Fair Sex

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 »

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 »

RealStars are looking for two process leaders!

Fair Sex: The network and creative expressions is the collective name for our new project which is financed by Allmänna arvsfonden. In this project we will create web based interactive teaching aids about sex, trafficking and human rights for young people. The second part of the project is about stimulating young people to do things… Read more »

March 8 – Starting early with a new campaign

The International Women’s Day, a day to take note of and to acknowledge strong women is usually how we explain it. Like we say at RealStars: We are all stars and can all do something for others and fight for freedom and human rights. Realstars is at Världskulturmuseet and celebrates tonight at 7. We are… Read more »

The International Women’s Day, March 8th

On The International Women’s Day 3/8 Amnesty and Ladyfest Göteborg will arrange a party to celebrate amazing women who fight for their freedoms and rights. The party will be at Världskulturmuseet and begins at 7PM after the March 8th demonstration. Matilda Berggren will be the MC of the evening. The evening comes with exciting seminars… Read more »