In the organizer's words:

Young women and their bodies - naturally beautiful, youthful, sexy - are the raw material from which the music industry and the logic of pop are made. They are pined over and fetishized in song lyrics, insulted and degraded, they serve as a projection surface on stage and backstage. Female fans are seen as a screaming mass or a will-less groupie, incapable of any serious interest in the music or serious taste. And when a woman performs as an artist, she is first a woman and only then a musician, then her body is either too fat, too thin, too perfect or otherwise wrong, then she is either a whore or a saint, and then - suddenly - she is too old anyway. In an angry and instructive mixture of analysis and reckoning, Sonja Eismann shows how deeply sexism and ageism are inscribed in the music industry, how consumers have learned and internalized the male gaze, how abuse and paedosexuality are accepted in almost all scenes and genres. She writes about old men who let underage singers perform sexualized songs, about the seeming impossibility of proper aging, sexist music journalism, superstars like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé or Peaches, about feminicides in song lyrics - and of course about examples of self-confident appropriation, resistance, angry middle fingers against the music patriarchy.

Moderated by Rayén Garance Feil.