Pauliina Lukinmaa

I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland. In my postdoctoral project, funded by the Kone Foundation (2023–2026), I study the everyday practices, networks, and expressions of transnational solidarity among Russian-speaking LGBTIQ+ activists in the Baltic states and online, particularly following Russia’s full-scale war of aggression in Ukraine in 2022. My ethnographic PhD research (2022) examined the development and forms of LGBTIQ+ activism in St. Petersburg during the late 2010s.

I work part-time on a project funded by the Research Council of Finland, titled Menopausing: Diversity, Awareness, and Activism (2024–2028). Drawing on queer and cultural studies, I investigate menopause activist communities and influencers in Finland who seek to advance gender and age equity. More in detail, I focus on communities and influencers engaged with menopause-related themes and promoting gender and age equality, with particular emphasis on the intersectons of activism and care.

I am the principal instructor for the course Gender Studies Perspectives (FH00DW95) at the University of Eastern Finland. I supervise doctoral candidates in gender and cultural studies and serve on doctoral follow-up committees.

I am a board member of the Association for Gender Studies in Finland and a vice member at the executive team of the national HILMA Network for Gender Studies.