#kille oksanen

[marypickfords]

The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)

[cinenthusiast]

The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1938, Tulio)

[women-writing-women]

50 Countries, 50 Books by Women

! indicates lesbian/bisexual main characters

Algeria: So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar [realistic]

Australia: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty [thriller]

Bolivia: Women Talking by Miriam Toews [realistic - philosophical]

Botswana: Juggling Truths by Unity Dow [historical - 1960s]

Brazil: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector [realistic]

Cambodia: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung [memoir]

Canada: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot [memoir]

Chile: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende [historical - 20th c.]

China: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang [high fantasy]

Colombia: Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras [realistic]

!Democratic Republic of Congo: Everfair by Nisi Shawl [alternate history]

Egypt: Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi [realistic]

France: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn [historical - 1940s]

Germany (present day Poland): Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys [historical - 1940s]

Ghana: Homegoing by Yaa Gyashi [historical - 1700s to present]

Greece: Medea by Crista Wolf [mythology]

Iran: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [memoir]

!Ireland: Hood by Emma Donoghue [realistic]

India: The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal [realistic]

Israel: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman [historical - 1st c.]

Italy: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante [historial - mid. 20th c.]

!Jamaica: The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin [memoir]

Japan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee [historical - early 20th c.]

Malaysia: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo [historical fantasy - early 20th c.]

Mauritius: Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi [realistic]

Mexico: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia [historical fantasy - early 20th c.]

Morocco: Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman’s Journey Toward Independence by Leila Abouzeid [historical - mid 20th c.]

Netherlands: An Address in Amsterdam by Mary Dingee Fillmore [historical - 1940s]

!Nigeria: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta [historical - mid 20th c.]

North Korea: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee [memoir]

!Norway: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave [historical - 17th c.]

Pakistan: Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie [mystery]

Peru: Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez [realistic]

Poland: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk [mystery]

Romania: Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn [magical realism - late 20th c.]

!Russia (present day Moldova): Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon [historical - late 19th/early 20th c.]

Rwanda: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya [memoir]

!Saudi Arabia: The Others by Seba Al-Herz [realistic]

Senegal: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ [realistic]

!South Africa: The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif [historical - 1950s]

South Korea: The Vegetarian by Han Kang [realistic]

!Sweden: The Engelsfors Trilogy by Sara B. Elfgren [urban fantasy]

Trinidad and Tobago: ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma [historical - mid 20th c.]

Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak [realistic]

Ukraine: Dog Park by Sofi Oksanen [realistic]

United Kingdom: Milkman by Anna Burns [realistic]

United States: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich [historical - late 19th c. to present]

!Uruguay: Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis [realistic]

Vietnam: The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai [historical - 1950s to present]

Zimbabwe: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo [realistic]

[holographicraccoon]

1-50

1. Kulta-Katriina, Juhlamokka vai Muumitee?

- Juhlamokka

2. Miten teet makaronilaatikon?

- Äiteen ohjeilla :)

3. Pahin koululiikuntatrauma?

- Uiminen

4. Pelottavin/oudoin lastenohjelma?

- oudoin, teletapit

5. Eppu Normaali vai Leevi and The Leavings?

- Leevi

6. Oletko ikinä joutunut Sukupuolitautien poliklinikalle?

- En

7. Rakkain tuutulaulu?

- Ei oo

8. Tupakoitko? Mikä merkki?

- LM Sininen

9. Käytätkö nuuskaa?

- Joskus, LD Salmiak

10. Juotko ES?

- En, mut kaikkia muita :D

11. Tanssitko hitaita alakoulun diskossa?

- En

12. Vihta vai vasta?

- Vihta

13. Kotsa vai köksä?

-Köksä

14. Pratar du svenska?

- Lite

15. Uni jonka muistat?

- tyhjiö

16. Kuka on mielestäsi syyllinen Bodomin murhiin?

- En tii

17. Paras kotimainen kirjailija?

- Sofi Oksanen

18. Kerro joku oman tai vaikka mummon kotikylän juoru.

- Ei tuu mielee

19. Oletko koskaan “vienyt” kenenkään neitsyttä?

- Ehkä

20. Kenen suomitumputtajan epäilet olevan Antti Holma?

- @satanicgaykittens

21. Koskettavin suomenkielinen biisi?

- Mä loistan kuin hämärä

22. Kieltäydytkö asepalveluksesta?

- En

23. Mitä mieltä olet siitä, että Suomi on Venäjän naapurimaa?

- halpaa votkaa ja bensaa

24. Paras muumitikkarin maku?

- Jaaa a :D

25. Paras Fazerin konvehti?

- Fazer Present, kait

26. Karhu vai Karjala?

- Karjala

27. Paras kansanlaulu?

- Ei ny tuu mittää mielee

28. Fuck, marry, kill: Väinämöinen, Lemminkäinen, Aino?

Marry Väinämöinen, kill, kill

29. Fuck, marry, kill: Simeoni, Eero, Juhani

- Only kill

30. Mitä mieltä olet metsästyksestä?

- Ei ny liiemmi kinee :D

31. Ketä pussasit viimeksi?

- @hintalappu

32. Meri vai järvi?

- Meri

33. Hauskin suomimeemi?

- Tonnin seteli, ei tuu muuta mielee :D

34. Minkä Pasi Viherahon kokkailuista söisit?

- Makaryllikeittoa ft kinkku tsiipaleita

35. Valitse yksi Iltalehden otsikko joka kuvaa sinua.

- “ Iltalehti: Vartija töhersi miehen naamaan kirkkoveneen Prismassa ja lähetti kuvan kavereilleen “

36. Pitäisikö suojaikärajaa nostaa?

- Näpit irti niistä penskoista saatana

37. Pitäisikö äänestysikärajaa laskea?

- 16v olisin kyl ite halunnu jo päästä ainaki äänestää

38. Kuulutko kirkkoon?

- Taijan mää viel kuulua

39. Haluatko muuttaa ulkomaille?

- Ois siistii mutta ei näillä palkoilla ja alalla

40. Mehukkain juoru yläkoulustasi?

- Ei oo enää juoru mutta ylä-asteelta  tuttu tekijähä se soramonttumurhan takana oli

41. Noloin asia jonka suostut myöntämään?

- En myönnä mitään

42. Onko Olavi Uusivirta ihana?

- Ei sentää vaikka iha jees musaa tekeeki

43. Oletko koskaan nukkunut puistonpenkillä?

- En

44. Onko sinulla diagnosoitu mielenterveyden häiriö?

- Ei ole

45. Pahin painajaisesi?

- tyhjiö

46. Mökki vai vene?

- Jaa a :D

47. Oletko uinut alasti?

- Tottakai

48. Oletko uinut vaatteet päällä?

- Kyllä

49. Oletko kierinyt alasti lumihangessa?

- En oo vielä nii päissää ollu

50. Paras uusi sibs-maku: hernekeitto, viina, teline vai johannes

- hernekeitto sipsit olis aika kova :D

[soundnvis1on]

so happy that stalin's cows (stalinin lehmät) by sofi oksanen is a finnish book. if the fucking coquette femcelcore edgirls found out about it i would literally kill myself. anyway its such a good fucking book started re-reading it today

[johannathedreamer]

Hi Johanna! Love both your blogs :) What are you reading at the moment?

Thank you! Felt like I needed a second one just for books 😁I have just finished "To kill a mockingbird"and "Kinfolk Entrepreneur". I'm like half way trough a book with Emily Dickinson poems and a Kazuo Ishiguro book that I'm reading for a bookcirkel I'm in. And I have just started Norma by Sofi Oksanen 📚

[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: A Long Overdue Biopic Tells Tom of Finland’s Life Story

A scene from Tom of Finland (all photos courtesy of Protagonist Pictures)

The new biographical film Tom of Finland has a lot of the trappings of the art of Touko Laaksonen, better known by his nom de pencil. There are beautiful, muscle-bound men in taut uniforms and gleaming leather, secretive encounters in moonlit parks, outrageous scenes of eroticism around swimming pools and in leather clubs. But director Dome Karukoski smartly juxtaposes the drawings’ fantasy worlds of libidinous liberation with the extremely repressive world Laaksonen inhabited for much of his life. Beginning with his time fighting in the Finnish army alongside the Nazis and moving through his late-life celebrity, just as the breadth of the AIDS crisis was coming into focus, this elegant biopic frames Laaksonen’s art as a kind of coping mechanism and key to a supportive subculture in the face of pervasive discrimination.

Karukoski’s sensitive direction, which only occasionally gives way to cloying melodrama, offers a perfect platform for actor Pekka Strang to showcase his impressive range in the lead role. The film follows a chronological format speckled with sudden flashbacks and flashforwards that can be jarring at first — including repeated cuts to Laaksonen’s killing of a Soviet parachutist, which becomes a shorthand for the trauma of persecution. As the Finnish army loses ground, he finds an unlikely friend in another closeted officer, a Nazi commander (Taisto Oksanen). Years later, when Laaksonen’s homoerotic drawings land him in jail in Berlin, the former commander comes to his rescue. “It’s not just a piece of paper,” he warns the artist. “It’s an atomic bomb, a drawing like that.”

A scene from Tom of Finland (photo by Josef Persson)

The multilingual film moves between Finland and Germany and eventually to the US, which is presented as a liberated playground compared to the prejudiced Old World (a somewhat inaccurate portrayal). Laaksonen lives a quiet life in Helsinki with his partner Veli (Lauri Tilkanen) and doting sister Kaija (Jessica Grabowsky). He works at the ad agency McCann Erickson by day, attends small parties thrown surreptitiously by the local gay elite at night, and sends his refined drawings of seductive studs off for publication abroad as often as possible. Karukoski portrays this side of Laaksonen’s existence as one of under-the-radar subsistence. By contrast, Southern California — to which two fans, who promote the more widespread exhibition and publication of his art, invite him  — is rendered as a kind of living Tom of Finland drawing, where bulging hot pants and ass-less leather chaps are standard features of every man’s wardrobe. Stylistically, Tom of Finland turns on this contrast between the buttoned-down Scandinavian tastefulness of Helsinki and the over-the-top aesthetics of Hollywood.

The constant in all this is Strang, who plays Laaksonen with a stoic demeanor that cracks — whether from pain or joy — during the film’s dramatic climaxes. The crushing angst of his experiences during the war and of oppression in Helsinki gives way to the powerful release of art making. In moments of inspiration, like during a motorcycle race where he photographs leather-clad mechanics tuning their bikes, Strang’s eyes scintillate. The film highlights how Laaksonen didn’t simply portray an existing subculture, but helped define and expand it by turning conventional figures of heterosexual masculine authority into empowering icons of queer sexuality. Though it may gloss over some history in favor of portraying a stark contrast between American permissiveness and European prejudice, Tom of Finland does an excellent job of illuminating one of the most influential artists of the 20th century — one whose story, until now, hasn’t been widely told.

A scene from Tom of Finland (photo by Mikko Rasila)

Tom of Finland is showing at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26 at 10:15pm and on April 29 at 9pm.

The post A Long Overdue Biopic Tells Tom of Finland’s Life Story appeared first on Hyperallergic.

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[marypickfords]

The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)

[marypickfords]

The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)

[marypickfords]

The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio, 1938)