The inaugural Statement Festival befell this previous summer season in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was billed as “the world’s first major music festival for women, non-binary, and transgender [people] only,” and “launched as a response to the countless abuse of women [that] had taken place at music festivals,” according to festival organizers. Now, Sweden’s Discrimination Ombudsman has dominated that the pageant breached a regulation that bans gender discrimination, The Guardian experiences.
The DO reportedly discovered that the pageant broke the regulation by “discouraging a certain group from attending the event.” The DO press officer Class Lundstedt reportedly acknowledged, “These [infringements relate to] statements made before the festival, that they wrote on their website. Still, we haven’t been able to prove that someone would have been discriminated against in connection with the implementation or that someone would have been rejected.”
Lundstedt added, “Clearly, we believe that sexual abuse, especially at festivals, is a serious problem. So we are looking forward to trying to correct this…. However, it shouldn’t happen in a way that violates the law, which their statements in the media and their website [did],” in response to The Guardian.
No penalties shall be imposed on Statement Fest, in response to the report. Statement responded on its social media accounts: “It’s sad that what 5,000 women, non-binaries, and transgender [people] 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’s verdict doesn’t change this fact. Otherwise, we have no comments. We are busy changing the world,” in response to The Guardian’s translation.
Read “The Music World’s Reaction to Sexual Assault Needs to Keep Changing” on the Pitch, and take a look at Pitchfork’s characteristic “Tracking the Gender Balance of This Year’s Music Festival Lineups.”
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