Woman Against the Kremlin: Anti-War Conference and Art Exhibition

Women have been at the forefront of resisting the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, its imperialism and its repression of dissent from the start. They are doing so despite an array of challenges. Nearly all key figures in the anti-war, anti-Kremlin movement have been forced into exile, facing isolation and threats to their safety. Inside Russia, women’s voices are increasingly stifled, with soldiers’ wives and mothers branded as “foreign agents” and feminist activism equated with “extremism.” Meanwhile, the state rolls back reproductive and sexual freedoms, as propaganda casts women in subservient roles aligned with Putin’s vision of “traditional” family values.

Speakers are: 

• Ksenia Maximova, the founder and director of the London-based Russian Democratic Society
• Zhanna Agalakova, Russian journalist, special correspondent and television news presenter who resigned from the state-run Channel One broadcaster in protest of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 
• Sasha Skochilenko, is an artist, musician, activist and former political prisoner.
• Nadya Raplya, is a dissident visual artist from Russia
• Vladlena Sandu, is an artist
• Vika Privalova, is an artist, independent theater director, feminist, and human rights activist
• Linor Goralik, is an award-winning poet, prose author, critic, comics artist, and journalist

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