Nasta Mancewicz was nominated by Marta Rawluzsko for their multifaceted and inspirational work as a feminist and queer activist, poet, translator, and journalist. Based in Minsk, Belarus, they published their first collection of poetry and short prose (Ptushki) in 2012, and two years later co-founded MAKEOUT, a feminist, non-hierarchical project on gender and sexuality for which they researched and mapped LGBT histories across Belarus, collecting both experiences of violence and discrimination as well as of creativity and joy. Though Belarus has no formalized programs in gender studies, Mancewicz has done outstanding ethnographic work on essential feminist and queer categories such as the body, gender transition, violence, masculinity, parenthood, polygamy, and activism, locating them all in the Belarusian context. Mancewicz is also the Belarusian translator of Alok Vaid-Menon, an Indian-American writer, and gender non-conforming artist.

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