‘SHE IS NOT A(LONE) WARRIOR ON THE BATTLEFIELD’: Do-it-yourself anti-war activist selves in a modern-day <i>samizdat</i> , <i>Zhenskaia Pravda</i>
Journal: DIY Alternative Cultures & Society
Year: 2026

This article analyses a wartime feminist publication, Zhenskaia Pravda (Women's Truth), founded by the Feminist Anti-War Resistance shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We examine the publication as an activist do-it-yourself newspaper and a contemporary version of Soviet samizdat . We explore how, in its 41 issues, it speaks to the intended Russian female readers and, we suggest, invites them to take part in anti-war action. We show how Zhenskaia Pravda puts forward th