Friday, June 23, 2023

This is the fight against genocide as well.

A special Member Spotlight (click here) for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies on working in the field of Ukrainian Studies in 2022, including the experience of organizing and curating a worldwide art flash mob "Theory of Protection" by Ukrainian artist Darya Koltsova, marking one month of the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

This beautiful Ukraine scholar has a beautiful heart of inclusion and love of the beauty art can bring to the world while relating a message. The genocide and the refugee movement has not soured her and made her angry. She acted initially to assist others in saving their lives and when she realized what she had to offer as a scholar mattered in ways other acts did not, she returned to the beauty of art and expression. 

There is nothing to dislike about Ukraine and it's people that desired nothing but peace through neutrality. 

She is a magnificent expression of the people of Ukraine and their aspirations to peace, prosperity and humanity.

Every effort to protect Ukrainians and return their homeland is right and just.