Zhenya Oliinyk, an illustrator and cartoonist from Ukraine, wrote a story about the female evacuation right after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine started. Women drove various vehicles, taking their families, pets, friends, and those who asked for help as far from the war as they could. Many then said that driving was a life-saving skill worth getting only for this unbelievable—who believed that "big war" is possible in the 21st century?—purpose.
Zhenya Oliinyk is an illustrator based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She's also a cartoonist, MA in Cultural Studies, and a former journalist. It is this variety of experiences that makes her eager to work with challenging social and cultural issues; her most common topics are equality, feminism, history, trauma, mental health, and other challenging social issues. Zhenya's fields of work are commercial and editorial illustration, publishing, and graphic journalism. Her works were published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Economist, Berliner Zeitung, she also cooperated with the Council of Europe, United Nations, Amnesty International, Freedom House, RFERL, The—Nib.
Text published (in Ukrainian) by Suspilne Kultura as part of a collaboration with Documenting Ukraine. It was first published in the Swiss comic magazine Strapazin as a part of the „Transportation“ special issue.
