Queer Ukraine perspectives
Soundings - ISSN 1362-6620
Volume 2024 Number 87
Queer Ukraine perspectives
Debs Grayson talks to T and Vlada, the DViJKA collective, pages 38-52
DOI: 10.3898/SOUN:87.02.2024
Abstract
The DViJKA collective, a duo of Kyiv-born, UK-based, artist researchers, discuss the reception in the UK of their collection of essays Queer Ukraine. Since the full-scale invasion, queer Ukrainians have embraced anti-colonial nationalism and the concept of homonationalism, not least because Russia is one of the most notoriously openly queer-phobic empires: the fate of LGBTQIA+ people in Chechnya predicts what will happen under a Russian occupation. When a state occupies or invades, it creates a sense of a collective struggle: people with whom you’ve never had a connection become people with whom you’re serving. The difficulties of navigating the state and being queer are nevertheless many: for example being affiliated with entities like the nation state or the military industrial complex; being associated with NATO or the EU. But addressing these issues has to wait until after Ukraine has freed itself from the nuclear-armed and militarised state on its border. Yet some left sectarians criticise this stance and align themselves with any anti-Western power - just because they’re anti-western.
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Debs Grayson (2024) Queer Ukraine perspectives, Soundings, 2024(87), 38-52. https://doi.org/10.3898/SOUN:87.02.2024