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Karolina Gembara is our new INDEX Scholar in Residence 💚 Throughout February, Karolina will explore the unprecedented presence of animals—particularly cats and dogs—in traditional news and social media coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Victoria Amelina's Looking at Women Looking at War is out. It's brilliant, devastating, urgent. Preparing it for publication with TT, YG, and AA was the greatest honour. Buy the book for potential allies to show why they must fight for justice for Ukraine harpercollins.co.uk/products/looki…

What is the role of writing in wartime when not only bodies, cities, and landscapes are hit by the enemy's shells but also the language itself? On 28 Feb, join me in HURI Harvard for Witnesses: Ukrainian Writers Documenting Russia's War. More details: huri.harvard.edu/event/witnesse…

Today at INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, we open an exhibition Roman Chornomaz: The Optics of Struggle. We will display the works of the photographer turned sniper who was killed in action defending Ukraine. Follow us on Instagram for more details and come along next week if you are in Lviv.

More personal news while I'm logged in here: I'm now represented by the brilliant and committed Rebecca Carter. I hear that the rights for my book, preliminarily titled SCHEHERAZADE GOES TO IZIUM: TALES FROM UKRAINE, will be traded in March. rebeccacarterliterary.com/authors/sasha-…

Join Sasha Dovzhyk, Director of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, for a deep dive into documentary literature in Ukraine, a reading from her work, and a discussion of the late Victoria Amelina’s book "Looking at Women Looking at War." bit.ly/4k1CIHj

In the deafening clamour of the past fortnight, Victoria Amelina's voice keeps speaking lucidly about what really matters: human dignity, resistance to evil, and pursuit of justice. Give her book to those who feel lost. Order here: read.macmillan.com/lp/looking-at-…

This is a very important book by writer and journalist Victoria Amelina, murdered by russia. Please order and RT read.macmillan.com/lp/looking-at-…

Zelensky chose truth and dignity in the face of lies and bullying today. More leaders, those who have much, much less to lose than Zelensky does, need to find a backbone and start doing the same. Call Trump out, show solidarity, and act. Your trade deals aren't worth the shame.

This is the last poem in my collection “The God of Freedom”, published in Ukrainian back in 2021 by Старий Лев and in English translation in 2024 by Arrowsmith Press. Who would have thought it would be so relevant in 2025?..

Dr. Sasha Dovzhyk (Dr Sasha Dovzhyk) on the book Looking at Women Looking at War by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina 🔵 Read the full text here: ukrainiankilljoy.substack.com/p/looking-at-w… 🔵 Order the book here: us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…

Both of these books testify to the continuity of imperial violence against Ukraine. Listen to the latest episode of The Ukraine Shelf podcast, featuring Sasha Dovzhyk and Eugene Finkel, and be sure to read the books by Victoria Amelina and Eugene Finkel! Link👇

Neither I, nor INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange are on Twitter anymore. Subscribe to INDEX's newsletter/Insta/FB to keep in touch. I'm occasionally on Substack but mostly prioritising my book & running the institution which documents the war through intellectual exchange. ukrainiankilljoy.substack.com

Please check out this recording of a talk by Sasha Dovzhyk, Director of INDEX! - bit.ly/3FrHPAP In this video, Dovzhyk carries out a deep dive into documentary literature in Ukraine, a reading from her work, & a discussion of the late Victoria Amelina. #UkraineRussiaWar

Over the last few days, russia killed a young Ukrainian artist & a talented musician. Just the latest in a long, bloody story. We discussed russia's attacks on Ukrainian culture on The Ukraine Shelf with Dr Sasha Dovzhyk & Eugene Finkel. Listen here: ucl.ac.uk/european-insti…

This was a really special edition of The Ukraine Shelf - our first in Ukraine! We spoke to two amazing writers, Yuliya Julia Musakovska and Maria Tumarking, about writing trauma and war. Special thanks to Dr Sasha Dovzhyk of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange for making this possible. Link in comment 👇

Thank you, dear Olesya Khromeychuk and Uilleam Blacker 🇺🇦, and also to dear Dr Sasha Dovzhyk & INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange for making this happen (and in my home city of Lviv!). Also thanks to my publisher Arrowsmith Press and translator Olena Jennings for bringing ‘The God of Freedom’ to life.