Music festival bars most men in response to sex assaults

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A music festival with a difference is taking place in Sweden this weekend.
The “Statement” festival in Gothenburg is open only to women, and to non-binary and transgender people. There’s no access for cis-men, a term denoting men whose gender matches their assigned sex at birth. The event was set up as a statement – hence the name – against sex assaults at music festivals in Sweden last summer. Organiser Emma Knyckare said it was time to create a space where women didn’t have to fear unwanted attention from men.

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