A women-only music festival will be held in Sweden in 2018 after a crowdfunding campaign raised more than 500,000 Swedish Krona (AUD$79,000).
festival was dreamed up by Swedish comedian Emma Knyckare following a series of sexual assaults at Swedish music festivals like Bråvalla and Putte I Parken, the reports.
Bråvalla has been cancelled for 2018 after there were four rapes and 23 sexual assaults at the festival this year.
In July Knyckare tweeted: "“What do you think about putting together a really cool festival where only non-men are welcome that we’ll run until ALL men have learned how to behave themselves?”
The Kickstarted campaign raised 533,120 Krona (AUD$84,528) from 3,303 backers.
"At music festivals, everyone should feel safe. This sounds obvious, right? Still, year after year the music festivals around the world has shown us the opposite," festival organisers wrote on their Kickstarter campaign page.
"Statement Festival wants to change this and in the summer of 2018, we will arrange the world’s most awesome music festival - without cis- men.
"Help us to create a safe space for the people who want to attend a festival without feeling scared for their personal safety."
Statement will allow cis women, trans women and those who identify as non-binary to attend, and is working on securing a venue for the festival.
In Sweden it is not illegal to exclude a group based on gender when the exclusion is made in "good intention".
"If you, as a man or woman, are upset by the idea of a men-free festival, you may instead be upset about how many women are asked to stay home [by] friends and family when they plan to go to the festival or elsewhere," says organiser Klara, reports.
"Put your energy on what is actually unfair. You as a man are just offended because you can not do as you like for once, which you are used to."
