An accomplished Finnish transwriter, Jiipu Uusitalo ponders on a range of their inspirations, from Nana the dog to feminist companionship.
Luca Tainio
Luca Tainio lives between Sweden and Finland and works as a doctoral researcher with the PhD Programme in Gender, Culture and Society at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and as the editorial secretary for NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. His PhD thesis focuses on questions of transmasculine embodiment and vulnerability, especially in relation to cultural understandings of the penis and its connections to masculinity. Tainio is doing his PhD as part of two different research projects, “Trans*Creative: Health, Violence and Environment in Trans Cultural Production” (Kone Foundation) and “Affective Activism: Sites of Queer and Trans World-Making” (Academy of Finland).
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey