“RIP. The most fearless and vulnerable Oksana Shachko has left us. We mourn together with her relatives and friends.” FEMEN co-founder Oksana Shachko, 31, found dead in #Paris flat with a suicide note next to her body, according to FEMEN activists.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/femen-co-founder-oksana-shachko-found-dead-paris-flat?CMP=share_btn_tw …
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Operating under slogan “I came, I stripped, I won”, FEMEN drew attention bare-breasted demonstrations vs sexism. Their protests also challenged authoritarianism & racism, w/
#Russian president, Vladimir Putin, a particular target, along w/#France’s far-right Front National party2 replies 10 retweets 25 likesShow this thread -
Shachko was one of four feminist activists who founded FEMEN in
#Ukraine in 2008. Exiled in#France since 2013, she had since left the group and was working as an artist. She was beaten & brutalized for her FEMEN activism at least twice.pic.twitter.com/yZF5wayKeK
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In 2011, FEMEN said Shachko was among 3 members”kidnapped”by security agents & forced to strip naked in a forest after staging topless protest mocking
#Belarussian pres Alexander Lukashenko. The agents poured oil over the women,threatened to set them on fire & cut off their hair.2 replies 8 retweets 19 likesShow this thread
Fucking Lukashenko, I can't believe he's still in power in Belarus. If not for people like the Belarus Free Theatre & FEMEN making waves every now & then, the rest of the world wouldn't even notice. My condolences for the movement's loss, my friend.
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