She was born in Stensele and is a Pirate Party member and blogs under the name Farmor Gun i Norrtälje.
In 2009 she won "Stora bloggpriset" in the category Politics and Society.
And in the 2010 Swedish General elections she was a candidate for the Riksdagen for the Pirate Party.Svensson was a member of the Social Democrats until 1986 when she decided to leave the party.
In 2006 she decided to start a blog, mostly about news and politics, and it also coincided with her new interest in human rights and the internet.