Against the background of Galina Rymbu’s and Oksana Vasyakina’s personal and artistic involvement in the Russian feminist and LGBT movements, the present article analyzes the role played in their poetics by the image of Siberia, where both poetesses were born (respectively in 1990 and 1989). Rymbu and Vasyakina turn their home cities into a (micro)cosmic symbol of marginalized voices rather than describing the Siberian geographical context through their personal experience and memory. Rymbu’s and Vasyakina’s Siberia(s) represents an ideal example of an artistic denunciation which helps readers reflect on the role of dominant discourses in the Russian (but also wider) society. In this sense, their poetry acquires a “civic” (that is, political) role.
