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Some chosen quotes:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...-girls-in-one-of-the-worlds-whitest-countries
You wouldn't believe thet kind of shit I have to read from daily newspapers nowadays. Man-spreading, fat-shaming, unisex toilets, BLM, it's all over nowadays, in fucking Finland.
Finland.
"It's a crazy experience to grow up in a white country where the white people don't even realize they are white and what kinds of privileges it gives them," said Koko Hubara, founder and editor-in-chief of Ruskeat Tytöt (which translates to "Brown Girls").
"The conversation on the implications of whiteness [in Finland] is only beginning now, very slowly," she said.
Ruskeat Tytöt began as a personal blog on Valentine's Day 2015 after Hubara woke up alone with a "horrible hangover" and did not sleep over at "some random dude's house." "I was laying in bed and decided on a whim to create a safe space for public discourse by a person of color for people of color."
With Ruskeat Tytöt, Hubara aims to create a vocabulary that discusses issues such as systemic racism, sexual violence, and the intersections of race, gender and class. "A lot of the people we work with create content that deals with this absurd space or trauma, if you will, of not being seen as human or as a Finnish person in your own country,"
My time in Finland was pleasant because I didn't have to think about any of that. I was only a black body in a white space for a temporary amount of time. I knew that despite my disdain for Chicago, I would be returning to a strong community of black and brown creatives and that whatever strangeness I might've felt would soon come to pass.
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...-girls-in-one-of-the-worlds-whitest-countries
You wouldn't believe thet kind of shit I have to read from daily newspapers nowadays. Man-spreading, fat-shaming, unisex toilets, BLM, it's all over nowadays, in fucking Finland.
Finland.