#tess asplund

[higherentity]

[abwwia]

Tess Asplund (facing left) defying neo-Nazis in Borlange, Sweden 2016

Photographer: David Lagerlöf

[abookishworm]

She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.

[oneto]

Fight fear

[maryne00]

A Demonstrator Faces Down A Riot Policeman During A Pro Democracy Protest In Santiago, Chile, 11 September 2016

Maria-Teresa "Tess" Asplund Stands Up To Uniformed Demonstrators In A Nazi Demonstration In Borlänge, Sweden, 1 May 2015

A Woman Sits In Front Of Riot Police Blocking The Road To Protect Protesters During The Anti-Government Protest In Seoul, South Korea, 24 April 2015

Danuta Danielsson Hitting A Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag In Växjö, Sweden, 13 April 1985

A Woman Dances In Front Of Riot Police During A Demonstration In The Kadikoy Neighborhood Of Istanbul Against The Eviction Of A Squatted Building, 9 December 2014

Young Pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir Planting A Flower On The Bayonets Of Guards At The Pentagon During A Protest Against The Vietnam War, 21 October 1967

A Woman Gestures To Riot Policemen During A Protest Organized By The Rally For Culture And Democracy (Rcd), Algiers, 02 July

A Palestinian Woman Argues With An Israeli Border Policeman During A Protest Against Jewish Settlements In The West Bank Village Of Nabi Saleh

Feminists Are Burning Some Election Posters To Fight For Women's Suffrage. Photograph. Paris, France, 12 May 1935

Woman Yelling At A Cop During An Anti-Apartheid Protest, 1981

[foxpapa]

"Fearless"

9 ritratti di donne "senza paura" al PAN di Napoli 

Si inaugura domani giovedì 13 alle 17.30 e sarà visitabile fino al 1 luglio, "Fearless", personale dell'artista Pier Toffoletti, per la prima volta a Napoli

L'esposizione, appositamente concepita per l'occasione, è a cura di Marina Guida ed è composta da nove ritratti di altrettante donne, tutte straordinarie e, appunto, "fearless", ossia "senza paura". L'artista udinese rende loro omaggio, riproducendole su tele di grandi dimensioni. Qualcuna delle sue "muse" è arrivata sotto i riflettori della cronaca più recente per le sue "gesta" virtuose. Qualcun altra, invece, è meno conosciuta, ma altrettanto meritevole: tutte sono accomunate dall'aver sfidato pregiudizi, superato limiti imposti e dall'aver combattuto la discriminazione sociale e l'emarginazione. Ecco quindi la nigeriana Balkissa Chaibou, che si è opposta a un matrimonio combinato all'età di 12 anni, e che oggi studia per diventare medico. Ancora, l'afgana Negin Khpalwak, prima direttrice d'orchestra in un paese in cui il regime talebano vietava di suonare qualsiasi strumento. Seguono Tess Asplund, svedese di origini africane, che nel 2016 ha marciato da sola e silenziosamente con il pugno chiuso alzato ad un raduno di estrema destra in Svezia per dire no all'intolleranza e alla violenza; la nuotatrice siriana Yusra Mardini, la quindicenne svedese Greta Thunberg, la campionessa scacchista ucraina Anna Muzychuk e altre ancora. La mostra, corredata da un catalogo edito da "Casa d'Arte San Miniato di Pisa" e promossa dall'assessorato comunale alla Cultura è realizzata in collaborazione con l'associazione culturale "C.r.a." (acronimo di Centro raccolta Arte) di San Miniato (Pisa) e la casa d'arte "San Lorenzo" di Pisa. Ingresso libero

di PAOLO DE LUCA

[miniyo]

Tess Asplund, la mujer que desafió, puño en alto, a una manifestación de 300 neonazis en Suecia, en mayo de 2016

David Lagerlóf [web] https://www.fotograflagerlof.se/ [twitter] @davidlagerlof

[greekstreetart]

"Don't be Afraid"

The portrait of Tess Asplund who stood in front of 300 Neo-nazi in Sweden...

Αthens University Law School 2017

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Tess Asplund stands up to more than 300 neo nazis and refuses to let them pass, Sweden, 2016

[danmanco]

Tess Asplund stands up to more than 300 neo nazis and refuses to let them pass, Sweden, 2016

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1) Tess Asplund, Borlänge, Sweden - 2016 (Photo - David Lagerlöf)

2) Jasmin Golubovska, Skopje, Macedonia - 2016 (Photo - Ognen Teofilovski, Reuters)

3) Unknown, Santiago, Chile - 2016 (Photo - Carlos Vera Mancilla)

4) Saffiyah Khan, Birmingham, England - 2017 (Photo - Joe Giddens, PA)

5) Danuta Danielsson, Växjö, Sweden - 1985 (Photo - Hans Runesson)

6) Amanda Polchies of the Elsipogtog First Nation - 2013 in Rexton, NB (Photo - Ossie Michelin)

7) Bernadette Devlin, Ulster - 1972 - (Photo - Victor Patterson)

8) Unidentified Ethiopian-Israeli woman, Tel Aviv - May 2016

9) Ilesia Evans, Baton Rouge, LA (Photo - Jonathan Bachman, Reuters)

10) X’Oyep women trying to expulse soldiers from the Chenalhó's displaced people camp, Chiapas, México - 1998

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

One woman defies neo-Nazi marchers in striking portrait from racist march in Sweden #1yrago

What a stunning portrait of one brave person.

Swedish photographer David Lagerlöf captured this amazing image of activist Maria-Teresa "Tess" Asplund, 42, standing alone in defiance against several hundred neo-Nazi marchers in Sweden on Sunday. Her fist is raised in protest of the white supremacists' march.

"When I did it, I was angry. I wasn't scared," Asplund told CNN. "Now when I think about it, I understand it could have been worse. Now I see that."

"She was in real danger," Lagerlöf told CNN about the woman he photographed.

"She had nothing to stand up to those guys. The Nazis that she confronted, there were many of them, they were bigger, they are used to violence, and what she did was she went up to them, stood in front of them and stared at the leaders, stared them in the eyes, and it should have ended really bad. "

https://boingboing.net/2016/05/05/one-woman-defies-neo-nazi-marc.html

[dorlaiel]

Tess Asplund, 42, stepped out in front of 300 Nazis marching through the city of Borlange, Sweden, and faced its leaders with her fist in the air Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3571113/The-moment-one-brave-woman-stands-300-Nazis-refuses-let-pass-Activist-s-defiant-gesture-fascist-march-Sweden.html#ixzz47iCYVcB3

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(2016)

The lone protest of a woman defying a march of 300 uniformed neo-Nazis is set to become an iconic image of resistance to the rise of the far-right in Scandinavia.

A photograph of Tess Asplund, 42, with fist raised against the leadership of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) in Borlänge, central Sweden, on Sunday has gone viral in the country.

“It was an impulse. I was so angry, I just went out into the street,” Asplund told the Guardian. “I was thinking: hell no, they can’t march here! I had this adrenaline. No Nazi is going to march here, it’s not okay.”

After joining a large counter-demonstration she took the train back to Stockholm and did not think about what happened until Monday evening, when the photograph spread on social media.

“Now it’s a circus. I am in shock,” said Asplund, who is 5ft 3in and weighs just 50kg (eight stone). “The Nazis are very angry, so I am a little ‘Oh shit, maybe I shouldn’t have done that, I want peace and quiet.’ These guys are big and crazy. It’s a mixed feeling, but I am trying to stay calm.”

Asplund’s lone protest comes at a time when the far-right in Sweden is increasing its activities, according to Daniel Poohl of Expo, the anti-racist foundation in Stockholm, whose photographer David Lagerlöf captured the image.

The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party polls between 15% and 20% and holds the balance of power in parliament, while racist sentiments are fuelled by a fragmented landscape of internet hate sites. The avowedly antisemitic National Socialists of the NRM are the extreme wing of this spectrum, Poohl says.“We live in a Europe where far-right ideas are becoming more popular, and there is also a reaction against them. It is a time when people are longing for something to channel their urge to resist the Europe that builds borders against refugees, the Europe that cannot cooperate any more. Tess has captured one of the conflicts of our time,” he said.Swedish media have compared the photograph to a famous image from 1985 known as tanten med väskan, “the lady with the bag”.

The image, taken by Hans Runesson, shows a woman hitting a skinhead from the Nordic Reich party with her bag. The picture of Asplund is in many senses more powerful in the Swedish context today, Poohl says. “We now live in a multicultural society, so it makes sense that it was a black woman.”Swedish civil society is working hard to settle tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Asia who sought asylum in the country last year, but there has been a spate of arson attacks on refugee accommodation, and the government has toughened up its asylum policies. Sweden sends sharp signal with plan to expel up to 80,000 asylum seekers                                                                                                                                      The NRM is known for targeting anti-racists, says Asplund. “I have friends who have been attacked by them and who have had to change their address. I have had calls at night from private numbers, screaming at me. It is hard to talk about the hate,” she says.“I feel ashamed that we have this problem. The police say it is a democratic country, so they can demonstrate. But these are Nazis! It is horrible.”Asplund, who describes herself as Afro-Swedish, is unemployed, and active in the group Afrophobia Focus.

Sweden was identified by the UN last year as having a particular problem with afrophobia, defined as hostility towards people with a background from sub-Saharan Africa. “Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up. “But nobody paid any attention. I thought Sweden in 2016 would be more open minded, but something has happened,” Asplund says. “I hope something positive will come out of the picture. Maybe what I did can be a symbol that we can do something – if one person can do it, anyone can.” 

[thesociologicalcinema]

Tess Asplund tried to block the path of the Nordic Resistance Movement as the right-wing extremist group marched in the town of Borlange on May 1, 2016. Photo credit: Press Association — in Borlänge, Sweden.

[janiedean]

I'm not sure if people are aware of how dangerous neonazis actually are? Like any 90's kid in Europe will tell you, we were taught, if you see a white dude with combat boots and a shaved head NOT in full military uniform, you cross the street IPSO FACTO. If you wanna stand up to them do a Tess Asplund, don't punch them ffs, because they'll fuck you up.

There's a reason why I think most of these ppl have never seen an actual neonazi in their life like I wouldn't try to get near one ever because they would kill me before I even touched them probably-_____-