QUEER.WAR.ARCHIVE

Hlib (knyazcotyk), he/she. War diary

knyazcotyk: My diary, it’s my processing of the subjective experience of living through war, working…

Helen, a grenadier(later – a reserve sergeant), trans woman

This interview took place a day before Helen was granted permission to leave the army…

Olexii Kuchanskyi, s/he. Letter

Disclaimer: This letter was presented and distributed enveloped in the frame of Blakytna Troyanda (June–July,…

Anton Shebetko. A Very Brief and Subjective Queer History of Ukraine

antonshebetko.com 2022, publication. This publication is an attempt to tell the story of Ukrainian queer…

Statement

The Queer.War.Archive is a project dedicated to collecting and preserving testimonies of the Ukrainian LGBTQIA+ community during the full-scale invasion of the russian Federation into Ukraine and in connection with it. The theme of colonialism in Ukraine is primarily associated with russian influence. We consider Ukrainian LGBTQIA+ people to be intersectionally minoritized through russian colonial aggression, European racialization, and Ukrainian biopolitics (Seleznova, 2023). We are looking at such phenomena as ‘homonationalism‘, ‘homonormativity‘ and ‘homoacademicism‘ (the latter term is our invention). We are asking how we are affected by the notorious division into West and East, as well as the imperialistic discourses surrounding us.