Olena Kushyna is a PhD student at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She has a BA in History of Philosophy and Religious Studies from the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine; a Master's in analytic Philosophy of Mind from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Master's in History of Philosophy from the University of Tartu, Estonia.Her latest dissertation was about Death and how we live with it. She created a syllabus and taught a course, which had a therapeutic effect on her students during the first lockdown in 2020. Her current research is about Birth and Natality in the face of climate catastrophe and the threat of our extinction. She is combining three optics: feminism, queer critique, and non-anthropocentrism. She has also taught a reading group on Judith Butler.In addition to her research and teaching, Olena has created a Philosophical Sisterhood at her university. Outside of academia, Olena works with Prague Civil Society Centre, an NGO supporting independent journalists and political activists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Her side interest is mycology and implementing fungal insights in philosophy. She also writes poetry and does yoga.