Minds of the Movement

An ICNC blog on the people and power of civil resistance

Olha Kapets

Olha Kapets is a co-founder of Ukrainian feminist NGO, youth activist since 2022 and first-year Applied Linguistics undergraduate student in V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. She is based in the frontline Sumy region of Ukraine where many surrounding towns were occupied by Russian soldiers in the first month of the full-scale invasion. Olha has family serving in the Ukrainian armed forces. She is also a member of the Student Council of the Philology Department of her university. Her NGO focuses on education on gender-sensitive topics and Ukrainian activism. As Media Manager, Olha develops editorial content on LGBTQIA+ rights, women's rights, and different myths surrounding these topics, and is completing a study on gender-neutral formations in Ukrainian language and their evolution.

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