Katherine Zubovich (@kzubovich.bsky.social)

“Growing up in Minsk in the 1990s, ‘solidarity’ was the rallying cry of the global proletariat. Yet for my generation, the word held little meaning. We grew up thinking of the old slogans as empty signifiers.” Dasha Kuletskaya, on the ambiguous, multivalent force of “solidarity” in Belarus today:

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Solidarities, after Socialism After a fraudulent election in Belarus, protestors flooded the streets of Minsk, reclaiming spaces and symbols the authoritarian government had long controlled. https://placesjournal.org/article/solidarities-after-socialism-belarus-democracy-protest/?cn-reloaded=1