This paper examines prevalent tropes of sexual violence and rape circulating in far-right discourses in and around Sweden. Combining Discourse Analysis with a feminist reading of memes depicting rape collected in online spaces known to harbour far-right extremism, we ask: What is the scene of rape? What are its key tropes enacting in a discursive sense? How can we understand these iterations of sexual violation as key fantasmatic scenes of contemporary fascism? We explore a series of discursive figures and anthropomorphised representations of Sweden identified across these memes. These include Captain Sweden-a proxy for Sweden as a "cucked" nation; the Swedish Soyboy as an emblem of a feminized, castrated state; the Rapefugee invoking the threat of the abject Other, and finally the Swedish woman who occurs in contradictory form as slut, victim and race traitor. These tropes form nodal points in the articulation of the pervasive narrative of Sweden's, and in extension, the liberal order's crisis and retreat. Articulated around fantasies of perversion and abjection, they have evolved into emblems of Western moral degeneration and a loss of male power and serve as entry points to understanding the unfolding resurgence of fascist authoritarian ideology facing liberal democracies.

The report analyses women in violent extremism based on contemporary data for Sweden. Statistics are presented across various demographic and criminal indicators for violent far-left, far-right and Islamic extremistm, compared to same-sex siblings, to men in the same violent extremist milieus and to women in other antagonistic milieus. There are both similarities and differences between groups. Women in violent Islamic extremism have the weakest labor market attachment and the highest social welfare uptake. Women in violent far-right extremism have the lowest levels of education. The comparison between women in violent extremism and their biological sisters suggests a link between crime, social problems and extremism. When controlling for family background, women associated with violent extremism seem to have more extensive problems than their sisters without such (known) connections.