Background
Shevchenko was born and grew up in Khmelnytskyi (in Ukraine).
Shevchenko was born and grew up in Khmelnytskyi (in Ukraine).
They initially protested about issues effecting women students, but rapidly moved on to demonstrating against the sexual exploitation of Ukrainian women. In 2011 international news agencies started to pay more attention to this unusual group of Feminist protesters,
In late 2011 Shevchenko, along with Inna Shevchenko and Jenia Kraizman, took their protest onto the international stage. On 31 October 2011 they demonstrated dressed as French maids in Paris against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, on 5 November 2011 they protested against Silvio Berlusconi in Rome, the following day they protested against the Pope outside Saint Peters, and on 10 November protested against prostitution in Zurich.
On 9 December 2011 Shevchenko was in Moscow demonstrating against Vladimir Putin outside Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
In 2013 Shevchenko established a training facility for Germany in Berlin. On 9 February 2013 Shevchenko protested against female genital mutilation at the Berlin Film Festival - she had the words "Stop Cutting my Pussy" written across her bare chest.
On 6 March 2013, activists (including Shevchenko) in cooperation with French writer Galia Ackerman released their first book called "" published by Calmann-Lévy in French. Late August 2013 Shevchenko and fellow -members claimed to have fled out of Ukraine ("Fearing for their lives and freedom").
lieutenant was in late August 2009 that Oksana Shachko became the first member of the group to bare her breasts during a protest, but it was not until 2010 that this approach became the usual tactic in demonstrations, justified on the grounds that without the media attention generated by topless protests their message would not be heard.