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issue 82 7 Roadmap Art, cartoons and a sunsoaked
street market. 8 Supermarket The independent art fair. 12 Kvinnohistoriska A museum of women’s history. Women in history Not without controversy, German investigative journalist Günther Wallraff has taken on numerous fictional identities while researching his various undercover stories over the years. Especially as late as 2009 when he had his face painted black to expose latent and explicit racism that affects people of colour in Germany, attracting criticism for “imitating oppressed minorities and harvesting money, attention and even respect by doing so” as author Noah Sow put it. Sow is black incidentally. And he isn’t the only one with a gripe. Süddeutsche Zeitung pointed out that the method itself would be racist, but whatever shenanigans Wallraff was up to in the 2000s, it’s his practice of going undercover I want to highlight. Or rather that he, in the 1970s, after impersonating an alcoholic, a homeless person, a worker in a chemical factory, a Turkish gastarbeiter and being tortured in a Greek prison after playing the role of a human rights protester, become the face of undercover journalism. And especially so here in Sweden where to ‘wallraff’ has become an official word. We don’t call it ‘to Nellie Bly’, do we? Nellie was an American journalist who began investigating the harsh life of women factory workers around Pittsburgh, which promptly ended when factory owners complained to her editor and she was reassigned to cover traditional female subjects like fashion, society and gardening. She took her investigations to Mexico but had to flee back to the US after six months. Back home, in 1887, she spent ten days in a New York mental asylum for her story Ten Days in a Mad House to expose the terrible conditions, and through that contributed to lasting institutional reforms in mental health care. She later emulated Phileas Fogg’s Around The World trip, in 72 days instead of 80, on her own, but that’s a different story. I just wanted to point out that a woman was doing eye-opening undercover stories 80 years before Wallraff without being immortalised in a verb. In this issue we interviewed Lina Thomsgård, cofounder of Kvinnohistoriska, the Stockholm Museum of Women’s History, to talk about how they will make sure that women’s contributions aren’t at best overlooked, and at worst omitted, from history. Peter Steen-Christensen 6 15 Women of the Neighbourhood Exhibition on the women who shaped Stockholm. 18 Gastronaut Videgård, real good Asian-slash-South American fusion. 20 Bitesize Adam and Albin’s Misshumasshu and other news. 26 Highlights Who, what where, when? Totally Stockholm Nöjesguiden Media AB Slussplan 11 111 30 Stockholm #82 / APRIL 2019 / FREE / WWW.TOTALLYSTOCKHOLM.SE Editor in chief Peter Steen-Christensen 0708-867101 peter.steen@hkm.se Editor and Social Media Austin Maloney 073-689 28 34 am@hkm.se Art Direction & Design Abdul Hamid Ali 076-999 14 48 aa@hkm.se Advertising Jordache Naran 073-316 14 42 jordache.naran@ ng.se Leopold Ericlid 0738705066 leopold.ericlid@ng.se Lucas Allskog 0705270347 lucas.allskog@ng.se Responsible under Swedish press law Pelle Tamleht 070-633 27 63 pelle.tamleht@ng.se Arezo Ghavidel-Asgari Austin Maloney Matilda Rahm Sofia Runarsdotter Pär Strömberg Pelle Tamleht Annika von Sydow Sandra Åhman PLUS SUPERMARKET VIDEGÅRD MISSHUMASSHU AND WOMEN OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Who run the world? Girls! Kvinnohistoriska wants to present half of human history Cover photo: Lina Thomsgård shot by Sofia Runarsdotter This page: Sandra Åhman Contributors #totallystockholm #totallysthlm Totally Stockholm is a monthly HKM publication and is distributed from 350 selected distribution points.