Brown, Fat & Queer in Finland: Breaking Stereotypes & Body Positivity with Caroline Suinner
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For the 285th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes artist and activist Caroline Suinner of Brown Girls Media for another never-before-released interview from our 2019 reporting trip to Helsinki, Finland.
Caroline gets real about being brown, fat, and queer in a predominantly white country that prides itself on being colorblind. We discuss racism, fetishization in dating, the importance of non-stereotypical representation, how Caroline going deep on body positivity transformed her relationship with herself, and whether Finland’s famous sauna culture is as body positive as it seems. We also get into what it’s like to be LGBTQ+ in Helsinki, Caroline’s journey to embracing her pansexuality, how her coming out story involved her grandma, and the complicated family dynamics surrounding her upcoming wedding.
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