Tonya Melnyk

6-7 травня 2017 р. ми гуляли наше 3те весілля, це було у форматі DIY фестивалю Свято кохання й інших задоволень. Приємно згадати 🥰❤️ Дякуємо усім по_друзям і товарищ_кам, хто доєднались тоді й святкували з нами. Документ свідків цього весілля досі з нами, як і подаровані чашечкі й пледик. Дякуємо @maya.bw.story за фотографії (1, 2, 3, 4)💜 Фото 5, 6 - самоархівація. Фото 7 - це ще і кадр з нашої найвідомішої порно відео роботи Sexintent, яку спершу хотіли назвати "На другий день після третього весілля"💘 .у цьому році вирішили святкувати усі річниці усіх весіль😁😘

Done / Valmis / Готово пізніше напишемо, покажемо, як нам було в останній тиждень праці над проектом, останню нитку і зрізання з рами.

Yesterday together with @suonsilmu , who is helping us now💜 we counted how much whould be a price if we ever decide to sell it... Working hard day and night. A little bit left🤞

One year ago we celebrated our 6th wedding. Thanks to dear friends for this day 💗 It was fun and great and tasty💖 Haha, the 6th wedding, and still a bit nervous for me 😅 just many things to keep in mind. That's why we want to say Thanks to those people who help us a lot: Thanks to @suonsilmu for the true wedding cake, and @naru_life and @ma4yrura and Oles' for its decoration! Thanks to @rajuna2 for taking care of many things in the kitchen! Thanks to everyone who helped with cooking, brought food and drinks, and helped with cleaning! Thanks to our photographers @deysika_ , @bubbletroubletattoos , @minna.henriksson , @zizanu ! Thanks for the flowers and presents, money and performances 💓 Thanks to @svitlechko , who went to Ukraine and managed my documents to make our 6th wedding performance with a participation of Finnish authority possible 😀 😊 🍾🥂 I love you and happy to continue with weddings🦄

On Easter Sunday we had a Pysanka egg decorating workshop at @koroinen in Turku! Thank you everyone who came 💖 We were 15 people and one (at times two) lovely dog(s). Both wooden and chicken eggs were used, people mixed traditional designs or made their own from scratch, and the results are just beautiful! We could have continued even longer, it's very tempting to immediately start another egg after finishing the first one, and some were saying they would want to do Pysankas every year. The weather outside was snowy, but Koroinen cafe served us the most delicious warm Ukrainian borscht. Thank you once more!

Suomeksi kommenteissa / українською в коментарях Pysanka Easter Egg Workshop When: Easter Sunday, 5.4.2026, from 16 to19 Where: Elävän Kulttuurin Koroinen, Koroistentie 2, 20380 Turku Price: 10 EUR full price, 5 EUR for low income persons and children. In cash or via MobilePay. Payment is to cover the space rent and materials. Participation: The workshop is available for adults and kids over 6 years old with their caretakers. We can host up to 30 participants, please fill the sign-up form in bio! Language: The workshop is in English with possibility of translation into Finnish and Ukrainian Welcome to Pysanka workshop! Pysanka is an ancient art tradition, which has a deep symbolic meaning and is a powerful amulet. It is usually made from a raw or blown egg painted with traditional ornaments using beeswax, the special tool Pysachok and natural or food dyes. On the workshop you can create your own Pysanka using suggested ornaments or creating your images. We will explain how to create painted eggshell by your own from the beginning to end. The examples and instructions will be provided as well. There will be wooden eggs and acrylic paints available for those who don't want to or can't use animal related products. What is needed: all tools and materials are provided. If you can, bring your own blown egg or use a raw or boiled one, but it’s not obligatory. Who is hosting the workshop: Ton and Masha - artists and activists from Ukraine will run the workshop, Nu - art student from Turku will help with practical stuff The workshop will take place in Koroinen / Accessibility information: The space is not accessible by wheelchair, for there are multiple steps leading to the inside space. Contact Koroinen for more detailed information: [email protected] If you have any questions you can contact us via email [email protected] (Ton) The workshop follows safer space principles. WELCOME!

Here we're ✨️

It's already summer equinox! I keep postponing writing a blog about the process of creating comics, which I want to conduct systematically while working on it. Somehow, I take online publications too seriously and can’t find the time for them while other things are fully taking over. But! I still work on the script writing, though, I postponed the drawing of the comic book Granny's Story. “Those were terrible days in my family's life!” - my grandmother's voice sounds in my head from the recording of our conversation, where she mentions the Holodomor. I have wanted to share this phrase more than once with people who saw ready pages of the comic and read my posts. Or “She drank 100 grams of alcohol not to die!” - my grandmother says eloquently about her sister Katya, who was sent to the war between the Soviet Union and Finland in 1939. Meanwhile voices sound, I am thinking: "Well, nothing is clear! We need to give some background and explain everything." And start to write long texts... Does this feeling familiar to anyone? That you have no right to miss a point when you say something; you have no right to write something wrong, not to mention someone, not to thank someone. Like with a public speech: it always seems to me that I'm saying wrong things and I am doing it wrong way. So, while writing a text I have a chance to think twice or three times, thus to avoid it. I have no right not to take this chance. Isn’t it interesting to know what is behind the phrase: "That's how our childhood was"? - Grandma Vira, my grandmother's sister, says, while describing the Holodomor in her letter to "Nauka i Zhizn" (science and life) magazine. “But she always felt protection…” – was said about my grandmother’s mother, who spent her childhood in a boarding school. “What does that mean? Protection from whom?” – I was indignant when we talk about it with Aunt Olya. “Well, probably from her father. Well, Tonya, no one knows!” - Aunt Olya answers me Isn’t it interesting to know what facts are behind all these mysterious phrases? For me it’s interesting. If it is like that for anyone else, then I, we need to continue... Photo - the third completed page of the comic.

Work in progress, in good progress😃 If you ever want to try hands weaving, now it is a chance to do it with us and help us with this lovely project, Carpet-Tapestry "Our Queer Family". We are in Helsinki, Finland. We, unfortunately, can't pay, but we can teach you. DM if you are interested. Просуваемося, досить добре. Бажаючи допомогти, навчитися, спробувати ручне ткацтво - пишіть, але це волонтерство навіть для нас. Ми у Гельсінкі, якщо що. Дякую Thanks to @taikegram and @outsiderartfestival for support of this project in the beginning за підтримку на початку!

We will publish all the 6 speeches from 8.3. event. 4/6 Ton Melnyk @svitlechko , activist and artist from Ukraine: Hi dear participants of today’s demonstration. I am Ton - artist and queer feminist activist from Ukraine. I have experience of more than 15 years of leftist, anarchist, queer and gender rights activism not only in Kyiv, but in other places in Ukraine. I am representative of numerous vulnerabilities as well, and was doing my activism from the position of margins. In Kyiv since I remember myself activist, with my comrades we have been having feminist demonstration on the 8th or March, labor rights demonstrations on the 1rst of May and on some other symbolic demonstrations on other commemorative dates. And I really liked them - they were always so energetic and they were about our not mainstream traditions, which were always contradicting with the politics and mainstream discourse. When I was getting more and more experience I started to notice how feminist and anarchist agenda important not only on specific days, but how it’s needed in everyday life. In our personal and friendship relationship, in our work life and hobby communities. I realized how it’s important to notice other people, their feelings and needs in friendships and love. I started to feel how it’s needed to create alternative to capitalist working relationship, for example cooperatives. How it’s important to fight the male dominated atmosphere in the gyms, in case sports is your hobby. Feminist activism became my everyday life. In time I realized how it’s important to check my privileges and see vulnerabilities of other people, notice and pay attention on them. And in time I started to notice how the tradition of protesting changes. I noticed how my effort to plant seeds of alternative relationships brake against the need to fight back aggressor who wants erase the society and culture I belong to, how it wants to destroy the diversity of identities. And actually I know that this aggressor wants to erase me! Continue in comments:

Make your dreams come true on the Panties Sewing Workshop at @valitila_studio on 28th February 12-16 sign up now to take the last spot! Link in bio 💖 There can be different reasons for the wish to learn how to sew panties: to create something more comfortable according to your personal anatomy, to make some unique ones for special moments, to make panties by yourself and don't buy them anymore on market. We, @masha_ravlyk and @svitlechko , will share our experience, knowledge, patterns, equipment, materials for producing panties. You don't need to know how to sew or have any experience in tailoring. We will teach and consult, inspire and encourage you! In a better world we would do it for free, but in our reality we ask for a payment of 40 euros, which will cover space rent and our expenses. The workshop can accommodate up to 10 people. Send us a message or comment if you have any questions! We're looking forward to seeing you 🧵🩲✨

Що: Кінопоказ, дискусія з режисером та арт-маркет солідарності з Україною. Вхід вільний. Де: Книжкове кафе Турку, Vanha suurtori 3. Коли: Неділя, 22 лютого 2026 року, з 13:00 до 16:00. Опис події: початок о 13:00, арт-маркет солідарності, продаж чаю, кави та тістечок за пожертви. О 14:00 розпочнеться показ фільму «Витіснені». Документальний фільм-есе режисерів Марини Я та Костянтина Малеонюка побудовано на інтерв'ю з людьми, які живуть на вулицях Одеси під час війни. Фільм описує, як виживають бездомні люди, їхні повсякденні труднощі, яких не помічають ті, хто має де жити та куди повернутися. Україна 2025, 26 хв українською мовою з англійськими субтитрами. Попередження щодо змісту: Опис смерті. Після перегляду фільму відбудеться розмова по відезв'язку з режисером фільму, Костянтином Малеонюком – активістом колективу SAD @street.aid.daily , який підтримує бездомних людей в Одесі. Обговорення відбувається англійською мовою, можливий переклад українською та фінською мовами. Протягом заходу триватиме ярмарка мистецтва. Активіст_ка та художни_ця з Києва Тон Мельник @svitlechko продаватиме свої малюнки та картини, ескізи та копії. Волонтер_ка Книжкового Кафе nu @zizanu продаватиме свої ліногравюри та гравюри на дереві, цифрові ілюстрації та значки. Способи оплати: готівка, MobilePay та Paypal. Оплата карткою, на жаль, неможлива. Усі кошти, зібрані під час заходу, будуть передані двом колективам, що працюють в Україні: ініціативі Street Aid Daily (SAD) та Колективам Солідарності @solidaritycollectives SAD підтримує бездомних людей в Одесі. Колективи Солідарності – це мережа волонтерів, яка підтримує антиавторитарних бійців та надає гуманітарну допомогу людям і тваринам в Україні. Paypal для Street Aid Daily та Колективів Солідарності в коментарях - ви можете підтримати самостійно. Деякі важливі лінки про фільм, режисерів та доступність Книжкового кафе - в коментарях. Захід є частиною «2 тижнів дії» Колективів Солідарності, що тривають з 20 лютого по 6 березня, на тлі початку п'ятого року повномасштабної війни Росії проти України.