In addition to more scholarly genres, I sometimes write short pieces for both academic and non-academic audiences. Over the years, I’ve also given many interviews and media commentaries to journalists.
Selected short pieces:
2025. “Vulnerability Is Not a Metaphor.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly (MAQ) Online, Critical Care series.
2023. “Some are in it for the money and some just have no choice: eighteen months of volunteering in Ukraine.” Ukrainian Feminist Network.
2022. “On Trust, Transparency, and Learning from the Experience of the Extraordinary.” Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute blog..
2022. “This War Has Become a Part of Us.” Cultural Anthropology (Russia’s War in Ukraine Hot Spots Series).
2021. with Ilana Gershon. “Hello to Tristes Tropes.” Anthropology News.
2020. “Zamestitel’naia terapiia vo vremia pandemii: kak perezhili karantin liudi s narkozavisimost’u” (Opioid substitution therapy during the pandemic: how the quarantine affected people who use drugs). Political Critique Ukraine.
2019. “Utopiia bez nazvy” (A utopia without a name). Gender in detail.
2018. “Seks-robota j vsi-vsi-vsi: vtilennia legalizatsii ta dekryminalizatsii” (Sex work, etc.: implementations of different regulatory approaches). Gender in detail.
2016. “On Suruc, Refugees, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies.” Blog of the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta.
2015. “Amnistiia dlia seks-roboty: decriminalizatsiia ta naslidky” (Amnesty for sex work: decriminalization and its consequences). Ukrains’ka Pravda.
2015. “Seks-rabota: ot abolitsionizma k dekriminalizatsii” (Sex work: from abolitionism to decriminalization). Political Critique Ukraine.
2015. “‘We don’t have to treat intersex people like exotic animals,’ an interview with an intersex activist.” Political Critique.
2015. “Pogranichnyi kontrol’: tsyfry s’ieli liudei” (Border control: numbers devoured people). Political Critique Ukraine. Co-authored with Ivan Shmatko.
2015. “Bezhentsy iz goroda, kotorogo net” (Refugees from a city that no longer exists). Political Critique Ukraine. Co-authored with Ivan Shmatko.
2014. “The Other Side of Leninfall.” CEU Weekly.
Selected media appearances and commentaries:
2024. (in German) “Wir müssen über Entkriminalisierung sprechen” (We must talk about decriminalization). Jungle World. 7 November.
2023. “Russia's war against Ukraine hits one year mark with no signs of ending.“ Indiana Public Media, with Sarah Phillips, Iryna Voloshyna, Oleksandr Svystun. 21 February.
2023. “The stoic use of expletives.” Yellow Van Stories. 16 March, with Ivan Shmatko.
2023. “Graduate student continues efforts in Ukraine with vulnerable communities.” News at IU. 10 March.
2022. (in Ukr) “Prostitution in Ukraine: How we can regulate it”. Nash Kiev. 19 October.
2022. with Ivan Shmatko. “On war, invasion, civil society, and Ukraine’s resolve.” Update from Kyiv. 5 July.
2022. “IU graduate student assisting Ukraine’s Territorial Defense.” Indiana Public Media. 17 June.
2022. “IU student drives 26 hours to flee attack near Kyiv.” Fox59. 26 February.
2019. (in Ukr) “Ukrainian sex workers are ready for decriminalization.” Espreso TV. 11 June, with Nataliia Isaieva.
2018. (in Ru) “Sex business in Ukraine: do we need decriminalization?” iPress. 28 March.
2017. (in Ukr) “Uneasy problem: what to do with prostitution in Ukraine.” Dyvys Info. 15 March.
2015. “Has Ukraine’s ‘Revolution of Dignity’ left women behind?” Open Democracy. 25 October.
2015. (in Ukr) “Prostitution: allow or prohibit?” Hromads’ke Radio. 25 September.
2015. “Ukraine’s gay pride march is facing down war, politics and bigotry.” The World. 4 June.