{"id":480058,"date":"2018-12-19T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=771139"},"modified":"2018-12-19T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:39:45","slug":"swedens-man-free-music-festival-rebuked-for-gender-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/swedens-man-free-music-festival-rebuked-for-gender-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden\u2019s \u2018Man-Free\u2019 Music Festival Rebuked for Gender Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sweden\u2019s Statement festival, billed as \u201cthe world\u2019s first major music festival<\/a> for women, non-binary and transgender only\u201d people has been excoriated for breaching the country\u2019s ban on gender discrimination.<\/p>\n

The Statement festival was held in Gothenburg, Sweden in August following a crowdfunding campaign. Comedian Emma Knyckare founded the event as \u201ca safe space for the people who want to attend a festival without feeling scared for their personal safety<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s Equality Ombudsman ruled that while Statement did not enforce the \u201cman-free event\u201d \u2013 festivalgoers were admitted regardless of gender \u2013 organizers still infringed the law since the fest \u201cdiscouraged a certain group from attending the event,\u201d the Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Knyckare launched Statement after four rapes and 23 sexual assaults occurred at the 2017 Bravalla Festival, one of Sweden\u2019s biggest music festivals. The 2018 Bravalla fest was subsequently canceled<\/a>\u00a0due to the assaults.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to point out what an infringement is. These [infringements relate to] statements made before the festival, that they wrote on their website,\u201d the discrimination ombudsman\u2019s press officer said. \u201cStill, we haven\u2019t been able to prove that someone would have been discriminated against in connection with the implementation or that someone would have been rejected.\u201d Since Statement\u2019s alleged discrimination came in the form of words and not actions, no penalties were levied against the festival.<\/p>\n

Statement said of the discrimination ombudsman\u2019s ruling on Facebook<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s sad that what 5,000 women, non-binaries and transgender experienced as a life-changing festival made a few cis men lose it completely. The success of the Statement festival shows that is exactly what we need and the DO\u2019s verdict doesn\u2019t change this fact. Otherwise, we have no comments. We are busy changing the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sweden\u2019s Statement festival, billed as \u201cthe world\u2019s first major music festival for women, non-binary and transgender only\u201d people has been excoriated for breaching the country\u2019s ban on gender discrimination. The Statement festival was held in Gothenburg, Sweden in August following a crowdfunding campaign. Comedian Emma Knyckare founded the event as \u201ca safe space for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 15:24:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}