Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices (Lexington Books 2024, Editor)

LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey
Exporting Europe? (Routledge, 2021)   

LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: Resistance, Representation and Identity (edited with Radzhana Buyantueva) Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective (edited with Arzu Guler and Denise Venturi) Springer, 2019

Refereed Journal Articles

Sexuality securitized: how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reconfigures (anti-)LGBTQ politics in Eastern Europe. Journal of Gender Studies, 2025 (with Laura Luciani)

“A Country Where Everyone Feels Free?” The Georgian Orthodox Church, Political Homophobia and Europeanization of LGBTIQ Rights in Georgia. Sexuality & Culture, 2023

Resisting “Liberal Values”
The Intersection of Gender, Religion, and Sexuality in Ukrainian Heteroactivism, ACME, 2023

Solidarity test: challenges of forced LGBTIQ migration and activism in Central-Eastern European countries in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine, European Societies, 2023.

Looking for Stepan Bandera: The Myth of Ukrainian Nationalism and the Russian ‘Special Operation’, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 2022.

Religion, Nation, State, and Anti-Gender Politics in Georgia and Ukraine, Problems of Post-Communism, 2022

Choosing to stay? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people and the war in Ukraine (Gender Update), European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2022.

Fighting ‘Gayropa’: instrumentalization of LGBT rights in Ukrainian public debate. Problems of Post-Communism, 2020.

Post-social revolutions of intimacy. (with Alexander Kondakov and Yuliya Gradskova), Sexuality and Culture, 2020.

Learning the lessons from the Euromaidan: ups and downs of civil society activism in Ukrainian public sphere. Special issue of Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, 2017.

Friend or Foe? Foreign donors’ role in the formation of civil society in Ukraine. Special issue of Socio.hu Social Science Review, 2017.

Conducting LGBTI movements research in the post-soviet context: bridging the gap between activism and academia and other challenges in Special issue of Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2017.

Book Chapters

“Free to Be Yourself in the EU”.The von der Leyen Commission and LGBTIQ Equality in the Eastern Partnership Countries In: The European Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen.
Edited by: Gabriele Abels et al., Oxford University Press. Maryna Shevtsova (2025).
DOI: 10.1093/9780198953692.003.0019

Anti-Gender Discourse and the ‘Dictatorship of Tolerance’: Insights from Ukraine, Slovenia, and Croatia (with Roman Kuhar), in Ksenija Bogetić (Ed.), Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe, Palgrave Macmillan

‘For the Sake of the Kids’: National Security and Family Values in
the Ukrainian Sexuality Education Debate, in Tunay Altay, Nadje Al-Ali and Katharina Galor (Eds.) Queer Feminist Critiques: Resisting Far-right Politics in the Middle East and Europe, Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Untold Stories: Experiences of Ukrainian LGBTQ+ Refugees in the Context of Russia’s Military Invasion, Shevtsova M. (Ed.), Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine. Hear Our Voices, Lexington Book, 2024

Gender, Men, and Masculinities on Euromaidan Protests and War in Ukraine (with T.Martsenyuk), Shevtsova M. (Ed.), Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine. Hear Our Voices, Lexington Book, 2024

Framing LGBT+ equality debate: movement/countermovement interactions and resistances to gender and sexual equality in Ukraine, Beck, Habed, and Henninger (Eds). Blurring Boundaries – ‘Anti-Gender’ Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses, Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2023.

Eighty Dates around the World
On Gender, Academic Mobility, and Reproductive Pressure, Burlyuk, O. and Rahbari, L. (eds.). Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe(pp. 71–81)

Being LGB (T) in Turkey: life-long search for a drive for democratization and social struggle in Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals: History, Culture and Law Gerber, P. (Ed.), Praeger Press, 2021.

Constructing an imaginary LGBT refugee: media coverage of asylum policy in Germany. Kristina Hens (Ed.), „Refugees and Queers. Politische Bildung an der Schnittstelle von LSBTTIQ und Flucht/Migration/Asyl“,  Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld, 2019.

Introduction (with Radzhana Buyantueva) in Buyantueva, R. and Shevtsova M. (eds.) LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: Resistance, Representation and Identity  Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Conclusion (with Radzhana Buyantueva) in Buyantueva, R. and Shevtsova M. (eds.) LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe: Resistance, Representation and Identity  Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Introduction (with Arzu Guler and Denise Venturi) in Guler A., Shevtsova M. and Venturi. D. (eds.) LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees from a legal and political perspective: persecution, asylum and integration. Springer: Berlin, 2019.

Conclusion (with Arzu Guler and Denise Venturi) in Guler A., Shevtsova M. and Venturi. D. (eds.) LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees from a legal and political perspective: persecution, asylum and integration. Springer: Berlin, 2019.

Strategies to fight homophobia in post-Euromaidan Ukraine: constructing a good gay citizen and Ukrainian homonormative patriotism in O. Burlyuk, and N. Shapovalova (eds.) Civil Society in post-Euromaidan Ukraine: From Revolution to Consolidation, Ibidem Verlag, 2018.

Euromaidan and the Echoes of the Orange Revolution: Comparing Resource Mobilization and Resistance Practices of Protest Camps in Ukraine in 2004 and 2013 in A. Feigenbaum, F. Frenzel, and P. McCurdy (eds.) Protest Camps in International Context: Spaces, Infrastructures and Media of Resistance, Policy Press, 2017.

 Queering Gezi and Maidan: instrumentalization and negotiation of sexuality in the protest movements in Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy Protest in the Age of Transnationalism, Arbatli, E., Rosenberg, D. (Eds.), Springer, 2017.

Book reviews

‘Intimate investments in drag king cultures: the rise and fall of a lesbian social scene’ Gender, Place & Culture, 2019.

Other publications (selected, last 5 years)

Democracy Quarantined? Authoritarian Regimes and Protests During the Pandemic. ISPI Online, July 7, 2021

On COVID-19 and commercial surrogacy in Ukraine. For Feminist Perspectives on COVID-19. June 30, 2020.

Ukraine’s Civil Society and Zelensky: A Romantic Affair or Guest Marriage? Commentary for ISPI online. April 17, 2020.