By Irina Strelkovskaya Background Yulia Tsvetkova is an artist and LGBTQ+ and women’s rights activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Far East of the Russian Federation. [1] In 2018, Tsvetkova began her activism and opened a city community center for civic initiatives, where she hosted weekly lectures, called “Living Library” sessions, to support groups for schoolchildren and mothers. [2] Also, in 2018, Yulia and her mother, Anna Khodyreva, organized a theater studio for… [read post]