“National Police do not cross”
“Our rights”
“Macron come get your dogs back”
“The soul of a nation reveals itself by the way it treats its children”
“You get out or we get you out but we gonna have to take a decision”
“I want to be beat up by a goth not a cop” “POYO! Even Kirby is upset!”
After more than three years away from Ukraine, it was finally time for me to come back and finally see what Kyiv is like in the middle of the winter. The following pictures have been taken over the course of six weeks.
Sunset on Bulvarno-Kudriavska Street
Parked car in a snowy alleyway
A man walking through Pavlivsʹkyy Sadok park
St. Michael's Monastery
Friendship of Nations Arch
View on Podil from the Friendship of Nations Arch
Podil
Recital at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine
People attending at the philharmonic recital
Statue at Taras Shevchenko Park
Chekhovs'kyi street
Observatornyi street
Crows flying overhead Assumption Cathedral
A family taking pictures from a viewpoint above the Dnieper
Landscape Alley
A man taking pictures from St. Andrew's Church
Podil and Rybalskyi Peninsula
A woman and young child in Volodymyrska Hill park
Statue of Cossacks under the Friendship of Nations Arch
View on the Dnieper from Parkova Doroha
On the 24th of November, between 12 000 and 30 000 demonstrators attended the march against gender-based and sexual violence organised by Nous Toutes in Paris.
Marching band in front of the Opera Garnier at the beginning of the Nous Toutes march.
Militant from Les Masques Blancs association carrying a sing saying “A woman is never responsible for the violence she is subjected to. NEVER” and an other one with “enough of rape” written on it.
A cross-dresser standing in front of the march as volunteers in charge of security clear the path.
Women holding a banner saying “I am not your panther nor your hoe”.
A person holding a sign from the french association Act Up Paris fighting against HIV, “penalized clients = infected whores”.
Young woman holding a saying saying “The planet, my pussy, let’s protect wetlands”.
A demonstrator holding a “enough of rape” sign.
“This body is mine! Do not touch me! Do not rape me!”
The Nous Toutes march walking past the Théâtre de la Porte St Martin
The crowd passing next to the Porte Saint Martin
People of all ages marching against gender-based and sexual violence.
Young boy holding a sing with Simone de Beauvoir’s famous quote “One is not born a woman, one becomes one”.
Militants from the Kurdish women’s movement in France holding a banner saying “the violence represent the despair of fascism; self defense is legitimate”
Tampon filled with fake blood alongside sings left on the ground at then end of the the march.
