We are going through pretty vivid times in Sweden at the moment, the way I see it the last piece of the intersectionality puzzle: the discussion about racism and Swedish exceptionalism, is finally starting, slowly, making it's way up on the official Sweden's agenda. Soon we can start working through things for realZ!

Had a coffee with Mr Timbuktu yesterday, agreeing on the fact how it's a good thing when people show their true colors and most of all; a lot of good folks you didn't know about, stepping up. Timbuk has done one of my favorite Swedish rap songs ever "Jag Drar" (2002) (basically "I'm Out"), it nails the ambivalent feeling I've had in the back of my head since I turned eighteen and could move, more or less. I travel but the base is still Sweden. So I suppouse that means we need to keep stepping and get those changes made here. Now.

Swedish links:

Oivvio Polite's nifty timeline including all articles concerning the debate in Sweden on Racism, Tintin, Wirsén etc. Extra Highlights on:

- Ylva Habel, Scholar and Lecturer, Media & Communications, who we invited for the Black Face panel talk has written an extremely important piece about Sweden in SvD. It sums up pretty much everything that we have been talking about as problematic with this country. A MUST READ for all Swedes (hopefully we can get a sort of translation sooner or later) "Den Svenska vithetens blinda fläck".

- My old soccer pal and style icon Lawen Mothadi finally releases "Den dag jag blir fri", a book about the iconic activist Katarina Taikon, telling another story of Sweden. Lawen is also the person behind this brilliant piece " Varför hånas de kritiska rösterna?"

- Extra <3 to our 2FACED1-bro Nathan Hamelberg in Nya Vågen (Radio) who's breaking down something very personal on one hand, in a carefully prepared vocuabulary, for the ones who don't understand, to understand.

PS: It's Friday: The first official 2FACED1 Alexander Salzberger created Surdegshotellet together with a bunch of other stars for P1 Godmorgon, världen! If you missed it this summer listen here . FUNNY as hell!

Do you think I forgot all about the style in the tagline? 2FACED1's Oscar Stenberg provided me with some new press-photos, here they come:

Finally!!! The new site is done! Step over to the really important thing about 2FACED1.com, and meet the Intern like you never seen him before. Feel free to share!

2FACED1.com Presents a New 2FACED1 - Fifteen Year Old Alex Dabo

2FACED1.com - the home of the stereotypophobes, has repainted the (non-existing) walls and expanded. The journey through modern day identities, subcultures and stereotypes continues along with the search of transnational identities.

2FACED1.com is therefore thrilled by the release of the next “2FACED1” - Alex Dabo. This fifteen year old proves that growing up with a laptop instead of a cuddly toy luckily hasn’t made all kids into Anders Behring Breivik clones. As Alex puts it: “Just because you’re a kid doesn’t mean you’re not able to think”. He breaks it down simple, why style is essential in a world not yet free from prejudice against things like the color of your skin. After meeting Alex we believe in the youth again!

Click over to the new site and discover Alex’s two faces:

Persona One; what he wants to be considered as

Persona Two; what he fears to be considered as

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2FACED1.com shows one persons two faces in photos; Persona One; what one want to be considered as and Persona Two; what one fears to be considered as by other people. This leads to a discussion about stereotypes and inner fears of getting misunderstood by the surroundings. Thoughts that every thinking modern day person does reflect upon. It's about diggin' deeper, peelin' off garments, codes and attributes searching for identity until
 buttnakedness. Is the conclusion that we choose whoever we want to be today? 

A 2FACED1 is someone that is highly aware of existing stereotypes related to ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality and class. A person who tries to avoid and sometimes play with them to make people think twice about who
 they are. So to be two faced doesn’t mean anything negative here, it rather explain the double folded
 view you have on identity if you’re not the existing norm. It means you have your feet in different worlds,
 can move between them but feel rather at home in that space in between. You're stepping out of your comfort
zone and become one of the new identities where ol' categories are mashed up and where rootlessness
and non-given identity just means major possibilities!

Life of a 2FACED1 growing up in Sweden! I didn't know Robyn back here, I knew of her but I didn't know her. But we had a lot of similarities going on, even if I had the regualr teen time and was only dreaming of going to New York...! Stay tuned to see what superstar had a crush on the 17 year old Robyn haha (I'm still waiting for the Swedish tabloids to do a poster of this?!) and see more of life was for the 17 year old Robyn feat. Robyn's long time friend Lojsan among others! MTV US: When I Was 17 below:

It's my boys and 2FACED1s SPOEK MATHAMBO and CEREBRAL VORTEX doing it Swedish Style, getting DRUNK LIKE THAT on a Cobra Krames beat! Their DRUNK LIKE EP (Little Owl Recordings) produced by Cobra Krames just includes Douster (available on RCRD LBL here http://bit.ly/ro30Pp),  Nightmare Juke Squad and Sonora. Video Director/Edito: Lazlo. The whole EP is now available on iTunes here .