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The members of the feminist group Bilkis in Lviv like to cycle and when the military situation and the weather allow it, they organise rides.
Founded 3 years ago in Kharkiv, Bilkis found refuge in Lviv due to the war. Since 24 February, Bilkis has changed its range of activities to meet the (...)
The post-war future of Ukraine is one of the central topics of political debate at the national and international levels. Russia’s war against Ukraine has not only forced millions of refugees and internally displaced persons to flee their homes, but has also severely affected Ukraine’s economy (...)
With the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, approximately 7.8 million Ukrainians have fled to European countries, searching for safety abroad. According to UNHCR Regional intentions report, approximately 87% of Ukrainian refugees are women and children. Some (...)
The feminist group Bilkis opened in Lviv an anti-capitalist “space of things” on 2nd August 2022. The space, which is open every Tuesday and Thursday from 4pm to 7pm, is intended to be a place where people can leave things or take them. Clothes, medicines, books, crockery and household items have (...)
Inside a shelter dubbed ‘FemApartment’, residents support one another as they help others affected by the Ukraine war.
Lviv, Ukraine – Boisterous female laughter emanated intermittently from the corner unit of a drab, Soviet-style residential building. Sandals and a pink lamp sat at the entrance (...)
On December 23, after many initiatives taken as part of the “16 days against violence against women”, the feminist group Bilkis presented its new zine Activistka.
Among the mobilizations of this group in recent weeks was the campaign against the sexist brand of alcohol Drunk Cherry which (...)
For several days, the Lviv feminist group has been campaigning against the liquor brand Drunk Cherry, which displays a nude woman on its bottle labels. They have received threats from Katarsis, a neo-Nazi group with a strong street presence that also ’exposes’ left wing activists by publishing (...)
A few months ago we interviewed Maxim Shumakov, together with Katya Gritseva, about the situation of Ukrainian students and the possible reconstruction of a left-wing student union. Maxim then explained to us that he was a computer science student in Lviv. Last September, he was present at the (...)
Canal 5 television channel, reputed to be close to former President Petro Poroshenko, decided to support the Ukrainian armed forces by publishing a calendar… with photos of naked female journalists armed with weapons for the purchase walkie-talkies for the army. Hanka Kudryavtseva, head of (...)
The Independent Miners Union of Ukraine (NPGU) has purchased Tear gas bombs to provide to union members so that they feel more confident going to work or returning home in the dark after a day’s work.
According to the head of the NPGU Yurii Samoilov, the decision to buy self-defence equipment (...)
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 (...)
In May three members of Workers’ Liberty visited Lviv, Ukraine, to meet with members of Sotsyalnyi Rukh (Social Movement) and other leftists. We spoke to Brie (Kateryna Kostrova) in Lviv, and Yana Wolf and Katya Gritseva in the weeks following the trip.
In the summer of 2021, Ukraine (...)
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 (...)
Interview with members of the Bilkis group’ Lisa, Zhenya, Yana and Ivanka.
Patrick Le Tréhondat - First of all, let’s talk about the situation before 24 February.2022. Can you tell us how Bilkis was formed? You present yourself as a “trans-inclusive intersectional activist group with an (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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