RIP warrior.
Oksana Shachko, one of the founders of the Ukrainian radical feminist group Femen, was found dead with a suicide note next to her body.
Shachko has been exiled in Paris since leaving Kiev in 2013. Femen became famous worldwide for their bare breasted protests against sexism.
Operating under the slogan “I came, I stripped, I won”, Femen quickly drew attention around the world with its bare-breasted demonstrations against sexism.
Their protests also challenged authoritarianism and racism, with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, a particular target, along with France’s far-right Front National party.
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In 2011, Femen said Shachko was among three members “kidnapped” by security agents and forced to strip naked in a forest after staging a topless protest mocking the Belarussian president, Alexander Lukashenko. The agents poured oil over the three women, threatened to set them on fire, and cut off their hair, Femen said.
Shachko was abducted again by unknown assailants during a visit by Putin to Ukraine, according to the group. A lawyer for said Shachko was beaten so badly that she was briefly hospitalized.
Oksana Shachko was 31 years old.