Haha oh man I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to listen to me drone on for an hour about this stuff 😂 I highly recommend the Revolutions podcast, especially his latest season on the Russian Revolution—it's incredible and very digestible!
Jen, I adore your willingness to speak up on tough topics, and do it so well informed and thought out. It’s not just a “bah im angry, they bad, I good” argument, but educated and relatable. I’m all for seeing more of that here and thank you for wanting to share 💖
Well said. I appreciate your research and the time you're putting into this. I've been watching BBC World News every morning before work and every night before bed, just to try to keep up with what's happening in Ukraine, and I have a few trusted Twitter sources, but there's just so much information. It can be overwhelming most days.
It's really difficult to parse through the information overload, for sure—especially since most of it is presented without a lot of the context that is necessary to fully understand what's going on!
Great research, Jen! There is so much disinformation out there from nearly everyone. It was disheartening seeing leftist media warmongering just as you'd expect from the right. It's not atypical of the US, but still frustrating as most of its citizens want nothing to do with any wars.
I also appreciate you using your voice to share what you've learned in hopes of cutting through the clutter of media talking heads with agendas. I get why people say to separate the art from the artist, but that is pretty much impossible to do since one influences the other. This does makes it super easy to want to support you and other artists that take a critical idea to current world events. Look forward to learning more.
Thank you for this. I am definitely one of those who doesn’t have time to sift through all the info to figure out what is real or not, and I appreciate you sharing what you’ve learned.
This was a great read. Thanks for a balance of art + being human. As being a human means occasionally having to speak up, and you always do so with thought, care, and empathy.
Thank you for this! I hadn't read this post before suspending a ton of my subscriptions for a while (money issues!), but now that I've read it I have to re-start my payments here. :) It's so rare to find someone I follow, with a 'Western' perspective, actually willing to tackle this stuff. I follow a lot of the UK (and US) Left, and have been disappointed with the lack of historical knowledge around Russia/Ukraine. A lot of The Discourse seems to just date everything to post-1991, or even 2008 which is of course ridiculous. Anyway, I'm looking forward to more on this from you. <3
Aw man I totally get it! I'm not gonna paywall any of these posts, so no worries <3 And yes! I grew so frustrated with the lack of historical context I was finding all over the place so I decided to start as far back as possible and work my way up from there. Even if post-1991 history might be more immediately relevant to the current war in Ukraine, there are events from the past 4+ centuries that are still having an effect on geopolitics and they definitely shouldn't be ignored. 😤
Yes to all this! (Also, as an aside, I know it's much more recent but I'm currently reading "Ukraine Diaries" by Andrey Kurkov, which is his personal account of the Maidan Revolution. It's excellent - I really like reading about historical events from more intimate perspectives like this.)
Makes me incredibly happy to see how I formed you are on the topic and that you want to share your knowledge.
As a Polish person it makes me very sad seeing people romanticising USRR and Russia as an extention (even worse when it comes from my own 'backyard') because we, Eastern European countries, know Russia (and its predecessors) only as an invader.
Great read! As a US resident I also have avoided any takes on the war and your above summary/analysis is really refreshing and informative! 👏👏
Jen, thank you, this is wonderful. Please keep the thoughts coming. I learned a lot already.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us.
Omg please do a podcast.
Haha oh man I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to listen to me drone on for an hour about this stuff 😂 I highly recommend the Revolutions podcast, especially his latest season on the Russian Revolution—it's incredible and very digestible!
Jen, I adore your willingness to speak up on tough topics, and do it so well informed and thought out. It’s not just a “bah im angry, they bad, I good” argument, but educated and relatable. I’m all for seeing more of that here and thank you for wanting to share 💖
Thank you so much Dshev <3 I appreciate you!
Well said. I appreciate your research and the time you're putting into this. I've been watching BBC World News every morning before work and every night before bed, just to try to keep up with what's happening in Ukraine, and I have a few trusted Twitter sources, but there's just so much information. It can be overwhelming most days.
It's really difficult to parse through the information overload, for sure—especially since most of it is presented without a lot of the context that is necessary to fully understand what's going on!
Great research, Jen! There is so much disinformation out there from nearly everyone. It was disheartening seeing leftist media warmongering just as you'd expect from the right. It's not atypical of the US, but still frustrating as most of its citizens want nothing to do with any wars.
I also appreciate you using your voice to share what you've learned in hopes of cutting through the clutter of media talking heads with agendas. I get why people say to separate the art from the artist, but that is pretty much impossible to do since one influences the other. This does makes it super easy to want to support you and other artists that take a critical idea to current world events. Look forward to learning more.
Thank you both so much! Means a lot. 🙏🏼💖
This is great practice to becoming a substitute Geography Teacher if you ever consider to be one 😉
That aside, it's a great read and I enjoyed the post. Thank you and it's good to have you back!
Thank you for this. I am definitely one of those who doesn’t have time to sift through all the info to figure out what is real or not, and I appreciate you sharing what you’ve learned.
This was a great read. Thanks for a balance of art + being human. As being a human means occasionally having to speak up, and you always do so with thought, care, and empathy.
Thank you for this! I hadn't read this post before suspending a ton of my subscriptions for a while (money issues!), but now that I've read it I have to re-start my payments here. :) It's so rare to find someone I follow, with a 'Western' perspective, actually willing to tackle this stuff. I follow a lot of the UK (and US) Left, and have been disappointed with the lack of historical knowledge around Russia/Ukraine. A lot of The Discourse seems to just date everything to post-1991, or even 2008 which is of course ridiculous. Anyway, I'm looking forward to more on this from you. <3
Aw man I totally get it! I'm not gonna paywall any of these posts, so no worries <3 And yes! I grew so frustrated with the lack of historical context I was finding all over the place so I decided to start as far back as possible and work my way up from there. Even if post-1991 history might be more immediately relevant to the current war in Ukraine, there are events from the past 4+ centuries that are still having an effect on geopolitics and they definitely shouldn't be ignored. 😤
Yes to all this! (Also, as an aside, I know it's much more recent but I'm currently reading "Ukraine Diaries" by Andrey Kurkov, which is his personal account of the Maidan Revolution. It's excellent - I really like reading about historical events from more intimate perspectives like this.)
Makes me incredibly happy to see how I formed you are on the topic and that you want to share your knowledge.
As a Polish person it makes me very sad seeing people romanticising USRR and Russia as an extention (even worse when it comes from my own 'backyard') because we, Eastern European countries, know Russia (and its predecessors) only as an invader.