1: Early children education  <3 Transfobia + Nordic consensus 2: Now it feels very strange that in the special education form there was a question, that: “Are you a girl or a boy?” 3: Yes, we have came far from there in this theme. // Yes we have. 4: Now I think that how we have even asked a thing like that? // Yes, nowadays childs can choose them selves… 5: … that is the gender girl , boy of kangaroo. 6. Sinkkonen has written about this, he knows! // Yes that old man is furious, like: “We have to have a right to say a girl or a boy.” 7. Sinkkonen is so angry, because he knows that there are girls brains and there are boy’s brains and they are different. // Jep, word! 8. –

9. It makes me so angry that nowadays child can be a girl, boy or kangaroo. 10. We have went so far in this! // Yes we have. 11. – 12. There is a absolute lack of defending queer children.

Power defenders Change manifest

Eventhough that what I once said to you, doesn’t exist anymore, I know, that the feeling, that you felt and what you feel now also, when you think that moment, exists now.

I want to listen to you, when you tell me what you heard me saying.

Eventhough I didn’t say that, what you heard me saying I want, that I don’t dismiss that, what you once heard me saying.

I want to talk about that, what I never said or do, and just that for a while.

I don’t want to talk about that how you said the things what you heard me saying.

I want that the words that you heard me saying and doesn’t exist anymore, does exist for a while also for me, so that you can tell, how did you feel in a relationship with me.

I am also responsible of the words you heard me saying and which doesn’t exist anymore.

That’s why a look at that, what I didn’t mean to do and that what don’t exist, now for a while.

1. We have a problem. If we are playing the game broken phone. 2. And then the adult starts the game and whispers to the first child for example ”potato”. 3. And then if you listen carefully you can see, that boys don’t whisper to the next one ”potato”. They whisper truck. Or some other car. 4. Or sword. And then girls whisper diamond, princess of princess dress. 5. Very weird. 6. Do you have had same kind of problem?

Not doing work that decrease discrimination: How to not-understand, that person is not actively decreasing discrimination during working hours

1. P1: Do you have any books, that has queer people or brown people as active persons? 2. P2: Yes we have. 3. P1: Where do you have them? / P2: They are over there in the group-rooms. 4. P1: Where in the group-rooms? I haven’t seen any. / P2: There they are, can get from library. 5. P1: Okay. 6. P2: We have brown baby dolls.

Jeesus sanoi, että tee muille niin kuin haluaisit itsellesi tehtävän. Jeesus oli useassa asiassa oikeassa, mutta ei tässä asiassa. Älä tee toisille niin kuin haluiaist itsellesi tehtävän. Toinen ihminen on itsesi ulkopuolinen henkilö ja tästä syystä on väärin olettaa tietävänsä, mistä itsesi  ulkopuolella olevat henkilöt tykkäävät. Kysy siis, mistä itsesi ulkopuolella oleva ihminen tykkää ja vasta sen jälkeen tee teot jotka kohdistuvat tähän henkilön. Jos toimit tässä asiassa kuten Jeesus sanoi, tulet olemaan oletuksiesi vanki, tulet oppimaan vähemmän maailmasta ja ymmärtämään vähemmän maailmaa. Tulet olemaan rakenteellisen syrjinnän pelinappula ja syrjimään ja kiusaamaan tajuamattasi ihmisiä, jotka ovat oman kehosi ulkopuolella. Ehkä Jeesuksella oli aina oikein olettamisen super voima, mutta hän oli väärässä olettaessaan, että kaikilla olisi samat supervoimat, mitä hänellä on erityisasemansa takia, Jumalan poikana.

<3: Iloinen syrjiä

Jesus said (straight translation from the finnish language bible) do to others as you would like to do for yourself. Jesus was right about many things, but not about this. Don’t do to others as you would like to do to yourself. Other person is a person outside of your body and for that reason it is wrong to assume that you know what people outside of your own body like. So instead of doing as Jesus said, ask what the person outside of your body likes and then do the actions that are directed at that person. If you act on as Jesus said, you will be a prisoner of your assumptions, you will learn less about humanity and understand less about the world. You are going to be the chess piece of structural discrimination and discriminate and bully people who are outside your body without realizing it. Maybe Jesus had some super powers in assuming things right every time, but was wrong in assuming that everybody would have the same super powers as he has because special position of being a son of God.

<3: Happy discriminator

”When I meet a person, who has drug addiction, I get horrified” How to discriminate in a way that is typical to normative person and get horrified when meeting a experience that is outside of one’s own experience world -basics 1.Oh my God, that’s drunkard! 2. Yes, I have alcohol addiction. 3. Oh my God, that’s a junkie! 4. Yes, I am your client and I have drug addiction. 5. I’m so horrified, that person is taking some random pills! 6. Yes, I have medicine addiction. 7. Oh my God, that person smokes even! 8. … 9.    10. HEY EVERYBODY LISTEN TO ME, THIS IS HORRIFYING!!! I’M SURE THAT WE HAVE HERE A CLIENT THAT IS JUNKEY, DRUNK, RANDOM PILL EATER AND SMOKER! This is horrifying!

1.Yes yes! I just said, that you are right. 2. THIS IS HORRIFYING! I CAN’T UNDERSTAND! 3. Many of your clients has addictions. It’s quite normal. With different kind of intoxicants you can relax if it’s harder for some reason other ways. 4. What the FUCK! It has a BABY and ADDICTION! This is something that I can’t understand! 5. Yes I have reproduced. Addictions and reproducing are common in Finland, that’s why there are people who have reproduced and have addiction. I am one of them and we exict. 6. How can there be something like that?!! Whywhywhy!!!??? 7. Addiction is illness and there’s illnesses in the world. It’s more easy to get help to some illnesses than others. There’s not enough drug free treatment to addictions in Finland. Like Minne-sota treatment and that’s very expencive. Many don’t afford it.

1.AND THAT PERSON IS ALSO MOTHER!!! I can’t understand this! HOW SOME MOTHER CAN!!!? WHAT CAN I DO TO THIS SITUATION?! NOTHING!!! 2. We could search together information of the question that where I can get support. And I haven’t told you weather I have a vagina. 3. Well then there’s no problem, because he’s a father. Huh! 4. Well actually …. I have a vagina. / SHE SAID THAT SHE’S DRUNK and a MOM!!! I FEEL ANXIETY, HELP MEEEE!!! LET’S TAKE BABY TO HELL FROM THAT JUNKIE MOM!!!! I WISH THIS REALITY WASN’T REAL I CAN’T ACCEPT THIS TO BE REAL!!!! LET’S MAKE IT SO THAT IT’S NOT REAL!!! 4. um…. ok. Now it looks like that you have quite hard time. 5. AAAAAARRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! 6. PAM! 7. ? 8. Now here is quite headless things going on so let’s get you a new worker to work with.

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Teoriaa ja ajatuksia:

Suomalainen sosiaali-, terveys- tai kasvatuspalvelun normatiivinen työntekijä odottaa asiakkaalta normatiivisuutta.  Tämän sarjakuvan tilanteessa normatiivisuutta on elämä ilman riippuvuutta. Päihderiippuvuutta sairastavat ihmiset ovat syrjittyjä suomalaisessa palveluverkostosta, jossa päihteiden käytön lopettaminen toimii porttina mielenterveyspalveluiden saamiseen, vaikka todellisuudessa päihteiden käyttö tuo helpotusta mielenterveysongelmiin, joiden käsittelyyn asiakas ei ole saanut tukea. Päihderiippuvuutta sairastava tulee usein työntekijän syyllistämäksi, mutta syöpää sairastava ei. On väärin, että sairauden laatu vaikuttaa siihen, tuleeko ihminen työntekijän syyllistämäksi sairaudesta vai ei ja siihen, saako hän tukea vai ei.

Sarjakuvan kuvaama kauhisteluun perustuva syrjintä on yleistä. Kasvatusalan työntekijälle on tutkitusti tyypillistä keskiluokkaisuus, keskiluokkainen perhetausta, korkeakoulutus ja jotka individualismiin perustuvaan työotteeseen yhdistettynä johtavat hankaluuksiin ymmärtää kokemusta, joka rakentuu eri lähtökohdista, kuin mistä työntekijän oma kokemus rakentuu. Oikeutta kauhistella itsestä poikkeavia asiakkaita perustellaan usein työntekijän oikeudella ”päästellä paineita”, mutta suurissa määrin kauhistelu johtaa epärakentavan ja syrjinnän mahdollistavan keskustelukulttuurin ylläpitämiseen työyhteisössä. Kauhisteluun perustuva keskustelukulttuuri hankaloittaa työntekijäasiakassuhteen työsisällöistä ja sen haasteista puhumista ja niihin ratkaisujen löytämistä. Kun ratkaisuja ei löydy, kauhistelulle perustuva keskustelukulttuuri johtaa työntekijän ”itsen” ulkopuolella olevan kokemuksen ohittamiseen, joka on yksi rakenteellisen syrjinnän perusmekanismeista.
Sarjakuva kuvaa myös sitä, miten Suomessa vanhemmuuden tukeminen on sukupuolittunutta, jonka takia miehet/isät/miesoletetut joutuvat perhepalveluiden rakenteellisen syrjinnän kohteeksi. Syrjintään johtaa omalle normatiivisuudelleen sokean työntekijän taipumus tarjota ”yhdenvertainen” palvelukokemus ensisijaisesti itsensä kaltaisille asiakkaille, eli suomea puhuville keskiluokkaisille valkoisille naisille. Perhepalveluiden sukupuolittunutta rakenteellista syrjintää on tutkittu mm. Isännäköinen-hankkeessa (linkki alla).

Tutkimuksen mukaan Suomessa päihdepalveluita tarjotaan hanakammin äideille, naistyöntekijät soittavat mieluummin lapsen asioissa äidille, synnytyksen jälkeen mielialakysely tehdään vain äideille ja terveyskeskuksien odotushuoneessa asiakkaille on tarjolla ensisijaisesti naistyypillisiä lehtiä. Isännäköinen-hankkeen haastattelumateriaaleja lainaten ”miehet saavat repeillä aika pahasti, ennen kuin heille tarjotaan tukea.” Ammattilaiskeskusteluissa sosiaali-, terveys- ja kasvatuspalveluiden miehiin kohdistuvaan rakenteelliseen syrjintään tarjotaan ratkaisuksi sitä, että miestyötekijöiden määrää lisättäisiin. Toisin sanoen toivotaan, että alan syrjimän väestönosan tulisi korjata itse alan syrjivät rakenteet. Tämä on hyvä esimerkki siitä, kuinka velvollisuutta kohdella työajalla ihmisiä yhdenvertaisesti sukupuolesta riippumatta ollaan valmiita väistämään viimeiseen asti.

Tilanne, jossa työntekijä kaipaa asiakkailtaan itsensä kaltaisuutta, jotta voi saada onnistumisen kokemuksia asiakkaiden kanssa työskentelyssä ja viestinnässä, estää palveluiden yhdenvertaisuuden kehittymistä. Jos laajoja sosiaali-, terveys tai kasvatuspalveluita tarjoavassa työpaikassa työskentelevä työntekijä ei pysty hyväksymään sitä, että hän ei voi toivoa työltänsä sitä, että voisi työskennellä vain itsensä kaltaisten asiakkaiden kanssa, palveluiden kehittyminen yhdenvertaisempaan suuntaan ei ole mahdollista. Asiakkaiden kauhistelu on syrjintää ja kiusaamista, vaikka se tapahtuisikin suljettujen ovien takana työyhteisössä.

Lisää tietoa

https://www.xn--isnnkinen-w2ac1t.fi/

https://www.xn--isnnkinen-w2ac1t.fi/isatyokirja/

https://www.ruskeattytot.fi/rtmedia/kaikkienkoulu

McIntyre, A. 1997. Making meaning of whiteness: Exploring racial identity with white teachers. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Hökkä, P. 2012. Teacher educators amid conflicting demands: Tensions between individual and organizational development. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä.

Rantala, J., Salminen, J., Säntti, J., Nikkola, T., Rautiainen, M., Virta, A. & Kemppinen, L. 2013. Akateemisen luokanopettajakoulutuksen tulevaisuuden lähtökohdat. Teoksessa Salonkikelpoiseksi maisterikoulutukseksi – Luokanopettaja- ja opinto-ohjaajakoulutuksen akatemisoitumiskehitys 1970-luvulta 2010-luvulle. Kasvatusalan tutkimuksia 64, 189-199. Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän yliopistopaino.

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Some theory and thoughts:

(Firt of all, sorry that all of the text is not translated to english. All the main points are. The reason for that is that it’s translating all the text is too hard. If you love translating texts, here is a text to fulfill translation needs <3 ) )

In Finland normative worker in a social, health or educational service expects the client to be normative. This cartoon is about a situation, where being normative means not having an addiction. People living with an addiction are discriminated in services, when services can for examble demand person to quite using drugs before person get’s access to mental health services. In reality drugs provides relief to mental health problems, that you haven’t got any help to. It’s wrong that the disease you have affects to the fact weather you are going to be blamed of the disease or not.

This cartoon also illustrates the gendered nature of institutional discrimination in parenting support services that leads to structural discrimination against men / fathers / assumed male/ presents as male. According to the study, in Finland help to addictions is more often provided to mothers, women workers prefer to call mother when talking about children, after the birth only mothers do mental healt survey and in health centers waiting rooms there are primarily ”womenmagazines” available. Men has to be in a quite bad situation before support is offerd to them. In professional discussions to increasing the number of male workers in the sector is offerd as a solution to structural discrimination against men in social, health and education services. In other words, once again those who are discriminated should repair the discriminatory structures. This is a good example of how workers are ready to not take the resposibilty to treat people equally during working hours, regardless of gender.

A situation in which an worker can’t provide good communicaiton to everybody because of the hope that  client/customer would be like the worker (finnish speaking, midleclass women) prevents the development of equality of health-, social and educationservices. If a worker get’s horrified of customers’ life, it is discrimination and bullying, even if it takes place behind closed doors in the work community.

More info:

https://www.ruskeattytot.fi/about-us/

McIntyre, A. 1997. Making meaning of whiteness: Exploring racial identity with white teachers. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Murrell, P. C. 2007. Race, culture and schooling: indentities of achievement in Mulricultural Urban Schools. New York: Erlabaum.

Scott, K. A., & Boudon, D. J. (2009). Race, culture, and schooling: Identities of achievement in multicultural urban schools. The Journal of Negro Education, 78, 1, 95-96. Viitattu 22.11.2019. https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.jyu.fi/docview/222106174?accountid=11774

In finnish of fathers:

https://www.xn--isnnkinen-w2ac1t.fi/isatyokirja/

1.Hey, maybe you could do our workingplaces equality plan. 2. Why? 3.  Because there’s no one else who knows how/ wants/ can do it. And you see nowadays there’s a law that says we have to have it.

1.Why there’s no one else? 2. I am in that believe, that there’s no one else, who is discriminated in here, than you. So you already know what is discrimination. You see you are important resource to us. 3. It’s so handy, that we have you. We benefit from it because we don’t have to use money to working hours that some one else would have to use on studying the discrimination subject before making the equality plan.

1. So could you make a plan that would get away the discriminating that is targeting to you in here? 2. Which we could then forget on the bottom of shelf where we put all the other things that are in our opinion ”new phenomenons”. 3. I can make the plan. Let’s at the same time change my working contract so that I get salary from 12 months as before, but my working time includes just the ”phenomenon week” that we organize in this working place every year.

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Vastuu syrjittyjen ihmisten oikeuksien edistämisestä kaatuu syrjittyjen ihmisten harteille, mikä johtuu siitä, että tutkittu tieto ei kiinnosta riittävän monia ihmisiä, joilla on lakisääteinen velvollisuus edistää yhdenvertisuuttaa työajallaan. Tämä johtaa siihen, että ainoat henkilöt, joilla on sanoja joilla puollustaa syrjittyjä ihmisiä ovat syrjityt ja he tekevät tätä työtä ilman palkkaa vapaa-ajalla.

The responsibility of defending the rights of those who are discriminated is normally on the shoulders of those who are discriminated. The reason for this is that not enough people that according to law would have to prevent discrimination during working hours, are interested of discrimination studies and don´t do anything concrete and because of that only the people, who suffer from discrimination has words to defend those who are discriminated. This leads to situation where the discrimination prevention work that law demand is done by discriminated peoples and during free time without salary.

1.Preventing discrimination -days / Welcome professionals to preventing discrimination -days. I know, that I don’t need to tell to you what is discrimination, because you are so great people, that you know things without getting acquainted to things. 2. Let’s have a discussion without using the word discrimination, so that no one get bad feelings or put defenses on. By hushing everything will be alright. So this is why the name of the event is something else, that it is. 3. Our ethical principles say that the dialog between us and a client is equal and because of that I will not use the word power or power difference and this rule is also for you all liseners. 4. It is easier that I don’t question the equaliness of our daily meetings with clients, because if I would, our profesionall identity would break into little pieces and picking them up would be too shameful.

1.I’m neither goint to talk about us professionals discrimintaing each other, because of the individualistic working culture and education we couldn’t talk about this subject from any other point of view than whos wrong and whos right. 2. And because of this we will concentrate on clients, wich is easier, because many of us think that client know in some situations better than us of clients life situation. Of course this affects clients age, congnitive skills and social class. And no-binarousheteromonogamous… or how should I describe this when the space in this cartoon is ending… 3. I hope that you wouldn’t tell any critical thoughts, because of our concensus searching discuss culture we assume those thoughts are accusations and that’s why we pass them with martyrism, and that´s why many of us hate many of us. 4. But wihtout longer speaks let’s start, now when our common rules are clear to everybody. Its’ so nice to be here with all of you with so good spirit. We are all so great people and skilled workers from the moment we were born. This is vocation work.

1.Preventing discrimination -days / Welcome professionals to an event, wich name is what it sais there. Now let’s talk about the question, what is discrimination and how you can prevent it. You can use the word discrimination. So let’s start, what kind of discrimination against this certain grop of clients have you noticed at your work places? 2. Well I have been at my work place in situations where these clients have been discriminated this and this way. And it has happened always unconsiously. 3. So that the thing that makes discrimination happen is working culture, and it’s hard to develop it, because there aren’t enough people at my workplace that would be interested of studies of discrimintation and would talk about the subject. And denying the fact that discrimination exsists makes it hard for many people to recieve new knowledge, when some on is giving it, and that’s why people don’t understand their role in institutional discrimination and that’s why talking about the subject is not possible. By the way I’m a young woman. 4. Interersting examble and thouhghts about the reasons of discrimintaion. Does some one else have experiences to share?

1.I am upset and I say, that I want to comment specially that what was just said. But really this comment can’t be said to be a comment of that last comment, because I’m going to tell my own experience, because I want to glue it on the experience I just heard, wich made me upset and terrifyed. 2. And when telling my own experience as quickly as I can I trie to cover the distrotion that just came in to my experience of reality, where I always act well, when I want wellness to the peolple around me, which I want always. 3. But now I want to tell everybody, that me and my fiends have a lot of experiences from the same kind of situations that just were descriped, and in our ecperiences things didn’t go the way that just was descriped. Things went very nicely and all the clients and workers had every time good spirit . And I am older than the person who spoke before me. 4. Yes, good thoughts. The experience that you just told was about non-discrimination and to this theme we will concentratte in Non-discrimination days that will be held in next month, and in there we can together talk of the subject, of how everything is so great in everywhere. You professionals, that are interested of this theme, remember to put this date to your calendar.

So now we can spare all non-discrimination experiences to non-discrimination days. And let’s go back to the subject. What kind of discrimination situations have you noticed at your work places? And have you develop some tools to making it easier to notice them?

1. Hello, friend! Aa! Yes! Hello, long time no see! 2. Hey which genitals did you have? / öö… penis! or öö…vagina (*the reader can choose the answer) 3. Well what about your partner, did your partner have same genitals as you have?! 4. öö… Yes I have! / Okei, good to know! We are also a couple and we have different genitals. I have penis and my partner has vagina! 5. And we have sex with our different genitals only two of us. And this partnership of different genitals will last and last and last until dying will as take apart from each other. And in this kind of partnership there is so many happiness giving meanings that they are hard to describe in words! Especially when you are down there and I have to yell to you! But it is very important that you know what kind of life we live! It is wonderful! Together just two of us!

1.And the best thing of all is that our genital rules give life much more happines than your genital rules! 2. Yeah, so much more happines! And blessing! What brings it to you? / You mean blessing?! Or having sex?! / No I mean happines! / To me cats! 3. To me many things, but I don’t have energy to tell them to you by yelling because of the platform you are standing on! 4. But hey, I ment to continue speaking that since you have those same genitals and a romantic partnership, it was good to see you now, because we have been meaning to tell you that after all we accept you!!! Isn’t it great!!