Cecil the Lion Had to Die by Olena Stiazhkina xmas24politics in ways that have implications

in ways that have implications for the entire planet

it means terrible choices about who to love

a Soviet Union that never crumbled

Feminist activism to end gendered oppression and violence is urgent and will be strengthened by fostering a greater understanding of the masculinist and patriarchal nature of militarism and war and making the scope and extent of current movements for change better known

Cecil the Lion Had to Die by Olena Stiazhkina xmas24politics in ways that have implicationsIn 1986 Soviet Ukraine, two boys and two girls are welcomed into the world in a Donetsk maternity ward. Following a Soviet tradition of naming things after prominent Communist leaders from far away, a local party functionary offers great material benefits for naming children after Ernst Thlmann, the leader of the German Communist Party from 1925 to 1933. The fateful decision is made, and the local newspaper presents the newly born Ernsts and Thlmas in