femmes russophones (Maria Carbonaro / Olga Maître)

Club de lecture, femmes francophones (Maria Carbonaro / Olga Maître)

Creative groups

Chorale militante

Melissa Dalton – Workshops Improvisation

Jess Bauldry Workshops: Cabaret

Amour Fou (Filmprod.) Lizardqueen

Activists

“Marche pour la terre”

Reading Esmeralda Wirtz

Rise for Climate

Conférence violences conjugales avec Pascale Zaourou

Event Pink Washing Exposed

Feminist Talks – Voices of Young Feminists

Justice for Zackie Oh

Criminalise Femicide (Event by Marina Anastasilakis)

Solène Sillière

LEQGF Focus Group

KWENI réunion

CELL (Magali Paulus)

Spring2Freedom (Anja Slabbekorn)

Camarade Club (Jael Tavares)

ZDF Tru Doku film recording with Liz Mathay

Miscellaneous

As part of his Master’s thesis on endometriosis, Andy Zens conducted core interviews for his research on the CID premises.

Outlook

We are starting 2025 with confidence, thanks to our new, welcome additions to the library team, an improved space for our growing organisation, new books and the great opportunity to offer our readers a growing children’s and youth library. We hope that our new Saturday opening hours (9:00 – 14:00) will appeal to many families, children and young people, as well as all readers who are unable to visit during the week.

4. Projects and Events

CID project work is led by Claire Schadeck.

How gender-sensitive is Luxembourg’s cultural programming?

Due to a lack of data, the CID | Fraen an Gender commissioned the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) to carry out the inventory “Analysis of the 2022-2023 cultural programme from a gender-sensitive perspective in Luxembourg” as part of its convention with the Ministry of Culture and with the financial support of the Dudelange City. The aim of this project was to record the gender representation in the programming of selected cultural institutions, as well as the distribution of women and men in different professional fields in the Luxembourg cultural sector. The study covers the 2022-2023 season and includes the following areas: theatre, dance, classical and contemporary music.

Some of the results were sobering: Overall, women occupy only a fifth of all the professional positions analysed. In the field of music in particular, women are strongly underrepresented in all professional fields. Another interesting observation was that the gender of the decision-makers influenced both the line-up and the capacities in which the events take place. In concrete terms, this means that male choreographers favoured male dancers, while the proportion of female actresses increased with female directors. Male choreographers performed in front of larger audiences, while female directors presented their pieces in comparably smaller spaces.

This project is part of our work addressing structural sexism in the cultural scene. The study provides the figures that identify structural sexism in Luxembourg’s cultural landscape and is intended to serve as a basis for the development of targeted measures in the future. The study is a start and leaves room for further research. We would also like to point out that this project does not go beyond the concept of binary gender logic, as the lack of data did not allow us to identify non-binarity.

Luxembourg City Film Festival: Women in Peacekeeping

This year, we were once again delighted to work with the Luxembourg City Film Festival. As part of the festival, we screened the film Invisible Nation by director Vanessa Hope, which tells the story of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan.

The film opened up the space for discussions about the role of women in peace negotiations and conflict prevention, a topic that has accompanied us throughout our work in 2024. Invisible Nation made it possible to look at diplomatic action from a gender-sensitive perspective. The inclusion of women in peace processes is a key factor for sustainable peace. Studies, including those by UN Women, show that equal participation leads to longer-term stability and sustainable post-conflict rehabilitation. Yet despite these findings, women often remain invisible and excluded in formal peace processes and negotiations. With the screening of Invisible Nation, we have made a contribution to highlighting the important role of women in diplomacy.

In addition to book offerings, we also educated attendees with informative flyers during the event, highlighting core elements of feminist foreign policy. The film festival was also the starting signal for our digital campaign, which we used throughout the year to illustrate, explain and discuss selected aspects and content of feminist foreign policy.

The event was organised in cooperation with the Luxembourg City Film Festival and the Ministry of Culture.

Feminist line-up at Fête de la Musique Luxembourg

In collaboration with Luxembourg City and the Ministry of Culture, the time had come again: on Jun 14th, CID took part in the Fête de la Musique programme! Our audience attended and celebrated with several musical artists, including: Marcy, Dessy Mesk, Oke, C’est Karma, Emina Helena and our surprise guest: Fondation EME & Jill Crovisier.

Our study on gender representation in Luxembourg cultural venue programming (2024) illustrates that women are significantly underrepresented in all professional fields, especially in music. The analysis of the 2022-2023 festival season demonstrates this clearly: 82.5% of the line-ups were male-dominated. To counteract this structural discrimination, we deliberately created a platform for female and queer artists as part of Fête de la Musique. Our aim was to make visible those who are often ignored in the music industry. At the same time, we wanted to refute the argument that there are too few female and queer artists. Our stage should serve as an inspiration for other event organisers to actively include diversity and intersectionality in their programming.

Full house event with Dr Monika Hauser on gender-specific violence in armed conflicts

On November 6th, CID | Fraen an Gender welcomed the renowned women’s rights activist and gynaecologist Dr Monika Hauser to an event at Neimënster Abbey. Dr Hauser, founder of the association medica mondiale e.V. and winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award), is a committed expert who has been campaigning for women in crisis and war zones for over three decades.

The discussion centred on key questions: What is the status of the implementation of the Istanbul Convention on the protection of women against violence? What structural conditions favour sexualised violence in conflict regions? What significance do feminist policies have for the promotion of gender equality, and how can we take joint action against anti-feminist tendencies?

The aim of the event was not only to formulate urgent questions but also to develop concrete solutions together. The core message of the evening: gender-specific violence is not merely a by-product of conflicts, but often a deliberate means of exercising power, deeply rooted in patriarchal structures. Rape as a weapon of war is an expression of these power relations. Dr. Hauser emphasised that it is our responsibility not only to combat the symptoms but also to change the underlying structures. The support of the international community and local organisations is crucial to raising awareness of these issues and sustainably expanding support for those affected. Her work in crisis areas stands for the holistic support and empowerment of survivors of sexualised violence and sends an important signal about the social and political relevance of this issue.

After introductory remarks by the Minister for Equality and Diversity, Yuriko Backes, and the Minister for Culture, Eric Thill, the link between gender, peace, and security was highlighted together with Dr. Hauser. The event, which took place under the auspices of the Ministry of Equality and Diversity, was organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, and the Pierre Werner Institute. The event was also supported by Neimënster Abbey, the Ministry of Culture, and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg.

With this event, we look back on a successful year in which we initiated important social debates through campaigns and events and emphasised the importance of feminist approaches in peacekeeping policy. We look forward to continuing this work in the coming year!

International Men’s Day: Reading from The Last Men of the West with author Tobias Ginsburg

On Friday, November 29th, the CID, together with Luxembourg City, infoMann and respect.lu, invited the German author Tobias Ginsburg to a reading of his book The Last Men of the West.

After the welcoming speeches by Isabelle Schmoetten (CID), Maurice Bauer (VdL), Silke Hulpes (infoMann) and Karin Weyer (respect.lu) in front of a full hall in the Cercle Cité, Ginsburg read excerpts from his book The Last Men of the West and spoke freely about his experiences. With his undercover research into various men’s movements in the USA, Poland and Germany, he drew attention to the great and very current danger of anti-feminism and misogyny for our democracy.

Antifeminism and antigender movements are not abstract, distant pseudo-fears of committed feminists, but a bitter reality. They represent a real, ever-growing threat to the achievements of the women’s and LGBTIQA+ movements. The reading with Tobias Ginsburg made these threats more visible and understandable, and helped to better understand the background and causes of these hate-filled, anti-democratic movements.

European Elections 2024 – How feminist is political engagement at the EU level?

New year, new elections! After the national super election year 2023, the CID’s focus turned to impact and presence at the EU level in 2024. In preparation for the 2024 European elections, the CID drew up a catalogue of questions to shed light on the political commitment of candidates at the EU level with regard to feminist issues. Instead of only contacting the parties, we contacted the brains behind the lists directly – the candidates themselves.

Each candidate was asked to answer six questions in the affirmative or negative. This clear structure is intended to provide an initial insight into the feminist orientation of the candidates. In our analysis, you will notice that some parties and/or candidates are missing. This can be explained by the fact that not everyone answered the questionnaire or did not comply with the requirements. Other candidates have decided not to answer certain questions. In this case, the field remains empty.

You can view the entire catalogue of questions, including the answers, on our website. Here you will also find an English translation of the question and answer catalogue. The original language of the questionnaire is German. Answers submitted up to the date of publication were included.

Following the election results in June, we invited all elected MEPs to the CID for an exchange of views. During these talks, we discussed the following topics, among others: the implementation of gender mainstreaming at EU level, the application of a feminist foreign policy, the role of Europe in protecting against gender-based violence, the implementation of the Istanbul Convention by the EU, and the protection of human rights in the face of rising right-wing extremist tendencies. The talks took place individually.

5. Education

“Beauty norms and social media” – a new workshop programme for primary schools in cooperation with the Luxembourg City

With this new educational programme, the CID is sending out a strong signal in favour of promoting media skills, critical thinking and healthy self-confidence. The workshop helps to empower pupils in an increasingly digitalised world and provide them with tools for reflected and solidary cooperation.

Successful launch of a new workshop programme in November 2024

With the financial support of Luxembourg City and the addition of an education specialist to the CID team, the CID has launched a new workshop programme in 2024 that is aimed specifically at cycles 3 and 4 of primary schools in Luxembourg City. The first workshop in the series is dedicated to a central topic of our digitalised world: the cult of beauty and its effects on children and young people.

Platforms such as Instagram and TikTok are omnipresent and shape young people’s self-image through optimised and perfected images and videos. These unrealistic ideals of beauty can reinforce insecurities and have serious consequences such as eating disorders or depressive moods.

The “Beauty norms and social media” workshop was offered for the first time in November 2024 and was met with great interest. Within the first week of the announcement via the school mailing list, the CID communication channels and the ExpliCID magazine, 18 classes registered. Since the end of November, the programme has been run on an ongoing basis and continuously developed to meet the needs of pupils and teachers.

This workshop programme fits seamlessly into the “Life and Society” (“vie et société”) curriculum. It was developed in close collaboration with Luxembourg City – in particular the Commissioner for Equality – as well as the Ministry of Education (SCRIPT) and other specialised bodies. Another central component of the concept is the preparatory and follow-up cooperation with the teaching staff. The CID team presents the content of the workshop in 30-minute meetings. Teachers are given the opportunity to provide feedback and develop suggestions on how topics can be sustainably integrated into everyday school life.

Workshop Aims and Objectives

In an interactive and age-appropriate approach, the workshop offers space to critically examine beauty standards and the influences of social media. Key questions are addressed in discussions, group work and creative exercises:

–              What does beauty mean?

–              Who defines beauty standards?

–              Who benefits and who suffers from the pressure to look good?

–              What can we do?

The workshop encourages pupils to critically scrutinise beauty standards, strengthen their media skills and develop healthy self-confidence. At the same time, solidarity is encouraged: distancing from competitive thinking in favour of collective strategies to reduce social pressure and strength self-confidence and resolve.

Workshop details and registration information

Duration: 2 school hours (incl. 30 minutes preparation and 30 minutes follow-up for the teaching staff)

Methods: Discussions, self-awareness and group exercises, creative tasks

Target group: pupils in cycles 3 and 4 of primary schools in Luxembourg City

Location: In-school

For more information and to register, please use the QR code. We look forward to your registration and to working with you on this important topic in the classrooms of Luxembourg City!

6. Public Relations

The Press and Public Relations department is headed by Natalie von Laufenberg. While Natalie is in charge of public relations, the website, the newsletter, expliCID and social media, she works closely with the project manager Claire Schadeck to design the campaigns. In the first half of 2024, she also had a great deal of support from intern Ella Chambers, particularly in the creation of digital media content.

2024 Campaigns

• Coalition programme (January – May)

Volunteers Ella Chambers and Liz Mathay explained the new government’s coalition agreement and its gender-specific aspects in 9 playful and accessible videos for social media.

• Feminist Foreign Policy (as part of Luxfilmfest) (January – April)

We used a mixture of informative posts and reels to familiarise our followers on social media with the topic of “feminist foreign policy”. The content was summarised and printed on a flyer for the LuxFilmFest in March, accompanied by the development of a 40-page booklet on the topic of “Armed Conflict & Gender” for the conference with Monika Hauser the following November.

• Feminist of the Month (year-round)

Every month, volunteer Ella presents a feminist who our followers should know in a reel on our social media channels and also points out further literature on the topic from the CID library.

• International Days: Library/Book Highlights (year-round)

To illustrate the diversity of our library, we regularly display books in the library but also on our digital platforms, and especially on international days that align with topics relating to feminism, equality, diversity and the like.

• Study on gender distribution in the cultural sector (February – March)

The publication of the study on gender distribution in the cultural sector was accompanied by a social media campaign that presented the findings of the study in an engaging and digestible format.

• European elections (April – May)

For the European elections, we evaluated the results of the questionnaires and shared them with our followers.

• Feminist Peace Movements (April – November)

Following our campaign on feminist foreign policy, we presented six feminist peace movements from around the world.

• Genderdrops (April – September)

A standardised visual identity was created for the Gender Drops concept. In February, we shot a promotional film for the Gender Drops at the Cinémathèque, which was released at the end of April and with which we launched the campaign. Over the 16 weeks that followed, we presented a Gender Drop every week on the CID’s social media channels, in addition to posts on the website, in the newsletters and in expliCID.

• Fête de la Musique (May – June)

Presented the festival lineup.

• Meet the team pt. 2 (August – September)

Introduced the team to followers in the form of “This or that?” reels

• Armed Conflict (September – November)

Announced and presented the event, speakers and partners.

• Tobias Ginsburg (October – November)

Announced and presented the event, speakers and partners.

• (Feed Your Mind) (November – December)

Announced and presented the event and speakers.

Merch

As part of the Fête de la Musique in June, the Press and Public Relations team set up an informational table and merch stand with a wheel of fortune where visitors could win CID merchandise. This included “Voll mat Feminismus” caps and book bags, four different stickers and pins designed by two local artists, and feminist socks. Another sticker was also designed for the reading with Tobias Ginsburg and a button with the inscription “Detoxify Masculinity”.

Noise for human rights!

It was loud at the CID on July 25th! For a whole five minutes, we stood at the window and drummed, shouted and sang: “Human rights are not negotiable. Not in school and not in parliament!” And why all this? Days earlier, a petition to ban the discussion of LGBTIQA+ issues among minors in schools had quickly achieved the necessary number of votes to be discussed in parliament. With our action, we wanted to create a safe space for those affected, as well as send a signal of solidarity and show that we stand up loudly for the rights of the LGBTIQA+ community.

The power of feminist alliances also became clear, as people not only congregated at the CID, but also made a lot of noise with our partners!

Press

The CID 2024 was regularly represented in the press with 9 press releases, whether in the form of interviews, statements or event announcements. We were well represented in the Luxembourg media landscape with contributions on the radio (100.7, RTL, ARA City Radio), on television (RTL), in magazines (CityMag, Revue), in daily and weekly newspapers (Le Quotidien, Woxx, Wort, Tageblatt, Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek, L’Essentiel) and in the online press (Journal).

10 June

Press release: Feminist line-up at the Fête de la Musique Luxembourg

27 June

Press release: Family Planning and CID Fraen an Gender join forces to support a proposal to include abortion in the Luxembourg Constitution.

25 July

Open Letter: Against the Erasure of Queer Identities in Schools

24 September

CID | Fraen an Gender calls for a critical, feminist perspective on the Pope’s visit

27 September

Bodily autonomy is a human right: reaction to the Catholic Church’s misogynistic statements on abortion and family planning

7 October

Civil organisations, a counterweight to a living democracy

23 October

Press release: Armed conflicts and gender-based violence – A discussion with Dr Monika Hauser

7 November

Press release: Full house at event organised by CID | Fraen an Gender and Institut Pierre Werner with Dr Monika Hauser on gender-specific violence in armed conflicts

13 November

Press release: The Last Men of the West: anti-feminists, right-wing men’s alliances and the warriors of patriarchy – reading with Tobias Ginsburg on November 29th, 2024

In 2024, we once again welcomed contributions from Isabelle Schmoetten for Fräie Mikro on Radio 100.7 (x6) and Claire Schadeck for Carte Blanche on RTL (x3). The CID also became an integral part of Angie Maquil’s series “Aus dem Liewen” (“Out of Life”) and presented a feminist project or topic from the CID on Radio 100.7 every 2-3 weeks starting in September.

Public relations at a glance:

www.cid-fg.lu

Our website with the various areas of our work and CID-organised events.

expliCID

The CID’s print magazine was published four times in 2024. Over the summer, it was completely revamped with the help of graphic designer Nadine Rocco and has had a completely new look since October.

For the 4th time, the annual report is being published as a fixed edition of expliCID and, as usual, summarises all of the CID’s activities, projects and statistics in one document. For every donation of at least €20, the expliCID is sent to CID supporters by post. The distribution list currently has around 500 subscribers, including school libraries, partner organisations, communities, etc., which distribute copies of the magazine to their visitors.

Newsletter

1154 subscribers

Our newsletter was published 17 times with an average open rate of 52%, delivering key information about our events and projects.

Social Media

Our Facebook account ended 2024 with approximately 50 new followers compared to the previous year. Demographics remained stable, with ages 25-34 and 35-44 each making up a quarter of followers and the remaining 50% split between age groups above 45. However, the growth on our Instagram account was remarkable. Here, the number of followers increased by approximately 600, bringing us to 2500 followers in 2024. Most of these followers are in the 25-34 age group (almost 50%), while the others are spread across the remaining age groups. In general, however, it can be observed that the target audience and followers on Instagram are significantly younger than on Facebook. On both accounts, more than 80% of followers are women.

Our reels have by far the greatest reach. Short videos on events such as “Armed Conflicts” or “Noise for Human Rights” are viewed, liked and shared the most, but campaigns such as Gender Drops and Feminist of the Month have also generated a lot of interest. Our personal highlight was the “Girls in Libraries” trend, which earned us the most likes and comments.

We have found that a good mix of building awareness, promoting events and campaigns, participating in social media trends and showcasing the CID library achieves the best results, as it covers the interests of all target groups. Even so, we are continuously working to increase our follower numbers.

7. Our Organisation

Employees

CID workstreams were managed by the following employees:

• Library: Kathrin Eckhart, Tessy Schmitt and Caroline Rocco
• Projects: Claire Schadeck
• Pedagogy: Esin Göksoy
• Press and public relations: Natalie von Laufenberg
• Administration: Isabelle Schmoetten (Head), Jessica Sieradzki and Jamila Zakkoum
• Cleaning & Sanitation: Ermina Kozar

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors consists of the following members:

• Julia Maria Zimmermann (President)
• Tessie Jakobs (Vice President)
• Tammy Schmit nouvelle photo (treasurer)
• Colette Kutten (Secretary)
• Anne Müller
• Marlène Kreins
• Joëlle Schranck
• Cleo Thoma
• Lea Hilckmann
• Neel Chrillesen
• Nadia Zimmer
• Maddy Mulheims-Hinkel

Volunteers

After volunteers mobilised for the CID several times in 2023, the network continued to be maintained in 2024 and new meetings were organised. We exchanged ideas over a cosy breakfast in June and found new feminist supporters. Last year, we had the help of three volunteers who supported us in our work at the CID over a longer period of time: Ella Chambers from January to June, Anne Noël from June to August and Sarah Lauer in September. In addition, we were able to count on the valuable support of Colette Kutten, Marie-Thérèse Majerus and Fabienne Fischer during the reorganisation of the children’s and youth library. More about this in chapter 3.

8. Networks

CID Cooperations & Partners 2024

Library and archive

• EIGE
• ALBAD and VLA
• BNL and ANL
• CITIM
• ida (Association of German Women’s*, Lesbian and Gender Information Organisations) and DDF (German Digital Women’s Archive)
• Erasmus+
• Sweet
• Jonk BAD

Public organisations

• Ministère de l’Egalité des genres et de la Diversité
• Ministère de la Culture
• MAE
• Ministère de la Famille, des Solidarités, du Vivre ensemble et de l’Accueil
• Ville de Luxembourg
• SCRIPT
• Service Egalité des chances Dudelange
• Service Egalité des chances Bettembourg
• Service Egalité des chances Esch
• LISER
• CET
• University of Luxembourg
• German Embassy
• S. Embassy in Luxembourg

Civil societies

• CESAS
• ITGL
• Planning Familial
• JIF
• CNFL
• LEQGF
• CIGALE (new logo)
• Rainbow centre
• Voices of Young feminists
• Iranian Diaspora
• CELL
• ASTI
• lu
• Stand Speak Rise Up
• Passerell
• Info man

Culture

• Pierre Werner Institute
• Casino Display
• LuxFilmfest
• Cinémathèque
• Cerlce Cité
• Fondation EME
• MUGI
• Altrimenti
• OCL
• neimënster
• Fondation Sommer

9. Get Involved

Money for Feminism

If you would like to support our work at the CID financially, we offer you the following options:

• cash donations at the library
• bank transfers
  • Account: CCPL LU 03 1111 1081 4284 0000
• or Payconiq

Donations to CID | Fraen an Gender are tax-deductible.

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