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Episode: Freeze. Flight. Fight. Fawn: Queer Survival in Wartime Ukraine (DS2025)
Description: Lives of queer Ukrainians reshaped by war — from the frontlines to exile, rebuilding community under constant uncertainty.
This talk is a mosaic of stories from queer people whose lives changed irreversibly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Some volunteered for the frontline and survived captivity, some became refugees abroad, and others chose to return home to rebuild their communities despite the danger.
As the war broke out, these people suddenly found themselves in a reality where human rights no longer applied. Not only rights and dignity were now at stake, but life itself. Survival — and protecting their loved...