Sissela Nordling Blanco
Sissela Nordling Blanco (born 5 April 1988) is a Swedish politician, who served as spokesperson of the Feminist Initiative party from March 2011 to 2016, serving together with Carl Emanuelsson, Stina Svensson, and Gudrun Schyman.
Biography
[edit]Born in 1988 in Uppsala, Nordling Blanco grew up there and in Temuco, Chile.[1] Her maternal grandfather is Hugo Blanco, a Peruvian left-wing peasant leader, former presidential candidate, and socialist member of parliament. Blanco came to Sweden as a political refugee in 1976,[2] where his daughter Carmen Blanco Valer (born 1959) grew up and, among other things, became Chairperson of Solidarity Sweden-Latin America.[3]
Chosen as spokesperson of the feminist political party Feminist Initiative in March 2011, Sissela Nordling Blanco is a candidate for the Riksdag in the September 2014 general election. She lives in Stockholm, where she, in addition to her political work, is a project leader for Fanzingo, a media house for youths in Alby, Botkyrka Municipality. Nordling Blanco has previously worked as a graphic designer and lecturer, and with the feminist and anti-racist think tank Interfem. She was an editor for the book Makthandbok för unga feminister som (be)möter rasism och sexism i föreningslivet published in 2009, and again for its second edition in 2011.[1][4]
She is also one of the founders of the anti-racist and queer feminist festival Uppsala Pride, which she helped organize in 2007-2009.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Fi:s talespersoner" (in Swedish). Feminist Initiative. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ "Europe Solidaire Sans Frontičres] About Hugo Blanco" (in French). Europe-solidaire.org. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ "Detención arbitraria del dirigente campesino y luchador social peruano Hugo Blanco Galdos" (in Spanish). Punto de Vista Internacional. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ Wallin, Evalisa (27 March 2011). "Doldisar FI:s nya talespersoner". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 September 2014.