Oct 04 2025
This article seeks to answer the following questions: What does it mean for a society to be patriarchal? How does a patriarchal mindset shape our gender roles from childhood? How does this mindset manifest in close relationships? Why is there such a strong attachment to “performative masculinity,” even though it harms both men and women? …
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Oct 02 2025
Most people (in the Faroe Islands) agree that there are special difficult circumstances where exceptions can be made and permission should be granted for abortion. Therefore this question is being asked: So why not make a law that allows abortion because of those difficult circumstances? Why not make a law on exceptions instead of a …
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Mar 28 2025
PRESENTATION ABOUT WOMEN IN MUSIC held at the G! Festival 2024 in Gøta, Faroe Islands, by Elin Brimheim Heinesen – an old-timer on the Faroese music scene, born in 1958 and started performing music publicly in 1974 when she was 16 years old: WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES FEMALE ARTISTS FACE? I will be speaking to …
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Mar 12 2025
By Lisa Barchetti 04 October 2024 Elin Brimheim Heinesen translated this article to Faroese and Danish 12 March 2025, As anti-feminist sentiments regain popularity, understanding the psychological background of these attitudes becomes crucial. They often stem not from genuine hatred of women, but from identity threats and fears related to changing societal norms. Only by …
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Feb 05 2025
Pay people proper wages – with pensions and vacation pay – for working at home, taking care of the house, and providing care for children and elderly parents. Then many would undoubtedly choose to stay home and do this important work, which is so incredibly valuable to society – not least according to those who …
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Nov 08 2024
Recently, the conflicts between the genders seem to have intensified following the announcement of the results of the American election, which triggered a tsunami of misogynistic rhetoric online. Trump’s and the conservative Republican Party’s takeover in the USA is perceived as a significant setback for equality, leaving particularly many women, as well as minority groups, …
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Aug 10 2024
Short Essay in the Women’s Magazine Kvinna, May 29, 2024 By Elin Brimheim Heinesen I have nearly lived for 66 years now. Looking back, it can be established that I have lived a very colourful life, both for better and worse. When you live this long, you can’t avoid facing some challenges along the way. …
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Jul 20 2024
Read the whole presentation – click this link: Presentation held at G! Festival 2024: WOMEN IN MUSIC The Gender Gap in the Music Industry – What are the Challenges Female Artists Face? The presentation is about: women in music the gender gap in the music industry the challenges female artists face what can be …
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Jul 12 2024
In continuation of the debate about the lack of female representation at festivals in the Faroe Islands and elsewhere, many wonder why it should even be a problem. Why the heck should everything be turned into a question of gender? Isn’t it all just about good music? The desire for more female musicians on stage …
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May 12 2024
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen Let me say this straight away. I support freedom of choice – meaning women should have the right to decide whether to carry a pregnancy to term or not. This doesn’t mean I believe abortion is good or an ideal solution, as the best scenario would naturally be for women to …
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Apr 17 2024
What does a young 17-year-old Faroese maid in a small village in the Faroe Islands in 1916 have to do with a revolutionary new urine-based cleaning fluid for diesel engines? By Elin Brimheim Heinesen in Berlingske Tidende, Section 4, Sunday, 16 December 2001 On 28 September, 2001, one of the world’s leading scientific journals, New …
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Mar 05 2024
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen Read aloud at the Sirkus bar in Tórshavn during the Femifestival on 4 March 2024 In our patriarchal society, age-old norms still dictate how men and women should be. Traditional gender perceptions lead us to expect men to be strong and stoic. Consequently, many men are afraid to talk about their …
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Mar 12 2023
Trigger warning: If you are curious to read about masculinity from a female point of view, then this is for you. But if you have a hard time tolerating a woman allowing herself to have an opinion about what a “real man” is, then I would recommend that you skip this article. 😉 By Elin …
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Jan 02 2023
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen WARNING! This is intense stuff! Do you want to watch a chilling documentary about the harm that fundamentalism, blind faith, and loyalty to men who claim to be God’s chosen messengers can cause? Do you want to see what happens when a ruthless man achieves god-like status and gains power over …
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Mar 30 2022
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen Is it necessary to identify “culprits”? Some people dislike the term “general sexist culture” because they find it too vague. They compare it to a situation where someone is assaulted during a night out, knows who did it, but instead of reporting the perpetrator, only complains about the “general culture of …
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Jun 30 2020
Long article in the Faroese newspaper Dimmalætting, April 2019 Narrated by: Elin Brimheim Heinesen Written by: Hans Egholm Elin is in balance. Currently, she is in a good place in life. She is content with her job, has a cozy home, owns a sweet dog, has lovely siblings with the world’s sweetest children whom she …
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Mar 09 2020
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen With regard to yesterday’s International Women’s Day, how far have we come with gender equality when it comes to our attitudes? Many are still clinging to old ideas about gender that prevailed in the 60s (as the advice to women in the picture to the right illustrates). It seems more than …
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Sep 05 2019
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen Whether we like it or not, homosexuality is a reality we cannot ignore. We can choose to accept this reality or not, but burying our heads in the sand is not helpful. Homosexuals have always existed and will not disappear, regardless of efforts to prevent these people from loving their own …
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May 08 2018
By Elin Brimheim Heinesen I have recently seen on Facebook discussions that people are wondering about women who return to men who are or have been violent towards them. A well-known social worker and advice columnist, Tine Bryld – also known as “Denmark’s Mother” – once commented on this in a youth programme called P4 …
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Jan 18 2018
Translation into English of a Faroese article written by Mildrið Jacobsen. The article was published in the Faroese newspaper Sosialurin on 18 January 2018. The topic is #MeToo Faroese women are hesitant to use the #MeToo tag on their social media profiles. This is not because the problem of sexual harassment is less prevalent in …
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