In today’s news I spoke about LGTBTQIA-people and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland with priest Tomas Ray. How long should you wait and fight for equality? Can you ever fully be a part of the community if there’s someone who doesn’t think you should be able to get married? What’s the role and structure […]
I tend to get frustrated when vocational education is not appreciated as highly as general secondary education. Oh and here’s a TV-documentary about Finnish secondary education in general. You can read my side notes about vocational education in Finnish and Swedish below För en timme sedan publicerades programserien Fem fenomen i skolan på Yle Arenan. […]
So today was an interesting day. Second time speaking Finnish on the radio (but what wouldn’t you do in order to make sure secondary education is accessible for all?), giving the citizen’s iniative for the same cause, and its 50 000 names, to the speaker of the Finnish parliament and a citizen’s information-event about concrete […]
Today I was elected president of Regnbågsankan, the Swedish-speaking organisation for sexual- and gender minorities in Finland. With this political climate, I can’t imagine anything being more important than defending human rights and equality. So glad to get to do this, looking forward to what this mandate has to bring and working with the new […]
This last month my work has included replying to a bunch of conservatives on the Finnswedish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet on the topic of behavioral norms. Apparently nothing should ever change, and change is definitely not happening right now, according to them. Personally, I don’t think any individual has the right to determine whether or not any […]
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