Alexandra Shevchenko

Olexandra Shevchenko
Олександра Шевченко
Shevchenko in 2010
Born (1988-04-24) 24 April 1988 (age 36)
Khmelnytskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationActivist
MovementFEMEN

Olexandra Shevchenko[1][2][3] (Ukrainian: Олександра Шевченко; born 24 April 1988) is a member of the Ukrainian radical feminist protest group FEMEN, which regularly demonstrates topless against manifestations of patriarchy, dictatorship, religion, and the sex industry.[4][5]

  1. ^ "The Femen Phenomenon", Gleb Garanich, Photographer's Blog, 1 March 2012, "Olexandra" is used here, in its original Ukrainian version and not translated into Russian. [Accessed 4 January 2020].
  2. ^ "Ukraine's Femen: Topless protests 'help feminist cause'", Sam Wilson, BBC News, 24 October 2012. [Accessed 4 January 2020].
  3. ^ "UKRAINE: Ukrainian Femen activist Oleksandra Shevchenko, who was recently deported from Tunisia, is arrested with two fellow protesters after staging an anti-Lukashenko topless protest in Kiev", REUTERS, 18 June 2013, reprinted on screenocean website.[Accessed 4 January 2020].
  4. ^ Jeffrey Tayler (13 March 2013). "The Woman Behind Femen's Topless Protest Movement - Jeffrey Tayler". The Atlantic. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  5. ^ "FEMEN". FEMEN. Retrieved 6 September 2013.