#skogfinner

[folkfashion]

Forest Finns duo's clothing, Norway, by Begrenset gjenbruk

[fluffycloudprincess]

Wake up, New Forest Finn doc just dropped!!!! 🤭🤭🤭🤭 I'm so excited to watch ittt and inevitably see them talking about us in the past tense whilst somehow both demonising our excistsnce and denying the impact we had on Nordic culture as it stands today

[fluffycloudprincess]

Day 3 of me making a post to attract other Forest finns/Finnskoginger to form a more active online community - including those of us who don't speak our language/dialect and thus feel distanced from our community 🙏🏽

***** Fun migration fact *****

Many people believe Forest Finns came from Savonia then lived and died in Sweden and Norway BUT that's not true.

Many of us (like my ancestors) fled the persecution we faced and went back to Finland only to keep travelling around it (and other neighbouring countries) and in doing so meeting other now considered minority ethnic groups - in my family this was mainly the Sàmi, Karelians and Ålanders

[fluffycloudprincess]

When your ethnic group is only ever spoken about in the past tense, your language is for the most part extinct AND THE ONLY CHARITIES YOU HAVE ARE MUSEUMS 😭😭😭

[fluffycloudprincess]

Day 1 of me making a post to attract other Forest finns/Finnskoginger to form a more active online community - including those of us who don't speak our language/dialect and thus feel distanced from our community 🙏🏽

[fluffycloudprincess]

People can be so cruel

I tell you our homes were burned down

I tell you we were beaten

I tell you we were spat on

I tell you we were killed as "witches"

I tell you that our language is buried deeper than our ancestors

I tell you that even though i don't know you, your name to me will always be friend - because all of us are wandering through unknown forests, even men born and raised in grey toned cities

And you call me a foreigner? Tell me my people have nothing to be proud of? Tell me our practices are stupid and backwards that they somehow destroy the earth more than your fossil fuels and fraking? Tell me my people are dead? Tell me you're glad that we're not even a footnote in history? Tell me you're glad to see me beg on the Internet (offering up my pride like a lamb to our now forgotten gods) for someone from my community who speaks my language because I'm so alone?

But I'm a Forest Finn, and so my name for you will always be friend.

[fluffycloudprincess]

[fluffycloudprincess]

Me coming back after disappearing off of the face of the earth for no reason with no explanation as to why