Nika Wodwood (russian: Ника Водвуд; born October 20, 1993,

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), better known as nixelpixel, is a Russian intersectional feminist and cyber activist who maintains her

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on the

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. The most famous feminist in Russia, according to the publication

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Biography

Wodwood was born on October 20, 1993 in Protvino. Parents are design engineers, employees of the

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. In 1999, her parents went on a business trip to the UK, and Veranika moved with them to a suburb of

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, where she lived for two years. Returning to Russia, Wodwood entered school in Stupino. In 2011-2015, she studied at the Faculty of Sociology of the

Higher School of Economics HSE University (russian: link=no, «Высшая школа экономики», ВШЭ), officially the National Research University Higher School of Economics (russian: link=no, Национальный исследовательский ун ...

. In 2013, Wodwood became interested in feminism after she met Zhenya Belykh's the blog, the creator of the feminist community ''The Power of the Pussy'' on

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, although she was initially ironic about the topic of feminism. She worked as an assistant to the creative director in an advertising agency, but left there, according to her statement, because of the intolerant environment in the team. Since 2011, she was engaged in illustration, after leaving the advertising agency she was engaged in it remotely as her main activity. In the middle of summer 2017, she quit an advertising agency where she was engaged in copywriting and started making money on her video blog through

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and advertising on YouTube. She got married in May 2021. In August of the same year, she announced that she was moving to

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, following her husband, who entered the master's program at the

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. Wodwood's public activities have been criticized, including in a feminist environment.

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* {{Authority control 1993 births Living people People from Moscow Oblast Russian YouTubers Russian feminists Russian women's rights activists Russian emigrants to Austria Higher School of Economics alumni Russian women illustrators Russian female comics artists Russian video bloggers