fredag 28 juni 2024

Work to live or live to work?

 Hej!

Jag har de senaste åren läst kurser och kompletterat min norska utbildning. Nu har jag skrivit en B-uppsats i historia som jag vill dela, ifall någon är intresserad. Den handlar om hur arbete och synen på arbete framställs i Hilma Angered-Strandbergs roman från 1899: Den nya världen

Jag lärde mig mycket och hade nöje av att skriva den. Vad arbete betyder i våra liv är ett lika aktuellt tema nu som då, och Angered-Strandbergs författarskap var som en skattkista att dyka ned i för den som vill ha förstahandsreportage om emigrant-Amerika. Man följer inte minst det inre livet hos en medveten och observant kvinna som gör ett så stort äventyr. Angered-Strandberg är den enda kvinnliga författaren som har beskrivit detta med förstahandsinformation. Att synen på arbete skiljer sig mellan USA och Sverige är också något som framgår i romanen.

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fredag 17 november 2017

Ett läsarinlägg

Här är ett läsarinlägg jag skrev i viss frustration, som jag gärna delar här också: (från GP 22 september):

onsdag 1 februari 2017

Det våras

Nu kom jag äntligen åt bloggen igen! Det var ett problem länge, men från en vanlig PC funkar det! Har börjat repa så smått med Diana, och vi hade en spelning på Tuve bibliotek där vi spelade sju nya låtar. Det var kul, båda att öva med Diana igen, och få dela dem med en lyssnande och fin publik. Sen har vi repat lite med Thomas Fridner, som Diana också spelar med i projektet "The new string theory", och här är en bild av oss på vår kära vän States50års-kalasshow på Marieholm i helgen. Där framförte vi låten "Mushroom kingdom". Vi skall spela in den hemma hos Thomas snart, så kanske den blir att lyssna på nånstans.





Det känns som det våras lite kreativt nu, och motto för året är "In omni paratus". Vill kunna hoppa på spännande saker ifall det dyker upp. I helgen skall jag på Popkollo Vuxen i Göteborg. Vill träffa fler musicerande kvinnor och ha kul med musiken, förutsättningslöst. På den lilla tiden jag har extra, alltså. Är lärare på åttio procent, mamma och student. Fast avslutar pluggande nu. Försöker grava fram littegrann mer av tid till det här som ger så mycket.

onsdag 22 juni 2016

It has been a while

It has been a while since my last last update, at least musically related. I have been spending time with my family, working, reading and thinking a lot, but I have also been writing songs. So last friday, I got to play some new songs with Diana, at the cosy club #aktersalongen at the boat Marieholm. Here is a video of one of the songs: This is.





söndag 3 januari 2016

Diversity that confirms the norm

I just started watching ”Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2”. Then I stopped to write this.

This is just such a perfect example a typical Hollywood "children movie", who´s ambition
when casting the characters seems to be to make it diverse and reflect a range of different people, but the way they do it actually confirms the norm:
Look at the picture:




One, the main character is white, young male.  Then you got:
One ”old”
One black
One latino
One fat
One amimal
One woman (The Girlfriend)

They all differ in one, and only one, aspect from the male, young, white norm.

So the woman is not black. Or old.
The monkey is not a she.
This is also why you dont have four different female characters and one male.
Because that would not fit the genre. That would be a ”girls movie”. Now it´s a "children movie". But it is not neutral, it is very strongly based in old patriarchal and colonial norms.

The same patterns we find in other stories
Winnie the Pooh
Donald Duck
Peter Pan
most ot the Adam Sandler movies.
The lego movie
The Harry Potter movies (in general)
And a bunch of other films

 It´s really annoying.

I would like to have a labeling or classification on films on Netflix and Apple TV, to help me pick out better films for my children. It could be based on a count on female caracters, or use the Bechdel Test to analyze the gender balance in the movie. That is just a start, until the movie industry changes for the better in more aspects.

Check out and like the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media page for more updates on changing the male dominated movie industry.

måndag 3 november 2014

Dimentions.

I am re-reading Eckhart Tolles "A new Earth".  I highly recommend you to read it if you have missed it. It is an amazing work of spiritual philosophy (not a new philosophy perhaps, but new metaphors made for a modern world)... a bit heavy at first, but worth the struggle. It works for religious people as well as spiritually interested non-religious people. Above all it shows you another dimension in life that we so much forget in our society. The dimension of space, silence and divinity, to be accurate ;)

Speaking about dimensions, I have removed one from my life lately, and that is social media. No Facebook or Instagram for more than a month now.  I have been active on social media at least five years; with some updates every week, and daily interactions. I am still checking in sometimes to see whats happening with my friends, like a digital ghost, reading but not interacting and no sharing. It was hard at first to ignore (and be ignored). I felt first like a very unfriendly, non-caring person, letting people down.  And later invisible, almost dead. And after that: Relief.

And now I see what I needed a break from: The ego on the Internet (in Tolles terms).  Like self designed avatars of our real selves we interact with each other, through our egos. (Probably you have to read Tolle to get this). And then there is the like-algoritm;  everything is always measured in one way of the other, it triggers our most basic needs for love and confirmation, and easily creates an addiction, and just like money, it is countable, concrete, worthless when it really matters... and you never get enough. And then there is the the filtering system on Facebook that gives you news and ads based on what you already "like" and thereby just confirm your world perspective.  I once hoped Facebook was a good place for sharing thoughts, but I think its are getting worse and worse..  And at last: The over-connection: You just can't keep up that many relationships  so communication gets superficial, included with people you have a much deeper connection with.

Some day I guess I will go back, because I miss sharing good stuff. But i don't know when, it´s quite nice to be here on the outside.

(Hey! Don't believe that all this has anything to do with the fact that I live a totally uninteresting life, and that I can't hide my age at photos anymore.  Nothing at all.. )

onsdag 24 september 2014

Recordnings

At Saturday we will record two new songs in Cezarys studio, "Pyramide" and "Love Binear". These are quite new songs, we played them at our last gig. We have been rehearsing for a while now, trying out different arrangments. Excited to see how it works!