On the EU anti-trafficking day, October 18th, RealStars arranged an event at the Röhsska museum. Guests from the business world, administrative authority and culture participated. It gave some insight on the work of the police, the justice system and the county administrative board, followed by an interesting discussion of how companies can do good and… Read more »
Nightmare village in Cambodia
In the outskirts of Cambodia’s capital Phnon Penh, there is a small village called Svay Pak. The village is known for one thing; young girls are openly sold in the streets to foreign men. At least until a few years ago. The CNN Freedom Project recently wrote an article about the village everyone should read…. Read more »
Real beauty
Matilda Almelöv studies social science in senior high school and writes about having the courage to make your own choices. Beauty+money+several friends=happiness. If society had an equation which explained happiness, it would look kind of like that. There is a strong ideal of how one should act and what you should do to get to… Read more »
The Swedish Institute puts focus on the sex buyer
Who pays for sex? I have asked it myself and discussed it with my friend. – A man with a white mesh shirt and an unbearable stench of alcohol. A filthy guy who don’t get laid, a friend jokes. Maybe that ”humorous” character is an exaggerated caricature of how people think the “typical sex buyer”… Read more »
Welcome to Röhsska on anti-trafficking day!
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX. FAIR SEX! We are getting close to the highpoint of the campaign Make Fair Sex Real. Welcome to Röhsska to create awareness of EU’s anti-trafficking day with chat talks, art and music, The Naima Train. AND most important of all! All signatures from the campaign will be sent to decision-makers in… Read more »
Nonstop – a Fair Sex film
Here you have Nonstp in Malmö/Lund who created this film for RealStars. Hope you’ll like it: Directors: Tim Chronström, Alexander Wiebelt, Sebastian Oscarsson Editing: Tim Chronström Music: Alexander Wiebelt, Sebastian Oscarsson
First visit to Amsterdam…
We welcome Tim Chronström as our guest-blogger. Tim is 18 and studies journalism and film at Sound & Image school in Lund. He has worked as a trainee at Sydsvenskan and Sveriges Radio P3. He was there when the organization Nonstp, as a cultural initiative, started. We will soon upload a film which Nonstp has… Read more »
Do your clothes express your sexuality?
slut v. -n. sluts ( derogatory) frivolous woman” Swedish Academy word list – 2006 – Does this make me look slutty? It’s a quiet day in the big store. In the background pop-music can be heard while a salesman straightens a garment on a hanger. A woman pushes a pram slowly. My friend E is… Read more »
Social innovation – SOCAP11
It was one of those conferences which just felt like WOW, in tune with the times. Social Innovation! Stock Market Crash, EU-crisis and I find myself in San Francisco at SOCAP11 in early September – a new movement starts to take shape! The theme is Impact Investing or as SOCAP themselves describe it – combining… Read more »
Three questions – The Naima Train
Three questions of a new kind. We ask Maria Nyström, 19 years old. She is known on stage as The Naima Train. Maria creates several layers of music by using a loopstation. It’s original and sounds fantastic. Read more here. 1. What makes you happy? Sound, music and beautiful places. I enjoy large groups of… Read more »