#UkrainianSpaces

S4E4 “There is no free Ukraine without free Qırım.” When Russia invaded and annexed Crimea (or Qırım, an indigenous name) in 2014, the lives of all Ukrainians changed in irrevocable ways, but none more so than Crimean Tatars. Our season would be incomplete without an episode on Qırım, and the story of Crimea can only be told by those it truly belongs to. That's why we invited Lina, a Crimean Tatar woman and activist, to talk to her about her home, her identity and have her share her memories with all of us about Qırım. Lina's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe-bSIZ4IL16k3O1YQPiBjw  Lina's Twitter: https://x.com/linafromcrimea_ DISCLAIMER: This is a public release. Our Patreon family gets the newest episodes several weeks ahead of the rest. ⁠⁠⁠Sign up and listen as the season's story unfolds.⁠⁠⁠ Ukrainian Spaces is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the narrative, breaking free from outdated stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its future. Follow Ukrainian Spaces on social media for updates and exclusive content. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠⁠⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠_

S4E3 Before 2004, Ukraine pulsed with a vibrant cultural awakening. Following decades of Soviet suppression, Ukrainian language, music, art, and identity blossomed in a hard-won space. But this renaissance wasn't without its challenges. In this episode, we explore the diverse memories of Ukrainians navigating this crucial period: Marichka recalls the Orange Revolution through the eyes of a child, witnessing her mother's passionate activism and the birth of a national spirit. Val paints a broader picture, highlighting the Orange Revolution's significance for Ukraine's democratic future and the pushback it received from Russia. Stas reflects on a childhood marked by cultural duality, where Ukrainian culture fought for recognition against the dominance of Russian influence. Maksym shares a poignant story of bullying for speaking Ukrainian, revealing the lingering scars of colonial self-hate. Through their accounts, we witness the complexities of cultural decolonization, the resilience of Ukrainian identity, and the ever-present shadow of Russian interference. DISCLAIMER: This is a public release. Our Patreon family gets the newest episodes several weeks ahead of the rest. ⁠⁠Sign up and listen as the season's story unfolds.⁠⁠ Ukrainian Spaces is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the narrative, breaking free from outdated stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its future. Follow Ukrainian Spaces on social media for updates and exclusive content. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠_ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message

S4E2 On August 24th, 1991, Ukraine celebrated a moment etched in history: its independence from the Soviet Union. It was a culmination of centuries of struggle for freedom, a renewal of a spirit that had been suppressed for too long. This episode of Ukrainian Spaces delves into the complex story of Ukraine's regained independence. We hear personal reflections from the hosts, exploring how their families and communities experienced this pivotal moment. Through their stories, we discover the challenges and triumphs of rebuilding a nation, the echoes of history that continue to resonate, and the unwavering spirit of a people determined to be free. DISCLAIMER: This is a public release. Our Patreon family gets newest episodes several weeks ahead of the rest. ⁠Sign up and listen as the season's story unfolds.⁠ Ukrainian Spaces is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the narrative, breaking free from outdated stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its future. Follow Ukrainian Spaces on social media for updates and exclusive content. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠_ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message

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 delves into the personal stories of three Ukrainians grappling with the legacy of the world's worst nuclear disaster. From childhood memories of dosimeters and secret evacuations to the lingering distrust of authority and the ongoing environmental impact, we explore how Chornobyl continues to shape Ukraine's identity. DISCLAIMER: This is a public release. Our Patreon family gets the newest episodes several weeks ahead of the rest. ⁠Sign up and listen as the season's story unfolds.⁠ Ukrainian Spaces is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the narrative, breaking free from outdated stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its future. Follow Ukrainian Spaces on social media for updates and exclusive content. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠_ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message

S4E0 What made four total strangers connect in those first few paralysing months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine?  This season, Ukrainian Spaces embarks on a personal odyssey through defining moments in Ukrainian history with Val, Maksym, Stas and Marichka. From the haunting aftermath of Chernobyl to the spirit of resistance ignited by the Maidan Revolution, we explore how the past shapes the present and what unites us as Ukrainians in the face of unimaginable challenges. DISCLAIMER: This is a public release. Our Patreon family gets newest episodes several weeks ahead of the rest. Sign up and listen as the season's story unfolds. Ukrainian Spaces is more than a podcast; it's a movement. It's about reclaiming the narrative, breaking free from outdated stereotypes, and understanding the complex roots of Ukraine's present and future. Together, we can unravel the threads of Ukrainian history and witness the unwavering spirit of a nation fighting for its future. Follow Ukrainian Spaces on social media for updates and exclusive content. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠_ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message

From victim-blaming and thinking that Russia is the language of smarter people to advocating against arming Ukraine. In our third bonus episode, available exclusively to our Patreon family, the #UkrainianSpaces team is bringing you a cringe-fest full of embarrassing things we said and thought about Ukraine and Ukrainianness. Be patient with us. One can measure the supremacy of a colonial empire in the number of lands it conquered and pillaged. But the real triumph happens in the heads of the people it conquered and conditioned to feel inferior. Sharing the stories of our own personal decolonization journeys will help you to understand Ukraine better. And it will help us to heal. A while ago, we started treating ⁠⁠our Patreon family⁠⁠ with exclusive #UkrainianSpaces bonus episodes during which our team (Valeriia, Maksym, Solomiya, and Tetyana) answers the questions from our Patreon community. Now, we are releasing some of them to the public while working on a new season.  Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠. Maksym's T⁠⁠witter⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

Misunderstood, ridiculed, or cast out. The relations between Ukrainians at home and the Ukrainian diaspora have often been rocky. It took another genocide and powerful soul-searching to finally bring them together - like never before. The 44-million family has finally merged into the 66-million one. A while ago, we started treating ⁠our Patreon family⁠ with exclusive #UkrainianSpaces bonus episodes during which our team (Valeriia, Maksym, Solomiya, and Tetyana) answers the questions from our Patreon community. Now, we are releasing some of them to the public while working on a new season.  Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠. Maksym's T⁠witter⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

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. Everything that has happened since then is about Russia punishing Ukraine for wanting to be free. If the world did understand the revolution and heard Ukrainians 9 years ago, then maybe we wouldn't be dealing with this catastrophe today.  A while ago, we started treating our Patreon family with exclusive #UkrainianSpaces bonus episodes during which our team (Valeriia, Maksym, Solomiya, and Tetyana) answers the questions from our Patreon community. Now, we are releasing some of them to the public while working on a new season. Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠. Maksym's Twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our Patreon family⁠⁠ gets the episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e9 (season finale): The triumph of colonialism is not just about the size of the conquered lands or looted wealth. It is about the success of identity confusion among the colonized people. People who do not know who they are, do not speak their own language, who look down on their own culture and feel embarrassed about their own roots. Ukrainians are not the only nation that can tell you a lot about the violence of Russian colonial assimilation. But the daily sacrifices of Ukrainians fighting off the empire inspire other survivor nations to speak up. For a very special and moving season three finale, we bring Qazaq democracy activist Yevgeniya Plakhina and Qazaq thinker Azamat Junisbai for an episode where we celebrate Qazaq culture, history and Ukrainian-Qazaq solidarity in a defiance to Russia that tried but failed to erase us. The tracklist for this episode includes: Vesna by DakhaBrakha Щастя by Марія Квітка Кохала by Марія Квітка Qaishy (feat. Krechet) by dudeontheguitar Отбасы by G.H.A.D. Bari Biled by Ninety One Közimdi Aşam (feat. Steppe Sons) by jeltoksan. Байқа by Қайрат Нұртас Check out our Patreon for the multimedia lists to decolonize your knowledge about Qazaq culture, history and identity, curated by Yevgeniya Plakhina and Azamat Junisbai for the #UkrainianSpaces family. Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please, ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠. Maksym's Twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our Patreon family⁠⁠ gets the episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e8: Whenever you are in a museum and see an artist being credited as Russian or mentioned as being born in Russia — there is a massive chance that they are not. Malevych, Repin, Ekster. Many Ukrainian artists are still mislabeled as 'Russian' in most foreign museums, galleries, and art spaces. That is thanks to centuries of Russian colonial imperialism stealing and appropriating indigenous artists. The entire concept of 'Great Russian culture' is a big colonial lie. For this one, we feature Ukrainian art historian and journalist Oksana Semenik, who survived the genocide in Bucha by pure luck. But the Russian empire messed with the wrong Ukrainian — after escaping mass slaughter, Semenik launched a global crusade to decolonize mislabelled Ukrainian art in museums worldwide and reclaim the artists stolen by Russia. Check this reading list to decolonize your knowledge about Ukrainian art, curated by Oksana Semenik for the #UkrainianSpaces family. Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please, ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠. Maksym's Twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our ⁠⁠Patreon family⁠⁠ gets the episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e7: The Crimea region in southern Ukraine (or Qirim, as local indigenous people call it) has been a centerpiece for russian imperial propaganda for centuries. You steal a land, cleanse it from the entire indigenous population, replace locals with settler colonists, rename every settlement, every street, river, and mountain — and soon the entire world is sure that Crimea is somehow 'always been russian.' After Crimea, russians deployed the same occupation formula in countless other lands. They keep using it in modern-day Ukraine, too. To decolonize the Qirim myth and explain why Ukraine won't be free until Qirim is free, we asked the help of Alim Aliev, one of the most prominent Ukrainian Qirimli, deputy director of the Ukrainian Institute, a journalist and human rights advocate.  Please, also help Ukrainians to survive the consequences of russia-made flood in southern Ukraine. Check the list of trusted fundraisers the Ukrainian Spaces family members put together. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. We exist thanks to donations: please ⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices.⁠⁠⁠ GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠insta⁠⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠⁠. Maksym's ⁠⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠insta⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our ⁠Patreon family⁠ gets the episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e6: Celebrated by some, but used by others as an excuse to deny Ukrainians solidarity or even justify their mass murder. The topic of Ukrainian nationalism is divisive, but above all — deeply confusing and unclear. That's why called for help from the person who made an internationally-celebrated career on being an expert on Ukrainian identity without allowing her own biases to affect the research. Our featured Ukrainian is a scholar and author of 'The Zelensky Effect' Dr. Olga Onuch.  SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. We exist thanks to donations: please ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices.⁠⁠ GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠insta⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠. Maksym's ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our ⁠Patreon family⁠ gets the episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e5: 'My mother tongue tastes like ashes. Things scorched by enemy fire, then soaked with rain, touched with rot, smelling of death. I felt the taste of my mother tongue most acutely while driving through Borodianka, Bucha, and Irpin two months after these Ukrainian towns in the Kyiv region were liberated by the Ukrainian army from the Russians' “brotherly” embrace. Russian is my mother tongue, and liberation means ripping it out of my throat.' There's so much talk about russian-speaking Ukrainians abroad. But how often have you heard actual russian-speaking Ukrainians being part of those conversations? It is rhetorical. The language issue is at the epicenter of understanding the Ukrainian decolonization journey. And Ukrainians who are or used to speak Russian as their first language are the most critical voices to explain it. We invite back Ukrainian scholar Sasha Dovzhyk to discuss her sensational essay 'Mother Tongue: The Story of a Ukrainian Language Convert' and share truths about russian-speaking Ukrainians with the rest of the world. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices.⁠⁠ GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠insta⁠⁠_. Val's ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠. Maksym's ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our ⁠Patreon family⁠ gets the episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e4: During the latest mass pro-democracy protests in Sakartvelo-Georgia, you could see Ukrainian flags and hear 'Slava Ukraïni' everywhere. Why does Ukraine mean so much for Kartvelians-Georgians? This small Eastern European nation doesn't capture as many global headlines as Ukraine. But tightly bonded with Ukraine through centuries of shared history and by a shared colonial abuser, learning about Sakartvelo is crucial for your understanding of why Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine and why the empire will inevitably fall. For another bridge episode, we invited Nodar Rukhadze, a Georgian civil rights activist, journalist, and the founder of the Shame Movement, to educate us about his personal and Sakartvelo's decolonization struggle. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please ⁠become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices.⁠ GET FEATURED: ⁠send us a voicemail⁠ GET CONNECTED:  ⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠ _ ⁠twitter⁠ _⁠insta⁠_. Val's ⁠twitter⁠ and ⁠Insta⁠ and ⁠tiktoks⁠. Maksym's ⁠twitter⁠ and ⁠insta⁠ and ⁠tiktoks⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our ⁠Patreon family⁠ gets these episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e3: 'There is no future for Ukrainian Jews if they want to go together with the Russian culture,' a Ukrainian Jewish activist ⁠Maria Gershova⁠ tells us. There's a massive identity evolution that most Ukrainians are going through amid this genocide. But also affects all other overlapping identities that we have. We meet Maria at a crucial period in her life - when she is decolonizing and figuring out what being Ukrainian means when you are also Jewish. Do both clash or contradict each other, considering the complicated and tragic history of the Jewish people in Ukraine? Maria has much to share with the rest of the world and fellow Jewish people globally.  SUPPORT US: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices.⁠⁠ GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠you can also send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED:  find #UkrainianSpaces on ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠insta⁠⁠_ Val's ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ Maksym's ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

s3e2: thanks to our generous Patreon family, #UkrainianSpaces is back for season three. We felt big decolonization energy and tried something completely new - a live-audience show. This is part two of our podcast episode recorded in late February in Warsaw during our sold-out event featuring brilliant Ukrainians like: Mariam Naiem, a prominent Ukrainian artist and researcher working on mainstreaming global understanding of the colonial and racial aspects of Russian culture concerning Ukraine and other peoples colonized by Russia. Alice Zhuravel, a Ukrainian artist and the founder of the Tozhsamist storytelling initiative. Yulia Krivich, a Ukrainian artist behind SDK "Słonecznik", a Ukrainian Solidary Community Center in Warsaw Marichka Buchelnikova and Stas Olenchenko of the Ukraine Explainers storytelling initiative, a leading outlet for educating foreigners about Ukraine in social-media-friendly formats. Julia Tymoshenko, a leading Ukrainian storyteller, and social media influencer educating the world about the Russian invasion of Ukraine Our Patreon family has exclusive access to the Q&A session recorded as a bonus podcast episode during this show - available through our Patreon page. Слава Україні! SUPPORT: we are a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

Thanks to our generous Patreon family, #UkrainianSpaces is back for season three. For this one, we feel big decolonization energy and tried something completely new - a live-audience show. Recorded in late February in Warsaw, a sold-out event featured brilliant Ukrainians like: Mariam Naiem, a prominent Ukrainian artist and researcher working on mainstreaming global understanding of the colonial and racial aspects of Russian culture concerning Ukraine and other peoples colonized by Russia. Alice Zhuravel, a Ukrainian artist and the founder of the Tozhsamist storytelling initiative. Yulia Krivich, a Ukrainian artist behind SDK "Słonecznik", a Ukrainian Solidary Community Center in Warsaw Marichka Buchelnikova and Stas Olenchenko of the Ukraine Explainers storytelling initiative, a leading outlet for educating foreigners about Ukraine in social-media-friendly formats. Julia Tymoshenko, a leading Ukrainian storyteller, and social media influencer educating the world about the Russian invasion of Ukraine Enjoy part one. This show reminds the world that: Ukraine will win Ukraine will rebuild Russian colonialism will end Any forms of colonialism and imperialism will fall Ukraine will stand diverse, and free. Слава Україні! SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

It has been the worst year for every Ukrainian. In a way, it also has been the best one. Those Ukrainians who survived through it are transformed forever. Despite the trauma, pain, and heartbreak, they keep dreaming, creating, and daring. There are millions of Ukrainian stories that can inspire anyone to live in a better world and to be a better person. But for the season two finale, we decided to keep it within the close family and feature 9 Ukrainians and how they withstood the darkest, coldest winter of our lives. The episode features: Solomiya Petlyak, Mariam Naiem, Stas Olenchenko, Maria Buchelnikova, Romeo Kokriatski, Tetyana Denford (Bisyk) and Alice Zhuravel. SUPPORT US: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

Russian-backed conspiracies about Ukraine and Ukrainians might come across as bizarre, entertaining, or even funny. But every piece of anti-Ukrainian propaganda shared abroad, even if accidentally or as a hate share, has a specific price in actual Ukrainian lives. That's why Ukrainians take so seriously the work on the information frontline, and it is universally regarded as important as defending our freedom with actual weapons in the trenches. Mark Kaplan, our featured Ukrainian for this episode, might have a reputation as a funny journalist ridiculing Russian propaganda for a late-night show on Telebachennya Toronto. But he also developed one of the brightest and smartest understandings of how anti-Ukrainian disinformation gets picked up in the West and why it happens. SUPPORT US, PLEASE: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

This is not the first time russia is trying to eradicate Ukrainians. This is not the first time fascism is trying to wipe an entire nation from the face of the Earth, either. Nevertheless, there has never been so much global unity when it comes to helping Ukrainians like today. But does it mean that we are finally learning our 'never again' lessons? Let's do a quick rundown of things foreigners historically always get wrong about Ukraine and whether they are still mainstream. Our featured Ukrainian is Andrea Chalupa, a prominent Ukrainian-American journalist, author and the person behind an absolute must-see Holodomor movie Mr. Jones. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

When Ukrainians express discomfort by being pushed into a space with a russian person without consent, some foreigners label it 'hatred' or 'russophobia.' When Ukrainians talk about centuries-old pattern of serial abusive behaviour of Russian society towards the neighbours, we are dismissed as 'emotional' and 'hysterical.' Could it be just a lack of empathy or education? Lia Dostlieva, a Ukrainian artist, anthropologist and our featured Ukrainian for this episode, want you all to recognize in this attitude the old Western colonial tradition of marginalizing 'uncomfortable' voices. Together we decided to do a small workshop on how to talk and listen to Ukrainians without falling into colonial tropes. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

Through centuries of colonial oppression, music remained a secret superpower for Ukrainians to keep their resistance up. The ongoing genocide is no different. Ukrainian music artists have been creating breathtaking art that keeps our spirits up and inspires not to give up. For this one we feature Zbaraski, one of our favourite Ukrainian musicians, to explain deep anti-colonial roots of Ukrainian music and where Ukrainian artists find the inspiration and energy to keep creating in the ultimate act of resistance. Music featured: Zbaraski - Всі навколо метушаться Аква Віта - Я жду Zbaraski - Bo ty Zbaraski - Dyvni Dyva Zbaraski - U horakh Jamala - Сину Назарій Яремчук - Посміхнулась ти Zbaraski - Cofein Zbaraski - Bo Togo SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

We took the theme of our second season, building bridges with Ukrainian allies worldwide, and thought why not go more ambitious? That's how Volya Hub was founded. A sister Ukrainian Spaces project, it unites journalists, storytellers and scholars across former Russian colonies to expand public awareness about the crimes of Russian colonialism — in languages of the communities that are affected by it. We invited our friends and partners to chat about why we teamed up for Volya Hub and how personal it is for all of us. This episode features prominent Qazaq journalist Vyacheslav Abramov of Vlast, Georgian activist Nodar Rukhadze of Shame Movement and Ukrainian journalist Kateryna Sergatskova of Zaborona. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

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 this one, we talk to James (his second name will remain secret due to security concerns) from Spaghetti Kozak Media. We discuss the price of freedom, colonialism, the NAFO phenomena, russian propaganda in the most honest, raw way. Because facing death on the Ukrainian frontline puts all of it in a new, crystal-clear perspective. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

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 generation of Ukrainian artists resists the cultural erasure and makes ancient Ukrainian culture reborn and reimagined again. For this one, a Ukrainian ethnographic researcher, style icon and the founder of Nadiia, Nadiia Shapoval, explains how centuries of Ukrainian traditions are inspiring a new age of powerful cultural renaissance in wartime Ukraine, why many Ukrainians are on the journey to reclaim their ancient ancestral roots and in what way it makes our resistance to genocide even stronger. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

We talk so much about cultural appropriation by white westerners. But russians have been doing the same thing to Ukrainians - and so many other neighboring cultures - for centuries, presenting stolen cultures as their own. We've had enough. Receipts of colonialism are ready to be shown, anti-colonial tea is ready to be spilled. Our featured Ukrainian is Oleksandra Povoroznyk, a culture critic and just an insanely smart person. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

Before russia started mass-slaughtering us, Ukrainians had global traction for exceptional work ethic, 'everything-is-possible' attitude, and breathtaking creativity. Exactly for the same reasons, Ukraine turned into one of the main global hubs for high-end movie and video production in recent years. But what it has to do with our colonial past? Everything. For this one, we feature Kateryna Galytska, an executive producer behind the award-winning production house Radioaktive Film with accolades from Cannes Lions, MTV Music Video Awards, Emmys, and more. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

sport plays such an important identity-shaping role in Ukraine - athletes of different genders, ethnicities, skin colors helped to crystalize our feeling of national pride and what it means to be a Ukrainian in the last three decades since the end of the last Russian occupation. That's why it is no surprise that when another Russian assault started this year, thousands of Ukrainian athletes went to the frontline to defend Ukraine or rally global solidarity across the world — they know very well what's really at stake in this war. For this episode, we feature Vladyslav Heraskevych, a Ukrainian two-time Olympian athlete and the first-ever Ukrainian skeleton racer. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

there's so much queerness in being a Ukrainian. there's so much Ukrainianness in being queer. both are making the backbone of the holy Ukrainian resistance. We promise, this all will make perfect sense once you are finished with this powerful, raw, and defiant episode featuring Natalka Gurba, a Ukrainian artist, activist, and storyteller. They recently authored 'Queer Joy. Ukrainian Liberation' zine. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

Back in February, most Ukrainians still had no idea about the harrowing scale of genocide awaiting them in the coming months. But our friends from Syria and other parts of the Middle East reached out instantly with live-saving tips. Before unleashing it onto Ukraine, Russia tested and polished most of its terrorist and war crimes tactics on Syrian civilians — facing zero consequences or meaningful condemnation. But the hope is that crushing Russia in Ukraine will also end Russian terror in Syria. For another bridge episode, we feature Joey Ayoub, a Lebanese writer and host of The Fire These Times Project, and Leila Al-Shami, a Syrian writer and co-author of 'Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War.' SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

"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 going through." For another bridge episode of anti-colonial solidarity, we invited a legend of the South Sudanese liberation movement and prominent African thinker Peter Ajak Blair. In a powerful, raw, and moving chat, he explains why the Ukrainian liberation struggle triggers so many personal memories for him and why he believes more African nations should care. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

when genocide in Ukraine started we were overwhelmed with the outpouring of support and solidarity from Japan. What makes people from, literally, the other side of our planet, to hurt, rally and cheer together with Ukrainians — as if their own lives depend on it? For another bridge episode, we feature Ihor Ihnatiev, an activist from Stand With Ukraine Japan and Asami Terajima, a Kyiv-based journalist with Kyiv Independent. We will also have a very special and moving cameo from one of our Patreon family member, joining live from Japan. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

this battle is not only about our land. it is about our values, our identity, and our right to proudly manifest who we are. facing genocidal evil that is trying to assimilate us, Ukrainians resist by doubling down on our diversity, creativity, and belief that we can build a better world. for this one, we feature Alice Zhuravel, a proud mixed Ukrainian, a wartime artist making brilliant things at the nexus of tech and media, and the founder of Tozhsamist, a Ukrainian creative collective. SUPPORT US: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

'that's very unfair, that you, Ukrainians, have to pay for all of us to find ourselves, to start valuing ourselves, to start emancipating ourselves.' we entered this bridge episode to find some similarities between Kazakhstan and Ukraine in our shared anti-colonial struggle. we ended up with one of our most powerful and moving episodes to date. our featured Ukrainian ally is Botakoz Kassymbekova, a prominent Kazakh scholar and thinker. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

Genocide in Ukraine triggers millions across russian neighborhood. It is more than empathy, though. The history of colonial violence, erasure, and assimilation by russia is a shared experience for dozens of nations. For another bridge episode, we foster Ukrainian-Kyrgyz anti-colonial solidarity and feature brilliant Kyrgyz journalist Bektour Iskender. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

for this one, we pay tribute to fearless queer ukrainians who defiantly manifest their rainbow colors even as russian bombs keep raining down on them. kharkiv pride went ahead on September 25th, 2022 in the country's second-largest city — despite fighting ongoing just several kilometers away and non-stop russian shelling. how come ukrainian queer awakening has been turbo-charged by russian full-scale invasion? we feature Ruslana Hnatchenko of Kharkiv Pride and Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, the only transgender journalist covering genocide in Ukraine full-time. SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voicemail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

we are back to cast a kickass spell of ukrainian ancient magic against russian colonialism. our featured ukrainian is sensational artist Anka Lavriv SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

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. our featured ukrainian is oksana pokalchuk, a legendary human rights defender SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

why ending the war in ukraine it can only be done with the liberation of crimea? why understanding russian settler colonialism in crimea is understanding ukraine? why learning about the resistance of crimean tatars against annihilation is learning about ukraine? why speaking truth about ukraine, no matter how uncomfortable, is paramount? for this one we feature sensational Sevgil Musaieva, an award-winning ukrainian journalist, editor-in-chief of the country's largest independent newsroom Ukrainska Pravda SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. GET FEATURED: you can also send us a voice mail GET CONNECTED: find #UkrainianSpaces on ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

for season two, we are trying something new: building stronger bridges between ukrainians and our allies across the globe. in this one, we connect with kickass anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism fighters in taiwan, where strong solidarity with ukraine keeps making global headlines. why taiwanese feel so passionately about a nation living literally on the side of the planet? our featured ukrainian is a prominent ukrainian activist and digital storyteller, olek shyn. our featured ukrainian ally is a taiwanese freedom fighter and activist, aurora chang. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail. Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

for the season one finale, we keep it in the family and gather our #UkrainianSpaces family members to put messages of ukrainian hope, love, resilience, and defiance into a podcast time capsule. featured ukrainians are: mariam naiem, olek shyn, stas olenchenko, maria buchelnikova, romeo kokriatski, vinok collective, kvitka perehinets, tetyana denford (bisyk). #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com _ twitter _insta_ Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

one of the most visceral imagery from the ongoing genocide in ukraine has been ukrainians risking everything to save their pets or animals caught in-between fire. from zoo keepers who keep showing up for work even under russian shelling and rescuers putting their lives on the line to save pets trapped under rubble of russian terrorist attacks, to thousands of volunteers working 24/7 to assist war-affected animals in the most dangerous places across the country. because our pets are another ukrainian superpower. for this one we feature olha chevhaniuk, a kickass ukrainian animal rights activist behind @UAnimalsENG, ukraine's largest animal rescue initiative. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

apparently, eight years of ukrainians having the lowest levels of political representation of far-right forces in europe is not self-evident. so we gather once again to put all the stupid myths about far-rights in ukraine to the ground. our featured ukrainians are ukrainian prominent journalists @NikaMelkozerova and @KSergatskova. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail and get featured in the show. Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

this #UkrainianSpaces is going to be claimed by romani ukrainians and the stories of their struggle and defiance amid genocide in ukraine. our featured ukrainian is Natali Tomenko, a brilliant romani ukrainian activist behind @ArcaYngo, a movement uniting aroma youth in ukraine. #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

this is a tribute to the generation freedom, young ukrainians in their 20s and 30s who are tasked with defending ukraine from russian aggression. identically to folks of their age elsewhere, they love their flat-whites, avocado toasts and oversharing on social media. but they also put their lives on the line and die for democracy, equality, and freedom. for this one, we keep it in the family and invite back mariam naiem, a ukrainian artist, researcher and digital storyteller #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

there are over 60+ million ukrainians globally. we speak different languages, we are of different religions, skin colors, and ethnicities. but for the first time, each and every one of us is working in unison to ensure our homeland stands, our shared values are defended, our diversity is preserved, and our voices are not silenced. to understand ukraine is to learn why diversity is integral to our identity and how it glues us together instead of dividing us. for this one, we feature Rissana Shytu, a proud queer Ukrainian woman of color, an entrepreneur, a migrant, and, as of recently, a volunteer running a refugee center for Ukrainians in Spain. #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

in this one, we vent about cruel, arrogant and colonial treatment ukrainians get from some foreign leftists. our featured ukrainian is Romeo Kokriatski, a journalist, podcaster, and proud marxist. #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail. Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

the mythology around donbas forms the ideological foundation of russian genocidal campaign in ukraine. you won't understand kremlin's obsession with eradicating ukrainians without decolonizing your views about eastern ukraine. this episode features Yevhenii Monastyrskyi, a brilliant ukrainian historian from luhansk. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

"every photographer dreams of taking a photo that will stop the war." this is the quote by maks levin, a ukrainian journalist executed by russian terrorists for documenting their war crimes in kyiv suburbs earlier this year. freedom of speech is sacrosanct for ukrainians. that's why fierce and fearless ukrainian journalism became the backbone of the ukrainian democracy. these days thousands of ukrainian journalists keep risking their lives every day to make sure that the truth about this genocide is documented and amplified. despite that dozens of their colleagues are already killed by russian terrorists. despite that over 80% of them lost their income partially or fully. despite that foreign big tech keeps indiscriminately censoring their work and refuses to deplatform lavishly-funded kremlin propaganda. for this tribute to ukrainians who make truth louder we invited andrey boborykin, CEO of ukraine's largest and oldest independent newspaper ukrainska pravda. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

many around the world can namedrop russian writers. few can do the same when it comes to ukrainian literature. even though the ukrainian literary tradition is more than half a millennia older than russian. even though there wouldn't be russian literature without ukraine. even though many names that folks abroad think are russian are in fact ukrainian writers whose work russian colonialism has appropriated. for this one we recruit brilliant ukrainian journalist Bohdana Neborak to help us to decolonize ukrainian literature for the rest of the world. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail. Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support

every fourth ukrainian lives not in ukraine. that's between 10 and 15 million of us who identify as ukrainian or have ukrainian ancestry. new genocide in our ancestral land activated ukrainianess in so many from the diaspora. but for the first time in our history, ukrainians abroad and at home are experiencing this awakening in sync. for this episode we feature a ukrainian-british journalist and entrepreneur, joseph stashko. #UkrainianSpaces is 100% independent, volunteer and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices. You can also send us a voice mail: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Find #UkrainianSpaces on more platforms: ukrainianspaces.com Follow Val and Maksym Val's twitter and Insta and tiktoks Maksym's twitter and insta and tiktoks --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ukrainianspaces/support