North Karelia Pride Parade and Park Festival on Saturday 17 May
ISYY is participating in the Pride parade and in cooperation with Pohjois-Karjalan Seta ry and Fiktio ry organising the Park Festival in Joensuu on Saturday 17 May!
Equality and transparency are important values for ISYY. ISYY encourages all its members to take part in the Pride parade and park festival, as well as to wear student overalls to form a rainbow.
The parade starts moving at 3 pm from the yard of art museum Onni and ends at 4 pm at the Ilosaari park, which features a picnic, music, Drag workout and, of course, great company. ISYY and Qirjava ry have their own area in Ilosaari that brings together all students. In the picnic-area you can find ISYY’s glitter make-up station where you can decorate yourself with glitter for the evening's Pride party.
The first 150 students at the ISYY’s picnic-area will be given ISYY's Pride-Hemmo overall patch as a memory.
ISYY Executive Board signed Seta ry joint statement calling for a ban on conversion therapy.
Parliament has approved the Rikkomaton (Unbroken) citizens’ initiative, which proposes legislative action to prohibit conversion practices in Finland.
– Conversion therapy is a form of psychological violence and must not be tolerated. The government must now act to defend human rights and democracy, Noora Saramäki, Chair of the ISYY board, comments.
The statement is pusblished in Finnish on Seta’s website. |