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the Kyiv Pride march today is led by Ukrainian queer soldiers and vets carrying pictures and names of queer Ukrainian heroes killed while fighting homophobic russian empire. Ukraine fights for a better, dignified future for all of us.

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they need our help for urgent care for the surviving horses. i know this team very well and can vouch for your support making a real difference. use this link for a bank wire or scan the paypal code. let's not let them to break us. thank you. send.monobank.ua/jar/4dA2txgYb1

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recently, this team evacuated dozens of horses from frontline areas in the Zaporizhzhia region, some of whom they adopted. unfortunately, russian culture killed one of these evacuated horses in yesterday's attack with guided bombs

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 17/06/2026

can't force myself to share the video of what russians did yesterday to this riding club in my homecity Zaporizhzhia. instead, here's what it looked like before. a pillar of the community, helping so many with mental struggle, it lost 3 horses to russian terror, many are injured. they need our help.

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cultural erasure isn’t collateral damage in russian warfare. it’s a tactic. endrussia.today/p/russian-co...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 16/06/2026

how russia replaced indigenous clothing traditions with imperial caricature — and why Ukrainian fashion is now a frontline of anti-colonial resistance. endrussia.today/p/russian-co...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 13/06/2026

a century ago, the russian empire's most dangerous indigenous critic learned firsthand that every Moscow peace deal is only a piece of paper. his memoir reads as if it were written this year endrussia.today/p/zeki-velid...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 03/06/2026

for every contribution above 10EUR there's a special thank you from me. for alternative links to power the call look here: linktr.ee/maksym.erist...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 03/06/2026

European skies won’t protect themselves — but Ukrainians can. celebrate this Pride Month with me by powering real imperial regret in a joint push from my Kyiv Pride family and Ukraine’s largest fundraising platform @u24.gov.ua send.monobank.ua/jar/TMa6HNXv6

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 03/06/2026

a unique window has opened. we are witnessing Ukraine’s biggest breakthrough since 2023 and a rare chance to end this. frontline voices and researchers warn: 4–5 months before the other side adapts. the moment to mobilise is now.

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 28/05/2026

today it’s putin, tomorrow it’s someone else. if you want to consolidate yourself as russian ruler, you maximise a particular culture, within a particular value system. and then you become a new putin, a new stalin, a new tsar. learn more: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russian-em...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 27/05/2026

pride flag went up over the Kyiv neighborhood which was heavily bombed in the latest russian attack. no imperial terror can stop this tradition by my Kyiv Pride family of starting every pride month in Ukraine. Kyiv, unbreakable, proud and fighting for a better future for all of us

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 23/05/2026

how WWII still triggers russian imperial reflex. ask any russian what they “liberated” in that war — and watch the aggressive imperial denial kick in. maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russian-em...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 21/05/2026

thank you to all of you ensuring no Ukrainian feels like they resist alone. happy vyshyvanka day 💛💙

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rest in power, queen. www.instagram.com/moi.hysterique

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Mistique Grimes is an interrupted story of a unique talent robbed from us by russian imperial violence. but it is also a reminder that Ukrainians are fighting for a better world for all of us. let’s ensure they win.

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this erasure is especially ruinous within my fellow queer community since queerness is one of the worst capital crimes for the culture of russian imperialism.

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entire generations of brilliant indigenous minds that could have become beloved part of global culture cannon are erased before the rest of the world learned their names.

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next time there’s again no Ukrainian artist featured in Rupaul’s Drag Race international franchise shows or one of your young art-appreciating friends cannot name a Ukrainian drag queen, tell them about Queen Mistique, show them her art.

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 13/05/2026

i have seen some of you posting Dmytro’s pictures, a 23-year-old victim of recent russian attack on a residential building in Kyiv, which took away 24 lives. but did you know that Dmytro was also emerging, yet already beloved, drag artist named Mistique Grimes?

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different centuries. the same russia. same imperial warfare. same slavery.

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 12/05/2026

Avrom Zak’s story, a Jewish-Polish writer and journalist who survived both the Holocaust and the Gulag, is a powerful reminder: russia’s imperial violence is not new, not reactive, and not accidental.

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 09/05/2026

Raqymjan Qoshqarbaev. learning this name and the story of this Qazaq soldier would be the most badass way to spend the day that Russia claims as its empire‑making myth. the best after donating to the Ukrainian army. learn more: open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 01/05/2026

a high-ranking Ukrainian diplomat by 21, a professor by 24, a prominent European feminist and journalist by 26, and a forced labor prisoner in a russian slave camp by 31. in my new newsletter i share a remarkable story of resistance and survival by Nadiia Surovtseva

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from childhood memories of dosimeters and secret evacuations to the lingering distrust of authority and the ongoing environmental impact, in this @ukrainianspaces.bsky.social archive episode, we explore how Chornobyl continues to shape Ukraine's identity @stasolenchenko.bsky.social

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Chornobyl was also a major breaking point for Ukraine's anti-colonial struggle, where most faced starked realisation: russian occupation is not just about oppression, but also about a culture that does not care if the world goes annihilated in nuclear holocaust @valvoshchevska.bsky.social

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for Ukrainians of my generation, born after 1986, Chornobyl is not a history lesson. it's a silent shadow cast over their lives. @boochelnikova.bsky.social

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 20/04/2026

as we remember 40 years since the worst nuclear catastrophe in history and honour the Ukrainian heroes who prevented the worst, there's a larger story behind Chornobyl, directly linked to today's war. no one's talking about it in foreign media creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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ending russia: why betting on the russian empire collapsing on its own never works, historically speaking. my latest russian colonialism 101 essay. learn more: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/never-bet-...

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 09/04/2026

there’s definitely a gap between how Ukrainians understand their responsibilities of living in a democracy and the rest of the Free World. i increasingly believe that those democratic societies attempting to narrow this gap will also be the ones surviving in the coming decade.

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 31/03/2026

"behind every drone stands a human. an hour before the war, they were neighbours, siblings, friends." Ukrainians take what the empire sends against them and rebuild it into something that guards. not a poetic metaphor. operational logic of Ukrainian anti-colonial resistance.

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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 03/03/2026

don't sleep on our new @ukrainianspaces.bsky.social season. it is has been our finest yet. empowering unfiltered Ukrainian voices and decolonising Ukraine conversations since 2022. maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...

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join me please empowering Bohdan’s battalion. even a euro will make a difference saving actual lives. bank wire: send.monobank.ua/jar/2MHZ8EnuUG paypal: volinok93 AT gmail.com многая літа, друже

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unfortunately more democracies will face imperial invasions in years to come. more of us will have to abandon their life passions and defend their right to be free. Ukrainians like Bohdan are buying us time so we do not have to make that choice today

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in our previous lives, i met Bohdan as a cool illustrator. but i really got to know him as a superhuman after he became a democracy defender. today he is celebrating his 33st birthday while defending Europe on the Ukrainian frontline

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