Ukrainian Spaces
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Ukrainian Spaces
Amplifying diverse Ukrainian voices and decolonizing Ukraine conversations. Discussing Ukraine abroad without a single Ukrainian featured is still a norm. Not only it continuously robs us of our agency, but it also perpetuates outdated, misleading, and false narratives about Ukraine and Ukrainians....
Nýlegir þættir
74 þættirUnveiled: Ukraine, Forever.
S4E6
Stas, Marichka, Val, and Maksym come together for the last episode of the season to reflect on three years of the Russian full-scale invasi...
Unveiled: the Revolution of Dignity
S4E5
“Maidan is a place of freedom.”
Val and Marichka met in Kyiv to record a live episode from Maidan Square, where the Revolution of Dig...
Unveiled: Qırım
S4E4
“There is no free Ukraine without free Qırım.”
When Russia invaded and annexed Crimea (or Qırım, an indigenous name) in 2014, the liv...
Unveiled: The Orange Revolution
S4E3
Before 2004, Ukraine pulsed with a vibrant cultural awakening. Following decades of Soviet suppression, Ukrainian language, music, art, and...
Unveiled: Ukraine's Renewed Independence
S4E2
On August 24th, 1991, Ukraine celebrated a moment etched in history: its independence from the Soviet Union. It was a culmination of centur...
Unveiled: Echoes of Chornobyl
S4E1
For many Ukrainians born after 1986, Chornobyl wasn't just a history lesson. It was a silent shadow cast over their lives. This episode del...
Season 4 Premiere: How it all started.
S4E0
What made four total strangers connect in those first few paralysing months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine? This season, Ukrainian...
olek: our ukrainian identity, explained
podcast premiere episode: a jewish-ukrainian president and a korean-ukrainian governor emerge as key leaders in the ukrainian liberation war. perfect...
mid-season bonus: owning stupid stuff we said about Ukraine
From victim-blaming and thinking that Russia is the language of smarter people to advocating against arming Ukraine. In our third bonus episode, avail...
mid-season bonus: a love letter to the diaspora.
Misunderstood, ridiculed, or cast out. The relations between Ukrainians at home and the Ukrainian diaspora have often been rocky. It took another geno...
mid-season bonus: 2014.
Ukrainians often mention that the ongoing genocide did not start in 2022 but rather has been a slow-burning event since the 2014 Maidan Revolution. Ev...
genia and azamat. qazaqs, we see you
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oksana. russian culture is a lie
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alim. crimea was never russian
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olga. honest talk about ukrainian nationalism
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sasha. let's talk about russian-speaking ukrainians
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nodar. sakartvelo, we see you
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maria. the ukrainianness of being jewish
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S3 premiere: big decolonization energy. part two
s3e2: thanks to our generous Patreon family, #UkrainianSpaces is back for season three. We felt big decolonization energy and tried something complete...
S3 premiere: big decolonization energy
s3e1: Thanks to our generous Patreon family, #UkrainianSpaces is back for season three. For this one, we feel big decolonization energy and tried some...
S2 finale: 9 ways Ukraine will inspire you
s2e23: It has been the worst year for every Ukrainian. In a way, it also has been the best one. Those Ukrainians who survived it are transformed forev...
mark. here's why anti-ukraine disinfo gets traction in the west
s2e22: Russian-backed conspiracies about Ukraine and Ukrainians might appear bizarre, entertaining, or even funny. But every piece of anti-Ukrainian p...
andrea. things you keep getting wrong about ukraine
s2e21: This is not Russia's first attempt to eradicate Ukrainians. This is not the first time fascism is trying to wipe an entire nation from the face...
lia. how to talk to ukrainians without colonial tropes
s2e20: When Ukrainians express discomfort by being pushed into a space with a Russian person without consent, some foreigners label it 'hatred' or 'ru...
ukrainian music as resistance. zbaraski edition
s2e19: Through centuries of colonial oppression, music remained a secret superpower for Ukrainians to keep their resistance up. The ongoing genocide i...
anti-colonial storytellers unite. volya hub edition
s2e18: We took the theme of our second season, building bridges with Ukrainian allies worldwide, and thought why not go more ambitious? That's how Vol...
james. a message from ukraine frontline
s2e17: How does one go from a foreign journalist to a NAFO founding figure to a Ukrainian soldier putting your life on the line for Ukraine daily? For...
nadiia. everything passes but ukraine
s2e16: Despite what Russia claims, the roots of Ukrainian identity reach as far back as thousands of years. Despite what Russia is trying to do, a new...
oleksandra. russia stole ukrainian culture
s2e15: We talk so much about cultural appropriation by Westerners. But Russians have been doing the same thing to Ukrainians - and so many other neigh...
kateryna. unbreakable ukrainian creativity
s2e14: Before Russia started mass-slaughtering us, Ukrainians had global traction for exceptional work ethic, 'everything-is-possible' attitude, and b...
vlad. ukrainian endurance, explained
s2e13: sport plays such a crucial identity-shaping role in Ukraine - athletes of different genders, ethnicities, and skin colors helped to crystalize...
leila & joey. middle east, we see you
s2e11: Back in February, most Ukrainians still had no idea about the harrowing scale of genocide awaiting them in the coming months. But our friends f...
peter. south sudan, we see you
s2e10: "Being free people is not cheap. What Ukrainians are going through is very much similar to what many people in Africa went through or are still...
ihor & asami. japan, we see you
s2e9: when the genocide in Ukraine started, we were overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and solidarity from Japan. What makes people from, litera...
alice. ukraine is diverse af
s2e8: Ukrainians are fighting not only to get their stolen homes back. This battle is also about their values, identity, and right to manifest who the...
bota. qazaqstan, we see you
s2e7: 'That's very unfair that you, Ukrainians, have to pay for all of us to find ourselves, to start valuing ourselves, to start emancipating ourselv...
bektour. kyrgyzstan, we see you
s2e6: genocide in Ukraine triggers tens of millions of Russian neighbors. It is more than empathy, though. The history of colonial violence, erasure,...
ruslana & sarah. the queerness at ukraine frontlines
s2e5: for this one, we pay tribute to fearless queer Ukrainians who defiantly manifest their rainbow colors even as Russian bombs keep raining down on...
anka. big witch energy
s2e4: we are back to cast a kickass spell of ancient Ukrainian magic against Russian colonialism. Our featured Ukrainian is sensational artist Anka La...
oksana. don’t you dare to look away
s2e3: we are back to remind you why Ukraine and Ukrainian voices must remain at the center of global attention and should not be dismissed or ignored....