Time: Saturday, August 23rd at 10:30 AM
Location: Fokus, Fenix-hall, Dalgatan 4, Karis
Free admission

The Pro Artibus Foundation will organize a panel discussion titled The right to exist. On being trans in Finland 2025 during the Raseborg Pride 2025 week. The partaking panelists are the executive director of Transfeminiinit ry Tanja von Knorring and artist Sasha Linder. PhD Juha-Heikki Tihinen, the curator for the Pro Artibus Foundation, will function as the panel moderator.

The panel discussion will mainly be held in Swedish, but questions to the panelists can be asked in Finnish and English as well.

About the panelists

Tanja von Knorring (she/her) is a multiprofessional expert, leading several projects on Transgender rights and health, and she is one of the key persons in the renewal of the trans law in Finland. She is currently Executive Director of the NGO Transfeminiinit, and Rapporteur on Online Hate Speech to the EU since 2025. She is also active in the international trans rights scene. She has been Co-Chair of TGEU (Transgender Europe and Central Asia) in 2019-2020, and is its current Auditor. Tanja has been or is also a member of several committees and co-operational networks, either as representative of some organization or invited expert.

Sasha Linder (he/him) has engaged in different types of queer activism for the past 15 years. He is a fresh bar owner and an internationally renowned cabaré- and burlesque artist going by the moniker Hasard le Sin. In his performance art Sasha deals with various heavy subjects, such as alternative masculinities, the relationship between personal agency and self-objectification and societal taboos around gender and sexuality, all with the help of humor, self-irony and exposed buttocks. His most recent project is Helsinki’s very first queer cocktail bar, Struts.