Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Posle
How do you organize a cooperative in Ukraine after 2014? What’s it like to be a seamstress engaged with feminist and LGBTQ+ activism? Where are the boundaries between production, art, and activist work? The Kyiv seamstress collective ReSew talks about work ethics, migration, and (...)
, by DUTCHAK Oksana
Six months into the full-scale invasion, the most pressing feminist issues in Ukraine involve security and socio-economic survival.
When it comes to security, we’re talking about the possibility of evacuating to a relatively safe place with a lower threat of death, maiming or violence. For (...)
, by DUTCHAK Oksana, GOODMAN Amy, SHAIKH Nermeen
We speak to Oksana Dutchak, a Ukrainian feminist and co-editor of the leftist journal Spilne, who fled to Germany because of the “inability to live under the constant pressure of fear” as Russian invaded. She says Western leftists and feminists who have misgivings about Western military support (...)
, by PIHUL VIktoriia
What it means to live in war and to be a feminist as well as a woman. We would like to know the material conditions of women’s lives, within families and in society? And also how the war and the militarist and patriarchal culture act on women?
For more than four months now I have been living (...)
, by NICHOLS Dick, PIHUL VIktoriia
Interview with Viktoriia Pihul by Dick Nichols
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal”, explains how Ukraine’s women are organising and fighting back in the appalling conditions created by Putin’s war.
Emphases in the text are by Viktoriia Pihul.
How is the feminist movement trying to (...)
, by Posle, POTARSKAYA Nina
Ukrainian human rights activist Nina Potarskaya talks about the situation and role of women in wartime
Nina Potarska is a Ukrainian social researcher, a coordinator of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and a co-organizer of the Women’s March on March 8. She was also (...)
, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia)
The Ukrainian ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova has been sacked for exaggerating the number of rapes by Russian invaders. Her foolishness has done great harm to the struggle for women’s rights in this war. Victims of sexual violence in Ukraine will find it harder to make a complaint. The Kremlin (...)
, by ROCHOWANSKI Almut
Ukraine is ticking boxes, such as ratifying the Istanbul Convention, to join the EU. That’s a bad idea
On 17 June, the European Commission recommended that Ukraine be granted EU candidate status as long as the country meets a substantial list of conditions. Numerous shortcomings were hinted at (...)
, by SEMENOVA Thaisa
After three missed calls, Kristina picks up the phone and says, barely above a whisper: “I can’t talk now. I’m not alone.” When calling back, she turns on the tub in the bathroom so her husband can’t hear her.
For several months, she had been gathering the strength to leave her husband, who was (...)
, by AFARY Frieda, DUTCHAK Oksana, POWELL Wonda, TALAVER Sasha, YURCHENKO Yuliya
Since Russia’s full-scale imperialist invasion of Ukraine was launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, Putin’s speeches, Russian state propaganda and the actual massacres and rapes committed by the Russian army have revealed the genocidal and misogynist character of this invasion. At the same (...)
, by MOROS Elisa
“I define solidarity in terms of mutuality, accountability, and the recognition of common interests as the basis for relationships among diverse communities. Rather than assuming an enforced commonality of oppression, the practice of solidarity foregrounds communities of people who have chosen (...)
, by RFO ONA
What do Ukrainian women themselves think about helping them? What kind of support do they want to see in the first place? And what do they find problematic about the international movement in support of Ukraine?
The other day Tamara Zlobina, philosopher and feminist from Lviv and editor in (...)
, by HAVRYSHKO Marta, MÜHLHÄUSER Regina
We first met each other at the 2015 conference “Against Our Will – Forty Years After: Exploring the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict” in Hamburg, Germany, and we stayed in contact ever since. We both work on sexual violence during World War II and we collaborate with other researchers (...)
, by ZHEREBKINA Irina
Writing from a city under siege, a founder of the landmark Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies reflects on the importance of women’s studies after the USSR collapsed, and what it helps us understand about Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Since 1994, when my university colleagues and I founded the Kharkiv (...)
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