If you get off the subway at St. Pauli station in Hamburg and walk towards Reeperbahn after dark, you will be on a journey. A journey which shows how Germany has become the country you travel to in order to buy sex. It’s not a pleasant walk for an outsider. Wherever you turn there are… Read more »
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Rebecca och Fiona
Real Stars were in place at Almedal this year. A great meeting place and an interesting forum for Swedish politics. However the lack of seminars on trafficking was blately obvious. We searched around for related issues and ended up at a seminar on the Human Rights Defenders where Rebecca and Fiona were playing. In the… Read more »
Gå eller sluta slå? våld och ansvar.
Not so long ago photographs were published revealing to the world how TV cook and cookbook author Nigella Lawson’s husband Charles Saatchi took hold of the chef by her throat at a public restaurant. The incident was captured by the paparazzi and has created a frenzy of mixed opinions in social media. We ask ourselves,… Read more »
Watched Lilja 4-ever and was very moved
Marknadscheferna, Realstars and Caroline af Ugglas are cooperating against trafficking. Anders Grönvall: About his support for RealStars’ work against trafficking by purchasing Caroline af Ugglas’ painting. ”I wanted to do something to support the work against trafficking. A few years ago, I watched the movie Lilja 4-ever and was very moved. It happens here in… Read more »
Caroline af Ugglas’ choir: ”it all sounds pretty good at the end of the term”
Realstars want to thank Caroline af Ugglas’ choir who have chosen to support Realstars’ work against trafficking. ”Kör för alla” (“Choir for All”) sing together in Stockholm once a week. The choir consists of about 1200 singers and is therefore the largest in Sweden. The choir is led by Caroline af Ugglas and her husband… Read more »
Give the victim their own voice
Last week the play ”Att öva på våldtäkt” was hosted at Folkteatern’s Vita scen (“White Stage”). The play is meant to give the victim their own voice, to be the thing that describes the assault and makes the perpetrator visible in a new way using its grants. The play will discuss and also problematize power… Read more »
My thoughts about RealStars event at Bio Roy, May 23rd
Last month I was invited to the RealStars event: Trafficking in the Real World and in Popular Culture. I was asked to talk about mine and Katarina Gregersdotter’s book: Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond, in which eleven researchers analyze rape and sexual violence in crime thrillers. During the evening, the audience listened… Read more »
Stop Female Death in Advertising
Stop Female Death In Advertising is Lisa Hågeby’s master’s dissertation at Beckman’s University of Design. The project shows how women in commercials are made submissive on a grand scale. To illustrate the phenomenon, she picked the most extreme form of submission, images that allude to a dead woman. From ReaStars’ perspective, it is not hard… Read more »
EU is launching a platform against human trading
How can organizations in society get together and become a driving force in eradicating trafficking? A small step was taken May 31 in Brussels as non-profit organizations from EU countries gathered for the first time in the new forum to lay the foundation for what will help to make a change. The originators, Cecilia Malmström… Read more »
This t-shirt helps stop sex trafficking
RealStars is launching our first t-shirt now. 25% of the profits are used to stop trafficking. The t-shirt which is made with organic cotton is available in unisex and female styles. Buy it HERE and help us promote Fair Sex and fight trafficking. The design is made by textile-designer Johanna Brag. It´s a design that… Read more »