Kaisa Leka
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Kaisa Maria Leka (born October 25, 1978) is a Finnish comic artist and politician from Porvoo. Central themes in Leka's autobiographical comics are disability, politics and spiritual searching. Her comics figures are naïvistically simple animals, the most important of which is a mouse, representing Kaisa herself.
As well as her own comic books, Leka has drawn comics to many magazines and comics anthologies. Her best known work is I am not these feet (2003), dealing with amputation. The work was published translated to French in autumn 2006 by Editions Cactus.
Leka is a member of the city council of Porvoo and a deputy member of the council board. She is deputy chairman of the Green League of Porvoo and the Youth and Student Organisation of the Green League of Porvoo, and a candidate of the Green League in the 2007 Finnish parliament elections in the constituency of Uusimaa. As a politician, Leka has spoken in favour of culture and health care.
Leka is a member of the Sri Caitanya Sangha movement, which is part of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tadition, like the Hare Khrisna community. Leka became interested in Hare Khrisna during a tour in France in autumn 2006, because religion has been separated from state and Hare Khrisna defined as a community to be followed.
