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مادران مجرد خارجی‌تبار و هنر اداره زندگی

2022-06-30 | Zahra Bagherishad padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Ensamstående mammor och konsten att klara sig. (På persiska) مقاله «مادران مجرد خارجی‌تبار و هنر اداره زندگی» از زهرا باقری‌شاد ابتدا به سوئدی منتشر شده است. :

Romina Ashrafi, 14 år, mördades av egen far.

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New alternative masculinities among Iranian young men

2022-05-30 | Zahra Bagherishad padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Romina, a 14 years old girl, was murdered in 2020 by her father in an honour killing act in Iran. News of Romina`s murder spread across the country and in the diaspora. The following public debate on the issue of honour killings and women's lives gained attention. The brutal murder of a little girl shocked the Iranian and shed light on four other similar killings in the name of honour/namus committed within a month of Romina’s murder. Zahra Bagherishad discusses the impact of intensive debates on social media on the issue of honour/namus among Iranians of different generations and backgrounds.

Bild: Nätverket män mot hedersrelaterade våld

Report: Honour killings in Persian-language media

2022-01-26 | Zahra Bagherishad padlock

INTERNATIONAL

The first investigative report on the content of Persian-language media on honour killings has been published by The Network of Men Against Honour-related Violence in November 2021. This report analyses the news related to 30 honour killings in Iran published in 2020. The report has been published in Persian and here follows a summary of the outcomes in English.

Internationella dagen mot våld mot kvinnor, Santiago, Chile, 25 november 2021.

Bild: Esteban Felix AP/TT

پیروزی چپگرایان شیلی را زنان ممکن کردند

2022-01-13 | FemPers padlock

INTERNATIONAL

این گزارش در پرسپکتیو فمینیستی به سوئدی منتشر شده است. ترجمه فارسی این مقاله را بخوانید: اکنون پس از پیروزی ائتلاف چپگرایان در انتخابات ریاست جمهوری شیلی بسیاری خواهان تشکیل دولتی با رویکرد فمینیستی هستند. پیروزی بی سابقه گابریل بوریک، کاندید ائتلاف چپگرا در دور دوم انتخابات مدیون زنان و جوانان شیلی است. گزارشگر: کریستین سندبرگ/ پرسپکتیو فمینیستی/سوئد

The artist Emma Shapiro argues that Facebook should apologize to al women for the censorship that banned a nippel on Pedro Almodóvar´s latest movieposter.

Bild: Private.

“It is we who deserve the apology, Facebook”

2021-10-27 | Emma Shapiro padlock

INTERNATIONAL

A naked nipple on a movie poster was censored by Facebook. The apology from the company should be dedicated to all women, not the author according to the American artist Emma Shapiro.

Supriti Dhar by her university while living in Russia.

Bild: Privat

Supriti Dhar: I didn’t know what ‘Marital Rape’ is!

2021-03-15 | Supriti Dhar padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”It is almost prohibited to talk about marital rape in our society. That’s why I think that we should talk more and more about this issue.” Supriti Dhar on being reshaped by cruel experiences and the need for change.

Giti Chandra.

Bild: Kristin Ingvarsson

”Knowledge is power and collectivity is power”

2021-02-19 | Christin Sandberg padlock

INTERNATIONAL

– Everyone who reads this book will see how global this movement is, says Giti Chandra, one of the two editors of an anthology that puts the #MeToo movement in a historical, political, activist and academic context, a springboard to take the work further.

Bild: Lovisa Thuresson/Kalla fakta

Assange, Ardin, and the smear campaign of the millennium

2021-02-12 | Anna-Klara Bratt padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”Anna Ardin suing Julian Assange for defamation is a mind-boggling and tempting thought”, Anna-Klara Bratt writes after plaintiffs in the closed sexual crime case break their ten years silence.

Anna-Klara Bratt, editor-in-chief and responsible publisher for Feminist perspective.

Farewell, Mr Zuckerberg

2021-02-02 | Anna-Klara Bratt padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”For quite some time now, we have noticed a decrease in Facebook traffic. From eighty to twenty procent in a period of two years. Why? I think you know why.” Anna-Klara Bratt, editor-in-chief of Feminist perspective, offers a solution.

Raha Askarizadeh, journalist och fotograf.

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Revoke the prison sentence against Raha Askarizadeh!

2021-01-12 | FemPers padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Feminist perspective condemns the verdict against photojournalist Raha Askarizadeh, who is accused of ”violating national security” due to her professional practice. In addition to two years in prison, the sentence entails a travel and professional ban, as well as a ban on activities on social media.

Supriti Dhar.

Bild: Privat

Cries that go unheard

2020-10-16 | Supriti Dhar padlock

INTERNATIONAL

410 of the Bangladeshi women who in recent years traveled to work as housekeepers for families in other countries have returned as corpses. Analysis by Supriti Dhar.

Bild: GW Public Health/Flickr CC by 2.0

Critical thinking is threatened by attacks on gender studies

2020-08-01 | Christin Sandberg padlock

INTERNATIONAL

In Romania, Hungary and Brazil, the governments have banned gender studies. In countries such as Poland and Italy, the same academic discipline has been severely attacked. A wave of harsh propaganda is sweeping through the world, in which this field of academic research is being painted as based on ideologies and theories that are directly harmful to children.

Bild: Sissela Nordling Blanco

What disaster means to garment workers in Bangladesh

2020-06-05 | Supriti Dhar padlock

INTERNATIONAL

57 percent survivors of Rana Plaza tragedy have remained unemployed, and the pandemic is now taking a heavy toll on Bangladesh, especially on garment industry, which is the world’s second-largest garment exporter. Supriti Dhar recalls a disaster with long-term consequences.

Rossana Mercado-Rojas.

Bild: Amina Cruz

The virus does not scare me

2020-03-27 | Rossana Mercado-Rojas padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”While some – those who can – decide to self-quarantine over a sore throat, a distance sneeze, others will continue working as much as they can because rents nor any monthly payment has been frozen.” Rossana Mercado-Rojas would like to know what Sweden intends to do for the people outside its system.

Rubaiyat Hossain.

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Talk with Made in Bangladesh director Rubaiyat Hossein

2020-03-27 | Supriti Dahr padlock

INTERNATIONAL

– Basically, bringing out the lives of different classes of women is what I’m interested in. While the nature of the struggle may vary depending on the class she belongs to, ultimately, the core of the battle always remains the same, film director Rubaiyat Hossain tells Supriti Dhar in a talk about her latest works.

– For the first time in my life I feel safe, says Supriti Dhar.

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”Now that I am still alive”

2020-03-24 | Jenny Rönngren padlock

INTERNATIONAL

– When I felt that every day can be my last day at my life, I couldn’t even dream. The overwhelming fear took over every other aspect of my life, says Supriti Dhar, who came to Sweden in 2018 as a sheltered journalist and will participate with articles in Feminist perspective through a co-operation with PEN/Opp and Norrköpings kommun.

8 mars 2020, Stockholm.

Bild: Coordinadora

Feministas latinoamericanas: No nos para ningún virus!

2020-03-14 | Coordinadora Feminista Latinoamericana padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”¡Somos las hijas de todas las mujeres sabias y valientes, que siglos de opresiones diversas no lograron callar y ningun virus logrará parar!”, escriben feministas con antecedentes latinoamericanos que habrían lanzado sus trabajos en el Foro Feminista de Estocolmo.

Posters and drawings on the walls in Santiago, January 2019. In early February they were authorities painted them over.

Bild: Maria-Pilar Reyes

Feminist movements in the context of the Chile uprising

2020-03-12 | Inta Rivas-Fauré padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”We imagine peaceful, sustainable and highly democratic environments: at home, in our neighbourhoods and communities, at work and in public institutions.” Inta Rivas-Fauré on the power of the Chilean feminist movement in the urgent, massive manifestations against the authoritarian, neoliberal state.

Notiser:

■ Complete interview with UN-rapporteur Nils Melzer

■ Pilot study on harassment online of women journalists

■ Menstruation – a forgotten issue

Fru Justitia.

UN support for conspiracy theory on Assange rape case

2020-03-06 | Jenny Rönngren padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”Just before the trial in London, the charge of rape in Sweden turned out to be fabricated.” Again, in videos and newspaper articles, false statements about the closed legal process against Julian Assange on sexual offenses are circulated. The source this time is the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer.

Karl-Magnus Johansson shows Helen Pankhurst the documented speech that her grandmother suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst gav in Gothenburg in 1913.

Bild: Anna-Lena Lundqvist

Powerful and relevant – Sylvia Pankhurst’s speech in Sweden

2020-01-17 | Jenny Rönngren padlock

INTERNATIONAL

In connection with the Gothenburg Book Fair, Helen Pankhurst for the first time gets to see the shorthand transcript of her grandmother, suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst’s speech while visiting Sweden in 1913. Feminist perspective joined her.

Isabelle Widmark, Fairpay och initiativtagare till #timeout och Irma Helin, fotbollsspelare som skrivit under uppropet.

Bild: Bella Frank, Skärmklipp Dif tv

#timeout: The sporting world needs to change

2020-01-10 | Undertecknarna padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”Those of us who have signed this petition have different relationship to sport. But we share a common experience of men in different ways are helping themselves to our space, our bodies and our rights, in ways that limit our lives and that make our sporting dreams a little harder to realize. Maybe they don’t always do this themselves, but do not protest when others do it. We will not allow this to go on. It is time for timeout.”

Bild: Anna-Klara Bratt

#metoo: Why massive mobilization swept Sweden

2020-01-10 | Anna-Klara Bratt padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”It is somewhere in the midst of the inflated self-image, the overconfidence and the judicial impotence that Sweden became the country of #metoo-petitions.” Anna-Klara Bratt, editor-in-chief of Swedish weekly, Feministiskt perspektiv, here offers an analysis of as to why the mobilization around #metoo grew so massive in Sweden, pointing to the high employment rate of women as the single largest factor behind the breakthrough.

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#action: Breaking the culture of silence

2020-01-10 | Undertecknarna padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Shocking accouts from the Swedish film and theatre sector. 703 peope, among them stars such as Marie Göranzon, Lena Endre och Sofia Helin, have come toghether in Svenska dagbladet in a collective petition against the abuse they have to suffer. Here they write about the abuse themselves. All the quotes in the article are anonymous.

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#silentdancer: Petition against sexual harassment

2020-01-10 | Undertecknarna padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”Finally, this is a petition directed at managers at dance schools, dance stages and independent dance groups. You have accepted teachers grooming students and allowed them to continue working, year after year they have had access to new victims, have continued to harass and abuse their power while at the same time this has been dismissed as a non-question. Who you hire and what you chose to do form now on is crucial. We know who you are. The movement has begun.”, more than 800 dancers write in a petition against sexual harassment in the dance industry.

"På en avdelningsmiddag la han en femkrona i en domstrolssekreterares urringning".

Bild: Annika Huett/Agent Molly & co

#bywhatright: Upholding the law

2020-01-10 | Undertecknarna padlock

INTERNATIONAL

When a sexual assault takes place we depend on the judicial system. During #MeToo in Sweden in the autumn of 2017 women in the legal system came forward with testimonies of harassment and chauvinism within the sector. ”If you represent the law, it would be appropriate to also safeguard it”, 5 965 signatories wrote in their petition that was first published in Svenska dagbladet the 15th of November 2017.

Osäkra och otydliga strukturer gynnar övergreppskulturer. Bilden är beskuren.

Bild: Ellen Ekman

#boilingover: We demand action

2020-01-10 | Undertecknarna padlock

INTERNATIONAL

The restaurant industry is characterised by insecure employment, harsh hierarchies and a sexist macho culture. Here 1 863 women and non-binary working in the industry give testimony on everything from verbal abuse to sexual abuse, from colleagues as well as bosses and guests.The petition #boilingover was first published in Dagens nyheter on the 30th of November 2017.

Bild: Privat, Tanja Holm

Zahra Saleh in Eternal Opposition

2019-01-03 | Tanja Holm padlock

INTERNATIONAL/IN MEMORIAM

For over a decade, Zahra Saleh fought for southern independence from the north of Yemen. She was imprisoned eleven times and carried a banner like a beauty queen with the text "Independence or Death" when she marched along with the men in the streets of Aden. Tanja Holm remembers a controversial woman whose significance has been overlooked in the West.

Notiser:

■ Estudio piloto sobre acoso en línea hacia mujeres periodistas

■ Yassmín Barrios: La ley tiene que ser para toda la gente

■ Gaming, politics and the future: Interview with Anita Sarkeesian

Mi cuerpo es mio, Min kropp är min.

Bild: Pressbild

Es hora de arrancar el sexismo desde sus raíces

2017-12-10 | Firmantes padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”El fenómeno que hoy observamos en Suecia es parte de un movimiento global popular feminista. Este es el principio de una revolución. Una revolución que es una urgencia. Sin embargo, somos conscientes que para alcanzar el siguiente nivel creemos que este tiempo nos exige acciones conjuntas contra las estructuras que impregnan nuestra política y economía”, escriben 187 mujeres en un texto de opinión que enlaza el movimiento #metoo-uppropet con #niunamenos.

Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.

Bild: Frankie Fouganthin

The Swedish Academy stops collaboration with harasser

2017-11-24 | Felicia Mulinari padlock

INTERNATIONAL

18 women accuse a central figure in the literary sphere in Sweden of sexual assault and harassment. He is the artistic director of a club in central Stockholm, and has been supported financially by the Swedish Academy, which every year choses the laureate for the Nobel Prize in literature. Now they stop all collaboration with the accused man and also admit that he has assaulted women within the academy as well as family members.

Sara Danius, secretaria permanente de la Academica Sueca.

Bild: Frankie Fouganthin

La Academia Sueca termina colaboracón con abusador

2017-11-23 | Felicia Mulinari padlock

CULTURE/INTERNATIONAL

Durante esta semana 18 mujeres han dado a conocer que un hombre con mucha influencia en el mundo cultural sueco las ha violado y abusado, hechos que tomaron lugar durante 20 años. El hombre tiene vínculos con la Academia Sueca, que cada año decide quien recibe el Premio Nobel de literatura. Después de una reunión extraordinaria por la noche del jueves la institución admite que ha violado sus propios códigos de conducta e interrumpe toda colaboración con el acusado.

Opening of the UN Committe on the Status of Women (CSW), 2017.

Bild: United Nations Photo

The Saudi regime can’t stop the women’s rights activists

2017-05-03 | Almut Rochowanski padlock

INTERNATIONAL

The inclusion of the Saudi regime into the UN Commission on the Status of Women will not likely have any greater consequences för the commission’s work, which is already laden down and mostly symbolic, according to Almut Rochowanski.

Bushra al-Maqtary is a recognized yemeni journalist and author.

Save Yemen’s people

2017-01-10 | Bushra Al Maqtary padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”The outside world, which has long forgotten the war in Yemen, now has it on its conscience. Take moral and humanitarian responsibility for this ongoing tragedy!”, pleads author and activist Bushra al-Maqtari in a poignant column about the causes and consequences of this war.

Bushra al-Maqtari är en erkänd jemenitisk journalist och författare.

Bild: Privat

Save Yemen’s people/انقذوا اليمنيين

2017-01-10 | Bushra Al Maqtary padlock

INTERNATIONAL

انقذوا اليمنيين! الأمل الأخير لليمن هو المراهنة على استيقاظ ضمير العالم، تكتب الكاتبة والناشطة بشرى المقطري في رسالة مفتوحة للعالم. "عشت ولا زلتُ أعيش يوميات الحرب وتفاصيلها المؤلمة، كملايين من اليمنيين اللذين وجدوا انفسهم مجبرين على التعاطي مع هذه الاوضاع الكارثية، دون أن يكون لهم ذنب بالحرب التي فرضت عليهم، وآمل كغيري من اليمنيين أن تتوقف آلة الموت الجهنمية."

Notiser:

■ #g16: We must mobilize better for safe spaces

■ Carta de mujeres en Suecia a la presidenta Michelle Bachelet

■ Black Feminist Roundtable with Angela Davis in Sweden

■ We are their sisters

Jin Haritaworn var en av huvudtalarna på G16 konferensen, men blev utslängd av vakter på avslutningsfesten.

Bild: Ljuba Alekseeva

#g16: Rethinking safety and security in gender studies

2016-12-04 | Jin Haritaworn padlock

OPINION/INTERNATIONAL

Last week G16 was held, a gender conference gathering academics and feminists to discuss the challenges for gender studies. During the conference party, the security guards tried to throw out one of the keynote speakers, Jin Haritaworn. In an open letter, which also ended the conference, Jin Haritaworn writes about how to build an academy that protects racialized bodies for real.

Sepi Roshan: Mindlessly consuming information is dangerous and can perpetuate gender stereotypes and inequality.

Bild: Privat

”Freedom of expression starts at home”

2016-01-15 | Sepi Roshan padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Sepi Roshan is committed to strengthen the presence of women in the media. She has founded the radio station Astute Radio in the UK where she challenges the stereotypes of gender. Here is an excerpt from a speech about access to information and freedom of expression as a tool to improve gender equality in the media. This speech was held by Sepi Roshan at the Global Alliance for Gender and Media, GAMAG Nations General Assembly in Geneva in December 2015.

Bild: DSC_6508/Flickr

Challenges in 2016 with feminists’ perspectives

2016-01-08 | FemPers padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Sustainable solidarity, feminist solutions for integration, exposing the sex industry, women in decision-making positions... Feministiskt Perspektiv have asked six prominent feminists in different parts of the world to comment on the challenges facing the world in 2016; Nesreen Salem (Egypt), Bushra Khaliq (Pakistan), Lina Ben Mhenni (Tunisia), Parvin Ardalan (Iran), Biljana Kašić (Croatian) och Lydia Cacho (Mexico).

Victoria Kawesa.

Bild: Pressbild

A Tribute to Revolutionary Black Feminists in Sweden

2015-10-20 | Victoria Kawesa padlock

OPINION/INTERNATIONAL

”The revolution of the Black woman is happening at this moment in Sweden. An awakening about redefining black womanhood in Sweden is exploding.” Victoria Kawesa, black feminism activist, highlights her sisters in the struggle and especially salutes Black Vogue, after their fall gathering in Stockholm this weekend, because of how they are changing the way Black Female Bodies are perceived in the public space.

Tomas Brunegård believes that measuring can lead to change.

Bild: Pressbild

Time to gender scrutinize media content

2015-06-23 | Jenny Rönngren padlock

INTERNATIONAL

For the first time gender balance in media organizations has had a central position on the agenda of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra), according to chairman Tomas Brunegård. His statement is made just a few weeks after the annual conference in Washington. He believes that the next step may be to continuously visualize what content looks like from a gender perspective.

Bild: Alejandro Amoros Linares

El precio de la disidencia en el estado policial de España

2015-05-01 | Astrid Menasanch Tobieson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”Cuando hablo con NoSomosDelito, una de las organizaciones más grandes que han organizado manifestaciones en contra de la Ley Mordaza sólo dicen una cosa: necesitamos una focalización de la atención internacional.” dice Astrid Menasanch Tobieson en su discurso del Primero de Mayo, llamando la atención a una ley que atenta a los derechos humanos de la gente en España.

Bild: VTSO

Our silence will not protect us

2014-12-12 | The participants padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”As feminists, we cannot coexist with fascism, because it would deprive us, and many others, of our existence. As academics, artists and activists, we cannot keep silent; we have a responsibility to use our resources in the on going conversation on what world we want to live in.” These words are written by Sweden based participants in ”Excitable Writing. Trans_forming academia_art_actvism” at Linköping University last weekend.

Zakaria Zouhir and Kitimbwa Sabuni, The Afro-Swedish National Association in Stockholm.

Bild: Pressbilder

”Reconsider this year’s Sinterklaas-party!”

2014-11-18 | Zakaria Zouhir , Kitimbwa Sabuni padlock

INTERNATIONAL

On November 30th, the Netherlands Embassy in Stockholm will be hosting a Sinterklaas party. Sinterklaas will be arriving at Skeppsbron with his slave-servant ”Zwarte Piet”, dressed like a renaissance minstrel with ”blackface”, painted red lips and an afro wig, writes The Afro-Swedish National Association. ”Should you go ahead with parading Zwarte Piet characters in Stockholm this year we will of course make our sentiments heard”, Zakaria Zouhir and Kitimbwa Sabuni from the association write in an open letter addressed to the Dutch ambassador in Stockholm.

Bild: Women’s Initiative for Peace

URGENT: Stand against a buffer zone between Turkey and Syria

2014-10-04 | Women’s Initiative for Peace padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Turkish women for peace has issued a call for support against demands from the Turkish government for a buffer/security zone between Turkey and Syria to fight Assad and IS, claiming it would also be a move to clean the region of its Kurdish inhabitants. "We, the women from the Women’s Initiative for Peace see this proposal as a disingenuous move to kill many birds with one stone."

Afrah Nasser i Oslos stadshus.

Bild: Leena Ben Mhenni

Yemen’s Quota

2014-06-19 | Afrah Nasser padlock

INTERNATIONAL

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Women in Yemen are gaining some terrain on the question of political representation. Afrah Nasser, a Yemeni feminist and blogger, reflects on a battle for women’s rights she knows by heart. ”This quota is a step in the right direction, even if it is still a theoretical one”, she concludes.

David Crouch

Bild: Christian Swalander

Ukraine and the cynical use of history

2014-06-13 | David Crouch padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Russian media and politicians refer to nazi crimes in Khatyn whenever they mention the Odessa tragedy, using it to convince Russians that barbarians have taken power in Ukraine. David Crouch, deputy Europe news editor at Financial Times, now on sabbatical and guesting Gothenburg university, analyses the propagandistic use of historical references in Russian media.

Bild: Tanya Holm

Uncritical coverage of the US drone attacks in Yemen

2014-06-03 | Tanya Holm , översättning Erica Idén Gustafsson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Tanya Holm has lived in Yemen for four years and has been working as a freelance journalist for Feministiskt Perspektiv, amongst others. For the past months, she has been following the Swedish media coverage of Yemen and reacted to how the US drone attacks have been reported in the daily press. It’s the perspective of the richer country, the strongest men, which is being presented. However, we are not told anything about the women of Yemen.

Anna-Klara Bratt, chefredaktör Feministiskt perspektiv.

Bild: FemPers

#euelection: Rejoice – the feminist counterforce is here

2014-05-28 | Anna-Klara Bratt , Översättning Charlie Charlotta Haldén padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Europe’s journey into darkness has accelerated at a speed that seemed impossible prior to 2001, writes Anna-Klara Bratt in a comment to the results of the European Parliament elections, and continues: ”Today, it’s important to hold on to the feeling of having broken the chains of powerlessness. Feminist Initiative are not alone in this.”

Soraya Post will represent the Swedish feminist party in the EU parliament.

Bild: Jenny Rönngren

From activist to politician – Soraya Post creates history

2014-05-26 | Isabelle Nilsson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Soraya Post is the first name on Feministiskt initiativ's list for the EU parliament. In this interview, presenting her when she was nominated and elected as party representative, she speaks about her life, involvement in politics and being at the top of the party list: ”This really means a lot to all the 15 million Roma living across Europe."

Makokha Opiyo about demands for action and what may be implicated.

Bild: Privat

#bbog: When “Saving Girls” Does More Harm Than Good

2014-05-20 | Makokha Opiyo padlock

INTERNATIONAL

The demands for intervention related to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign overlook and undermine Nigerian women's efforts to liberate themselves and their girls. Recent history with Western government's military expansionist agenda agenda argue against, and passivity is hardly the only alternative according to Makokha Opiyo.

Bild: Privat

Brisons le silence sur ce qui se passe en Espagne

2014-01-15 | Astrid Menasanch Tobieson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Sous couvert de l’inattaquable excuse de la sécurité, le gouvernement de Mariano Rajoy considère préventivement le manifestant comme dangereux. Il est ainsi automatiquement regardé comme une menace à la Loi grâce au nouveau projet législatif de « Sécurité Citoyenne ». Metteur en scène et dramaturge, Astrid Menasanch Tobieson travaille entre la Suède et l’Espagne. Elle est membre du groupe de théâtre Stå! Gerillan. La lettre ci-dessous était initialement adressée aux journalistes suédois et a été publiée le 19 décembre.

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Rompere il silenzio su ciò che sta accadendo in Spagna

2014-01-12 | Astrid Menasanch Tobieson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

“Cominciate a informare sugli ultimi avvenimenti che stanno conducendo la Spagna verso una democrazia autoritaria” scrive la drammaturga e regista Astrid Menasanch Tobieson in una lettera aperta ai giornalisti svedesi, che ha avuto una forte eco nei mezzi di comunicazione svedesi e nelle reti sociali. Di seguito, il testo originale:

Bild: Privat

Break the silence regarding what is happening in Spain

2014-01-08 | Astrid Menasanch Tobieson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

“Start covering the development that Spain is moving towards an authoritarian democracy” writes the dramatist and director Astrid Menasanch Tobleson in an open letter to Swedish journalists published Wednesday 18th of December. Since then it has had an effect on the Swedish (and Spanish) media and social networks.

Bild: Privat

Rompamos el silencio sobre lo que sucede en España

2013-12-21 | Astrid Menasanch Tobieson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

“Empiecen a cubrir el desarrollo que España conduce hacia una democracia autoritaria”, escribe la dramaturga y directora Astrid Menasanch Tobieson en una carta abierta para las y los periodistas suecas. Públicada el miércoles 18 de diciembre. Desde entonces ha tenido repercusión en los medios suecos y las redes sociales.

Den spanska regeringens nya lagförslag har döpts till Munkavlelagen av de sociala rörelserna

Bild: Maribel Rivera

Desobediencia civil contra la Ley Mordaza

2013-12-20 | Laura Arau padlock

INTERNATIONAL

El gobierno español intenta amordazar a sus ciudadanos por vía legal para callar las protestas contra las consecuencias sociales de la política de austeridad. Laura Arau expone que es vital retomar la tradición de desobediencia civil contra las leyes injustas.

Organizing feminist justice

Bild: Privat

Feminist justice in former Yugoslavia

2013-12-13 | Cattis Laska padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Since 2010 women in former Yugoslavia have been organizing a Women's court with the aim to open up a space for testifying and making women's stories on the war be heard. Telling their stories are meant to reunite the women in solidarity rather than, as is commonly done, be appropriated for nationalistic or other political purposes.

Bild: Wikimedia Commons

The women who paved way for Nelson Mandela

2013-12-10 | Kalpana Hiralal padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Today, exactly ten years ago, Nelson Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize. 2013 is also, and will now even more remain, a year of celebration to commemorate South African history. Kalpana Hiralal reminds us of women’s heroism in the freedom struggles in South Africa.

Sara Nelson

Bild: Privat

Mother tongue: The intimacies of humanity

2013-11-29 | Sara Nelson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Poet Sara Nelson (earlier Westin) writes about the mother tongue and the intimate strangeness of language. A troubling text where white nationalism is placed in the context of the death of the mother and the rising of children in exile.

Pamela Samuels Young

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Three Ways to End Child Sex Trafficking

2013-11-08 | Pamela Samuels Young padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Decriminalize the children and criminalize the johns. Child Sex Trafficking can be ended. Pamela Samuels Young travels around the world to spread this message.

Margareta Winberg is the chairperson of UN Women National Committee Sweden.

Open letter to UN Women

2013-10-27 | Margareta Winberg padlock

INTERNATIONAL

UN Women National Committee Sweden, expresses its concern about the content of Note issued by UN Women on prostitution and trafficking. In this open letter chairperson Margareta Winberg states that UN Women should not have taken a position regarding this matter, and also that the position taken is the wrong one.

Bild: Stå Gerillan

You forgot the women

2013-10-23 | Astrid Menasanch Tobieson , Denise Olsson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

In this Open Letter to all 145 countries parties to the UN Refugee Convention Astrid Menasanch Tobieson and Denise Olsson demand revisions to the convention. They point to the fact that women are not included linguistically in the convention and ask the question: "Did you really forget us?

Gertrud Åström är ordförande i Sveriges Kvinnolobby

Bild: Tobias Björkgren

Open letter to the government of France

2013-09-25 | Gertrud Åström padlock

INTERNATIONAL

The Swedish Women's Lobby welcomes policy developments taking place in France on the issue of prostitution. In an open letter the organisation expresses support for a system criminalises both sex buyers and procurers and at the same time abolishes repressive measures against prostituted persons.

Daniel Birnbaum är chef för moderna museet i Stockholm./Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Moderna Museet.

Bild: Pressbild

We want to shift the standard narrative of art

2013-09-20 | Katarina Rosengren Falk padlock

CULTURE/INTERNATIONAL

Since Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofi Noring took over the directorship of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, it seems to be their deliberate strategy to integrate a gender perspective in the Museum’s exhibitions activities. Is this so? Katarina Rosengren Falk put this question to Daniel Birnbaum in an exclusive discussion on feminism, regeneration and the future.

Grand Entrance, Tala Madani.

Bild: Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias gallery, London. Private Collection

”As a human made thing art has a position”

2013-05-27 | Katarina Rosengren Falk padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Every work of art reveals its, and the artist’s, political position, says Tala Madani, whose exhibition ”Rip Image” is on display right now att the modern museum in Stockholm. In a conversation with Katarina Rosengren Falk she emphasizes the need to be aware of your own positions and to value provocations.

Helen Carrol and Pat Griffin, experts and LGBT rights activists, shared experiences working with trans youth in sport.

Challenging transfobia in sport

2013-04-04 | Miles Tanhira padlock

SPORTS/INTERNATIONAL

Experts and LGBT rights activists Pat Griffin and Hellen Carroll shared experiences working with trans youth in sport. They also spoke about challenges faced by trans persons at an individual, national and international level. Miles Rutendo Tanhira gives us an extensive report from a sports seminar in Stockholm.

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"Legalised prostitution – a failed experiment"

2013-02-17 | Mary Lucille Sullivan padlock

OPINION/INTERNATIONAL

Should Sweden learn from Australia? In January, Feministiskt Perspektiv published an article where Tara Naja Lykke from Scarlet Alliance was critical towards the Swedish ban on buying sex and stated that there are benefits with the Australian legislation. In a response Mary Sullivan describes the deficiencies in those policies and notes that Scarlet Alliance requires members to share the interests of the sex industry.

Shailja Patel framträdde på Södra Teatern i Stockholm, i samband med tidskriften Karavans 20-årsjubileum.

Bild: Katarina Rosengren Falk, bearbetad av Andrea Berglund

Art with Attitude

2012-12-14 | Katarina Rosengren Falk padlock

CULTURE/INTERNATIONAL

"Listen to those who you want to be in solidarity with." A simple and complicated answer from Shailja Patel, in connection to the performance in Stockholm, when asked about feminism and the risk of exclusion by Katarina Rosengren Falk. She writes about Patel's art as something that bridges over the limitations and categorisations that she critisises.

Sexism does not challenge gender stereotypes!

2012-07-09 | Maria Jacobson padlock

INTERNATIONAL

The EU Commission speaks with a forked tongue, says Maria Jacobson, after an e-mail discussion with the spokesperson of the Commission in charge of sciences. Due to massive criticism the Commission has decided to withdraw the film ”Sciene: It´s a Girl Thing”. The film was supposed to encourage girls and young women to study and work in sciences.

Den ukrainska feministiska aktivistgruppen Femen i protest mot EM-effekten.

Upphov: youtube

Interview with Anna Gutsol and Tatiana Kozak, FEMEN

2012-06-29 | Sofia Lundkvist , LInnéa Bruno , Cecilia Chavez-Sanchez padlock

SPORTS/INTERNATIONAL

Den ukrainska feministgruppen FEMEN har väckt starka känslor med sina nakenaktioner mot prostitutionen i samband med fotbolls-VM. Genomslaget har varit omfattande, men de stöter också på kritik för sina metoder. Feministiskt Perspektiv har fått möjlighet att publicera en längre intervju med två av aktivisterna som gjordes redan 2010. Intervjun är på engelska.

Norway in grief.

Bild: Rødt nytt

#antifeminism: Breiviks misogyny politically motivated

2012-06-04 | Mattias Gardell padlock

INTERNATIONAL

”The political world view that Breivik formulates in his manifesto is supported by cultural conservatism, anti-Muslim and anti-intellectual traditions of thought permeated by anti-feminist perceptions”, writes Mattias Gardell, who has investigated the political belonging of Anders Behring Breivik.

Joan Wallach Scott.

Bild: Edda Manga

"All I can forsee are battles"

2012-04-24 | Edda Manga padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Joan Wallach Scott offers paradoxes and says that she can only foresee battles. At the same time she describes the conflict between politics and academia as worn out. During her visit in Stockholm she had a conversation with Feminism editor Edda Manga, that lasted for several hours. "She was just as vivid and sharp as the impression given by her texts – an important source of inspiration for me".

Kristina Hultman

Bild: Frida Bogren

Time to act for Pussy Riot

2012-04-16 | Kristina Hultman padlock

INTERNATIONAL

On Thursday members of the activist group Pussy Riot will stand trial in Moscow charged with hooliganism. But to protest against power is a civil right and ours to guard as human beings. It is, writes Kristina Hultman, high time to show our solidarity with Pussy Riots and protest to them even being arrested in the first place – rioters or not.

The shiekh from al-Islah says YWU is making women "rebellious"

Upphov: alminbrchannel

Time to support the women in Yemen

2011-12-16 | Mai Abdulmalik padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Tawakul Karman has received the Nobel Peace Price for her contributions in the struggle for democracy and peaceful change in Yemen. At the same time Mai Abdulmalik appeals in this open letter for the West not to support her political party, al-Islah. In her opinion representatives of the party have kidnapped the revolution and is putting her and other women's rights activists lifes at stake.

Sanaa torsdag 7 april. Kvinnorna vill att president Saleh ska avgå omedelbart.

Bild: Tanya Holm

National Council formed to put pressure on Saleh

2011-08-19 | Jenny Rönngren padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Youth groups and political parties in Yemen have appointed 143 members for a National Council. They claim the cause is to increase pressure on president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Blogger and journalist Afrah Nasser is partly positive to the initiative, is happy about the eleven women included, but she also sees big flaws.

Cristina de Burgos cuestiona como la radio pública cuestiona a los jovenes que protestan el sistema que causó la crisis.

Upphov: a3television

La indignación sale a las calles

2011-05-20 | Jeanette L. Mauricio Becerra padlock

INTERNATIONAL

De casi cinco millones de parados en España, en muchos lugares el 50 por ciento es gente joven. Han heredado una crisis que no originaron y un sistema económico que los margina constantemente. La respuesta que esperaron no ha llegado y desde el 15 de mayo están en las calles. Este domingo 22 de mayo hay elecciones municipales y habrá que elegir. Ahora no solo la juventud está indignada y no son los únicos que están manifestándose, nos cuenta Jeanette L. Mauricio Becerra.

Jimmy Sserwadda, hbt-aktivist som flytt förtrycket i Uganda.

Uganda may allow death-sentence for homosexuality

2011-05-13 | Karin Råghall padlock

INTERNATIONAL

Today, Friday, the parliament of Uganda may vote through the controversial Anti Homusexuality Bill, that allows for life time imprisonment or death penalty as punishment for homosexuality.

Nawal El Sawaadi está feliz por vivir la revolución en Cairo, dice en una entrevista con Sholeh Irani esta tarde.

Bild: Clepsydree

Nawal El Saadawi: ”Asisto todos los días a las manifestaciones!”

2011-01-30 | Sholeh Irani padlock

INTERNATIONAL

- Estoy feliz! Tengo 80 años y estoy tan feliz por la experiencia de estos días. He soñado con esto! Asisto a las manifestaciones en la calle todos los días. Dice la famosa escritora egipcia Nawal El Saadawi, en una entrevista telefónica con Sholeh Irani, domingo en la tarde.

I´m so happy to experience these days, says the famous egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi in an telephone interiew in Feministiskt Perspektiv.

Bild: Clepsydree

Nawal El Saadawi: I attend the demonstrations in the streets every day!

2011-01-30 | Sholeh Irani padlock

INTERNATIONAL

– I am happy! I am 80 years old and so happy to experience these days. I have dreamed of this revoltuion! I attend the demonstrations in the streets every day. These are the words of the famous Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi in a telephone interview with Sholeh Irani on Sunday 30th january.