The fall is upon us, the weather is shifting as it does only during the Swedish fall and the school visits are lining up, one after the other, for the RealStars process managers in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Last week, RealStars visited first year students at Stillerska Filmgymnasiet, a smaller group of students that provoked a… Read more »
An offer to MYO, CYO and LYO
On August 31, Expressen reported that the Moderate Youth Organization had decided to work for the abolishing of the law prohibiting the purchase of sexual services and that the purchasing of sex should be legalized. As a reaction to this, on Monday 31/8 RealStars decided to send out the following email to the representatives of… Read more »
Instagram contest – #forfair6
Now RealStars is launching an Instagram contest with the theme Fair Sex that will last all autumn! Fair sex is sex on equal terms with mututal respect – Fair Sex cannot be exchanged, bought or sold. RealStars loves creative expressions and we believe in the old cliché that a picture tells more than a thousand words…. Read more »
The Media Upper Secondary School in Nacka Strand
The fall semester of 2015 is in full swing and so are we here at RealStars. Yesterday I, Anton, visited the amazing last year students who are studying photography at the Media Upper Secondary School. The afternoon was initiated with a lecture where students could learn more about trafficking, what the situation is like in… Read more »
“See Me Not” a girls path to freedom from a brothel in India
Réal Laplaine writes fiction books that have a moral, warm and human tone. On the 27th of August Réal Laplaine releases a new edition of See Me Not. See Me Not is a literary fiction, a thriller and an ambassador for the hundreds of thousands of children and women around the world who are trapped in… Read more »
Behind the Iron Curtain
The guest blogger of today is Ernst Adamsson Borg, a 22-year-old student attending the Europe Programme at Södertörn University in Sweden. He has an extensive interest in social issues, global as well as local. He frequently visits Germany, during his visits to the country he has seen the European prostitution and trafficking industry, which is… Read more »
Prayers for the Stolen – a captivating and poetic story
Realstar’s guest blogger Robert Schenck has reviewed the book A prayer for the stolen (2015) about young women in Mexico who live under constant threat of violence, and to be forced into the terrible sex trade. ”Do read this well-written and educative novel but brace yourself for some painful reading.” Schenck writes. Prayers for the Stolen is not only… Read more »
The concepts of stereotypes, coercion and forced marriages in public education
One of our guest bloggers, Elin Weiss, describes a class at a high school which, without critique, explored gender stereotypes. Questions that reflect the perspective on sexuality and gender, and consequently our human rights. Analytically During a discussion with one of my colleagues, at the high school where I work, we talked about the schools… Read more »
RealStars @ Stockholm Pride 2015
Under the watchword ”we are breaking up with trafficking and unfair sex in Europe”, RealStars participated in the Pride parade 2015 last Saturday. In total, we were 16 people that distributed information about RealStars’ work to curious Stockholm natives along the parade route during the day. To RealStars, it is important to participate in the… Read more »
Who accepts responsibility for the sales of teenage bodies online & IRL? RealStars in Almedalen
During Almedalsveckan, RealStars arranged the seminar “Who accepts responsibility for the sales of teenage bodies online & IRL?” Malin Roux Johansson, RealStars, Madeleine Sundell, Frälsningsarmén, Julia Östfeldt, Föreningen Tillsammans, and Rebecka Eriksson, Fryshuset, took part in the panel discussions. The seminar was initiated with a short presentation of RealStars, where the founder Malin Roux Johansson… Read more »