A thread on some key takeaways from a Twitter space with Maksym Eristavi
Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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Speaking to @maksymeristavi was therapy 🫂❤️🩹
🎙️ The space wasn't saved but I do have the last two hours of the conversation recorded and we'll also post a TLDR later, so nothing to worry about if you missed it.
✨Short summary - russian colonialism can go fuck itself
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one of the things that motivates you to keep going even in the darkest hour is a generation of young, fierce, brilliant and unapologetic ukrainians. the generation freedom that resists, creates and dreams big. like @cryptodrftng. honored to join @Ukraine_DAO for this chat 🫡 https://t.co/V7drkuUDJT
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Please support Maksym's work ❤️ 🖤
83/ @maksymeristavi hosts #UkrainianSpaces that I love attending and sometimes speaking at - I recently met @lapatina_ there 😍
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❤️ Support Maksym's efforts to raise awareness about #russianColonialism here:
https://t.co/V8q38xpbgk
@maksymeristavi 🌈🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine
✨In replies to this announcement tweet I was posting everything we were talking about with @maksymeristavi - check it out
We're going live in just a few minutes with Maksym Eristavi! Join us here: https://t.co/ENjMsDkDmf https://t.co/olsJ0bWyr2
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Regular reminder:
❗️All Ukrainians, including males, are silenced and abused in public every day.
For folks in the back: the reason why I'm being silenced is not just a gender issue and misogyny.
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❗️All Ukrainians, including males, are silenced and abused in public every day.
🙏 I linked @maksymeristavi Patreon page here: https://t.co/qorc1295Kv https://t.co/UxN7iXVSiE
Daily reminder:
✨RUSSIAN CULTURE IS GARBAGE ✨
1/ Sorry but no, the 🇷🇺 literature is really not essential in understanding man. The nature of the "mysterious 🇷🇺 soul" can be seen in #Mariupol these days💔
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🇺🇦 Instead I invite everyone to register for this Ukrainian Culture & Literature course:
https://t.co/C1x2EyMP49 https://t.co/iJff905dIc
This tweet is one of the million reasons why I love @maksymeristavi so much 🤣
https://t.co/hEMOWu8aiq https://t.co/aq9s651uxK
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Not bragging or anything but here's the best 🧵 I ever wrote, completely comprehensive:
I wrote a comprehensive list of factors that qualify anyone to tell Ukrainians how they should be responding to an unprovoked invasion, atrocities not seen since WWII, genocide, war crimes, mass child abductions and being sent to concentration camps. A 🧵:
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Literally been shitposting about russian assets since 2013.
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I know all their ways, all their manipulation techniques, I know how their psyops.
After all this time, it becomes effortless to deal with them.
The only downside is that because they're so stupid it's quite boring. https://t.co/BLOunYgoOl https://t.co/RRvkZatDAc
Brief history of a russian agent, colorized ✨
✨On this photo - me protesting in Brighton, December 2013. I didn't have any 🇺🇦 friends who could join me so I made that placard and stood at Churchill Square on my own - because people back in Kyiv were fighting oppression. I have a sense of loyalty to them so I'm standing too. https://t.co/9Va1baR2Ft
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✨Metamorphosis
100 days of an actual limbo, literally got stuck in that 24 Feb. Can't believe it's summer already. Here's the metamorphosis, almost Kafka but #УкрТві version.
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#100дніввійни https://t.co/GErn8ibiJr
@evanbmontgomery perfectly summarised Ukraine in one tweet:
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❤️🔥 Diversity of opinions and the freedom to voice them is the core value in the Ukrainian society
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*doesn't apply to russian lies, btw - https://t.co/Sk6bM859TO https://t.co/2umby33g4p
🧵Cryptodrftng threads - database ✨
✨ For ease of navigation of all the horrible things I say about russia, we made this Notion page with a database & tags ✨
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❗️This page is maintained by @Ukraine_DAO contributors so if the word "russia" is capitalised somewhere - that's not me 😂
https://t.co/SQs32YLjoC
www.patreon.com: Maksym Eristavi is creating russian colonialism awareness | Patreon @Ukraine_DAO
this is so mutual. @Ukraine_DAO is a critical initiative for ukraine harnessing legendary ukrainian creativity and talent for the sake of building strong global solidarity for ukraine. they make ukraine proud https://t.co/a6FQm1rEpH
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✨Ending #russianColonialism is crucial to Ukraine's victory
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❤️🔥 Support Maksym's efforts here: https://t.co/bCPgLz3rWY
📝 Maksym Eristavi in our Notion: https://t.co/rHZWeq3IRu
#russiaisaterroriststate https://t.co/dm14cp3O1x https://t.co/Q8pmOpHC4c
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For over eight years I've been trying to explain to the Western audience what is happening.
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Response? Incredible arrogance, ignorance, appeasement of the aggressor.
Of course not everyone is like that. But most people just don't even care what's happening. Not even now. https://t.co/uf1oT8XKrv
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1/ Day 110.
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🧵 about speaking to a psychologist about what's most shocking and traumatising for me personally - https://t.co/KVZKULW3qt
🧵 about trying to tell people what's happening for over 8 years - https://t.co/6gWLMjKKLT https://t.co/GBvhWO7MTd https://t.co/jLo0N7du48
🧠 Why you should NOT host Twitter Spaces involving Ukrainians if your ability to empathise with them & maintain composure is impaired - 🧵
5/ Both people hosting spaces and listeners may find this🧵 helpful - written after someone told me I can't be upset about being abused by an autistic host.
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I have a disability much more devastating.
My view - that guy shouldn't be a host for UA spaces
https://t.co/5yPpyQTSjr
Western arrogance ignoring Ukrainian voices:
This is something I deal with every day. Look at the arrogance here: "🇺🇦 voices... write and speak with the bias of those who are being oppressed and invaded." @AdrianBonenber1 even has that 🧵pinned
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1) https://t.co/hxwbziQKXE
2) https://t.co/oTquMvZKb5
3) https://t.co/HoFWTUJpSD https://t.co/zdXPZxDqZj