From victim-blaming and thinking that Russia is the language of smarter people to advocating against arming Ukraine. In our third bonus episode, available exclusively to our Patreon family, the #UkrainianSpaces team is bringing you a cringe-fest full of embarrassing things we said and thought about Ukraine and Ukrainianness. Be patient with us. One can measure the supremacy of a colonial empire in the number of lands it conquered and pillaged. But the real triumph happens in the heads of the people it conquered and conditioned to feel inferior. Sharing the stories of our own personal decolonization journeys will help you to understand Ukraine better. And it will help us to heal. A while ago, we started treating ⁠⁠our Patreon family⁠⁠ with exclusive #UkrainianSpaces bonus episodes during which our team (Valeriia, Maksym, Solomiya, and Tetyana) answers the questions from our Patreon community. Now, we are releasing some of them to the public while working on a new season.  Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠_. Val’s ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠. Maksym’s T⁠⁠witter⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

Misunderstood, ridiculed, or cast out. The relations between Ukrainians at home and the Ukrainian diaspora have often been rocky. It took another genocide and powerful soul-searching to finally bring them together - like never before. The 44-million family has finally merged into the 66-million one. A while ago, we started treating ⁠our Patreon family⁠ with exclusive #UkrainianSpaces bonus episodes during which our team (Valeriia, Maksym, Solomiya, and Tetyana) answers the questions from our Patreon community. Now, we are releasing some of them to the public while working on a new season.  Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor⁠ or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ _⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠_. Val’s ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠⁠and ⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠. Maksym’s T⁠witter⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

Ukrainians often mention that the ongoing genocide did not start in 2022 but rather has been a slow-burning event since the 2014 Maidan Revolution. Everything that has happened since then is about Russia punishing Ukraine for wanting to be free. If the world did understand the revolution and heard Ukrainians 9 years ago, then maybe we wouldn't be dealing with this catastrophe today.  A while ago, we started treating our Patreon family with exclusive #UkrainianSpaces bonus episodes during which our team (Valeriia, Maksym, Solomiya, and Tetyana) answers the questions from our Patreon community. Now, we are releasing some of them to the public while working on a new season. Also: SUPPORT: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. Please ensure we can amplify more Ukrainian voices and decolonize more Ukraine conversations — ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor or bring a friend if you already are (a free trial is available.)  GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED: ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠_. Val’s ⁠⁠Twitter⁠ ⁠and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠. Maksym’s Twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠TikTok⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support

DISCLAIMER. This is a public version of the podcast. Our ⁠Patreon family⁠ gets these episodes much earlier, packaged with lots of bonus and backstage content.  s3e3: 'There is no future for Ukrainian Jews if they want to go together with the Russian culture,' a Ukrainian Jewish activist ⁠Maria Gershova⁠ tells us. There's a massive identity evolution that most Ukrainians are going through amid this genocide. But also affects all other overlapping identities that we have. We meet Maria at a crucial period in her life - when she is decolonizing and figuring out what being Ukrainian means when you are also Jewish. Do both clash or contradict each other, considering the complicated and tragic history of the Jewish people in Ukraine? Maria has much to share with the rest of the world and fellow Jewish people globally.  SUPPORT US: #UkrainianSpaces is a 100% independent, volunteer, and listener-supported initiative. If you like us, please ⁠⁠become our Patreon sponsor and help us to amplify more Ukrainian voices.⁠⁠ GET FEATURED: ⁠⁠you can also send us a voicemail⁠⁠ GET CONNECTED:  find #UkrainianSpaces on ⁠⁠ukrainianspaces.com⁠⁠ _ ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ _⁠⁠insta⁠⁠_ Val’s ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ Maksym’s ⁠⁠twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠insta⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠tiktoks⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukrainianspaces/support