Resistance is a Girl who Changes the World - a video monologue series, as part of the cultural international project Stories of Girls’ Resistance.​ The ​series showcases the inspirational, complex, and unfiltered stories of the girls that fight back and imagine better worlds for them and the societies in which they live. These stories are brought to life through video art, music, theatre, poetry, and other forms of creative documentation. ​These 3 (of 11 in total) video monologues​ are produced by the Giuvlipen theatre and performed by Roma artists.

This is the fifth episode of the video monologues series "Resistance is a Girl Who Changes the World", based on the story of Yumzhana from Buryatia. Yumzhana is a student at the International University of Mongolia, studying fashion design.She paints, she launched her brand of clothing 2 years ago and she is an eco-activist. Her story is one where feminism, spirituality, buryatian culture, art and ecology intertwine and take the shape of a fabric ready to be painted as a sign of cultural resistance.

“The tourists that come to Buryatia see only a small part of our culture and they fetishize it. Everyone who travels here wants to sleep in the yurt, the tents where Mongolian nomads used to sleep. For us, this is something common, but for tourists, this is something exotic. It’s the same with art. Subjects related to ethnicity are very popular. Foreigners usually buy these paintings not because they’re interested in the culture, but because they look exotic. And that’s not okay.
Our culture means much more than these things and I want my art to have access to public institutions in order to destabilize the domination. For me, my art and feminism are, to a certain extent, one and the same.”