Nina Björk

Nina Björk (born May 18, 1967 in Östersund, Jämtland) is a Swedish writer and a feminist activist. She is most well known for Under det rosa täcket (Under the Pink Duvet), a feminist book written in 1996.

She is known for her literary criticism, and her writings with several newspapers and political work. She has also voiced opposition to queer theory from a materialist perspective, having argued in 2018 that she "does not understand what trans people mean" and questioned the validity of gender identity as a concept. She has repeatedly portrayed the self identification and changing of the meaning of gender as a threat to feminism, and she has been described by Swedish commentators as part of a "trans-doubting" current within feminism. In 2025 she took part in the launch of a Swedish organization called Rättssäker, which seeks to restrict transgender healthcare.

She is considered to be a left-wing equity feminist. In 2008 she earned her PhD degree in literary criticism at University of Gothenburg with her doctorate thesis Fria Själar. She is also well known as a columnist in Dagens Nyheter.

She was awarded the Lenin Award (Sweden) in 2021.

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