Posted on 08/31/2018 11:30:06 PM PDT by aquila48
Walking around Statement music festival you might notice it is significantly different to the likes of Glastonbury or Sziget.
Launched Thursday in Gothenburg, Sweden, it claims to be the world's first festival exclusively for women, trans and non-binary people.
Swedish comedienne Emma Knyckare came up with the idea last summer when the media reported rape and sexual assaults at several Swedish music festivals.
"I had no idea how much work was involved in organising a music festival, now I know," she told Euronews.
The "cis-man-free" concept for the festival presented challenges Knyckare and her team had to consider. Cismen are men whose sex assigned at birth matches their gender identity, also known as non-transgender people.
"We work exclusively with women, non-binary and transgender persons. This ranges from artists to catering to security personnel. The whole area is free of cis-men. Because managers and technical teams will also attend, there will be a separate VIP section," she said.
Concerning access to the venue, Knyckare said she has hired a security company to work on a specialised "access system".
"There's a plan, no one will be questioned at the entrance. I can't tell you exactly how we will do it, but there is a plan," she said.
To finance the festival, Knyckare and her team first collected donations via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, raising half a million Swedish krona.
As many as 300,000 people gave money, which laid the foundations for the festival and a further budget was provided by means of sponsors.
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Sweden has men?
Their rape problem is muzzies, but I don’t expect to see a muzzie free festival.
Women can continue to have power and authority as long as men allow it.
When the islamists finally take over in Sweden, it will be a big improvement.
This invasion is like lava, consuming everything in its path, slowly and incessantly.
:)
Do only men rape? Can trans or non- cis or women rape also? If swedish folk have the time and money to put on that display of stupidity and sexism, they must have NO other problems.
Can naturally occuring chemicals in environment or food be causing this phenomena of gender fluidity?
So in other words, it was a typical fest in Sweden.
Sounds like biological men are not excluded as long as they say they think they are women.
Sounds to me like it's Moslem free but they can't say that.
Oh good more white sweedish women to rape by bands of refugees much like gun free zones in America
Just bake my damned cake and keep your beliefs to yourself. (Yeah, I realize it’s Sweden. Still...)
Target of opportunity
So men who identify as women are allowed.
Women can rape too just like men can have babies.
As far as I can tell Sweden is a man-free festival.
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