Description
The paper explores Russian women’s solitary pickets against the war in Ukraine between 2022-2025 through the lens of embodied politics. Drawing on Butler’s work on vulnerability, the paper argues that women use their body as a central site for protest and mobilize their corporeal vulnerability for the purpose of asserting their existence in a highly repressive state. The paper explores women’s use of specific colours, symbols, and performative elements and fills the gap in existing research on anti-war protest in Russia that focuses on its discursive elements.
