Wendy Joy

Mom, poet, hiker, maker of jewelry (enameling, silversmithing, polymer clay). May be bead addicted. I have a day job.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Canadian Joan Bamford Fletcher was a badass.
In 1945, she led 2,000 Dutch civilians from an internment camp, 450 km through the jungle, to the coast.
She dealt with injury, rebel groups and terrible weather but didn't lose a single person.
This is her story

📸 LAC

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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), contemporary fine artist living on a re-wilding farm in Wales who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt #Spring

[Cara Zelaya @carazelaya]

Just for the record, Team USA women have out-medaled Team USA men at three consecutive Winter Olympics and four consecutive Summer Olympics.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are shocked by the news of the shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada. When children are killed, no one should remain indifferent. Such tragedies should never happen anywhere, in any country in the world.

We hope that all those who were injured will recover quickly. On behalf of all Ukrainians, I express our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones, to all Canadians, and to Prime Minister @MarkJCarney.

[Claire Leach @Claire_L_Leach]

Spring isn’t too far away - if you’d like a nice reminder of the beauty of springtime then I have this watercolour available. £140 plus postage. https://t.co/fSFodZmY4S Delicate bluebells, vibrant greens, intricate details.

[Yaroslava @strategywoman]

Kyiv.
Morning after a massive russian attack.

The district where we live is mostly without heating or electricity.
According to the mayor, 1,170 residential high-rise buildings in Kyiv are without heat (we still have a minimal one, but no power).

-19 °C outside.
This is genocide.

[Olga Tuleninova 🦋 @olgatuleninova]

David Lloyd Evans (British, b.1916)
"Three Swans in Flight," 1945
Pastels on paper
24.5 x 18.5 in

[Ukrainian Canadian Congress @ukrcancongress]

In 30 days, Ukrainians around the world will mark four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.

Ukraine fights on. Ukraine remembers. Ukraine will prevail.

Слава Україні! Героям слава!

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Torture with electric shocks, beatings, forced stripping, and threats to take children to an orphanage.

This is the story of Yulia Dvornichenko from Donetsk, reported by DW.

Dvornichenko: You can cope with anything except being separated from your children. 1/

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Between 1932-1933, Soviet policies transformed Ukraine's fertile farmland into a killing field. The Holodomor—meaning "death by hunger" claimed between 3.5-5 million Ukrainian lives through deliberate starvation. Stalin's regime seized grain, blocked escape routes, and watched millions die.

The mechanics were brutal. Soviet authorities imposed impossible grain quotas on Ukrainian villages. When peasants couldn't meet these demands, brigades confiscated everything—grain reserves, livestock, vegetables, even seed for next year's planting. The "Law of Spikelets" made gleaning leftover grain from fields a capital offense. Over 200,000 people were sentenced under this law. Entire villages were "blacklisted"—their borders sealed by secret police, all food supplies confiscated, residents left to starve behind cordons.

Stalin's January 1933 decree prevented starving peasants from fleeing. Internal passports became tools of death—GPU checkpoints intercepted 219,460 people trying to escape in March 1933 alone. Cities enforced rationing systems that prioritized industrial workers while rural Ukrainians perished. Simultaneously, Soviet authorities exported 1.8 million tons of grain—enough to feed 5 million people for a year—while famine consumed the countryside.

The horror exceeded agricultural disaster. Cannibalism became widespread. Police documented thousands of cases, including parents consuming dead children and children being hunted for food. Secret police collected "ten or more reports of cannibalism every day" in Kyiv province during March 1933, estimating actual incidents far exceeded official counts. Life expectancy for those born in 1933 dropped to 7.3 years for males and 10.8 years for females—the lowest in recorded European history.

#archaeohistories

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

The Snowshoe Hare had received a telegram from Dorset in England. He read it inside the warmth of a coffee shop, before joining the crowds again, he read it with tears stinging his eyes, he read it listening to shouts and distant gun shots, he read it with a fierce anger rising inside, he read it whilst his heart ached inside his chest, and then he folded the thin paper into a talisman to keep it safe. And he spoke the words aloud:
"We are with you. England is with you. Europe is with you. History is with you. We are all Minnesotans until every last one of you is safe, until goodness and kindness prevails. – Old Fox."

[Lisa Wellwood Artist @studio22artz]

Some progress has been made on these ones this month. I’m more determined this year to be more productive as last year was such a wash out and I have so many unfinished pieces to work on. I’m trying so hard to not let my back get the better of me #art #drawing

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

There are no forecasts regarding the restoration of electricity supply in Kyiv, - Deputy Energy Minister Kolesnik

The temperature outside is reaching minus 20°C, and in homes without heating for several days, it is truly cold. This is a life-threatening situation.

World, do not stay silent—speak about Ukraine. russia is trying to freeze our people.

[April Huggett @AprilHuggett]

I am a Canadian medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

For 13 months, I served as a nurse.

I gave injections, wrapped knees, bandaged wounds, cleaned blood, steadied shaking hands. I did the work that needed to be done, every day, without complaint.

Today, I am a combat medic.

I love Ukraine deeply. I love its people, their resilience, their humor in the darkest moments, their refusal to kneel.

I love a nation that has been attacked, bombed, and terrorized and still chooses dignity, courage, and life.

I hate russia for what it has done here.

I hate its lies, its cruelty, its complete disregard for human life.

I hate that it invades, destroys, and then pretends to be the victim.

There is nothing noble in this war from their side: only violence and theft.

Ukraine is not asking for power.
Ukraine is not asking for revenge.
Ukraine is asking for freedom.

The freedom to live.
The freedom to exist.
The freedom to raise children without air raid sirens.

That is all Ukrainians have ever wanted.

I am proud, so profoundly proud, to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

To stand with a country fighting not just for itself, but for the idea that borders matter, truth matters, and freedom is worth defending.

Ukraine will be free.
And I will stand here as long as it takes.

🇨🇦 🇺🇦

#Support93 #SupportUkraine #Canada

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Friends,

There's an urgent and important issue. Due to Russian strikes and freezing temperatures, Kyiv hospitals have to use autonomous boiler houses to keep their patients warm and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.

‼️Kyiv hospitals need pellets and fuel chips for autonomous boiler houses.

Contact Person:
Serhii Chycherin,
Head of Independent Heat Producers from Alternative Fuels Association
[phone]
[email protected]

If you can help in any way or know any suppliers who can help or organizations that deal with such requests, please contact Serhii or send me a DM.

The situation is very serious and without supplies of alternative fuel from outside of Ukraine even the existing hospital boiler houses can stop working.

Russia intensifies its terror on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Hospitals are treating more patients. It is critical for them to have electricity and heating.

Thank you in advance!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

So many people in Kyiv are still without heating, electricity after the Russian attack.

The temperatures tonight will be up to -20°C.

No heating means thousands of families (the elderly, the disabled) just freezing in their homes.

Russia deliberately launched this attack when the weather got very cold. This is genocide.

Ukraine is not far away. Ukraine is Europe, and in the 21st century people in Europe are freezing after Russian attacks.

This needs to be talked about, made widely known. Russia's crimes must be stopped so the horror never happens again.

Photo: a frozen window in one of Kyiv's apartments.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Embroidery can act as a political voice, subverting the idea of domestic craft to make powerful statements.
'Better Wisdom than Weapons of War' Cambridge Alumnae Suffrage Banner (1908) designed by UK artist Mary Lowndes. Handmade from silk, velvet, with #embroidery and silver paint, the huge banner was carried by a Cambridge contingent of 400 women in the great suffrage procession, 1908 #EmbroideryWeek

[Mariia Kramarenko @KramarenkoMari3]

12 years since russia is trying to conquer Ukraine. russia has spent 12 years, millions of people, and many billions of dollars to not achieve any of the goals they had.

Ukraine still exists. Ukrainian identity is stronger than ever, the Ukrainian army is stronger than ever, and Ukrainians are resilient and united as never before.

Don’t Ukrainians already deserve the recognition and protection according to international law? Why not stop this massacre once and for all?
Close the sky, pressure russia, and restore a just peace for Ukrainians!

📷 Kyiv, Ukraine May 24, 2025. GLEB GARANICH / REUTERS

[Lisa Wellwood Artist @studio22artz]

Wow! I know I’ve not posted much drawing in a while but am amazed by all the likes on my fox. Thanks all so much. I’m actually working on squirrel today, but will get back to fox soon. Got so many medical/dental bills to pay for, so have to work, regardless of my pain at the mo.X

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Carol of the Bells in Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!