Candy Girls: A Feminist Lens on the Music Industry

Join us and our friends at the Glasgow Women’s Library to welcome journalist and author Sonja Eismann.

Sonja is the co-founder and co-editor of the German feminist Missy Magazine. She is one of the most renowned pop music journalists in the German-speaking world and is particularly interested in the intersections of feminism and pop culture. She will be in conversation with Donna Moore from the Glasgow Women’s Library about feminism, music and her new book, Candy Girls: Sexism in the Music Industry, which will be published in Germany this September.

Join us to explore international feminist perspectives on music and media, and gain fresh insights into how feminist voices are reshaping the music industry today.

Sonja Eismann (born 1973) is a journalist, author and cultural scholar based in Berlin. She studied comparative literature in Vienna, Mannheim, Dijon, and Santa Cruz (USA) and was co-founder of nylon magazine and Missy Magazine, where she remains part of the editorial team. Her writing has appeared in Spex, taz, der Freitag, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, among others, and her research focuses on gender representation in pop culture. From 2016 to 2022, she served on the Goethe-Institut’s Music Council (Musikrat). In 2024 she held the pop music lectureship at the University of Paderborn.

We would also like to draw your attention to the evening event on 4. September with Sonja Eismann at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow. Free Admission!