Sissela Nordling Blanco (born 5 April 1988) is a Swedish politician, who served as

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of the Feminist Initiative party from March 2011 to 2016, serving together with Carl Emanuelsson,

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, and

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Biography

Born in 1988 in

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, Nordling Blanco grew up there and in

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, Chile. Her maternal grandfather is Hugo Blanco, a Peruvian left-wing peasant leader, former presidential candidate, and

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member of parliament. Blanco came to Sweden as a political refugee in 1976, where his daughter Carmen Blanco Valer (born 1959) grew up and, among other things, became Chairperson of Solidarity Sweden-Latin America. Chosen as spokesperson of the

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political party Feminist Initiative in March 2011, Sissela Nordling Blanco is a candidate for the

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in the September 2014 general election. She lives in

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, where she, in addition to her political work, is a project leader for Fanzingo, a media house for youths in Alby,

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. Nordling Blanco has previously worked as a graphic designer and lecturer, and with the feminist and anti-racist

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Interfem. She was an editor for the book ''Makthandbok för unga feminister som (be)möter rasism och sexism i föreningslivet'' published in 2009, and again for its second edition in 2011. She is also one of the founders of the anti-racist and queer feminist festival Uppsala Pride, which she helped organize in 2007-2009.

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