HeyJaredUkrainian Killjoy Dispatch
I was born in Zaporizhzhia three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. What followed was a learning curve. A Ukrainian killjoy with a PhD in Comparative Literature, I teach, curate cultural projects and write about Ukraine's resistance to Russia.
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INDEX (a love letter) (opens the original)
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On 7 September 2024, we launched INDEX in a pilot format. Two years later, I am proud of what it has become: an institutional home for scholars and creatives who document Russia’s war against Ukraine, a living library of documentary work, and connections that outlive any one fellowship.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zBe7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f554
War writing (opens the original)
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I spent a decade learning to write for academic audiences: mastering the jargon and the syntax, accumulating scholastic scaffolding for my ideas. I craved authority and access to the rooms where knowledge about my war-torn country was in the negative.In 2022, I plunged into journalism, learning to write effectively and quickly for a broad, amorphous readership of Westerners. I desperately wanted to turn spectators into witnesses of the genocide of my people. Journalistic temporality seemed more
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