The Work of Generations: Resisting Cultural Marginalization of and with Ukraine and Ukrainians (with the Voice of the Academic Diaspora)

Where does one start when thinking and talking about the cultural marginalization of Ukraine and Ukrainians …. Well, one starts by acknowledging the tremendous losses and unspeakable suffering of oppression by russian¹ imperialism. As we are writing this, Ukraine is enduring its fourth year of the full-scale invasion, the Great War, as we call it. As much as Ukraine's struggle for freedom is becoming better understood by the international communities and the realization that the war did not start in 2022, but rather in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, we still have a long way to go to get across how deeply rooted this struggle for freedom is, in hundreds of bloody, painful and unacknowledged by the oppressor history. So, before we go any further, let us bow our heads and honor all the Ukrainian lives, talent and rich culture lost in russia's attempt to culturally marginalize and extinguish the Ukrainian nation. Vichna Pamyat, or Eternal Memory, as we say in Ukraine.