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Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America.
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Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America.
At TIME, Suyin Haynes writes about Russian poet Galina Rymbu and a collective of feminist and LGBTQ poets called "F pis’mo" or "F Writing." Haynes explains that "F pis’mo, or F Writing [...] formed in 2017 with members intertwining activism with art to galvanize support for civil rights movements in Russia." More: The collective began with a writing workshop in January of that year, when Rymbu and other feminist writers, long-frustrated by being overlooked by mainstream Russian media and literature, began meeting in her kitchen at her former home in Saint Petersburg. Gradually, the...
How Russia's Feminist Poets Are Changing What it Means to Protest Time 12/21/2020 © Dina Litovsky for TIME Galina Rymbu, photographed during a remote portrait session in December. When Russian poet Galina Rymbu saw images from online flash mobs protesting the arrest of LGBT feminist activist Yulia Tsvetkova in June, she knew she had to add her voice in support. Tsvetkova is based in the Khabarovsk region in the far-east of Russia and has been fined multiple times under Russia’s “gay propaganda” law. The 27-year-old is currently facing charges for “spreading pornography” and up ...