Klubb Malcriada is a “fantastic feministic lesbian artistic collective” comprising six lovely souls who love women. Helena, Lovis, Dijle, Maria, Moa and Linda wanted to create a meeting point where women are in absolute focus. They are now doing their lesbian hiphop and live music night at several venues across Stockholm this summer and fall.
Tell us more about Malcriada and what your club nights are all about.
Spreading the love of feminism and creating a place where women are in focus and where all guests can get a well-needed break from the usual everyday sexism and homophobia and all the other bullshit discrimination that goes on out there. That is the only thing we expect from our audience; you don’t have to be a lesbian (even though we highly recommend it), or even a woman, but you have to stand up for the political values and norm-breaking actions us Malcriadas want to mediate.
We really believe in interaction with our audience and we want to create a spot where everyone feels welcomed and loved. And it must work because the atmosphere of our club nights is more like a private and personal home party – we actually fall a bit in love with each and every one of our guests and it seems to show. But we also want to mediate confidence to our audience who are in many ways discriminated against in society – we have a strong feministic and gay rights political agenda and we want to show that in all dimensions of a Malcriada night.
And of course, a Malcriada night is about having fun. Last time we threw a night it was ecstatic, we had tears in our eyes after that night because of the sheer joy that was going on throughout the evening. It is also a place where we want everyone to be able to be themselves without the pressure of conventions. Malcriada means unconventional or normbreaking girl in Portuguese and we hope that the message is clear; come as you are, not like society wants you to be!
What can we expect from your DJ nights?
You can expect extreeeeeeeemely good music, a warm welcoming and some seriously good fun. We work hard to promote women in the music industry and therefore mostly play female artists. We also try to book at least one or two live acts for each night, as well as presenting art made by females through various other artistic channels. We are also working on concepts for how to develop our interaction with the audience.
What’s the most interesting trend in the Stockholm nightlife scene at the moment?
Pretty much ourselves and all the other political girl power clubs that are playing the field at the moment in Stockholm, where they are starting to become a well established part of the nightlife. It´s about damn time! The queer clubs are also slowly starting to integrate with other non-explicitly queer clubs and so we think that we are finally moving in the right direction. We hope it won’t be long until the norm of heterosexuality is being questioned not only in certain politically active groups, but also on a structural level. Well, we hope it won´t be long, but it probably will take a while, but until then we want to work hard on the way.
What is your favourite night spot?
The few places that dare to make a statement against norms and discrimination! It’s horrifying when you think about how many nightclubs that promote themselves by using sexism, and it’s devastating how many venues discriminate against various groups by letting some people in and some not.
That’s why we love clubs like Mamarazzi, Innandömet and Freshest and where ever Mahoyo or Kakan DJ’s!
And when all the boundaries and norms are stripped back and mowed down, what does the future hold?
We want to further develop and expand our female-focused, feministic concept and we want to take a clear stand for women; we are absolutely fed up with being suppressed in all dimensions of society. We also want to develop when it comes to using various kinds of arts to reach as many people as possible – followed by world domination.
Is the rest of Stockholm’s nightlife headed in the same direction?
We have learned what clubs are great, good or better than others and what clubs you don’t even want to enter to take a piss. It’s easier for a new concept to break through these days and the interest for the norm-breaking spaces is growing. We are so flattered by all the attention and requests we have gotten already and we think that’s a really good sign!
