LAERKE REBEKKA UDSHOLT
BEING A WOMAN, WHAT MAKES YOU POWERFUL IN THIS COMMUNITY?
"I think something that's very important to me is like it's about being confident and being able to speak up and to talk and most importantly be heard and not discarded as just another feminist point of view. I think I think what's really important in terms of empowerment in our community but also in the societies in general is this ability that I feel I have I have the confidence to speak up and to make sure that people hear me that people listen to me and I think like a conversation is a really important part. And I think that's something that I feel like I'm able to do."
WHAT ARE SOME PERSONAL EVENTS THAT HAVE IMPACTED HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING A WOMAN?
"I grew up with two older brothers. They're quite a lot older than me they're like nine and seven years old. And they're both they're both feminists of course and they I feel that they have really impacted the way that I'm able to withstand pressure and I'm able to see myself as a confident strong powerful woman that way. And I think like it's it's very much impacted me because they think because they've been so much older. They've also been part of raising me along with my parents. And I think that their attitude towards me they both protected me but they've also stepped back and ensured that I have you know I'm exposed to things that challenge me and these things like that has really impacted how I feel about being a woman as a woman myself. And yeah I think they were really significant to that process."
DO YOU HAVE A ROLE MODEL, SOMEONE YOU LOOK UP TO?
"I think the first person to have this about was Emma Watson when she played her mania in Harry Potter because I had this very like Harry Potter obsession I have my childhood. And then when she transitioned when she became it began becoming an activist that's kind of the same time where I was the age where I felt like that was necessary for me also to become engaged in those activities. So actually the time frame was really significant I remember her for her speech as something that really really meant a lot to me and something that impacted me a lot. Other than that I think. Political leaders female political leaders in Denmark we had our first female prime minister last year felt because a prime minister term and her name was head and Tony Smith and then Angela Maggie who has been chancellor of Germany for a long time now. I think those are things that you really have like these people are people that really impacted how I feel about women in positions of power in positions where they can advocate."
IF YOU WERE TO BE PORTRAYED IN A PORTRAIT OF YOURSELF, HOW DO YOU SEE IT?
"I think this question is really difficult. I've talked to a lot of people about it like today and yesterday about what I should do and I find it interesting because some people have all like, "oh look you should stand and not be smiling with your hands on your hips and like you look powerful," and other people have been like "oh you should take care not to wear any like lace or pink or anything". And I think these things are wrong. I think I can be powerful and can be portrayed as being powerful, being me and being a woman in whichever. That's right. I just I don't have to look I don't have to wear a suit and to be dressed as a man in order to appear more powerful. So I think I present the version that I present to myself is the same version."