How to prevent cases of sexual violence and achieve justice - we spoke with the vice president of the public organization "La Strada - Ukraine" Marina Lehenka and the director and actress of the "Nafta" theater Nina Khyzhna.
Actors from at least twenty Ukrainian theaters, as well as cultural figures, are speaking out in support of victims of sexual violence and harassment after the scandal at the Ivan Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Film and Television. Theater groups in Kyiv, Odessa, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Sumy, Kropyvnytskyi, and Kharkiv publicly condemned the violence and emphasized that theater is a space of equality, safety, and respect.
The disclosure of the facts of the unacceptable behavior of the director and teacher in Kyiv became an impetus for the testimonies of other students. The other day, a former student of the theater faculty of the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky spoke about her traumatic experience due to the actions of the course master. Considering that he is no longer among the living, for ethical reasons we will not mention his name. On Facebook, the woman wrote that the head of the workshop made sexualized jokes during classes and violated private boundaries.
How to prevent cases of sexual violence and achieve justice - we spoke with the vice president of the public organization "La Strada - Ukraine" Marina Lehenka and the director and actress of the "Nafta" theater Nina Khyzhna.
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