n an April 2022 afternoon, nearly two months into the war in Ukraine, Olena Shevchenko’s altruism was met with brutality. As she unloaded supplies from Poland to be distributed around a war-torn Kyiv, a man caught her off guard. Attacking her with pepper spray, he screamed, “Pervert, get out of our city!”
Shevchenko, 40, is no stranger to this kind of hostility. Since she co-founded the Kyiv-based nonprofit Insight in 2017 to support women and, she’s become one of the most recognizable advocates in Ukraine, and has been attacked seven times in the past five years. Before the war, her initiatives were often met with resistance; nowadays, she finds getting people to understand her mission is even more complicated.
“Why are you talking just about women? Why not men? Why not everybody?” she says, outlining the arguments she regularly encounters. The reality, she says, is that these communities are especially vulnerable during the war:
InsightOlena How about fighting for something real
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InsightOlena Women do not exist just for those things. However, if women did not do those things the world would cease to exist eventually. Thankfully, only a very insignificant portion of women worldwide are like this author so the impact to society will be nill.
InsightOlena In our country nobody know her. And her ideology no interesting us
InsightOlena SHE IS A SCUM-B part of manipulation of confused little brain human residues Who ever is doing this manipulation is a scum-b and everyone that’s benefiting this vicious political interest is a residue of humanity! LGBTQ GARBAGE creatures ! Shame to humanity!!! Lost abused souls!
InsightOlena 'You need to remind people that women are not people who just need to give birth to new soldiers' So it's a commmon issue that people forget this?
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InsightOlena I'm not so sure that we need to include homosexuality in everything we stand for, As a Christian I understand that it is a lifestyle just criminality is a lifestyle, I cannot advocate for the acceptance of criminality as a rational person..? However we should understand OTHERS
InsightOlena “Soldiers.. heroes” !! Newborn babies have nothing to do with your endless wars lads .
InsightOlena Ask her why Voldemort is using western made weapons against ethnic Russians who live in Ukraine. Thanks!
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InsightOlena *Cringe alert*
InsightOlena Bravery in action! 👏🏻 WomensDay InternationalWomensDay strongwomen
InsightOlena New Tucker Carlson texts were revealed in the Dominion lawsuit. One of them was about Donald Trump, in which Tucker said: “I hate him passionately.” There you have it. Behind closed doors, Tucker’s a Trump-hater. But when the cameras are rolling, he’s the Joseph Goebbels of MAGA.
InsightOlena This is a Man’s World but is Nothing without you”!
InsightOlena The war must not be a big deal to her if she has time for these kind of first world problems.
InsightOlena in Ukraine nobody know this person. I say more: my country no have a problem with violation of rights women and lgbt. According to our lows, we all have equal rights
InsightOlena Good I suppose, but considering women are allowed to flee & garner sympathies, while men must serve their duty & risk their lives in harsh conditions to protect the country, the lefty “Social-Justice” nitwits need to grasp such hypocritical realities also.
InsightOlena Self confident women are the most beautiful.
InsightOlena There is the LGB community and there is the rest. People who attach themselves to the LGB community without having anything in common. All they try to do is legitimize their gender fantasies.
InsightOlena My real face,My Arif Zeki YILMAZ , year 2021 SAMSUN
InsightOlena I mean the Nazis she is fighting for don't like gay people, so how is this gonna work?
InsightOlena Ok. Let them understand this way if they can： Creator is also the destroyer.
InsightOlena God shut up
InsightOlena There are no LGBTQI communities. There is the LGB community of real people and the others who attach themselves in order to have validity.
InsightOlena I'm Ukrainian, LGBT. But I'm not think LGBT is the most important issue now for Ukraine 😖
InsightOlena They should be fighting the war. Not making signs. I thought they wanted equality and equity. Get their queer asses to the front with a rifle.
InsightOlena What is woman?
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InsightOlena This is disgusting