The dissolution of the Soviet Union brought the decriminalization of homosexuality across many post-Soviet states as well as new intellectual frameworks for approaching gender and sex. The generation of languages, publics, and epistemological frameworks for representing gender and sexuality across the former Soviet empire intersected with the economic and geopolitical shifts of the collapse – including the rise of unipolar US-led late capitalism and new nationalisms often yoked to neo-traditionalist imaginaries. This panel will examine late- and post-Soviet artists’, writers’, and thinkers’ negotiation of discourses of gender and sexuality through their efforts to reimagine alternative forms of thinking and being in the post-Soviet world.