Hi everyone,

I hope you are well on the last day of 2021! Thank you to everyone with Cyrillic skills who helped me to identify the artist in last week's Fem Fri. She is a political prisoner called Yulia Tsvetkova and here is another of her charming drawings:

This reminds me that "galspreading" is a word that could definitely happen in 2022.

Here's an interview with Yulia:

 “I think I underestimated the power of art,” she said. “As it turns out, art is something so important for the government. If they are scared of art, that means that art has power, big, huge power, that I myself did not think was there. In a way, it is good to know that art — and women — are so scary for them.”

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/art-is-so-scary-yulia-tsvetkova-and-the-suppression-of-dissent-in-putins-russia/

You can find out more about Yulia and how to support her here:

https://ilga-europe.medium.com/how-you-can-help-persecuted-russian-lgbt-activist-yulia-tsvetkova-390b353cbb2e

See you next year!

A xx.