Authors

Candidate of Philological Sciences, a member of the public organization “Military Liberation”, her focus is on researching the movement of associations of families of Ukrainian prisoners of war, missing persons, and civilian hostages in Russian captivity.

Activist
Sex worker, member of the all-Ukrainian self-association of sex workers Legalife-Ukraine. Interests: theater, painting, sexology, linguistics.

Copywriter in IT.

blogger, journalist

Cultural scholar.
Model, traveler. Graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Collaborates with artists in various European countries. Engaged in architectural photography and writing.

historian
Candidate for Historical Sciences, research associate at the Department of Social Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian Association of Women’s History Researchers.

art critic
Asya Bazdyryeva, art critic, former regular contributor to ART UKRAINE magazine and editor of the IZIN samizdat of the IZOLYATSIA Foundation. Platform of Cultural Initiatives; recently collaborated with KORYDOR and ELLE publications. Currently, she is a Fulbright scholar at The City College of New York.

human rights activist
Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Educational Center in Lviv. Co-founder of such independent media as the online publication TheUkrainians.org and Radio SKOVORODA. Worked for radio “Lvivska Khvylya”, the newspaper “Express”, other mass media. Writes for ZAXID.NET, Gender in Details, MediaLab. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Has a certificate from the Ukrainian School of Political Studies. Participant of the International Visitors Leadership Program in the USA. Author of the poetry collection “FAITHBOOK” (2017).

teacher
Teaching courses “Advertising and Public Relations”, “Media Communications” at the S. Kuznets Kharkiv National Economic University. Author of more than 65 scientific publications, including 3 monographs and a textbook “Sociology of Advertising”, a monograph “Gender Business Identities and Advertising”. Expert of the Industrial Gender Committee on Advertising.

Researcher.
Studied computer science in Kyiv, European ethnology and Public History in Berlin. Initiator and coordinator of several German-Ukrainian public initiatives. Works in the field of intercultural dialogue, in particular, as a trainer in diversity and intercultural communication. Traveler – traveled around the world alone in 2017. Areas of interest: empowerment, activism, human rights, participation, film studios.

Media analyst, disinformation analyst, gender disinformation specialist, former head of the Media Detector Research Center, head of the research department of the Lviv Media Forum.

Radical Feminist
Journalist, writer, researcher, regular contributor to The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Sunday Telegraph and Standpoint. Active in the campaign to end violence against women since 1979. She is also a visiting scholar at the University of Lincoln, UK.

philosopher
American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has had a significant impact on political philosophy, ethics, feminist studies, and literary theory. Since 1993, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Critical Theory. Butler’s best-known works are “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity” (translated into Ukrainian by Maria Dmytrieva) and “Bodies That Matter: The Discursive Boundaries of Sex,” which challenge the concept of gender and explain her theory of gender performativity. This theory currently plays an important role in feminist scholarship. Judith Butler is also an active supporter of the LGBTQI+ movement.

writer, lawyer, human rights activist, TV presenter, radio presenter

Lawyer and policymaker, Master of Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cultural expert, head of communications and advocacy at Gender in Details.

Stand-up comedian, playwright, blogger, creative. Graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in philosophy and political science.

PhD, philosopher and gender researcher. Her research focuses on gender equality in the security and defense sector.

Expert on gender equality, social inclusion (GESI), trainer and consultant for national and international projects in the humanitarian sector of security and protection, author of educational and methodological materials.

journalist, researcher, and activist from Ukraine who specializes in human rights, HIV-related issues, and the rights of LGBTQ+ communities, with a particular focus on the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. She is the author of analytical and opinion pieces that highlight the challenges faced by key populations in contexts of political instability, stigma, and limited access to healthcare and social services. Julia actively collaborates with non-governmental organizations and media outlets, promoting the values of equality, tolerance, and justice.

International lawyer, expert in gender and legal analytics, and in the development of civil society institutions.

Sociologist

ethnologist
Folklorist and writer, candidate of historical sciences. Writes and publishes books.

Civil activist

Human rights activist
Producer of human rights documentary films, columnist, Head of the public organization Arts&Rights www.artsandrights.org. Areas of interest: women’s leadership, gender equality, war crimes in Russia, politics and culture of memory, ending military conflicts and transitional justice.

journalist
Former consultant for the project “Supporting Transparent Land Resources Management in Ukraine”.

Historian.
President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women’s History, Doctor of Historical Sciences, she holds a doctorate in History, is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and co-founder of the Ukrainian Association of Oral History. Since 1994, she’s been studying women’s and gender issues within Ukrainian history and historical ethnology. Her current academic interests are focused on women’s oral history and the everyday life of Ukrainian women in extraordinary historical circumstances.

Deputy Chair of the Board of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Bureau of Gender Strategies and Budgeting, a member of the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Data Coordination Group.

Gender researcher, lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics.

Literary scholar.
Cultural studies scholar, translator. Coordinator of the “Gender Democracy” program at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Kyiv – Ukraine office.

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