Background
“Children must be separated from such monsters”
The sad harvest of the Civil War was red orphans. Including half-orphans, 25,000 is probably the right number, as there were 11,000 red widows and 80,000 prisoners in the camps at worst.
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Ella Mettänen on her role as the Red Widow: “The mother’s story is a harrowing experience.”
When the Finnish Civil War ended in 1918, many Red widows began a new kind of struggle for survival. Traumatized women had to struggle to keep their families together and children alive.
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Daring to become who you are
The story of Miiko, 30, from Jakobstad is a story about daring to turn your life around.
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“My anxiety is like a…
We asked the visiting theatre group Blaue Frau to introduce themselves. It became a work of art and a small essay about anxiety.
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Love in tones
Unlike many famous musicals, the Irish indie film Once didn't need a million-dollar budget to hit the spot with its message about the ambivalence of love and the importance of music in communicating the strongest of emotions.
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The Importance of a Woman’s No
At the beginning of the 1970s, the number of female members of parliament in Finland had barely risen to more than twenty per cent, women were not allowed to keep their surnames when they got married, and the Equality Act did not yet exist. Rape within marriage was not to be criminalized until twenty years later, in 1994. A female no weighed much less than a male one.
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