Solomie
Last autumn I was getting on a train at the Helsinki Central Railway Station. I was on the phone, speaking in Amharic. A man in a suit came up to me. He showed me his phone. “DON’T SPEAK YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE” it read I didn’t stop, though. The man came back to show...
Marian
I have often been harassed on public transport. I have been called names, insulted, threatened as well as physically assaulted. One time, in the lift at a metro station, a Finnish woman spat on me, insulted me and finally attacked me. I don’t want to blame the...
MC Koo
Too often, people with disabilities are harassed in public. It would be nice if people would take us into consideration, and then everybody would be better off. Once I was on my way home on the bus, and some people I didn’t know spat at me. They said “Bye bye, Kalle”,...
Janita
I don’t want anyone to face the kind of discrimination that I have experienced and still do. I hope that when people become more aware of the subject, they start to think more about their own behaviour. You can always intervene and stick up for the victim.