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MeToo movement

Exploring sexuality unrestrained without being judged by others

Marie Bergström: The New Laws of Love: Online Dating and the Privatization of Intimacy

dating: Marie Bergström looks at modern love and sexuality in connection with online dating. But is online dating really as safe as she claims?
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All the women of the world – united on film

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova: Woman

WOMEN PORTRAITS: Woman is a sequel to Yann Arthus-Bertrand's panoramic portrait of humanity, this time about the female part of the world's population.
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A desire for materiality

PHOTOGRAPHY: Can a photo hit us? Or can it show limitations imposed on the individual by family and societal expectations?
Nina Beach -

Realists Stanley Kubrick

: He is a filmmaker who has meant a lot to many of us. In a world that is being technically engineered and militarized, Kubrick is still relevant.
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Women's collective anger

Rebecca Traister: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger Simon & Schuster, USA

#METOO: Good and Mad encourages women to show their minds so that together we can create revolution and rule the patriarchy.
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The fear of the invisible

Caroline Emcke: Against Hate

: Behind both Islamic State and right-wing groupings, exactly the same mechanisms function as the driving force, points out the German author and journalist Carolin Emke. In her book, she draws up the great perspectives.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

To shoot after Faust with a shotgun

: There is a lot of light, sound and contemporary embrace of #metoo in We must talk about Faust. But less Faust.
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Under Brooklyn bridge for #Metoo

: Seven female photographers in a tough macho industry comment on the #Metoo debate by encouraging dialogue.
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