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Georgy Mamedov is an independent curator, writer and activist. His work has been focused on critical reinterpretation of soviet socialism in Central Asia and broader post-soviet space and includes engagement with queer histories, cultures and art of the region. Georgy co-authored and co-edited several books including A Book on Happiness for Young (and not so) LGBT (and not only) People (Bishkek, 2020), the pioneering Russian language collection of feminist and queer science fiction, Utterly Other (Bishkek, 2018); Queer Communism is Ethics (Moscow, 2016); Concepts of the Soviet in Central Asia (Bishkek 2016) and Bishkek Utopian (Bishkek, 2015). Until recently Georgy held the position of assistant professor of film and media arts at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek. 

In 2025 Georgy joined University of Melbourne’s Research Initiative on Post-Soviet Space (RIPSS) as a graduate scholar. He will be working on the research project “Towards a Communist Ideal: Marxism and Marxists under Soviet Socialism”. The project aims to investigate productive and intellectually challenging ways of Soviet Marxist philosophers to simultaneously exercise critique of the Soviet socialism and theorize communism as a viable social order alternative to the then present socialist condition.