the smile i get when thinking how much a frontline truck saves lives and how many invaders it helps to delete. send congrats to Ukraine on her 35th Independence Day: top up my leg of the fundraiser for a pickup truck that will go to the 160th Separate Mechanised Brigade

my favourite part of our Russian Colonialism 101 guidebook is the dozens of anti-colonial illustrations by Ukrainian wartime artists. we even have lithographs by a Ukrainian artist Alisa Gots. best part? you can purchase them with global shipping here: www.lithography30.com?category=Rus...

in Eastern Europe, WWII ended with the fall of russian occupation in the 1990s. in Moscow, WWII is still the state religion. but it isn’t memory — it’s a weapon. and it’s still being used as an engine for every “liberation,” every genocide the Kremlin justifies today

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.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

remember this. thank you

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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...

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

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

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