Time for a new interview. Meet my dear friend Emelie!
I got to know Emelie last spring. First time I met her was at a glitter party. We just clicked right away, skipped all the bull shit mingle cold talk and started our own karaoke club for the night in Amy’s kitchen. A week after that we saw each other on a job meeting and I just knew I wanted to become her friend. There was so much power and energy bursting out from her. And since she also was a friend of Amy’s we all started to hang out together. I have so many fun memories with Emelie from past year. So hard and sad to but mostly a lot of laughter and smiles. We’ve become close friends and I’m really proud to have a friend like Emelie, she speaks her mind, hate injustices and inspirers me to be stronger, wiser and more powerful.
Emelie, what does a regular day in your life look like?
I spend most of my days working as a copywriter at an ad agency. After cycling to work I tend to end up in the cage (Buren). Despite the scary sounding name it’s my favourite conference room, and it’s where me and my art director Lina start most days. If it’s a Wednesday we go to AIF boxing club with some colleagues during lunch break. In the afternoon I like to read or watch something. I’m currently watching the fifth season of the awkward British sitcom Peep Show. Now when I’m speaking English I sound like a fifteen year old British prat. If it’s a good day I’ll be asleep by 10 pm.
What’s you’re favourite thing to do on a Saturday off?
Banana pancakes! And lately I have had an insane craving for mushrooms fried in heaps of butter and garlic. That’s been my biggest indulgence for the past few Saturdays now. I also like to discover new places in and around Stockholm on my bike. I cycle a lot, mainly in circles.
What’s your best moto in life?
Recently I have started to say “Det e vad det e” (“It is what it is”) a lot, like an old tired man with back pain. I like it though. You can always work up from there!
What do you think about feminism?
You mean if I think it’s important that we start to treat women equal to men? I think it’s the most obvious thing in the world! Why do hold on to rules from the stone age and squeeze men and women into gender roles? I feel deeply uncomfortable with this. And it’s not going to change until we act to change the systems of oppression. I often think about something Nina Åkestam wrote when people use the argument: “Well, everything is going to improve when the new generation takes over”. NO! It’s not just happening by letting time go by. Every day people fight and protest for their right to be treated as humans beings. That’s not called waiting. That’s constant work, and it’s made by people all over the world. Here’s some books I recommend on the subject:
Men explain things to me, Rebecca Solnit
Under det rosa täcket, Nina Björk
SCUM Manifest, Valerie Solanas
Kunskapens frukt, Liv Strömquist
A room of one's own, Virginia Woolf
What’s your favourite memory together with me?
There’s so many! Crazy laughs in a Polish suburb, glitter meetups in Midsommarkransen, super breakfasts, lipstick lady, Lydmar sleepover, internetshopping on #nohashtagwknd.. but perhaps my favourite memory is when we went to a party at Way out West, far out in Hisingen, Gothenburg. You, me, Lina and Amy saw the long line but you didn’t hesitate. You were (as always) so positive and just said “Lets do this!” We squeezed in, like swimming sardines, and after a long wait we finally got in and had an amazing night.
What’s your favourite fruit?
Mango, or tomato. Nobody respects the humble tomato (some people even deny they’re a fruit) but I think they are special. They work in everything and come in hundreds of beautiful shapes and colours.
Thank you dear Emelie, I love you! If you want more inspiration from Emelie follow her adventures here.