Mia Mulder

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| years_active = 2018–present

| subscribers = 160 thousand

| views = 6.6 million

| stats_update = 10 August 2024

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| office = Sollentuna City Councillor

| term_start = September 2022

| term_end = February 2025

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| birth_place = Sandhult, Sweden

| residence = Edsberg, Sollentuna, Sweden

| education = Uppsala University

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Mia Mulder ({{IPA|sv|ˈmîːa ˈmɵ̌ldɛr|lang}};{{Cite AV media |date=2023-08-08 |title=Pride House: Organisera för att Vinna! |publisher=Myrannosaurus |via=YouTube |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ5IP47cx9c |time=6:30 |language=sv}} born 23 April 1993){{Cite Twitter profile|Potatopolitics|Mia Mulder}} is a Swedish YouTuber, activist and a former politician. Mulder's YouTube channel focuses on general historical, social and political topics and on trans rights.{{Cite web |date=18 January 2022 |title=Hon håller kulturvänsterns fana högt på Youtube |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur/hon-haller-kulturvansterns-fana-hogt-pa-youtube/ |website=Dagens Nyheter}} By April 2022, Mulder's YouTube channel had passed 100,000 subscribers, earning the silver play button. From September 2022 to February 2025, she served on the city council in Sollentuna, representing the Left Party.

Early life

Mulder was raised in Sandhult, Sweden.{{Cite news |date=27 April 2017 |title=De ockuperade Socialstyrelsen |url=https://tidningensyre.se/2017/nummer-159/de-ockuperade-socialstyrelsen/ |work=Syre}} She studied history at Uppsala University, specialising in queer history, late 19th century German political history, and medical history dating back to 1750 and wrote a thesis on the history of compulsory sterilisation of transgender people in Sweden between 1972 and 2012.{{Cite book |last=Mulder |first=Mia |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-296959 |title=Varför krav för alla alltid? : En analys av motiveringen bakom tvångssteriliseringen av transpersoner 1972-2012 |date=2016-03-11 |via=uu.diva-portal.org}} She has also studied acting.{{Cite web |date=2016-11-30 |title=Återkomsten |url=https://transochannat.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/aterkomsten/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212175105/https://transochannat.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/aterkomsten/ |archive-date=2022-02-12 |website=Trans och annat}}

Mulder worked as a fashion model{{Cite web |title=Mia Mulder: Actor, Extra and Model - Sweden |url=https://www.starnow.com/u/miamulder/ |website=StarNow}}{{Cite tweet |number=1087392588359962624 |user=Potatopolitics |title=Some pictures from my modeling and acting days which: are good}} and LGBTQ educator before focusing on activism.

Activism

In the summer of 2016 Mulder founded and chaired {{lang|sv|Transförsvaret}} (Trans Defence), an activist group for the promotion of trans rights in Sweden with a focus on healthcare.{{Cite news |last=Söderlund |first=Frida |date=2017-03-13 |title=Transförsvaret pressar politikerna |trans-title=The trans defense is pressuring the politicians |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/a/moKmg |work=Aftonbladet |language=sv}}{{Cite news |last=Ritz |first=John-David |date=2016-11-25 |title=The Swedish Government Still Thinks Being Trans Is the Same as Being Mentally Ill |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/trans-defence-stockholm-occupation-928/ |work=Vice}} The group published thirteen demands for better medical and legal treatment of transgender and intersex people in Sweden, as well as for other LGBT people and for refugees.{{Cite web |date=9 August 2018 |title=Transförsvaret |trans-title=Trans defense |url=http://www.transforsvaret.se/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809110635/http://www.transforsvaret.se/ |archive-date=9 August 2018 |website=Transförsvaret |language=sv}}

In November 2016, a group of more than 60 {{lang|sv|Transförsvaret}} activists staged an occupation of the offices of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare demanding the end to their classification of transgender people as mentally ill. The activists attempted to hold discussions with the Board's staff and remained in the offices for seven hours until end of the working day when they were escorted out by the police.{{Cite web |last=Voss |first=Jon |title=Socialstyrelsen ockuperat igen |trans-title=The National Board of Health and Welfare occupied again |url=https://www.qx.se/samhalle/125353/socialstyrelsen-ockuperat-igen/ |website=QX.se |language=sv}}{{Cite web |date=2016-11-21 |title=Här ockuperar 70 transaktivister Socialstyrelsen – "Vi stannar tills vi blir utdragna" |trans-title=Here, 70 trans activists occupy the National Board of Health and Welfare - "We stay until we are pulled out" |url=https://www.mitti.se/nyheter/har-ockuperar-70-transaktivister-socialstyrelsen-vi-stannar-tills-vi-blir-utdragna/reppku!l8ie2z4ciW6uo7afJgriUg/ |website=www.mitti.se |language=sv}} Writing in Stockholms Fria Tidning Mulder said that the protest had attracted support from several other organisations but expressed frustration with the lack of change and reaffirmed her belief in the necessity of civil disobedience.{{Cite web |date=25 November 2016 |title=När etablerad aktivism ignoreras krävs civil olydnad |trans-title=When established activism is ignored, civil disobedience is required |url=http://www.fria.nu/artikel/125822 |website=Fria.Nu |language=sv}} In January 2017 the group held a protest outside Sweden's Ministry of Health and Social Affairs but were prevented from entering by the police.

Mulder is a member of the Left Party. In September 2022, she was elected to the city council in Sollentuna.{{Cite web |title=Kandidater 2022 |url=https://sollentuna.vansterpartiet.se/kandidater-2022/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913144457/https://sollentuna.vansterpartiet.se/kandidater-2022/ |archive-date=2022-09-13 |website=Vänsterpartiet Sollentuna}}{{Cite web |title=Valpresentation |trans-title=Election presentation |url=https://resultat.val.se/val2022/slutlig/KF/kommun/01/0163 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920170732/https://resultat.val.se/val2022/slutlig/KF/kommun/01/0163 |archive-date=2022-09-20 |website=Vänsterpartiet Sollentuna |language=sv}} In February 2025, she announced she had ended her involvement in politics.https://bsky.app/profile/miamulder.bsky.social/post/3liutl4kvs22n

YouTube

Mulder makes video essays on a range of social and political issues from a historical perspective; many, but not all, relate to transgender rights issues. When interviewed by Dagens Nyheter, she described a great need for accessible coverage of humanities topics.

Mulder has become the most popular Swedish left wing YouTuber and is often classified with the "BreadTube" or "LeftTube" label. She is ambivalent about this classification, expressing kinship with some of the other "BreadTube" channel creators while lampooning the idea of "BreadTube" itself. Mulder's videos are all in English and are more popular in the US, UK and Germany than in Sweden, where video essays are not widely popular.

Interviewed following Lindsay Ellis's retirement from YouTube content creation, Mulder spoke about her attempts to avoid internet "drama", saying that she had to filter out transphobic comments made on her videos.

Other activities

Mulder co-hosts the medical history podcast Leechfest.{{Cite web |date=17 April 2023 |title=LeechFest |url=https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/leechfest-mia-mulder-and-raluca-munteanu-qaXi_ORHK4Q/ |website=Listen Notes}} She also livestreams video games on Twitch{{Cite web |title=MiaMulder - Twitch |url=https://www.twitch.tv/miamulder |via=www.twitch.tv}} and on her second YouTube channel.

Personal life

Mulder resides in Edsberg, Sollentuna. She is a bisexual trans woman.{{Cite tweet |number=1269690463730229252 |user=Potatopolitics |title=Oh right, I forgot to be bisexual. I am bisexual}}