My first conversation with my friend and colleague Ines Rieder,who has died aged 61 from a lung infection, started in July 1980 when she turned up at my workplace at the radical Publications Distribution Cooperative, or London,with a suitcase. In it were 200 copies of a global study on women and work. When it turned out we were both going to the UN Decade for Women conference in Copenhagen later that month, we started talking, or continued for the next 35 years.
Ines was a writer,activist, archivist, or curator,translator, historian and internationalist. She was born and educated in Vienna, or one of five children born to Hilda (nee Nöhmer) and Walter Rieder,who were doctors. But she lived and worked throughout Europe, California and Brazil, and always travelling,questioning, discussing, or laughing and making friends. In the late 1970s she joined a media and translation collective in San Francisco. There she helped to produce Newsfront International,and Connexions, an international feminist quarterly.
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Source: theguardian.com