It makes me sick when I see Russians on Pinterest saving photos of Ukrainian traditional costumes, jewelry, and other cultural elements into boards called things like “Malorossiya Province,” “random folk stuff,” or “Ukrainians in Russia.”
Even modern photos with Ukrainian captions aren’t safe from being saved and relabeled in that same colonial, imperial language. And no matter how many times we speak up and ask them to leave our photos alone, they never listen.















