Ileana Nachescu
Creative Nonfiction
Ukraine
Beyond the Postsoviet
From Eastern Europe’s historical experience of second-class citizenship, of non-Western whiteness, and of poverty under neoliberal capitalism, a new form of solidarity should emerge, one that connects with impoverished people and people of color everywhere, from the First World to the Third.
(essay translated into Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, and Romanian)
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Walks in the Park:
On the Foreignness of the Socialist Past
At that moment, as the limestone statues reflected the dying light of the day, it seemed like my father, whom I trusted to make decisions for me—and Romanian socialism itself, which I associated with blackouts, cold, and lies—would last forever, unchanged.
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Why Eastern European Women’s Sexual Pleasure Is Their Own Business and Other Arguments for Intersectional Socialism
And we all struggle with the complex histories of socialism and what came after. Our bodies carry the legacy of the socialist era—Chernobyl, remember? “We heard about it/on Radio Free Europe,” starts the poem “Chernobyl Days” by Claudia Serea.
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Revolta cititorilor
(in Romanian)
The linguistic violence in Bogdan Alexandru-Stanescu's novel alludes to a long history of Roma torture and dehumanization. For the Romani characters in this novel, humanization through empathy does not occur.
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