Anastasiia Fedorova’s new Instagram project is a bridge between Russia’s queer underground and the global community.
. Providing a platform to artists, musicians, fashion designers and activists, the Instagram account showcases creatives challenging their immediate social contexts through “beauty, art, drag, raves, guerilla sex education and digital communities,” as a recent post states. To learn more, we caught up with Anastasiia about the project and the particular challenges facing young queer Russian creatives.
I want to hear what it's actually like to be an 18-year-old gay, lesbian or trans creative in Russia, for example. I want to put as many voices as possible out, so that we might have a better idea of what Russian queer experience really is. It's practically non-existent in global culture otherwise. In a few projects that are aimed towards foreign audiences, there’s also an interest in looking at Russian identity in a playful light. Russia and queer culture are generally thought to be polar opposites. But, even though Russia has a history of LGBTQ+ oppression, it also has a history of queer culture which isn't necessarily perceived as queer, and young people have started to address that.
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