Our team presented their work at the 2023 Aleksanteri Conference on October 23-25 at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Panel: Feminist and LGBTQ+ Activists in Russia and Beyond: Media Representations, Resistance Tactics, and Reassembled Identities
Chair: Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Discussant: Saara Ratilainen (Tampere University, Finland)
Galina Miazhevich (Cardiff University, UK)
Russian high-profile celebrities and (diasporic) feminist antiwar resistance
Alisa Virtanen (Tampere University, Finland)
Queer (in)visibility in Russian liberal media: the role of media under authoritarian Russian regime
Pauliina Lukinmaa (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
Micropolitics of identity/difference during the belligerent times: Russian-speaking LGBTIQ+ activists in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Daniil Zhaivoronok (Tampere University, Finland)
Activist-Influencers and Feminist Collective Action in Russia: Power Dynamics in the Feminist Anti-War Resistance
