Oksana Potapova
24. 07. 2023
BIO:
Oksana has been actively engaged in addressing the aftermath of the Donbas conflict since 2014. Co-founding “Theatre for Dialogue” NGO and the women’s initiative “One of Us” in 2015, she employed community theatre and feminist pedagogy to promote dialogue, cohesion, and advocate for the rights of internally displaced and marginalized women at national and international levels. This experience sparked her interest in embodied feminist methodologies and advocacy for the intersectional Women, Peace, and Security/WPS agenda.
Combining activism with research, Oksana champions feminist peace and grassroots movement building in Ukraine. In 2021, she excelled in her Master’s program in Gender, Peace, and Security at the London School of Economics, where her thesis delved into embodied arts-based practices as decolonial methodologies for knowledge production about peace and security. Amid Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Oksana remains steadfast in her research, advocacy, and activism, concentrating on illuminating the gendered impacts of the war through an intersectional lens. Her efforts aim to challenge old paradigms and foster new solidarities; fostering a transformative approach to peace and security in Ukraine and the region, and exploring antimilitarist feminism frameworks from her unique embodied positionality as a Ukrainian activist and scholar.
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/oksana-potapova-46996644/
Source: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about/people/oksana-potapova
