Vid årets filmfestival, finns i programmet som vid tidigare års festivaler ett antal filmer som bör intresserar RealStars, ofta är prostitution i dessa filmer huvudtema och i bland har det varit andra ingångar för att reflektera kring Fair Sex i relationer och även gråzoner. Robert Schenck, som recenserar filmer för Realstars har samlat några av… Read more »
Porn – a phenomenon that awakes reactions and needs to be discussed
Today’s normalization of porn where we are exposed by our own or other’s consumption is striking. What alternative is there but mainstream porn? RealStars emphazises the most important part of the scool. Laure Olivia is in charge of young people’s engagement in the chairity organisation FiLiA, that work’s for women’s rights. She recently wrote an… Read more »
Myths about prostitution
From time to time, RealStars is invited to schools to hold presentations and lectures in order to inform and talk about Fair Sex. During these lectures we often receive questions regarding prostitution — sometimes about the myths surrounding ”sex work,” or about the right to ones own body. Kajsa Ekis Ekman has written an article… Read more »
Book review: Katarina Wennstam’s ’Flickan och skammen – En bok om samhällets syn på slampor’ (2016) (’The girl and the shame – a book about the society’s view on sluts’)
”Girls and women have always been demonised for their sexuality. The female lust has always been questioned, shrouded by rules and control. The woman who has not followed the narrow model has been smothered, cheapened, become a pariah.” This is Wennstam’s third reportage book after ’Flickan och skulden’ (’The girl and the guilt’, 2002)… Read more »
Are you creative and want to draw comics for Fair Sex on Instagram?
RealStars has become known as an organisation which actively works against trafficking and sexual abuse with the message of Fair Sex. We are now looking for creative people to draw illustrations for our Instagram account KimRealstars, which is a part of our Fair Sex Online project. The project has Instagram as one of… Read more »
Open letter to Alexander Bard regarding Hotel against trafficking
Dear Alexander Bard, I saw on Twitter that you had highlighted Realstars’ campaign against trafficking in the hotel sector. That made me very glad. I also saw that you didn’t understand what “sexual politics” had to do with hotel accommodation. That didn’t make me so glad, but I was not surprised, because many are not… Read more »
Thoughts from a volunteer
Can you remember when you first found out about the problem with sex trafficking around the world? Was it perhaps on Facebook, through an acquaintance or even in the news? Or was it through an organisation online which actively works with the topic, or maybe through personal experience? The chances are that you still don’t… Read more »
Inspiration, dialogue for change at Anna Lindh MedForum 2016
After some intensive days in Malta it’s time to try to summarise the Anna Lindh Mediterranean Forum 2016. At its centre are intercultural dialogue, openness and creating new stories and counterforces to violence, discrimination and extremism which are such topical issues today. As the representative for Realstars I was one of around 500 people who gathered… Read more »
Thoughts from our volunteer Edith Sjöberg
To you who are reading this, hi! I have a question, have you ever seen the word “whore” written on a wall, heard someone say as a joke to a girl that she will get a gift in exchange for a kiss, seen an ad for pornography on the internet, seen advertising offering women free… Read more »
Realstars at the Göteborg Book Fair 2016 – book lottery and treasure hunt
For the third consecutive year, Realstars was present when the Göteborg Book Fair opened its doors this past weekend. We were a diverse group of board members and volunteers, who were excited by the book lottery, and treasure hunt. We met this sea of more or less culturally interested weekend strollers, and I dare say… Read more »
